The Washington times., 1923-06-15
PLANS
WORLD s FAIR !.
IN 1880
Exposition Next Month Will Be
First step-5oo, 900 Popu-
Iation. City's Slogan.

DENVER, June 15.-The worlds
fair will be held in Denver in 1896
if tentative plans Of 200 Colorado
business men backing the Colorado
Pageant of Progress mature.
1t is claimed by the Colorado
men that Denver is logical place
for a gigantic international exposi
ton, and they have already started
building toward that goal.
AS the first step in this plan
for gathering of the nations
in the gateway of the Rocky noun
tain region, where the great plains
end in massive mountains, the larg-
est industrial exposition and pag-
cant in the history of Colorado Will
be held at Overland Park, Denver,
July to Is, inclusive.
Although bearing the name or a
pageant, the two weeks will be
filled with fair, pageant, show and
entertainment features that will sur
pass the great FESTIVAL OF the
Mountain and Palms." held in Colo
RADIO several years ago.
The pageant will include the larg-
est automobile show in the history
of the Rocky mountain region. The
Ford Motor Company is construct
ing a $650,00 exhibit, to be CEN
tered around a model, modern Col.
orado, irrigated farm and circled by
Ford railroad. A building 140
feet long will house the auto ex-
hibit, and an additional building 440
feet in length will be used for the
display of tractors. This will be the
largest exhibit of the pageant.
Big Forestry Display.
The United States Forest Service
is to have a three-acre tract, and
the large packing plants in the
State have combined to build huge
packing plant to show the inside
workings of their industry.
Manufacturers Of practically every
article made in the Centennial
State-from hats and hamburgers
to cigars and automobiles-hav
arranged for space in the huge ex-
hibition.
The Pageant Of Progress itself
will be a gigantic spectacle descrip-
tive of the history Of the State from
it's first exploration by white men
down to the present day. 1t is
based upon historical facts and will
be acted by 5000 Colorado girls,
women and men, with the assist
ance of Sioux Indians from the
Feather River reservation, units Of
the United States army and a score
Of fraternal and civic organizations.
other entertainment features will
be four days Of dirt track automo-
bile races, automobile polo, g. fly
ing circus, brilliant pyrotechnic dig
plays and myriad Of day and night
attractions Of carnival features.
Construction Of buildings for the
Industrial exhibition and pageant
started late in May, and thirty
acres Of ground will be covered by
the various exhibits.
Seek 100000 Population.
The idea Of pageant and ex-
position for Denver was first sug.
gested more than a year ago, and
was Immediately taken up by a
group Of business men, who adopted
the slogan, 100000 population in
$780," Since then work has pro.
gresscI rapidly on the plans for the
1923 pageant and preparations for
the worlds fair in 1880.
From the early days of the In
dams. long before Denver was ever
known es settlement. the present
site of Overland Park, where the
Pageant OF Progress will be staged
was a gathering place for the rec
men. Here they pitched Their
tepees, and here they traded and
bartered with the white men from
frontier settlements, and 1t Is his
torically significant and peculiarly
fitting that, on the spot where
in the earliest frontier days trad
ing was established with the rec
men, worlds fair will be held in
1880
Kit Carson and other famous
plainsmen knew the "lay" OF Over
land Park far better than many Of
the surveyors who in recent weeks
have been making it ready for the
1928 pageant.
The city Of Denver acquired the
property six years ago, turning II
into a free automobile camping
ground, and the park has gained
nationwide fame among automo
bile tourists as the most completely
equipped automobile camp in the
West.