The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-26

MemUeE VA Ns 4s MiEEVE 0SeAA their Exposition. They felt that they should invite each of the seven other Great Lakes states to come into the Exposition with them and tell the rest of the country and the world of their areas march of prog ress.
 Site Chosen
 The downtown laxe front was chosen as the site for the Exposi- ton, in which would be told the roc nance of iron and steel and other metals in the progress of our coun- try, and today, within two blocks of Cleveland's famous Public Square, where every means of transportation to Cleveland and in Cleveland cen- ters, stand the 150 acre Exposition site. Beginning on June 27th, as it does, 1t will be 75 per cent complete on June 1st.
 One of the factors that made it possible to stage this Exposition with so little preparation, was the granting to the Exposition commit tee, of Cleveland's beautiful $12,- 00,000 Public Auditorium and the Cleveland Stadium. Both of these structures are within the Exposition grounds. These gifts for the dura- ton of the Exposition, embraced some $25,000,000 of public buildings and constituted a splendid start for the erection of the fair proper.
 More than 4,000,000 people are ex- pected to visit the Exposition be- tween June 27th and october 4th. | The entrance to 1t is on the south | side of the Cleaveland Mall, less than two blocks from Public Square. The Exposition embraces, among other things, an especially con- structed Transportation Building showing the progress made in trans portation throughout the ages: a splendid Hall of Progress in which the diversified manufacturers of the Great Lakes region, as well as ex- hibitors from all over this country, will be shown; The Parade of Years, which is MT. F. A. Hunger ford's new version of the Wings of Century which he staged in Chi- cago at the Century of Progress.
 Beautiful Exhibits
 The Exposition will contain one of | the most beautiful Horticultural EX- l hibits ever made in America. It is | more than one-fifth of a mile long, | sloping from the rear of the Sta dium to Lake Erie, and will remain as @ permanent part of the city's | downtown beauty sector, when the | Exposition is over. The Exposition | will have the usual midway and i gaiety section, which is unique in | Exposition life. It will be called | Streets of the World, and will con- tain villages of more than thirty | peoples. Each of these having its | own style of architecture and occu- pied by it's own nationals in their native costume.
 The Federal Government has taken section of space in the Ex- position, based on rental of quarter of a million dollars, and also donated $l78,000 as part of the cost of erecting the Horticultural exhibit.
 Among some of the larger exhib- itors are the Ford Motor Company; Firestone Tire and Rubber Com pany: Chase Brass & Copper Con- pany; U. s. Steel Corporation; Ma tional Cash Register Company; General Motors Corporation; Amer ican Rolling Mills Company.
 Lincoln q. Dickey, first General Manager of the Cleveland Auditor ium and later general manager of the Atlantic City Auditorium, is the general manager of the Exposition, whose general chairman is Dudley s. Blossom. Newton D. Baker, for mer Secretary of War, is one of the trustees.