Evening star., 1939-02-12
Here Are 1895 World Fairs Side by Side
$155,000,0 900 City
Rises to Awe
Visitors
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTess.
NEW YORK, Feb. lin 1216h-
acre Flushing Meadow Park, man
made from q one-time marsh and
city dump on lovely Long Island, the
$155, ,OOO, 900 New York Worlds Fair
will open for business April 30 on
the 150th anniversary of George
Washingtons presidential inaugura-
ton. The show probably won't close
until the income falls below the
outgo.
Let's take "rubberneck" trip to
the nearly completed grounds.
The idea back Of 1t all, folks. is
demonstration of a happier way Of
American living through . recogni-
ton Of the interdependence Of man,
and the building Of . better world
Of tomorrow with the tools Of today"
Dramatizing this idea Is the fairs
major exhibit in the theater Of the
perisphere (ike trylon, . fair coined
word. There, folks, 5000 persons
an hour can see the six-minute spec
tacle. You enter through the base
of the 065-ton trylon which needles
700 feet into the air, and you come
out of the spheroid building on the
1,000-foot-long Helicline. which is
the fairs panorama walk.
60 Nations Participate.
Sixty foreign nations (22 have
their own buildings), the League of
Nations and the American
Union are participating. The for
eign pavilions are over there east
of Rainbow avenue, folks, In the
same area as the Court of States
and Tomorrow Town.
That's Constitution Mall, the S.
600 900 mile-long avenue, stretching
away from the Theme Center to the
Court Of Peace and the Lagoon of
Nations, with its nightly spectacle of
fire and water, synchronized with
music.
You can get around the grounds
by buses, tractor trains and roller
chairs-and by motor boat taxis
operating on Fountain Lake. Just
outside the grounds is parking space
for $4,000 cars.
100000 Daily Capacity.
The fair is set up for an average
daily gate OF 250, 900 and a capacity
of 100000 persons a day. It's
mostly ground-hoor, with no stairs
to climb. Nearly all of the a major
buildings are windowless and los
murals decorate their exteriors. The
landscaping scheme uses l02 pieces
of sculpture.
With 40 miles of -bordered
pathways, 10000 transplanted trees,
numberless shrubs. million tulips.
quarter of a million panSies and
half a million hedge plants, folks,
it's staggering.
The children have their own
world" with five supervised play
grounds where youngsters may be
parked for a fee
Night Clubs Galore.
The amusement zone will have no
Sally Rands, they say. but therell
be English, Cuban South Sea and
Old New York sections; a penguin
village-and night clubs galore. And
there1l be plenty Of thrill producers
like a real. gen-u-wine parachute
| jump (but fear not. Agatha-a little
wire will guide you DOWN. Music
lovers can get their thrills at super
colossal musical extravaganzas on
| the waters of Fountain Lake.
Pride of the many industrial dis
plays will be the focal exhibits" "
cooperative efforts with a Max
Reinhardt production touch. Indus
tries participating will include rail-
roads, distillers, pottery manufac-
turers, gas companies, glass manu-
facturers and oil companies.
And remember, folks. that this
is no here-today -and -gone-in-t the
world of tomorrow affair. for when
the white tryeoii and perisphere no
longer dominate the scene. it'll be a
beautiful, Handicapped parkland for
New York's teeming millions.