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Show Big International Exposition's Amusements Novel and Wonderful President Wilson Will Visit Panama-Pacific Display of Nations via Panama Canal Vanderbilt Cup Race and Grand Prix Will Be Held In San Francisco. By HAMILTON WRIGHT. WONDERFUL and novel amusements, parades ami pageants of the oriental countries, auto and yacht races and athletic contests will be observed ob-served upon a scale of unexampled magnitude and grandeur at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The extensive participation of China, Japan. Slam and Indo and Cochin China, Chi-na, when taken in connection with the plans already made and with the interesting oriental population of San Francisco, assures such spectacles as have never before been seen In the Occident. Oc-cident. Pageants of miles in length set off by wonderful floats and marvelous mar-velous pyrotechnics will wind through the streets of San Francisco. There will be held throughout tho this event The famous Salt Lake Mormon choir, the deep toned plaintive singers of Huwali and even a chorus of fifty Maorlan singers will take part in the choral events. At an expenditure expendi-ture of ?1,250,0()0 the Exposition has constructed a great Auditorium in the civic center of San Francisco, which will be used by the great conventions and song festivals. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crane will present their latest terpsichorean novelty, the "Exposition Tango;" Mr. Harry Lauder will sing the Exposition ballad. The amusement section of the Exposition, Ex-position, the "Zone," corresponding to the famous "Midway" at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, will carry out the purpose of the Exposition to give every feature a high educational educa-tional value. tinental railways. The Grand Canyon concession is built upon so prodigious a scale that visitors will view the canvases from a standard gauge railway rail-way coach running on a standard gauge track. A huge working model of the Panama canal is so extensive that visitors seated in comfortable theater the-ater chairs will be carried along tli route of the canal upon a movablfc platform, and a dictaphone at the arm of each chair will describe each scene as it comes into view. A novel amusement amuse-ment feature will be provided by working work-ing submarine boats of sixty -five tons displacement, which will operate In n artificial lagoon. The Aeroscope, huge inverted pendulum, operating nice a giant seesaw, with a great balancing weight on the short end and a car for passengers at the extremity of its long- |