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Show UU Ml FRANCISCO CELEBRATES SDK SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. With a spirit that excelled the far-famed fes-tlbles fes-tlbles ever held in this city, San Francisco Fran-cisco today and tonight celebrated the adoption of the exposition bill by tho house of representatives in Washington Wash-ington of the resolution naming the metropolis of the Pacific as the site for the Panama-Pacific International , exposition, to be held in 1915 to com-; com-; memorate the opening of the Panamn canal. I The receipt of the news was greet-ed greet-ed with a burst of enthusiasm seldom i witnessed even In the spontaneous ! "West. The firing of bombs from tho ; newspaper buildings announced the victory to the expectant city, and was the signal for the steam whistle of every craft In the harbor and from the factories and power plants on land. As by magic the great steol and grnn-itc grnn-itc piles of the business district broke out in bunting, wreaths and pennants, and from every flagstaff fluttered tho national colors. Tho courts adjourned, adjourn-ed, tho city's schools cIobccL spontaneously sponta-neously and gave their children a half-holiday half-holiday In honor of tho event, while downtown merchants threw business to the winds and danced in the streets to the music of brass bands, which suddenly appeared from various rJSU nlons and paraded the streets during the afternoon and tonlghL Looked Like New Years. The Central telephono offices were fairly aglow with the little red lights of subscribers ringing in and asking for details of the vote in Washington. Tho downtown streots and cafes rival tho scenes of New Year's ove tonight. To be prepared for the revel and carnival spirit, Chief of Police Seymour ordered out all the reserves for traffic duty in the congested streets. The entire cltv is in festive array; Immclic signs with "San Francisco, 1915," sprank up by dusk with the California bear, garlanded with the yellow poppy, the state flower. Is dancing in huge posters on the billboards bill-boards under the prediction, "A million mil-lion population in 1913." Mass Meeting Attended by Thousands. When tho final vote was announced a mass -meeting of citizens was called call-ed on the floor of the Merchants' exchange. ex-change. So many sought admission to the place thnt when the speakers of the occasion arrived tho police had sreat difficulty in forcing an entrance for them. Several women In the crowd fainted and a number suffered minor injuries from the crush. |