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Show Oil 10 SEE OPENING OF GDAST FI t ! Salvos of Artillery Will Announce An-nounce First Day of Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. PRESIDENT WILL SEND WIRELESS Message From Nation's Chief Executive Is Signal j for Lighting of Great Tower of Jewels. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IP Instead ! of the lone sunrise gun that brings in i other days of the year, dawn tomor- row in San Francisco will be acclaimed by salvos of artillery from the batteries bat-teries on both sides of the Golden Gate and from the warships at anchor in the bay. Five minutes later twenty drum corps will roll and swagger through the streets, shrilling to all the town a call to rise and welcome the opening of the Panama-Pacific International exposition. exposi-tion. President "Wilson will send by wireless wire-less the vivifying spark that is to en-: en-: ergize the exposition, but since he can- i not be here in person it has been ar- j ranged that the people themselves shall enter upon the ownership in their own wav. . There is to be a parade, but it is to j be a parade like no other a parade ! as nearly as possible without specta- , tors. If all the city were to march and none were left to watch theu the directors would pronounce it perfect. Thousands Enroll. By tens of thousands, in societies and fraternities, in civic, neighborhood and business organizations, the people have enrolled. As they approach the entrance en-trance to the concourse fronting the Tower of Jewels there will be assembling assem-bling in the California building at 9 o'clock, the president and vice president of the exposition, the directors, the ; state exposition commission, the na- f tional exposition commission, the j woman's board, representatives of the j army and navy, directors of divisions, j chiefs of departments, heads of bureaus ' and others. j These will march down the Avenue of Palms, escorted by exposition guards. L'nited States marines and the exposi-i exposi-i tion band, to the temporary grandstand erected in front of the Tower of Jewels. As they take their places Hover nor Johnson" of California, Mayor Rolph of San Francisco and other officers of the state and city will enter the grounds at the head of the citizens' procession. The citizens will assemble in the eon-course, eon-course, while the governor, the mayor and thir parties pass through a lane of soldiers and marines to the stand, where the president and directors of the exposition will receive them. Ceremonies Simple. Five minutes later the dedicatory verernonies, as simple and brief as thy can be made, will begin at 10 a. in. Invocations and a benediction will be pronounced by Hprgymen representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewifh faiths. Addresses will bo delivered deliv-ered by President Moorp. Secretary Lane of the departmpnt of the interior, representing rep-resenting President Wilson: Governor Johnson, Mayor Rolph and others. William Wil-liam if. Crocker, vice president and chairman of the building and ground? committee, wHl formally announce to President Moore that the exposition is completed, at the same time present-i present-i ng to him a gold scroll corn in em orating orat-ing the oeasion. After the exercises havo jopu eom-pleted eom-pleted President Moore will rail President Pres-ident Wilson in Washington on a longdistance long-distance telephone previously net up and waiting at nooD, Pacific coast time, 'o DOtifv him that the exposition awaits his tourh to be opened. The president will touch a button, a wireless spark will flash through Ihe air across the continent, and on its receipt- the national na-tional colors will be rnised, sn lutes will be fired, the Fountain of Energy will leap upward, all the whistles in the -ity and harbor will bellow and the nifi'in door of the Palace, of Machinery will swing open, disclosing the exhibits in motion. Will Wire President. As all this activity springs into life President Moore will tell President Wilson Wil-son that the kinetic spark he loosed has been transformed into multiform color and flux, that the exposition is open. President Wilson in return will send his spoken greetings. A chorus of 300 voices, accompanied by the Exposition Ex-position band, will break into song and an aeroplane, circling the Tower of Jewels, will release doves of peace. At night there will be illuminations from batteries of searchlights, thrown through color screens upon the 80,000 pendants of the Tower of Jewels, while from the heads of the colossal figures surrounding the Court of the Universe will blaze electric stars. The entire lighting system of the exposition is indirect. in-direct. Nowhere is there the blinding glare of an arc lamp. All the glow will be reflected from the wide spaces of the tinted walls or diffused softly Through translucent screens. On the first working day of the fol- I lowing week, February will be held the Vanderbilt cup race for automo- biles, and five days later the Grand Prix. The course lies through the grounds, over asphalt roads, except for j the stretch, im-hiding the elliptical dirt i speedway, and measures .'.O miles. Two I unbanked, right -angle turns and vary- j ing widths of roadway will make the races as much a test of skill and dar- i ing as of speed. Drivers who have tried out the course in practice estimate esti-mate that it will not be possible to take the right angles at more than thirty miles an hour, so that on the tangents the cars will be pushed for all they can deliver. After the first blush of local enthusiasm enthu-siasm has died down the exposition will begin more and more to take on , its national aspect. Nearly all the sci- : entific, educational, fraternal ami be- j nevoleut societies, orders and organ- j izafions of the country meet this year in San Francisco. The exposition has on its calendar more than 400 national and international conventions, and on some days six of them will be in session at once. . ' Yachting, polo, field and track, base-'id base-'id and football competition round out the long list of special events. |