Show 1 Storms forms Fail of to Spoil Uncle Sams Sam's am s t Anniversary Y 11 v a r s t e t te f ft t S 5 I z aM s. s file K Ka Kb 7 r. r b 1 a 11 r I fry fryc f c t ta a Features of the tho sesquicentennial international exposition at Philadelphia will be the gorgeous Persian Persian Persian Per Per- sian sian pavilion upper left the auditor auditorium um upper right which will accommodate and the immense immens model of the Liberty bell lower right which stands at the tho main mam gate The view view of the grounds lower lowe left shows the 0 palace of agriculture and food products The exposition will formally open June 14 and close December 1 1 PHILADELPHIA Ma tar May 25 NEA Service The Service The natiOns natiOn's a birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day party partY Philadelphia's Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Sesquicentennial centennial International exposition Is Is a about bou t to begin June to November r inclusive e is la lathe the period for it it and throughout these six months Philadelphia willbe will willbe willbe be aflutter with circumstance and embroidery embroider The name Rainbow City has been given to the panorama panora panora- ma and If it ever a name fitted this claim to be the one It is emerging emerging emerging ing from the dark clouds of financial financial financial finan finan- cial Insecurity the murk of lassitude lassitude lassi lassi- tude the wind storms of or talk and the of ot political strife From such a tempestuous start the appears now as an arc of hope And In the shimmering ng beauty beauty beau beau- t ty of its dress and the carnival of ot its athletics and human human human hu hu- hu- hu man assemblages assemblageS' it offers all the Color colot of ot any rainbow The existed mostly In as late as six months ago Now however you may see a thousand men at work ery e day and night In League Island park and out of ot their labor a fairyland Is being created June 14 is the day for tor the first format formal l' l opening By that time say th the officials the big show willbe Will be SO 90 per cent complete From the very opening day the Rainbow City promises there will willbe willbe be a big half hall dollars dollar's worth In store for every sightseer who drops a n coin to to hear the turnstiles click One of ot the first troubles for the to survive was a bitter feud between the north and south sections sections sec sec- of the city over choice of ot a asit sit site Then the program fell smack Into the political breach which opened between Mayor Maor W V Freeland KendrIck Kendrick Ken- Ken drIck and General Smedley D D. Butler Butler But But- ler ler former head of ot the city's police pollee department o show Kendricks Kendrick's own private the called the exposition project But Dut nearly all of ot the political political political po po- po- po clash have died away now They have been drowned by the bang and bustle of craftsmen and machinery The hatchet has been burled buried beneath the plaster and the paint and green turf and gay buntIng bunting bunting bunt- bunt Ing of ot accomplishment When President Coolidge delivers ers era the he address on July 4 4 0 the anniversary of the signIng signing signing sign sign- ing of the Declaration of Independence ence It ence-It it will be more than the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's birthday It w will be the semi semi- centennial also of ot that first gre great t exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 brought together by proclamation of ot President Grant The old centennial although ough the father of all the great American expositions In many ways could not stand comparisons with Us lusty youngest offspring Money bought more in those days but even at that the centennial cost only about half halt of the outlay And the admissions of fifty years ago It is believed will be surpassed by the big crowds of 1926 The Liberty bell most venerated of ot Philadelphia's lares and Is the dominating motif of ot the decorative decorative decorative dec dec- scheme A stadium seatIng seatIng seating seat seat- Ing is the centerpiece An auditorium accommodating persons persons notice notice the figure again and think what a crowd crowd Is Is about ready read and two giant exhibition halls spread over an expanse of 17 acres Benjamin Franklin the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia kite flier will be responsible for some of the most dazzling of the expositions exposition's splendors There will be concentrations of of electric lights light visible it is said as as tar for as New York J i iTo To art lovers the Ute promises promises exhibits from nearly every corner of or the globe The Is to tobe tobe tobe I be the playground of or the celebration tio tion J Japan pan has set the pace In exhibits exhibits its from acro across s the seas On the display of or arts and manufacturers of tho the Land of or the Rising Sun 1 1 will be spent Other nations nation and nd states will be there too o ot of course couise For Tor the tin Un can tourists 8 benefit benefi I eight official auto camp sites have been set aside |