Show f E eing the Big Fairs Fairs' in Two Weeks Weeks' i BY By Harry HarryE E. E i i i U J t 9 I I Who was assigned by thil newspaper ape to write his Impressions of the Exp Expositions e re Is s Anyone in Ut Utah to h. h or Anywhere ere erese lse se Who Has s N Not of t S Seen en the Expositions I i ey y Should Do o So o Before They ay Close Y s T Telegram ele ram Staff to Writer Ater Who ho o Spent pent ls s Vacation on the the Coast Declares the r rip rip Tp Is s Not of Only Well e Worth While but bu S o Inexpensive That 1 hat Any Ordinary person ellson fo Cannot Afford or to Miss ItHEN It HEN THEN Irvin S. S Cobb obb was doing his famous series of stories mor or the Saturday Ev Evening ning Post called Roughing It DeLuxe De he had one article de defiling dealing with the Grand-Canyon Grand began g n by y saying sayin the Grand Canyon is so wonderful that none it that it is beyond des description then description then then he lie went ahead id what he had just declared d impossible He described it and is recognized as one one- of the best that has ever been ar be it from the writer to compare mpa with so famous n ll Ms s Cobb Cobb- But I intend to I h m This is a story Rhe l lie expositions I here state that the expositions exposition t II ful that they cannot be described i That is as far a am as m go I am not going t to tackle any des description S1 4 ST everybody in iii the United States has been to the Pacific coast coast this season or Is going The reason Is with two big wonderful wonderful won won- ful e expositions being held in a land that Is mostly sunshine am and flowers and blue skies and mountains and seas and climate and seeing all these these- so small few feel as if it they can afford to miss mis HAnd Arid d those who are lucky enough to live in Utah Only a a step away these beauties and things of wonder have been able to see them themi Ibe be e able to before the year ends at so little tittle expense that it will b be i Utahn 1 indeed at the end of 1915 who shall have missed the big CORDING CORD NG to many well def defined ned rumors heard on every hand a aSan at San San Sn Diego and elsewhere on the coast often otten from reliable so sources sources i it Is ls a fairly safe guess that the San Diego exposition will remain open after the tho first of the year The San Francisco fair closes Ti December Thus there are two months months months-months months in which Calif Cali- Cali f ISlat at its best when best when both big shows may yet be seen The scheduled date ate ate of the Panama-California Panama exposition is January 1 1916 but bu appears appears that if the brave little southern California city that ha has spent pent so much money and labor to build a worlds world's show can ge get backing It will maintain its exposition winter per oper all aJI and perhaps the year 1916 who who- have made the coast t trip ip this year have taken talen vari vari- utes rites and have hav stayed various lengths of time Some have been tt to remain a month Oth Others rs could go only for a week exactly sixteen days for my trip and since two weeks is about the theof of time the person of average means can devote devot to the trip I want wan just what m my itinerary was It was not sch scheduled in advance but bu d out ideally ly rrie me I 1 in n fact most persons have gone th the whole way by rail If the J ions ns' ns pare are t the e sole attractions rail trips are perhaps advisable be- be heY get you O there and back But in the little old two weeks that iter tt had Iter ri had to do do California in there were crowded two most enI en- en rail fan trips two fine ocean trips an and two w unsurpassed ur aut automobile I t r r Salt Salt Lake Lale on the a afternoon of September 18 g taking the thc Los els eles l Limited of the Salt Lake Route As As an in an indication of or this i in ills ill's popularity I r was unable to get a a lower berth bert berthon on the lla day she sheen ven en though I had attempted to make male reservations reservation's two days das before ii thinks that he or she must b be miserable fo for the twenty-four twenty to g get t from here to Los Angeles Angele that one must expect noth- noth usual train fag caused by dust and cramped quarters and q quarters arters and lack Jack ines tries ft It is a safe bet het that person has never ridden on the Limited ir ry is the case This is a case where where- a train rain Is built for com comfort ort r peed d tv with i no de charges for lor de- de deluxe de service r peed d tv with i no de charges for lor de- de deluxe de service tva a often wondered how ow it wo would ld seem to be a rich man and have co lection of servants standing aro around for the purpose of pt anticipate ery ry y wish Now Now- l know just how It would be he It would be to tola la n pretty stilt soft On the Los Los' Angeles Limited one needs only t t if r the the- Pullman porter and another for fOl the parlor car cal factotum becomes for twenty four r hours a real of the Idle Rich Class w that so man many ribbon clerks be become ome sons sona of wealthy men folding of whom t they ey are to train c companions on th their ir irv v vacation cation o I. I J easy sy vice is js about like e this You roll a cigarette and reach for a t 1 porter is there holding a lighted d one for tor you ou you step o out t on on tion pl platform and there ther are n no nd chairs left left the the grinning Henryg Henrys Henry g g s right behind you toting a chair you forget your tie pin pint pine e t in the dressing room room here here comes the same dark wizard with ou There There is nothing beyond these colored boys who serVe serve o on the thet theis t 1 or is it of the Salt Lake Routes Route's finest train e C ing Salt Lake at 5 5 o'clock at night one gets all the beauties of ofa ofa a nd and nd Nevada scenery and none of the not liot desert dust dust All t the le of the great arid west west the the part that fairly parches in is tl time time-is passed in the cool night while you ou are are sleeping in w rJ berth The next morning when you awake wake you look out the thea a ar window and know you are just ab about l t to the California line line line- Binary line that divides the land of the sage and sand from that p palm and geranium neat night precisely twenty-four twenty hours hours' after after atter we pulled out oft of f ft t lext Lake Lale station we reached Los Angeles Everybody knows for ford d las either seen or read of that city's methods The city looks ho hold ld be a pl place ce of rest and comfort it a ants acts ts' ts as s if it just couldn't Th Thet i flower gardens homes and palm lined a avenues em es give the firsti first i The jitney busses the traffic cops cop's and the traffic itself Home me the la latter ter Los Angeles is a real hurrying scurrying big bigit it city set In a background of tropical b beauty uty It is where the rush orthis is battling incessantly with the ease case and rest of the tropics fu north rth appears to be getting the upper hand n s Angeles Angel S where by the way a S Salt Salt Salt-Laker Laker sees other Salt about everywhere he turns I went to San Diego by a automobile In Ini i alifornia the automobiles are rather rather making making the the traction companies h hump mp in getting passenger passenger traffic It may sound souna but it b w was s' s sa a railroad aUro d official though w who o advised me to t take le th the theia ia by automobile heaPer Ke ie explained and you ou get to see much more more country I r j who o have been to southern California know what I mean mean when say that the road to San D Diego t go is a r regular g l r California country a In In n other words it is a paved street tr t. t People who hail from aal middle iddle west tell with pride of their miles of macadam road roads say ay miles mUes tt they y mean perhaps stretches of five or six We Ve Utah il-h tali are right willing w to show off our little stretch of concrete 3 county Think then of ot a road miles mUes long winding along hone hore and with the exception of one short section now under con- con paved with asphalt or cop concrete crete from Los Angeles Angeles' to San Diego an who can take that motor ride and not feel like quoting a a. line or some Other poem Just hasn't any poetry In him It reach down into your memory and bring back lIn lines s of verses ned school description of know in Italy or India or France you France you it was but you know that the suggested descriptions something beautiful beyond compare s on the left are the umber raw-umber colored foothills most ofden of ofden den der cultivation to near the their valleys and crags glinting i colors c lors under the sun that tha warms down from the blue southern I lUlie tl the cright right is the Pacific its apparent apelike quiet of the horizon lg ag Into man mart sized waves that curl and break breal and ever lap the Ie ie- ie Under you and ahead of you stretches the road the won ig vay ay that makes an average speed of thirty-five thirty miles an hour accident danger entirely possible rP ss through quiet little cities of beauty with their bungalow nd nd bungalow schoolhouses and bungalow fire stations You come edly upon quaint old oM Catholic missions or m modern dern but just as l And everywhere there is ia the flavor of old Spain Spain lent by f leal ical l Spanish names The road Is fairly lined with palm trees treese trees trees- e of which a man from the north never tires tires and and drooping us jj trees and the pepper trees with their red berries vie with the roves roves s and the sea in m making king the air sweet with the odor of pleasant sown s scents IHU r I before you always see familiar faces in southern California if jf re from Utah even though it is your first visit And most these these se Salt Lakers if they be residents there instead of tourists e engaged r in making a sized good-sized splash I refer now to Sam hotel man of Salt Lake and now manager and owner half-owner of hotel Porter is now a real San end and nd is one of the themen themen themert men mert of the city Di Diego go is laid out as a typical atypical Mexican town that is it has a plaza enter of the business district with stores facing it on all aU sides arts the city park and a fountain in the center plays all the time Ildren and even grownups Play and rest play and rest appear J hi test aim of San One cannot blame them either cl ci clia ji a beautiful restful city ity it would seem that the world was not V work rk In that In-that that it is too beautiful to risk missing any of It in toil O ourse they have to 10 earn the well known bread there as elsewhere P people Pl of the city say tay sa they have a case against Los Angeles In plane place pl co they assert that Los didn't put up their share of altion n funds and that they are getting more than their share of ed As to that controversy I know not I do know lenow however din Los Angeles cles by several persons that only two days day were la see San Diego In fact fact I. went down with that idea in mind ItIn I Fr a nl x 34 i r h t F r N a JE r rc e Y X 1 c gyM n s' s 4 t f fy g r y L nw 1 THERE I are m mil lions o of f these pigeons a at cat- San fan Diego Diega their daily feed feeding ing is them the most m sl interesting g sight at Fair I THESE HESE poetic patios l left ft are scattered scattered scattered scat scat- all through the San Diego Exposition Ex Ex- Ex- Ex position Right shows where Lionel C. C Wolfe dispenses hospitality vry i L r t I so- so Y 4 Aa C t n q d S Sv a v n t f a YA y i I r stayed six days That Is what of the place If ff any hotel clerk clerkin in n Los Angeles or San Francisco or any other town trl tries s to ten tell yoU yoUit you it isn't n necessary stay lo more more titan two days day in in San Diego in Border ord r to see Ree seethe seethe the town and fair you can put that person down as having ha lid had haa a bum steer or as attempting to give you one WENT put mt to the exposition the first afternoon Knowing that Knowing that the I publicity director would be able to set me straight as to what to see Be and what not net m t to see and especially whom to see I went to his office first After I had informed had informed his stenographer er that I didn't want a pass that that I already had one one one-I I finally got to see this most busy p person When h he learned I was from Salt Lake he me right heartily rye Ive met lots of fine people from your town this year He lie said I thanked him for the implied compliment and asked him what I should s see also see also whom See everything was his is advice but be sure and meet Wolfe Wolfes Wolfe's complete name name-is Lionel C. C Wolfe and he is the host extraordinary extraordinary extra extra- ordinary of the Salt Lake Route building in inthe the exposition grounds Having Haying Hav- Hav ing ng had similar advice from others I thought I would look up this apparently apparent- apparent ly y p popular pular person I did If some would not misunderstand me or or others think I was trying to 0 pun Id I'd say that Wolfe is a bear As it is the slang phrase a regular guy Denotes his character u t 1 The railroads railroad's exhibit over which Wolfe presides is a unique at affair ir Itis It Itis Its is s a r regular gular clubhouse with a reading room writing room information bureau and restroom 4 4 HE most remarkable thing about the building is the character of its THE guests On the afternoon I visited I met among others the following following follow follow- ing Army officers marine officers painters sculptors railroad officials officials of of- musicians noted writers prominent surgeons eons and a sprinkling sprinkling- of newspaper men agriculturists and some others Around the rooms may maybe maybe maybe be heard expert conversation on almost any topic in in the world from the chan Chance of the government building a larger navy to a comparison of schools of landscape art It reminds one of Addison's description of an English coffee house In the Queen Anne period and the wits who conversed in those places Mingled with the serious disc discussions were the latest bits of humor and droll stories and comments on society the drama and lighter music Speaking of the latter I was privileged to meet the famous old or organist organist or- or of ot the exposition Dr Stewart who Wh with his big cane and bigger smile dropped in after the afternoon recital When the conversation turned to o ragtime Dr Stewart became very positive in his remarks Then Wolfe copped the climax by putting The Music Box Rag on his and the combination of the offensive rag with the hated mechanical instrument instrument instrument ment was too much for the veteran musician musician- He left but he grinned as ashe ashe ashe he did so to show Wolfe he wasn't really sore J. J I OT many feet away from the structure that has the name of home N NOT city in n large letters on the front Is another building and ne one that feel is is' is particularly th theirs theirs the the irs the Utah building When a person is a thousand miles from home it gives him pleasure to be able to Walk into a place built for the glorification of the state he claims as his own wn and to place his name on the big register as a resident of that that states states state's capital city I had that same feeling in both the San Diego Utah building and that of the Panama-Pacific Panama Utah building And better still in both places I saw old friends from home home both both Salt Lake people and Salt Lake Laken n newspapers ers M T w was s stated before that the exposition would would- not be pe described Neither IT will wm it But I can say this much that for beauty of buildings architecture archItecture architecture archi archI- arrangements and co color or schemes even the worlds world's greatest exposition that exposition that one up In San Francisco must Francisco must take off Its hat to San I Diego The deep blue of the southern sky the golden cream of those |