Show OPENS exposition AT SAN francisco PRESIDENT WILSON TOUCHES BUTTON WHICH OPENS PANAMA PACIFIC international FAIR exposition first day attendance records broken in spite of bad weather secretary lane addresses vast throng san francisco Francis coAll alt records for or exposition first day attendance were broken on february 20 ut at the olev ing of the panama pacific international al exposition three hundred thousand people passed through the turn stiles the previous record was at the opening day of the st louis worlds fair in 1904 the crowd was a spectacle in itself it filled the grand stands it packed the great courts and concourses it poured through the aisles it overflowed irom from the sidewalks into the avenues from the hills to we the bay as far as tile the eye could reach in unending rivers of bobbing heads the day broke threatening and rainy but by sunset there was waa scarcely a cloud in the sky one shower fell during the dedicatory exercises As president wilson opened the exposition with the tou bouchot chot of a button in the white house tile the suns long slant i ing rays glinted in a miniature iraln rainbow through the spurting streams of the fountain of energy that moment unleashed flags of all the nations rose on manifold poles and pinnacles signal bombs were detonated from towers th the e dedicatory cero ceremonies gonles were made as simple and short as possible the citizens headed beaded by governor hiram 11 iram W johnson and mayor james rolph jr representing the state and the city were welcomed to tile the grounds by the off officers leers and directors of t the exposition and officers of the federal ederae government addresses were delivered lell vered by president C C moore of dio ho exposition dr frederick J V skiff dire director etor in chief governor johnson loh secretary lane and a few others invocations and benedictions were vere pronounced by clergymen representing the roman catholic protes tant ant and jewish faiths |