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Show 8 1TIE IIERALD-KEPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, N, lvZ . SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION REAPS PROFIT Estimated Eighteen Milli on Persons Vis- lted the Grounds. Fair Regarded Solely as Exposition of 1 .. - . . $2,000,000 1) . All Arw Entered for JTrogress, ticles Exhibit Having Been Produced Since the St. Louis Fair, Ten Years Ago. O AX FHANCISCO. Dec. 4. The Panama Pacific International exposition closed tonight. Hundreds of thousands of incandescent lights twinkled and trembled the farewell sig-r.a few mi mi to- before midnight and at 12 o'clock th-- lights went out sfor the last time. Tho cxjositio:i of 83 days duration officially was at an eiult though the farewell carnival continued in tho morning hours. With the extinguishing" of the electric light there was a flash in tho tky of thousands of rocket?, bombs 'and star .hell. More than half a ton of powder was ued to hurl them into tho air, making a salvo which W. I). A. iHyan, tho director of illumination, aid was the heaviest and most elaborate pyrotechnic display ever atal - i tempted. -v- L' ' .r-- v Hv ;)''r'4 fef l"'1 ; Hundred of searchlights which had jointed to the art of the sculptor and 'hono on the. tower of jewels and the . x s : , ' j" domes and minarets each night since .February 20. when the exposition were nlo dimmed in the closing moments and for thirty seconds the 035 acres of exposition grounds were in total darkness. Then patrol lights hero and thcro along the avenues and bvways and in the courts began to glow 5 that the thousands of rr.erry-tr.r.keWitn a wonderful celebration. , . could make, their way about. J Panama-Pacifi- c . the exposition. ; Thrones remained to go on with the ' dances in the (fori spaces and in the Jthe greatest of world's fairs. . warmer eourts and to about the ! closed last nieht. It is estimated ! I in th farewell festivities. grounds The carnival spirit prevailed, in jthat 18,000,000 persons passed) t keeping with tho decree of President j throusn the gates to tlie exposition J harles C Moor" and the exposition j grounds. Tho upper picture snows director?, who said: "Let thcro be. t t a J vicsr the of cheers instead of tears. The expotirdseye exposition j I 'sition has been a success. grounds, 33 seen from an aero- In a financial way it is expected ;lh exposition vvil! 5 how a profit of ! building at the fair, one of the I pomething like 2.009.000 perhaps more. All indebtedness was paid be. most beautiful on the grounds, and !' fore the exposition w.n icrcr. The exper.-- e of preparing the to the right is the wonderful Tower I ifdte and t!ie building for tho ope- J of Jewels. -ning date uas said to be approximatI There w.h no federal ely ..")0.noo.00. t the for undertaking, appropriation L the vcrio;: departments of the 'United States government made dis-- t tan period and it gave Guerin what itor on his. entrance from the city, has been deseriln-- as a pinkish-grav- plays for which r.V.O.OOi) had lv en courts the five interior throughout for maintenance. butf surface which carried a sircs- - and the circuit of enclosing walls. The exposition attendance was be-- ! tion of warmth. This shaded off into Two of the most imposing works were 'yor.d all hopes of the management, es-- J reddish brown sometimes the groups of "Nations of the West" 1. , -e n. m was u?ed extcnsivelv in and the "Nations of the uir v.ir. j i.il ij am i East," which when for a time there was talk of enriching it and working out lights faced each other lf0 feet above tlie tho and On of shadows. date. opening postponement sunken gardens of the court of the a daily avernge the attendance lias for domes and lattices, cerulean blue universe. Everywhere the idea of the een mere than 2.ono. Within twelve for ceilings of courts, and burnt achievement of the building of .the days after February 2' ! .OWMO par- orange for ?mall domes and mold- Panama canal was embodied. pens passed through the gate. The ings gave an oriental richness to the A bit of sentiment, one which will 17,000.000 mar!; was readied Novem- exposition, but the whole scheme was outlast, the exposition many generasoft and alluring. Excepting perhaps tions, is a grovo of ber 19. young trees one tower, which was generally de. San Francisco's exposition in even government territory. Each particular w ns nn exposition of prog- plored by architects, including, it was tree was planted by some honored ress. All exhibits entered for award said, the designer, there was nothing guest of the exposition directors. Tho were contemporaneous articles orig- anywhere to dazzle or blaze. first to plant a tree was Vice PresiThe decorative sculptures of the dent inated or prodneed since the St. Louis Thqmas H. Marshall, in April. ten exposition, many of which were creat- Otheid to plant trees in the federal exposition year ago. In the general color 5 eh erne it was ed for the exposition and wcro.of a grove were Theodore Iiooscvelt, "Wildifferent from any effect ever at- character depicting the spirit of tho liam Howard Taft, former Vice Prestempted on f o large a scale. The night west or life on the Pacific coast, at- ident Fairbanks, William Jennings subdued lights tracted much attention. There were liryan. Maj. Gen. George W, illumination, with Goethals, everywhere, reflected on the build- more than 15,00(j individual pieces of. William G. McAdoo nnd Thomas A. ings also was unique. Many experts sculpture or groups placed at vari- Edison. nnd artists, among them Thomas A. ous points about the grounds. The palace of education was classed Thirty-nin- e men and women of recTv!ien. deejared the night scene tho by educators as n temporary univermost entrancing of light ef- ognized ability at homo and abroad sity whose accomplishment will alcontribute! a sculptors. The lat ways be one of the enduring features fects they ever had seen. To carry out h'u idea of colors for Karl Hitter, killed in New York in an of tho exposition. Every phase and tho exposition palaces. Jules Otierin, automobile accident soon after tho branch of educational work was taken director of color, took into consider- opening of tho,eiosition, wes in up there, the tutors being always tho ation the climatic and atmophcric charge of this department, with A. best the country could afford. I'.y conditions found in San Francisco Stirling Cnldcr a acting chief of the means of moving pictures adults n$ rear the Golden Gate and worked in work. well as children were given daily lesnn imitation of traverwarm colors in The plan of the i xpositlon sculpture sons in geography, social hygiene, This marble marble. wan was, much tine designed t form a sequence from physiology, chemistry, agriculture, vstem. There ticd in Human palaces of the Angus- - the first piece that greeted tho via- - J horllcnlture and glSfPL v ,t . 1 ?T v"2 , carl 1 , - i- 1 waj. v v s- - n, ' rs , ' - , ;' , , , - . T , ' ' ' . . . , , ' ' 4 $Tt:r . CfH: feE:; i two-thir- if - AC" ds 5j ... r.l-'law- !t.. f - eh , 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 .it ed d ! Oxidized-oopir-pree- n, oc-cupyi- ng -- di-pl- ay l wero five moving ni t theatres hookworm in the south, within the building. gas burner, vocational training 4 in In addition to those mentioned the schools, advance in steam locomotion, governor of ever' state represented at telegraphone, wireless telephone, wirethe exposition planted a tree' in the less, telegraphy, snythetic camphor, garden surrounding his respective dyes from. coal tar and the pure food state building end the American Press movement. Daily demonstrations of Humorists planted a fir tree, known the transcontinental telephone were as the "chestnut tree," on the lawn given in the palace of liberal arts, near the Press building. Each of where audiences listened to a speaker these trees is to be transplanted in in New York reading headlines from the latest editions of the newspapers; the federal grove. ; events at the Thirty-nin- e foreign nations particiAmong the sporting "the and Vanderbilt pated officially in the exposition, sevexposition were grand prize automobile cup races held eral of the warring nations of Europe, soon after the opening date on a chief among them being France and course embracing a circuit of the ex- Turkey, having buildings. Thirty-seve- n states of the union were repreposition grounds. Other events of more than local interest included sented, virtually all of them having yacht races, for which cups were their, own state, buildings. It. was estimated there were 80,000 given by President Wilson and King The sloop different exhibitors, the. displays of George of England. Nordug II was sent from Christiania, which wero valued at something like Norway, to take part, which sho did $ ;r)0,ooo,ooo. With reference to some of the benesuccessfully. For thro weeks during the summer running races fea- fit to be derived by San Francisco as tured and later in the season there a result of tho exposition, the foreign were harness races with $227,000 in trade department of the San Francisco purse. A live stock show with $480.-00- 0 chamber of commerce has issued a in prizes, horse shows and inter- circular which says: national sheep shearing contests wero "Without taking into consideration also held. the millions of dollars spent in Smi Among the world developments por- Francisco for the construction of the trayed nt the exposition were the exposition and the further millions Diesel engine in actual operation, spent by those who have come here transcontinental telephone, develop- to "pee it without considering tho edument of nitrates from air, color cational advantages afforded, tho exphotography, motor truck and gaso- position has more than justified Its line driven farm machinery, cure for construction for the benefit it has picture .::. vi.-:-.- ft 4 0 i t ' s ! i-- oxy-acetyle- nc . fe: 14:' ;-;- n been to San Fiancisco from a commercial' point of view. It is not to be expected that the beneficial results will all make themselves apparent at once; it may take years for some of them to develop, but. the. seed lias been sown in fertile soil and t;e returns will bo large and eertain even though slow." Most of the, exposition's buildings are to be demolished, A movement for-eig- .has been started, however, to pre- serve the palace of fine arts, perhaps the most imposing building of them all, which' stands' on government land. As for the majority of the other buildings the management is under contract to. clear the land within four months and tho workman's hammer will echo in the courts 'after tomorrow instead of the bands of music which have been there for tho last ten months. ? |