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Show SAN DIEGO FAIR OPENED. President Wilson Touches Button and Opens Exposition. San Diego, Cal. Three thousand miles away, President Wilson arose on Thursday in the small hours at Washington Wash-ington and touched an electric button that opened to the world at midnight here, the Panama-California exposition. exposi-tion. It will remain open until January Janu-ary 1, 1916. Visitors from all parts of the country coun-try participated in the opening celebration, cele-bration, but the southwest was espe. cially well represented. The Imperial valley of California alone sent a delegation dele-gation of 2,000 in 500 automobiles. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, represented President Wilson. Wil-son. As the personal representative of King Alfonso of Spain, there was present Count Del Valle de Salazar, and with him were legates of other foreign powers. |