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Show SAN DIEGO'S SHOW It is safe to say that of all who have read of California, something like D8 per cent have a definite hope of going there some day with a possibility that this estimate is 2 per cent too low. It is as safe to say that most of the number have a hope quite as great of stopping off at any one of a dozen famous points of interest in-terest along the way. That is the .material with which the railroads and steamship lines have to work in the next year, when special rates will 'be in effect to stimulate the west bound traffic to the 1915 expositions at San Diego and San Francosco. From all eastern points, incidentally, the tickets include visits to both cities, making it as cheap to visit both as either, a feature which will be of great benefit to both. It is also worth noting that the majority of tourists will come by one route and return by another, thus finding it possible pos-sible to see (most of tho sights along the way. In landscape and architecture and many of the exhibit features an Diego's Panamia-Call-fornla exposition Is unique In the annals of celebrations, cele-brations, with the extraordinary climate of that short stretch of coasit country at the extreme southwestern" corner of the United States. "djf The exposition there will open on New Year's eve, and with a flying start on January 1, 1915, will remain open unitil the close of the year. When a climate knows no frost or torrid heat, and Indeed has no protracted rainy season, there is no good reason why the exposition should not take full advantage of it and 'establish a record rec-ord as an all-year event. Of more importance is the amazing horticultural horticul-tural development "which this twelve months' growing season has made possible, the unrivaled growth of palm and eucalyptus and orange, of blooming shrub, of garden, of brilliant bougain-' villea, the riotous vine which covers the white ,Jfc walls of the Spanish buildings with a 'blanket of red or .purple, clambering up to'ward the domes and towers and arches where Spanish mission bells hang, and pigeons nest. Then too, there is a citrus orchard, a 'tea plantation the first in the United States, incidentally a model vineyard and farm, and the inspiring view downward down-ward to the sea, a smile away, and up the valleys val-leys to the snow-capped peaks of California and old Mexico. The new Ideas in exhibits and entertainments are quite aB striking. There has ibeen an effort to remove all time-worn subjects and substitute ideas which will command attention as the old ones never did. |