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Show I THE BIG EXPOSI TION NEXT YEAR Construction Work In Being- H Rushed on the Buildings H New Ideas Being Used H' More than a thousand tons of H, glasa will bo used in the con-, M ? struction of tho buildings at H tho Panama-Pacific Intcrnn- H f tional Exposition, 550 tons hav- Ll ing already been contracted for Bi. to bo ubccI on eight of tho main ' K '' exhibit palaces. In the Ma- m chincry Palace alone there are 1" 28,000 panes of glass in the fac- H ades now installed and 65,000 fl " ; square feet of glass in tho sky- H, i lights. When it is considered H ' that 1,000 tons of glass in panes H'' of the average thickness would hb cover an automobile road, eight r f feet wide, from San Francjsco jj - to Los Angeles, a distance of five t- I 'hundred miles, and leave quite a wi, ' bit over, some idea of tho im- aHcifi f -- " mensity of these figures may be BPjP - ft 'gained. yf ! Sixteen foreign nations. Rus- H sia, England, Germany, France, M ,; Ituly, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, : )! Portugal, Norway, Sweden, B u ' Switzerland Austria -Hungary F 7 and Australia, have tentatively H" ! accepted an invitation to send B I j troops to an international en- H ' y. campment at the Panama-Pacific i International Exposition in 1915. H I ' A military tournament, in which H soldiers of thoso nations will Hj vio with the beys of Uncle Sam, H?' - is being arranged by the War H Department. B Tho long arm of the "Aero- H, scope" at the Panama-Paciiic H International Exposition will Hj; swing visitors 2G8 feet into the H air four feet higher thnn the Hj world famed Ferris Wheel at H. the Chicago exposition. Tho B- ' arm will pick up the sensation- B ( seeker from the base as a lino- M type machine clutches a bar of Hp type-slug and twirl him around H" a giant circle in the air. Hn One hundred and ninety-one H conventions, which will bo at- H tended by delegates from alf H parts' of the wojld, havo voted H to hold their sessions in Sun H Franci-co in 1015. The organ- H r.tlons are varied in character HP and include civic, religious, H Hccial service, educational, fra- H ternal, business, labor, commer- B cial, ' avgicultural, live stock, HB , and scores of other interests. More than 25,000 cubic yards 9 p.f rich soil was towed from H J Collinsville, on the Sareamento jB , River, to the site of the Panama- WM Pacific International Exposition ftKS at San Francisco to bo used in foM the tropical garden which will aj$l ' ; form ':he setting for the great ft$i ' exhibit palace. This loam, ;k heaped up, would makeamoun W ' hundred feet square at top and 4Hyi Frederick Thompson, producer HGf"3( f the Toyland Growri Up, con- glli' m cession at the Panama-Pacific 0Rt1jpj International Exposition, tried IKJ' b core?! of engineers of world- wide fame in an effort to find ono who could work out a design de-sign for a mechanical man, sixty feet high. All failed. Thompson, Thomp-son, in a whimsical mood, told his idea to his twelve year old office boy and ordered tho lad in jest to go home and make a working model. The boy, bo-lioving bo-lioving Thompson was in earnest, earn-est, got busy and his model was so successful that tho sixty-foot man will bo made from the lad's original drawing. A standard gauge railroad, with all modern appointments, which has been built by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through its grounds, will provide exhibiters with the quickest and most effective traffic servico ever given at an exposition. The cars carrv their loads direct to the doors of the various exhibit palaces and in some instances into the buildings. build-ings. Twelve miles of track is laid, reaching to all quarters of the exposition grounds. The thousands of great trees which are being brought from every country in the world to be transplanted at the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific International Exposition are scientifically treated by ex perts to prevent their dying. The Bide roots aro cut and side boards placed down the cuts. Six months later, when tho tree lias become accustomed to receiving nourishment nourish-ment only from tho bottom roots, these are cut and the bottom board attached to the side one, making a great box. The tree is then hoisted by derrick der-rick and shipped by land or sea to San Francisco where it is replanted re-planted in special soil brought from the Sacramento river, seventy miles away. A reprodcution of the Yellowstone Yellow-stone National Park will be ono of the features of the concessions conces-sions district at the Panama International In-ternational Exposition. A standard stand-ard gauge railroad will run throuh the concession, taking visitors seemingly through the entire Park. In tho center of the concession reproductions of tho guysers and springs which have made the Yellowstone the wonder of the world vill be set upon a great revolving table. The cost of tho concession is estimated at $550,000 and it will boonucf the most complete of its kind ever built. |