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Show THE LONGEST EXPOSITION San Francisco's Panama-Pacific cx- ! position Is to be the longest in point of duration as well as in stretch of ! territory that the world has yet known. The opening and closing dates for the 1015 world's fair, as announced by tho board of directors this week, will be Saturday, February 20, and Saturday. December 4, providing a season of forty-one weeks. President Charles C. Moore contended for a sea"- (i son of twelve months, which, would havo marked the Panama-Pacific fair as tho first to run a full year, but it was finally decided that to add near- , ly thrco months to tho longest pre- Vlous duration of An exposition was . V an advance enough at this time. 1 There arc few places in tho "world ,1 whore an all-year-round exposition would bp possible, so San Francisco . seems likely to hold the record for a long time. The St Louis exposition has up to date been tho record, holder. Tho , monster show of 1904 opened April ' 30, more than two months later than the date set for the beginning of tho San Francisco display, and closed De--cembcr -J. The Paris exposition in 1900 began April 15 and closed November No-vember 11 Tho Pan-American Fair at Buffalo in IflOl was from May 1 t November 2, and tho World's Colum- y blan exposition at Chicago vas open fr. ' Mav 1 to October 30. ,tRP There is every likelihood that tha "WJf San Francisco exposition will set a now high mark for attendance. This will mean that scores of thousands of visitors will come to tho coast, and he northwest states are certain to draw a large share of these. Tho benefits ben-efits to accrue from the millions of dollars that will be spent in tho west, w tho visit of many thousands from all , . parts of tho countrj- and from foreign lands, the Increased prestige and recognition rec-ognition ' for the Pacific states, and the general impetus given all lines cf activity and progress aro beyond, conjecture con-jecture and make tho exposition In itself worthy of place -with the historic his-toric event it is to celebrate aa a tremendous tre-mendous force for a greater west. Tacoma Lodger. |