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Show I Millions of Lights to Flash on the Gold Paved Streets of Great 1 I Concessions District ) I l I $11,000,000 to Be Spent on Superb Amusement FeaturesFamed Amusement Purveyors of America and I I Europe Contribute Wonderful Concessions. I By HAMILTON WRIGHT. V W"ROGRESS on the "Midway" at gB the Panama-Pacific Interna- I i tlnnal Exposition Is so far ad- K vanced that definite Informa- tlon may be given about this fasclnat-A fasclnat-A Ins concessions district The conces A slons center will be one of the most I" marvelous features of the Exposition jjSH grounds. At night It will glow with gajH myriads of Incandescent? its streets ggB will be paved with gold; shafts of col- BNH ored light will be hurled against Its jSH lofty towers and minarets, the tallest gjgfl of which will be 250 feet in height Many amusement features will be raK shown for the first time. Tho art of H presenting huge panoramas and dlora- mas ba advanced marvelously during H the past decade, and the world's most HB celebrated amusement purveyors will fl display their finest productions. The concessions will be notable not only for HH their huge size and the excellence of SH their presentation, but for their educa- jB tlonal merit Between $11,000,000 and H $12,000,000 will, It Is estimated, be ex- HH pended upon Installation In tho eon- B cessions district SH So far the Exposition management i.ae received more than 7,000 appllca-H appllca-H tlons for concession privileges. The hundred largest concessions already granted will cost more than $7,500,000, X flood of applications Is being recelv-H recelv-H ed from all parts of America and Eu- H rope, and a staff of experts is kept H busy In segregating them. B Prize For Best Name. fB What to call the main street of the H concessions center Is a question. Chl- H cago had the "Midway," St Ixuls the H "Pike," Portland the "Trail" and Seat- tie "The Pay Streak." Frank Burt, dl-E dl-E rector of concessions and admissions B and one of the greatest amusement B authorities in the world, has offered a flBB prize for the best name and is flooded H with suggestions. Among the titles H suggested are "Tho Main Drag," "The H Ixck." "The Canal." "The Zone," B "Tho Isthmus" and "The Ditch" HHk First work in construction on a num- H fcer of the concessions has already be ll R L -a gun. Among the more important con- cessions are the "Grand Canyon." a spectacle to be presented by the Santa Fe railway, Toyland Grown Up," a. great city in which tho building's will be j enlarged reproductions of children's I toys (Toylund will be a 6Uperbly artistic spectacle, a mass of wonderful i alaces covering twelve acres, and It will be presented by Frederick Thompson, the famous creator of Luna Park at Coney Island), the Panama canal, working model of the frrC-at canal nt Panama; "Creation," based on the first chapter of Gene-sis; "The Evolution of the American Ameri-can Navy," a replica of the world, famous fa-mous city of Nuremberg; an Ice Palace in which International skatlnc; and hockey matches will be held, a Forty-nine Forty-nine Camp; tho Battle of Gettysburg; llagenbeck's Wild Animal exhibit and prehistoric garden; Asia; Mahomet's Mountain, the Dayton Flood and the Aeroscope. "Grand Canyon of Arizona." One of the most artistic of all the concessions will bo the "Grand Canyon of Arizona" in all its grandeur and power, as seen from the platform of an observation car. Some of the most noted nrpnlc artists in America are engaged en-gaged upon the canvases, which will depict the scenes of the canyon in its natural colors. ThlB concession, to occupy oc-cupy 300 by 700 feet of ground space, is now under construction and when completed will cost $350,000. The Santa Fe railroad plans to make it of educational value rather than one to amuse only. Guides will deliver lectures lec-tures on tho points of Interest, and in harmony with the setting of the panorama pano-rama will be an Indian vlllago In which members of the Pueblo. San Domingo. Navajo, Zunl and Hopl Indian tribes will present their dances in native costume cos-tume and display their handiwork. "Toyland Grown Up" will be a walled principality, almost as larfte as an exposition ex-position Itself. The walled city will ! be entered by threo mammoth gates. The first gate will be the Gate of Fun, and Toyland will be entered by Crazy street with Its rookedy, crookedy buildings and rookedy, crookedy streets and rookedy, crookedy street FIRST CHAPTER. OF GENESIS ' mWS M car lines. Everything will be rookedy. crookedy, with laughs galore. The second gate will bo the Gate of the Court of Fairyland, the Gate "t Beauty. The third gate is the entrance to the City of the Wicked King, where Is held captive the doll princess. This is tho Gate of Thrills. Nymphs of Fairyland. Rolling its water Into Fairyland will be a wonderful cascade, which will pour 30.000 gallons of water a minute into a lagoon where beautiful girls and nymphs perform graceful evolutions i in the water as it rushes down. The cascade is surrounded by u magnlli- rent building with golden domes and coping decorated with Christmas trees. A colossal stairway on either side of the cascade forms a grand approach to tho building. Beneath the dome is the Court of Youth, and thence Hows the water that tho sightseer in 1915 must dip his fingers In with difficulty. In the Fountain of Youth the visitor must pass through initiation ceremonies be- I fore he 13 ablo to enjoy the pleasures of Toyland Grown Up. Among other features will be Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, sixty feet In height; a great shoe, as large as a six story city building build-ing and built In part In tho form of a side wheel steamer, since this shoe will havo huge wheels like the Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition. Expo-sition. Chicago. By means of these wheels the sightseer will be raised aloft In Toyland thero will be, too. the City of Peter Pan. the town that never grew up. Toyland. Indeed will be tlie fairyland that the child dreams of Altogether Al-together the Toyland concession will CMt more than $1,000,000 and will require re-quire more than 4.000.000 feet of lumber. lum-ber. Its streets and canals if stretched in a row would be five miles long. The model of the Panama canal, to cost $250,000, will be an exact repro- ductlon of the great work at Panama, Gatun lake. Mlranores dam and all I r y GETTYSBURG phases of the canal with which Americans Ameri-cans are familiar will be reproduced in miniature. Fortifications will be shown, and the workings of the great gates at the locks will be Illustrated in a way that will, perhaps, make their operation as plain to the visitor as If he visited the canal Itself Two thousand thou-sand people will be able to make the trip through the "canal" every thirty minutes. Incidentally, It may be observed, ob-served, the gates to the concessions district, as tho visitor enters it from Van Ness avenue, will be reproductions reproduc-tions of the great spillways at Panama. Great Navy Panorama. "The Evolution of the Dreadnaught" will be a panoramic illustration of the birth, growth and development of the American navy, entailing an outlay of $150,000. The concession is in charge of E. V. McConnell, who produced a ' Trip to tho North Pole" at the Louisi-na Louisi-na Purchase Exposition at St Louis in 1904. Tho historic incidents in the life of the navy, such as Perry's victory at Bake Erie, tho battle o.' the Monitor and Merrlmac, Dewey's victory at Manila Ma-nila bay and tho defeat of the Spanish Meet at Santiago, will be shown. All of the scenes will be presented in chronological order. The visitor in 1915. as he enters the concession, will see first a panorama depicting the early events of America's naval history, and then panoramas of the later events, with which every schoolboy Is familiar. Throughout the successivo stages of the panorama the illusion of warships In action will be preserved. Tho final panorama will show the assembled bat- tleships of the navies of the world anchored an-chored off Harbor View, with the white squadron coming through tho Golden Gate, This panorama will become an actuality, actu-ality, for the nations of the world have been invited by Uncle Sam to 6cnd their best battleships and cruisers for the opening of the exposition. The invitation in-vitation Is meeting with splendid' response. re-sponse. It is expected that more than 200 of the world's battleships will take pewt Each of the twenty-eight nations that have already officially decided as governments to participate In tho exposition ex-position will send one or more of Its representative war craft to the Golden Gate, and a number of tho nations have already given assurance that several of their finest fighting craft will assemble at the Golden Gate. Mr. Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty ad-miralty of England, has promised that Great Britain will be represented with a number of the finest Dreadnaughts. The spectacle of this vast fleet assembled as-sembled from tho world's navies will be without parallel in history. The European nations will assemble their battleships at Hampton Roads, and thence, after an official review, this composite fleet of the world's fighting craft, the largest fleet ever assembled, as-sembled, will proceed through the Panama canal to the Golden Gate. Higher Than Ferris Wheel. A novel feature will be the "Aero-scope." "Aero-scope." an Inverted pendulum, which will carry sightseers to an elevation of 268 feet This is four feet higher than the famous Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The Aeroscope presents a novel feature in construction. Crane arms, 240 feet In height, mounted upon a steol tower fifty feet high and made of two parallel riveted trusses, will operate as a balanced bal-anced lever. One of the crane arms will carry a double decked cage for passengers. One of the most attractive of the 1 concessions will be that reproducing the historic market place of old Nuremberg, Nu-remberg, probably the quaintest point ! In the old world. Nuremberg today Is the only one of the great cities of the German empire which has preserved Its I medieval appearance. Nuremberg was the homo of the Meistersaenger. Here tho "Iron Maiden," instrument of torture, tor-ture, first made her grisly entrance Into the dungeon chamber; here the independent robber barons first held sway against all who came; here the Incomparable work of Franz Hals was first produced. Many of these interesting inter-esting relics will be shown. The banquet halls, folk danco halls, restaurants, cafes and concert gardens will be presented as they existed five centuries ago. Employees will be dressed In the native costumes of the fifteenth century that visitors may feel that they are in the fascinating old city of Nuremberg as it existed in the height of its glory. Typical of the early days of the west will be the "Forty-nlno Camp." In which the characters made famous by BretHarte will be reincarnated and mingle min-gle with the visitors. Stagecoaches of the days of '49 will meet the visitors at the entrance of the Union Ferry building and take them out to the "camp." Roulette Rou-lette wheels, faro games and stagecoach stage-coach robberies will appeal to every sightseer. There will be no actual gambling, for games of chance will not be permitted upon the exposition grounds. Nevada mining men under the leadership of Sam Davis, editor of 4 , the Carson City Appeal, will operate this concession at an outlay of $100,000. The face of the "Ice Palace," to be presented by Montreal concessionaires, will be unique in designs of Ice. through w hich will run ammonia pipes. In the interior will be a skating rink three- fourths of an acre In area, upon which will be held International hockey matches. Unique "Roadtown." A unique display In one of the exhibit palaces will be "Roadtown," a modern skyscraper laid on its side, with the pipes and wires and elevators running horizontally Instead of vertically and with the Inhabitants of the building having free access to the open country that surrounds It "Roadtown" is a continuous house. Instead of grouping houses together as man does In the building of a modern city the exhibitor suggests a novel idea that cities should be strung along for miles through hill and dale, giving every family an ample and bandy supply sup-ply of fresh air. "Roadtown" Is to be built of "poured" concrete Edison's system and It will be earthquake proof, fireproof, soundproof and germproof. All the transportation will be conducted con-ducted in the basement where a monorail mono-rail transportation system will be used. In the "Submarines" concession sight seers will travel actually beneath the water in submarine craft correspond- Ing in appearance and in general 2 equipment with the most modern type of submarines used in the world's f navies. Dayton Flood Reproduosd. Henry Ellsworth, famed throughout the world as a producer of the Ober-ammergau, Ober-ammergau, the Passion play, which has brought thousands upon thousands of pilgrims to tffo picturesque shrine In the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, will pro- a ' duce a great concession to be known as j the "Dayton Flood." Mechanical devices upon an elaborate scale will reproduce many of the thrilling incidents at the J time of Dayton's great disaster. The spectacle will convey a lesson, and the courage with which Dayton overcame its disaster will be exalted, d "Mahomet's Mountain" another large I and interesting attraction, will repre- -sent a huge man, nlnety-slx feet tall, holding up a mountain. Visitors will Journey through the mountain, visiting caves, waterfalls and many spsctacular places. f |
