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Show Panama-Pacific Internationa! Exposition, GreatesTai- l of All Celebrations, Opens Completed In Every Detail on Feb. U15 Forty of the World's Great Nations to Join With America In Celebrating the Opening of the Panama Canal In a Conclave Unsurpassed In History. Wonderful Exhibits From All Lands Show the World's Best Progress From Beginning to End Magnificent Panama -Pacific. International Exposition Will Abound With Superb Educational and Entertainment Features. By HAMILTON WRIGHT. TLiE construction of the vast Panama I'acit-e Internationa) Exposition at San Francisco was t'3 per cent completed three months before the opening day, on Feb. 20. 1915. The early installation installa-tion of thousands of tons of rare and costly exhibits from all parts of the globe and the participation of forty of the world's great count ies have assured assur-ed a celebration that will be unrivaled in its splendor, magnitude, interest and ! comprehensiveness. ' I From its opening until its close, on ' Pec. 4. Hilo. the Exposition wiil abound with original features collect- j ed at an expenditure of many millions i of dollars. It will present a cross section sec-tion of human achievement. The Pan i 'v' .... t i I --ft- v ; :- l I - . , .- . -.,"-- - . t . - . , r- j ii..-: - - 'v.: v ft S, , f - , - . . , - Photograph courtesy San Francisco Examiner. THE KOTHZa OF IKCOUT BZACEEY, FSOM THE TOWEe'oF JEWELS, 435 FEET AEOV THE JVSHom?0 IATI0NAL osinos, watches heh son pal. ces of the ranama-Facific Int-rnatlona. Exposition it was his aPed mother w ho for the HkZ , !, ,i derful lower of Jew, Is. lrml this aerie she was able to watch everr erratic move of her daredevil , . cn.l out on y once That waa w,r, he wrote the fibres "KO" apalnst the clouds. tlb vT , m 5 of complete,! exhibit .alaces. sl.-nilbant of the looping of his one thousandth lop f ama canal is today op"n and dlnz business on a far va.-ier scale than was predicted for it. and the Expoi-i'u. which celebrates, the openi:;? of tiie 03. nal. is to-lay revealed as the trea!e-t man;festat!"n of national a hb rement In American history. Here will he neutral ground where even n,aTion en paped in warfare will dl-plRy on a scale never before equaled ibelr rop ress in the arts. Industries and sciences of peace. U'ithin three month lteff re the open-In? open-In? of the Fxposi;;.,, n n.nuy as tons of consignments h.id reai In d San Francisco in a single day, and. far in advance of its opening, the Exposition had created an unprecedented Interest throughout the world, and its opening was eagerly awaited. - In keen competitive exhibits there will be presented more than SO.000 single sin-gle exhibits and groups of related exhibits ex-hibits portraying the results of the world's best efforts in recent years. This wonderful Exposition, presented present-ed at an outlay of more than $00,000.-OCk'l. $00,000.-OCk'l. celebrates a contemporaneous achievement, the building of the Panama Pana-ma canal, and all exhibits that are entered en-tered for competitive award will be those that have been originated or produced pro-duced since the gT--at Louisiana Purchase Pur-chase Exposition at St Louis ten years .ago. The possible exception to this rule will be where earlier exhibits are shown to illustrate the evolution of the j processes of manufacture na. for ci-1 ci-1 ample, a display of a model of the first I cotton pin in connection w ith the marvelous mar-velous equipment into which It has evolved. -Many of the displays will be especially espe-cially adapted to study by the delegates dele-gates to great national and Interna- thuial congresses and conventions, of which more than .iici. embracing al-mot al-mot every phase of human ncilvlty. have votcl to meet In San Francisco -in lltl.". I'eleg.ito to the congresses jlnteie-icd In soc ial progiess and wel-j I . I 1 ox"-.. '. V . i - ! ; '' V- "THE END OF THE TRAIL," PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. TAN FRANCISCO, J915. ThU H,oto;r.M I, decs ;,ir,. ,,Jiru ,,.,,, ,,,,., r ,nlIlnrv -he l.n.l of lb- ') rail." i,t f,.- V.;. .v..-, P.,. i.m, .tl t.-. I v position ! tic, w l-ft-.tif.,) .:;,.. . ., , :1, 1 .,..( ,,. ,k- f I fan,.,.,-, sculptors of tl,,- ,l.,y I,, a. I, :,,, , ,,. ,, , , (loorc. thoti.K.ods Of bcutitul CW,lk, l ..II all pi, ,. ,,,, tllt. e,e nihl.C of F'iic ArXM. I I fare work will, for example, see In the Palace of Mines an exhibit three-fourths three-fourths of an acre in extent, illustrating illus-trating the manner In which the largest steel corporation In the world Is caring for and plans to still further fur-ther advance the welfare of its employees. em-ployees. In the Palace of Education they will be interested In a great United States government exhibit The great war in no way has diminished dimin-ished the prospect of attendance at the Exposition, and thousands of Americans will for the first time en-Joy en-Joy the educative trip across their native na-tive land. After the outbreak of the conflict the number of conventions deciding de-ciding to meet In San Francisco proportionately pro-portionately increased. One of the most important of the assemblages will be the International engineering 1 congress, at which Its dNtlnguNhd l chairman. Colonel George V. ib.cthais ' w III preside. ' j The foreign participation will bo ' notable The nation are not attempt- i ' everything th;ll ,t.v !"-e. but will lay espec ial ,.,,'.!... upon those produc ts In h. , they ,.x. f cel. In the l.anish dbplny. f.,r exam- C pie. will . !,!, product of t!i. I Itoyal Hanlsl, porcelain facp.rv at IV I I'enhagen. Japan In her ex hau'-t lv(. ,.x. C hlblt will .llvplay priceless rU f f art. loaned by dire, tlon f t. In.,.ri,; household and many of 1, T Ilof t ,!,,!, II. I-,.... ..... L " ' 1 ""I II . IV v III ,,, shown l,Htric painting r ,,, masters, hitherto hcer cvhibli,.,) America in the originals. From china i there have reached San Fran, ic, s... lections of exlllblts eollcctcl ,,,.,. supervision of the governors of the c, ! n,-se provinces. Kare silk, ,,,, carvings. Inl.iy work 1.1 the p re, hois metals, exlllblts of (,c. trans,,,,,-,..,,!,,,, methods eni, loved in tl. old china and the modern methods UK,., ln ,(, t awakening republic win be- shown I New Zeali will ,l,e marvel- I, oils exhibit of Its rare M ,lf ,w tleeces. of Its superb scenic ,', .,,., f A large number of r n,. g::1, r,.,,, from .Sew Zealand ii ,r found troKliigon (he Fxi-.sitl,,,, grounds The Argentine li. public early aside a larger Hum II. an any (1,',r , proprlated by a foreign nation ,,,r resentlll ol In 111! A.l.ellian ep..sll,,M Tli,' modern cliies ,,f Argeniina, the schools, ( lunches, llbrai i, s. g,,. ,, live slock and agi Icon ,,ral Im,., will c extenc-lcely ,ortia.,d. mid ,, , . iiii1 1 1 ji I Interests of Sou,,) America an, I 1 North Aineiha will I inphasl-.e, In nlniosi every conceivable mannrr. tl I From S011II1 Africa will be slmun dla- K iiiond rihlblls 1111, 1 niethods of rxirac- k ' lion. The Illiigl.lllcelit Canadian dla- K plajs will review ,10! only ih,. wlilrljy If j known ngrlcultnral wealth, bul wlB : fa llbisllllle (he scenic chalilis of tt J i gleal lomlnlon. of ov ,,d i.imiib-J j ' lain peaks, of fn n caching f,,r,...(. , f I Inliiiid Inkia In rliiilim ,,f siher anr' ' riishlliif llloUBtlllll slleailis. j |
