Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 124, Ed. 2 Monday, April 20, 1914 Page: 3 of 4
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February 20, 1915-eForty-two of the World’s Great Nations Have
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HE progress of the physical side of the Exposition work during the past year enables me to repeat with as-
surance the promise originally made two years ago when I said that the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition would be ready when its gates opened on Feb. 20, 1915.
All construction work is fully up to schedule, and this schedule calls for the completion of the Exhibit
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ceive the exhibits by December.
The Palace of Horticulture, which is
being constructed almost entirely of
glass with a dome 150 feet high and
100 feet in diameter, has its frame in
place, and the setting of the crystal
facades will soon commence.
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of rich soil was spread. Twenty-five
thousand of these yards were dredged
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point seventy miles distant?
Many millions of rare plants and
trees and shrubs were collected by ex-
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world and brought to the Exposition,
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Exposition will not be celebrated until
Feb. 20, 1915, the Exposition is now
more than half completed and every
detail will be perfected before Decem-
ber of this year. It is absolutely cer-
tain that there will be no unfinished part
of the Exposition on the opening day.
An army of 4,000 men is working on
the palaces, and of the eleven main
buildings nine are more than 50 per
cent completed.
Beachey Flew Through It.
The Palace of Machinery, the largest
wooden building ever erected, was
completed on Jan. 1, just one year aft-
er the construction work had been
started. It was in this immense struc-
ture that Lincoln Beachey successfully
made his aeroplane flight, the 967 feet
length of the central aisle, at a speed
of seventy miles an hour, establishing
a record for the first indoor aeroplane
flight ever attempted. The composi-
tion of the palace is classic, the Rom-
an predominating, with a touch of the
Greek refining influence plainly shown,
and the treatment is somewhat modern
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that beauty in which the genius of master artists and architects conceived it, the people of America may rest as-
sured that their pride and patriotism will find expression in a celebration that in its high educational value, in, . □
its ethical influence and in its splendor will worthily celebrate the supreme triumph of mankind in the Panama from the viewpoint of a landscape gar-
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Palaces by July 1, 1914. One of them, the great Machinery Palace, is practically completed now, several
more will be finished in April or May and all will be ready for the installation of exhibits by July 1.
Very active work has begun in the Concessions District on the many beautiful and elaborate structures to be
erected by concessionaires to house their attractions. All these men are under rigid contract and bond to have
their projects in complete working order on the opening day.
Plans for the numerous State Buildings and for the Pavilions of foreign nations are now being submitted and
approved in rapid frequency, and while the Exposition itself has no direct control over the erection of these build-
ings, every inguence that it may exert to expedite their completion will be exerted, and I apprehend no serious
delays in thispart of the site.
Mqre than 60,000 manufacturers from all parts of the world have made application for exhibit space; in fact,
the total space in our Exhibit Palaces has already been overapplied for. The work of selection of representative
exhibits and the allotment of space will shortly be taken up, and the installation of exhibits will begin about July
1, thus giving exhibitors nearly nine months to get ready. Extraordinary care has been taken to give exhibitors
facilities for the rapid handling of their goods, and there is no reason why all the exhibits should not be com-
pletely arranged weeks before the gates are opened.
These exhibits will make a representation of human achievement in the arts, sciences and industries which, I
believe, has never been surpassed, even if equaled.
We have had over 7,000 applications for concessions, and those that have been given space are on the highest
plane as regards novelty, interest and attraction. Our amusement district will be pleasantly remembered for
years after the Exposition closes.
Two hundred and six national and international congresses have already voted to meet in San Francisco during
1915, and it is probable that the number of organized bodies which will assemble in 1915 in San Francisco will be
fully 500.
The plans for a great naval pageant are progressing well, and from assurances already received I am justified
in believing that there will be few, if any, nations possessing navies that will be unrepresented in the great fleet
which will assemble at Hampton Roads, sail through the Panama Canal and, through the Golden Gate to take part
in our opening exercises.
Detachments from the armies of many nations will gather in the Exposition grounds during 1915 and in friendly
rivalry will illustrate their proficiency in feats of arms.
The vast preliminary work of creating a great Universal Exposition is complete. The great responsibility
confided by the Government of the United States to the people of California is being successfully executed.
And as the Exposition Palaces arise and the physical, shell for this greatest of educative celebrations assumes
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height and general architectural com-
position, they seem to be under one i where they were planted in nurseries,
roof. They range in degrees of per- i lath horses and greenhouses, later to
centage completion as follows: Palace | be transplanted on the site proper,
of Education 95 per cent, Food Prod- ■ Two hundred of the palms which
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has been introduced—the sources of
light will at all times be hidden from
the spectators.
By the flood lighting system at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposi-
tion high lights will be thrown into re-
lief and the shadows accentuated by
means of hidden purplish dipped lamps,
which will throw heavy shadows where
required.
A spectacular feature of the illumi-
nation will be the scintillator—a bat-
tery of forty-eight thirty-six-inch
searchlight projectors screened by
glass Slides of every color in the spec-
trum. This battery will play a light
symphony, entitled “The Dance of the
Light God,” upon the fog banks which
roll through the Golden Gate every
night. Great steam pipes dotted with
perforations will be arranged in cer-
tain set forms, and through these
steam under high pressure will be
forced to a height of 300 feet in the
shape of genii, fairies, demons, flowers,
plumes and battleships. The beams
from the scintillator will cause the
gisantic shapes to assume form, waver
and dissolve In the darkness above,
presenting a weird and beautiful effect.
The Tower of Jewels.
To augment the effect of an actual
fairyland, hundreds of thousands of
“jewels” will be suspended from the
important architectural points of the
palaces, and upon these the rays from
200 minor searchlights will constantly
play. The jewels are handmade and
hand polished in Austria, with an ex-
ceptionally hard glass as a base, and will
be suspended in such a manner that the
vibration from the buildings will be
sufficient to make them sway and
quiver. The Tower of Jewels, which is
to cost $441,000, will be completely cov-
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The Panama-Pacific International Exposition will open on Feb. 20,
1915, and close Dec. 4, 1915.
A composite fleet of the warships of the world's navies, surpassing
every maritime spectacle of history,. will assemble in San Francisco har-
bor shortly after the formal opening of the Exposition.
The Exposition grounds lie within the city limits of San Francisco,
on the shores of San Francisco harbor, and are just inside its famous
Golden Gate entrance from the Pacific ocean. They are reached from the
center of San Francisco in twenty-five minutes.
The area of the grounds is equal to the combined areas of the
World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago and the Pan-American Expo-
sition at Buffalo. The Exposition palaces are the loftiest exposition
buildings ever erected, rising 135, 160, 185, 270, 350 and 430 feet.
Thirty-two foreign powers have accepted the invitation of the United
States to participate in the Exposition.
The displays from South America will be more Elaborate than any
ever shown outside that continent.
The most notable loan collection of the paintings of the old masters
ever shown in America will be exhibited from European galleries.
Hundreds of great conventions and congresses whose members live in
all parts of the world will meet in San Francisco next year.
Song festivals, international military meets, yacht and motorboat
races and international aviation meets are among the spectacular events
scheduled. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars will be given
in the largest stakes ever offered in a harness meet; even more will be
awarded in live stock premiums.
The most famous architects in the United States worked together to
produce the vast Exposition City, and the main exhibit palaces are
grouped to form a single stupendous design—a vast city of palaces sur-
mounted by huge domes and towers and interspersed with great open
courts.
Hundreds of thousands of rare trees, shrubs and plants are being set
out upon the Exposition grounds. In the collection are exquisite tree
ferns introduced from Australia.
The building of the Exposition has proceeded with prodigious rapid-
ity. This will be the first great American exposition to celebrate a present ’
day achievement—the building of the Panama canal. All exhibits enter-
ed for commercial award will be of contemporaneous manufacture and
will be shown in action whenever practicable.
Visitors in 1915 will view a perfected spectacle, with the installation
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PHE view of a part of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition site was taken from-an aeroplane at a height of 1,000 feet. In the foreground is seen m)
E huge lagoon, which will lie before the Palace of Fine Arts. Next come eight of the vast main exhibit palaces, terminated by the colossal Palace of Ma-J
chinery, which is 967 feet long, 367 feet wide and 136 feet high. The dome of the huge Palace of Education in the foreground on the right rises to a height
of 160 feet. In the center of the photograph is seen a great lagoon, marking the Court of the Universe. The main exhibit palaces will be the loftiest and most
impressive exposition structures ever built, and their extraordinary grouping about great courts will give an effect of singular massiveness and grandeur,!
seeming from afar a single vast structure. On the right of the photograph may be seen the hills of San Francisco. The island in the top center is Goat Is-
land, lying between San Francisco and Berkeley. One of the magnificent architectural effects Of the Exposition is the huge Tower of Jewels, 430 feet in height*
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cent, Mines and Metallurgy 65 per cent, J each. Trees were brought from India,
Varied Industries 65 per cent, Liberal ; Africa, Australia, Central and South
Arts 60 per cent, Transportation 50 per , America and the Philippine Islands,
cent. I Many of these were hundreds of years
The Palace of Fine Arts will house ! old, and a special system had to be de-
all of the great art exhibits of the Ex- I vised to successfully transplant them,
position, included in which are some of The Exposition, as a whole, has been
the principal art treasures of Europe, treated as if it were in reality a huge
which will for the first time have been ! stage, with the palaces and trees and
taken from the private and national flowers mere pieces of painted scenery,
galleries of the continent and exhibited To carry out this idea of a stage far-
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 124, Ed. 2 Monday, April 20, 1914, newspaper, April 20, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1410256/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.