“BIGGEST EVER."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 5

“BIGGEST EVER."

THE PANAMA EXPOSHTSON.

ENGLAND’S DECISION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (United Press Association.'] (Received 9.0 a.m.) San Francisco, August 10. A meeting of British residents re-; solved to petition England to reconsider her refusal not to take part in the Panama Exhibition. ON A BIG SCALE. Writes T. J. H. in the Sydney Daily Telegraph: “If the British Government holds aloof from “The Pana-ma-Pacific International Exposition,” to ho held in San Francisco in 1915, and if some of the Continental Governments also stand off on the ground that foreign patents cannot he sufficiently protected in America, the lustre of tho groat show will be somewhat dimmed. But that will not detor the Californians from going on with the preparations, which have already been long in the making, or deflect them from their determination Ao make the exhibition “the biggest ever.” r

As recommended by the poet with regard to days, exhibition-promoters aim to make each one a critique.on the last. Sixty years ago some Frigid New Yorkers, encouraged by. the sue cess of the Crystal Palace Exhibition launched the idea of an “Exhibitior of the Industry of All Nations” in the Empire City. It was smartly taken up, and in the result, the Uni tod States knocked creation with ar exposition which covered nearly foni acres of ground space. In glowing language, contemporary records dwel proudly on ■ the one thousand eigli hundred tons of iron, the fifty-fiv< thousand square feet of glass, and tin seven hundred and fifty thousand beet hoard measure, of wood used in tlr construction of “this vast and splendid palace of industry.” Nowadays New York would throw up such r building over-night, as you might say When ’Frisco won out in the exciting battle of the Panama Canal celebration sites, her citizens began on their plans three years ahead. A Dig undertaking like Mint was into the handf of such indomitable and resourcefu men as rebuilt their city on a gram scale almost before the ashes of the old ono were cold, and they have figured to do something that shal make the East and the world take notice of what the West can do.

The grounds'set apart total up 62c acres on the south side of the amphitheatre which the harbor forms, am they have a water-frontage as befits the celebration of a huge and epochal maritime event. The territory ex tends for two miles along the harbor at a point which most of the sea-going traffic passes. Thus, appropriately to the great occasion commemorated this will be an amphibious function, so to speak, proceeding on land am water. All along the harbor edge i Great Wall, 60ft. high, will he built and continuing round this will form the enclosure of eight exhibition palaces. The greater courts will be, the Court of the Sun and Stars, flanked by the Court of Abundance and the Conn of the Four Seasons. These two lat ter are to represent the East and the West, and so are symbolical of the junction effected by the canal. Around these will be grouped “the depart moots of varied industries—mines, manufacturers, transportation, liberal arts, education, and agriculture”; while outside the walls will he five other “palaces,” the largest of which appropriately to modern development ■<s to bo “Automobile Hall.”