"THE BIGGEST EVER!”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 83, 12 August 1913, Page 5

"THE BIGGEST EVER!”

THE PANAMA EXPOSITION.

BRITISH EXHIBITS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press iAssociation.]

San Francisco, August 10

Mr Charles Moore, president of the Exhibition, states that the Board will consider the posibility of revising the classification of exhibits if Britain prefers a single wholly-British court. Otherwise individual British firms will be invited to exhibit. G OVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. Times—Sydney' Sun Special Cables. London, August 11. It is understood that the Government is willing to assist private exhibitors at Panama. THE ARTS AND CRAFTS. (Received 8.5 a.m.) [United Press Association.? London, August 11. The Chronicle advocates the Board of Trade sending an exhihit of British arts and crafts to the Panama Exhibition.

“NO GOOD SULKING” Sir Thomas Lipton strongly supports Britain exhibiting, particularly as the tariff wall has been lowered. He says it is not business to sulk outside for the sake of a paltry quarter of a million. ITALY’S ATTITUDE. Advices state that though the Italian Parliament has voted eighty thousand, it is unlikely Italy will participate in the exhibition.

A LAND OF COLOR. Where the main land entrances to the exposition are they have planned “the gardens,” half a mile long-and a quarter of a mile wide, a big patch to be planted with art, skill, and financial regardlessness, and protected by a hedge sixty feet high. This if what is being done in advance for tin flower show; sixty thousand plan tf and shrubs are growing in six greenhouses, each 150 feet long. Ten acres of prepared ground are used for planting out, where millions of cuttings and seedlings are being coaxed into growth. The chief of the landscape department reports 20,000 veronica o' various kinds maturing in the open : and the flower-scheme is being'so arranged as to provide a continuous sur cession of bloom. The land of flowers and rich coloring will be always blossoming and bright while the Exposition lasts, and it is modestly proclaimed that in this respect there will Ik such a show “as could not be obtained by any other open-air garden out side California.” In‘this aesthetic aspect also, important . effects are those of coloring and architecture. Each court inside the walled city and each department outside it will he designed by a different architect—with results likely to be dubious, it would seem, unless some central “increasing purpose” inspires all the efforters. Ir a measure discord is prevented by.f definite color-scheme. The artist whom they brought West to advise in this important regard no sooner saw California (writes H.J.H. in the Sydney Daily Telegraph) than he eliminated the “white city” scheme of the Chicago World’s Fair. He found himself in a land of flaming rich color, a land where nature riotously expresses herself in tints and hues of a boldness that jar upon quieter old-world sensibilities, and at first bring the native artist under derision as a tor imaginative impressionist. And lu knew that in such a scene of color white would be cold, foreign, ghastly inappropriate. Therefore, no white in the Exposition, hut what may scantily pertain to the garb of civilisation and unavoidable necessity. All warm colors that one can see and feel; “so that when those who throng the -avenues on the land side of the Exhibition look down they will see a great parti-colored area of red tiles, golden domes, and copper-green minarets. . . . Imagine a gigantic

Persian rug of soft, melting tones with brilliant splashes here and there, spread down for a mile or more, and you will get some idea of what the Panama-Pacific Exposition will he” when viewed from a distance. In illumination a particular care will he to hide, the lights, and most of the electric lamps will he hidden or masked ; while at night avast., jets of steam will ho projected into the air with colored searchlights playing upon them.