THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913. THE PANAMA EXPOSITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913. THE PANAMA EXPOSITION.

Although the decision of Great Britain and some of the Continental countries not to be officially represented at the Panama Exposition will affect the great fair from a national standpoint, it is not likely to deter the promoters in their efforts to make the exposition the "best ever." A correspondent to the Sydney Daily Telegraph points out that sixty years ago some bright New Yorkers, encouraged by the success of the Crystal Palace Exhibition, launched the idea of an "Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations" in the Empire City. It was smartly taken up, and in the result, the United States knocked creation with an exposition which covered nearly four acres of ground space. In glowing language, contemporary records dwell proudly on the one thousand eight hundred tons or iron, the fifty-five thousand square feet of glass, and the seven hundred and fifty thdusand _ feet board measure, of wood used in the construction of "this vast and splendid palace of industry." Nowadays New York would throw up such a 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 big undertaking like that was into the hands of such indomitable and resourceful men as rebuilt their city on a grand scale almost before the ashes of tie old one were cold, and they have figured to do something that shall make the East and the world take notice of what the West can "do. The grounds set apart total up 625 acres on the south side of the amphitheatre which the harbour forms, and they have a water-front-age as befits the celebration of a huge and epochal maritime event. The

territory extends for tvro miles along' the harbour at a point which most I of the sea-going traffic passes. Thus, appropriately to the great occasion ] commombrated this will be an amphibious function so to speak, proceeding on land and water. All along the harbour edge a Great) Wall, 60ft. high, will be built, and. continuing round this will form the enclosure of eight 'exhibition palaces. The greater courts will be, the Court" of Sun and Stars, flanked by the Court of Abundance and the Court of the Four Seasons. These two latter 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 departments of varied industries—mines, manufacturers, transportation, liberal arts, education, and agriculture"; while outside the walls will be five other "palaces," the largest of which appropriately to modern development is to be "Automobilo Hall."