THE rOREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND; SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1914.
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WalAftnar H F N dm Rille Bitlon.'was not intended for th glorification
PALACE. OF FOOD PRODUCTS
SEVERAL million people, scattered
throughout the world, are dreaming to
day of their trip next year to the Pa-
clflc coast during the Panama - Pacific
International exposition. . En route to San
Francisco the majority of tnese people 4t will
visit the principal cities of the coast, and Port
land may expect to be host to thousands of
strangers.
"Although the formal opening of the exposi
tion is still a year and five days off, the con
struction work la more than one half com
pleted and nine of the great main exhibit pal
aces have reared their domes and minarets
aloft, while an army of 4000 men is at work
rushing all the buildings, toward completion.
An Innovation In the building of the expo
sition will be that upon February 20, 1915,
the opening day, every details of the construc
tion will have been completed. The Jarring
note, which has so detracted from the beauty
of exposition in the past, of the sound of
hmmers and the sight of naked unfinished
structures, will be lacking at the Panama
Pacific exposition, and the visitor who plans
to arrive on the opening day may rest assured
that the sarnebeauty that will mark the ex
position in July, will b'e a feature of February,
with not a detail missing.
When San Francisco, cripnled by the ter
rific disaster of 1906, asked to be chosen as
the exposition city, even the' west gasped with
admiration at the daring of the enterprise,
and then at once set shoulder to the wheel to
assist the southern metropolis in Us gigantic
task.
For It was readily understood that the expo-
of San Francisco, but was to be held; as cele
bration I of the greatest achievement of the
Anglo-Saxon race, the digging of the Panama
canal, an event of the greatest" importance to
the United States in general and the Pacific
coast especially. j
It Is ' Impossible even vaguely to estimate
at present the great value which the exposi
tion -will he to every city-in the western part
of the jUnited States. Millions of people who
have never visited the west and' most probably
would have ' never traveled to , the coast, will
attend (the exposition and, in an endeavor to
kill as many birds with one stone as possible,
will visit the principal, cities on the route.
The rajlroads, appreciating this facjt, are pre
paring a series of round trips which will take
the exposition tourists over several different
roads.. i
The advertising possibilities of the exposi
tion to the Cities of the west are already being
appreciated. Thousands of immigrants from
the northern European - states, many of them
skilled -mechanics and the better class of farm
workers, will take advantage of the low pass
age rates and will pour into the west. A large
percentage of these will come with the savings
of a lifetime observance of economy! and thrift
and will. Invest In farms and land and the es
tablishment of small businesses. "While a
large number will remain In California near
the port of entry, San Francisco, the majority
will scatter through the western coast states.
Then; as the best of everything grown or
manufactured or created in the world will be
on exhibition in the great palaces of the ex
position, it is easy to understand that San
Francisoo will be the Mecca of buyers from
all points of the globe, and that j these will
not fail to take advantage of the opportunity
to acquaint themselves wltn the markets of
the west, which will then be joined by a rapid
and economical water system' of transporta
tion to all countries.
The progress of the construction, of the ex
position is unprecedented in the history of
building. On January 1, 19ii,, in the presence
of 200,000 people, ground was broken for, the
first structure and at that time but a barren
heap of sand dunes, partially covered with a, -salt,
marsh, represented the ' site that is today
a flowering tropical garden.
When the site was first selected its advan
tages in respect to nearness to the hotel and
shopping district were appreciated,. but its pos
sibilities from a viewpoint of beautification
seemed negligible. Though it was situated oh
the shores of the Bay of San Francisco, within
a stone's throw of the evergreen portals of the
far-famed Golden Gate, It was In reality but a
marsh of slipping, sliding sand, the sport and
toy of every ripple that washed from the sea.
Under the direction of engineering experts,
millions of yards of sand were pumped from
the bay and the task of raising It several feet
above the level of the sea accomplished.. But
sand Is not Boil, and not even a blade of grass
could be made to grow upon such a base.
So 25,0.00 cubic yards of rich loam were towed
from a point on the Sacramento river, 70 miles
to the site and spread' to a depth of from six
to eight inches over the' leveled sand.
Horticulturists in all ' parts of the world
were immediately communicated with and each
asked to send thousands of, the finest plants
peculiar to the clime in which he lived. As a
result millions of flowering plants, trees of
great value and wonderful hedges and shrubs
Vere sent to the landscape engineers of the
exposition and are now being replanted on
, the grounds.
The first building completed was the Palace
of Machinery, the largest wooden structure
ever erected. In length 967 feet and In width
367 feet, its architectural features are three
main longitudinal bays with a "secondary bay
on either side. It was In this palace that
Lincoln Beachy successfully made the first
indoor aeroplane flight ever attempted and
ascending from the north wall flew the length
at a speed of 70 miles ah' hour.
To the wpst of the Palace of Machinery the
main group , of eight exhibit -palaces are now
all more than one half completed. Several are
practically (finished and require only a few
ornamental I features to be pronounced perfect
by the engineers.
The group is composed of the Palaces of
Education, which is 95 per cent complete: Food
Products, 80 per cent; Agriculture, 70 per
cent; Mines and Metallurgy, 65 per cent; Va
ried Industries, 65 per cent; Liberal Arts. 60
percent; Manufactures, 60 per cent, and Trans
portation. 50 per cent. :
The- work of building the roads has Jong
passed the preliminary experimental stage
and is being rushed 'toward completion. One.
an 80 footi avenue to the Concession district
from.-the Fillmore street entrance, is finished.
The exposition illuminating engineers have
commenced the Installation of the apparatus
and - equipment which will produce the most
marvelous .effect ever seen. The exposition
as a whole has been treated as if it were a
huge stage, with the palaces and trees and
shrubs mere bits of painted scenery upon the
boards.- For many years stage effects have
been best created by hidden sources of light,
so the system which Is technically known as
"flood-lightjng" will be used and the build
ings will at all times be flooded by a pure
white light.
In expositions of the past the buildings were
illuminated by outlining the principal archi
tectural features in Incandescent lamps, and
while some really beautiful erfects were gained
by that system, the high lights and shadows
were eliminated and the architectural perspec
tive entirely lost. '
At the Panama - Pacific exposition every
detail of construction will te accentuated by
the flood-lighting and shadows emphasised
by tungsten lamps dipped to produce deep
purple light.
To the visitor not of a scientific turn of
mind, the use of the Jewel-aids will no doubt
seem the most beautiful and remarkable of
the various lighting effects. The Jewels are
really Imitation diamonds of various colors
and 47 millimeter in size. They are suspended
from the architecturel points of the palaces,
and one, the Tower of Jewels, will be covered
with them.
They are made of a special xrade of ex
ceptionally hard glass in the factories of Aus
tria and then farmed out to the peasantry, to
hajidVfiu-and hand polish.' - Before the. .pres
enfeize and shape of jewel had been choaen
by the engineers thousands of dollars were
spent in experimentation, and the office -of
the exposition engineers is now stocked with
hundreds of Jewels which at one time or an
other were tentatively selected until finally
the jewel now being used was proved to have
the greatest brilliancy.
In .the several courts which subdivide the
palace groups hundreds of searchlights will
be posted and these will play upon the Jew
eled palaces. The jewels are suspended by
metal clasps and will sway even with the nat
ural vibration of the building.
The spectacular feature of illumination will
be the scintillator, a battery of forty-eight 36
inch searchlight projectors, fitted with screens
of every color, by which innumerable combina
tions may be formed, and this will play a
light symphony, entitled "The Dance of the
Light God," upon the fog banks, which are
incidental to the falling of night in San Francisco.
As a substitute for the pyrotechnic displays
which have beenfeatures of all previous fairs
an illumination Innovation will be presented.
Giant perforated pipes have been provided in
the vicinity of the Scintillator and steam under
high pressure will be forced in jets through
these in the shapes of genii, demons, fairies,
battleships and flowers, which "will assume
form, waver and dissolve Into the darkness
under the beams of light from the Scintillator.
The crack companies of the Oregon National
Guard intend participating In the maneuvers
and exercises to be held at the International
military encampment at the exposition. De
tachments of troops from the principal for-'
elgn nations will be sent to the exposlt'on
and IS have already tentatively or finally
accepted the invitation of the war department.
England, France, Russia. Germany, Denmark,
Spain, Italy. Norway, Sweden, Australia, Por
tugal. Belgium Holland, Austria and Hungary
will be represented and no doubt other patlons
will fall Into line later. With the five regi
ments of troops which the United States in
tends sending, more than 20,000 soldiers will
be encamped at the exposition. This will be
the first time in history that troops of mox
than three nations will have been assembled -on
the same cantonment during time of peace."
Special events are now being arranged to be
held at intervals of a week with exceptionally
spectacular pageants every two months. The
final one will.be the great historical pageant
in which the evolution of the west will be
presented. ' ' .
The activity of the constructors of the ex
position and the appearance of toe site cannot
be properly described, but should be reen to
be appreciated. Each day adds to the degree
of completion of the world's greatest exposl
- tion, which will be formally presented to the
nations of the earrn ci February 20, 1915.
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, . GROUP OF EXFOS1TION -TMJIL-DING3 IyOOKl-NG TOWAJSPS iSAN FKANCI5CO BAY
Frick's Fish Pond
$4,000,000 for the Vanderbilt place at Fifty-
eighth street, and 200,000 for! Carnegie's
comparatively . inconspicuous house farther
northj oh the avenue.
EXTRAVAGANCE is a relative term, - of
course, but . when It takes $100, worth of
readily salable land to provide room for
a 15 cent goldfish; the buyer of the land is at
least not a tightwad.
Banker Frlck is building a house- on
upper Fifth avenue in New York that,
from the cottage point of , view, looks
like a cross between a Carnegie library
jaid a summer hotel. The land cost
"Trick pretty close to $3,000,000. Then he had
to clear away the old Lenox Horary, which was
a white marble structure that looked fully as
.comfortable for residential purposes as the
Frlck house is shaping into before he could
begin to build.
In the middle ef the front yard a pool is to
be created, 15 feet wide by 60 feet long. The
land occupied by" that pool cost Frick some
thing like $90,p00. By the time a basin of Im
ported marble "is carved . out with , diamond
pointed tools and polished with pearl dust," it:
will cost Frick about $125,000. Fish experts
say that no more than 1250 goldfish could
live and remain healthy in such a pool. Still
Frlck isn't considering the feelings of .'the
tih. '" . ;' ", ,.' . "j L' ' .; '; V"; '-' . "
The Frlck wickiup Is to be the goldlngedest
dwelling ever seen 'in New Tork. . It. will cost,
with land, about $5,500,000, as against $4,500,
000 for the Charley Schwab pagoda on -Riverside
Drive. $3,500,000 for the Morgan home on
Madison-avenue. $4,500,000 for Senator Clark's
bronze and marble city hall on Fifth avenue,
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pac int. ixroa.
; Art , or Anklet
EW YORK hostesses being what they are.
is Lou-Tellegen's present social vogue
due to his art or hia anklet? Question
submitted to students of morals and nervous
reflexes.'-,,.: . ' :. ,',.. (.'.;.-..
Louj - Tellegen yes, the hyphen belongs
there is the stage lion of the moment. He
is 28 yedrs old, good looking, an athlete, has
had a remarkable personal nistory, was once
leading man for Sarah Bernhardt, and' Is now
the hero of a Catalonian tragedy. In It he
gets Very drunk, and t confesses .ria his 'bride
upon their wedding night in a scene which
makes ordinary dramatic candor rjUn ; and hide
under; the bed that he murdered her. first
husband. Whereupon - the lady'-sticks him
neatly between two of ' his root : prominent
ribs, ind he dies all over the place. ," V r
But! with no Intention ; whatever of hurt
ing Mr. X.ou-Tellegen's feelings fit .mttst be
stated that he attracted about as much, atten
tion in society as a Mexican hairless" dog until
a ladi" who would have shone as a vaudeville
manager Jf, she hadn't married a, millionaire
spied him at the afternoon tea dance at the
McAlpin. ,A gold chain about the size of an
anti-skid device-was, riveted' abbut5 Lou-Tellegen's
right ankle. It made a pleasant jingle
whenr L.-T; caromed "through j the- .tango.
Whereupon the society 'lady "seized upon him.
He's -been kept as busy since then as an arm
less; wonder, with a case of hives, i. " .
So-r-what is" the answer? - '
"Mg Narrowest Escape From Death"
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Some Experiences of Journal Readers
had been hanging overhead swooped down, and
picking me up carried me safely beyond the
fire and left me, little worse for my experi
ence. PIERROT, Portland.
A Laundry Episode
Several years ago I was working in a laun
dry. My work was to help where I was need
ed most. One morning the man who fed the
mangle did not come to work, so I was put
In his place. While holding the ends of a
tablecloth and' leaning ever the machine my
necktie went along with the tablecloth. As
soon as 1 realized my position 1 let out a yell,
and it was only the quickness of the girl work
ing uext to me that saved me from beind
choked to death. When she stepped on the
lever and stopped the mangle my chin -was
not more than an Inch from the rollers.
A. W. L.,' Portland".
The Kleptomaniac
There are many persons who have had nar-
row escapes, from accidental death. Here
with are presented the thrilling experiences of
several persons. What are yours? The Jour
nal wants to know. It will pay 50 cents for
every letter printed on the subject: "My
nearest approach to death 'Was when ' Let
ters must not exceed 150 words in length and
must.-bear the full name and address or the
writer. The name will not be published if re
quest Is so made. All letters must be in by
Wednesday. Address The Sunday Editor. The
Journal. '
A r : Prairie Firea .
Once during the early days In Oklahoma
I had -started to our , nearest town, some IS
miles distant, driving an ox team hitched to
our farm wagon. - I hadn't gone far, however,
when I noticed -a storm brewing, and when
about half way on my journey the wind began
to "blow furiously and af prafrie fire I had no-,
ticed "some time before now . seemed to be
coming in leaps and bounds directly toward
me. Upon turning to go - back I discovered,
.that, wKh the exception of a perpendicular
bank. to one side, I was completely surrounded
by fire. With horror I realized that I had no
chance of escape. While crouching in terror
a strange looking, 'funnel-shaped cloud that
Racing Against a Bear .
Last summer when the family took a vaca
tion in the Cascades, my brother and I de
cided to go hunting. We both took , a Win
chester, rowed across the river and tied the
boat to a tr-e on the other side. -There Is a
trail' a short distance from the place we tied
the boat, and we decided to follow that. My
brother shot two quail and 1 got a pheasant
and a rabbit. When we had gone about two
and a half miles we decided to turn back. All
went well until we were about half a mile
from the river. Then we heard a rustling in
the woods behind us. Soon a, bear appeared
In the trail' we were following. Like the
fools we were, we emptied our rifles at him.
Then began the race for dear life! We had
just time to get to the boat and push out be-'
fore the bear reached the bank of the river.
K.' W, Portland, Or.
DON'T be a kleptomaniac any more. Very
few of our best people are. Have a little
amnesia and get your trouble over with.
"As near as I can dope It," aald the ribbon
guard of a big department store, "amneiia U
when you, forget things you don't want tosSre
member." Yesterday a pleasant little lady was tils
covered trying to .shove a few intermittent
waists into a large muff. For a moment the
shock of discovery almost restored her mind."
She said the detective Is a big elob, ard that
she could scratch the eyes out of that painted
cat who had tipped him off. But by the time
she reached the police-station she had her ;
amnesia on again. SJie Just couldn't rerrtem- !
ber anything. It was pitiful to see her strain
her memory. She would poise on the brink
of a dead past, and dive Into it. and come up i
again without sonuch as mud in her finger, i
"So." said the detective, "by and by her "
friends came", and proved that she had am- -nesia
every once in a while. The last time :
she had it was when she was pinched In Phil
adelphia for swiping a fur collar. She had
amnesia once in Chicago, too. One of Iter
little pals Is a regular sufferer. Every time
we get a flash at her we shoot out Into. a great,
bustling world. We prefer that she do most
of her forgetting with our rivals.''
Not a day goes by that some amnesia hus
band doesn't return ta a doting wife,- wno .
thinks she will be ablet to home If the
store will drop the charge. Also, they always .
get away with It. v Wives and magistrates are "
true believers. - " " -
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