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f HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION European Exhibits Reach Panama Pacific Exposition Ho Foreign Nation Eaa Withdrawn From IU Participation; Total Foreign Fundi Show Increase of More Than One Million Dalian Since Outbreak of the War; Four Car Loads From Rotterdam and Consignments From England, Ireland, , France and Luxemburg Reach Fair Grounds. ON September Jlth Secretary of, State William Jennings Bryan i tsssued a formal announcement' fee the effect that no foreign country' had withdrawn from Its participation la the Panama-Padfte International Exposition. i Since Mr. Bryan'! announcement many large consignment! ot costly exhibit! from Europe and other countries hare reached San Fran cisco and a number of chartered teamen will eeon leave with great loads of exhibit! for this city. Thousands' of friends of the expo sition hare asked for detailed infor mation as to its progress, especially Insofar as foreign participation is concerned. A summary of the present status ef the exposition discloses that many Buropeaa nations, associations of ex hibitors, and lndlridual exhibitor! will be represented at the exposi tion; that there will be many im portant entries from Europe In the various events. ' Several of the European nations have increased their funds for par ticipation since the outbreak of the war; others have made appropria tions contemplated bat not ratified before the commencement of the Conflict . In addition to the participation of the foreign countries an unprece dented number of eelectire exhibits will be shown from South America, the United States, Canada and the Oriental countries, plana for exhibi tion from those regions having been greatly amplified during the past tz weeks. Holland's Shipment First. During the week ending October 11 the first shipment ot exhibits reached San Francisco from Holland; Chess comprised fire earleadi of rare bolbe and plants gathered by the government commission In each of the provinces of The Netherlands. Shipments of exhibits during the week were received from Luxem burg, from Ireland and from France. A large consignment of exhibit! from tendon was installed in the Palace Of Mines. Five carload! of social economy exhibits. Including wax and Class models illustrating hygienic improvements In factories and made under the supervision of the celebrat ed Dr. Philip Hauer of Stuttgart, hare reached the city. More than one-half million tons of exhibits and materials for the Japanese displays and pavilion are leaving Japan in two shipments, one of which is scheduled to arrive within a few days. Many entries have been received in the live stock and other events from European countries and elsewhere during the past few days. .Construction Advanced. The construction of the exposition la far advanced. The main exhibit section is completed; the installation I of the works of famous sculptors, embracing more than eight hundred different pieces and groups of stat uary, is 75 per cent completed; the landscaping of the exposition grounds and courts is 82 per cent completed; hundreds of thousands of acacles, rhododendrons, tree ferns, orange trees, date plains, rare shrubs and ornamental plants, brought from the far corners of the world,-are now thriving In their new environment Work has progressed far upon the "Zone," the amusement section, which gives evidence of its high edu cational character and great intrinsic worth; an outlay of $10,000,000 will be made in this section when com pleted and more than seven thousand persons will be there employed dur ing the exposition. Beautiful Pavilions. In the vast section devoted to the pavilions of the nations and the buildings of the American states large number of the huge edifices are finished and others are rapidly nenrlng completion. During the second week in Octo ber the construction force engaged on the handsome Australian pavilion was doubled. ' The beautiful pavilions of Sweden, Bolivia, the Philippine Islands and Cuba are from tS to 9t per cent completed. The Honduras pavilion Is finished. The huge Canadian pa vilion, a claaale structure to be filled wholly with Canadian displays and moving picture halls, Is finished ex cept removal of the scaffolding. The second consignment of Canadian ex hibits has reached San Francisco. The German Kail Syndicate Build tng, constructed In part by the Ger man government, is more than half finished and will be rushed to com pletlon. The exposition headquar ters In Berlin, established by import' ant German industries, received ap plications for exhibit space from leading German firms two months after the outbreak of the war. The framework of the Netherlands pavilion is completed. Active work upon this imposing structure has been tinder way within the past two months. The government of the Netherlands has increased the amount of Its appropriation by an additional 300,000. t Denmark and Italy. Ground was broken for the magni ficent Danish pavilion In September and its construction is being rushed to completion. The building is a reproduction of the famous Kron- berg Castle at Elsinore, one of the fortresses which guard the approach to Copenhagen. "We will concen trate our efforts on making an Im pressive display of certain products in which Denmark excels, rather than hare a promiscuous exhibition of everything we hare. Among the products that will be given promin ence is the celebrated Danish china from the royal porcelain factory in Copenhagen,'' said Mr. O. Wadsted, Danish Consul In San Francisco. Since war was declared Italy has formally ratified the appropriation of $400,000 for the Italian national display, which had been passed by both branches of the Italian legisla tive body but not signed prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Construction on the Italian parilion, which tn reality is a section of a typical Ita lian city and comprises seven dif ferent .structures, is more than fif teen per cent completed. Spain has made an initial appropriation of $100,000 for Its participation and in addition to the Spanish government display there will be a large indi vidual exhibit made by manufac turers. Norway Liberal. Exposition Commissioner J. Heyer-dahl-Hansen of Norway, who re cently arrived In San Francisco, brought official notice of Norway's determination to carry through its plan for participation regardless of the state ot war. The liberal sum appropriated by the Norwegian Storthing for Norway's participation has been supplemented within the past few weeks by an adequate fund raised by the Norwegian-American societies of the United States. A comprehensive shipment of roses and bulbs is now ready In Belgium for shipment. The exposi tion Department of Horticulture in the latter part . of September was advised as follow" "We do not anticipate trouble in shipping to tho United States,, we will send early the shipment of 10,000 bulbs and plants. They will be in many col ors and will take up a space of about 2,000 square feet." . France sent word within a few weeks after the declaration of war that there would be no change in her plans and entries were received from France in the live stock, horti cultural and other departments dur ing the latter part of September and subsequently. The Swedish pavilion is complet ed. The Danish participation re mains unaffected with a part of the Danish exhibits now on the way to the exposition. Turkey and Persia. The pavilion of the Ottoman Em-! plre, architecturally a reproduction of a famous Turkish mosque, is! nearing completion. The Turkish exhibit will be the most interesting! and beautiful ever sent to any world's exposition from that coun try. Among other exhibits will be, one hundred Arabian horses and! Angora goats and blooded sheep. The Persian exhibit has already been assembled at Teheran and is now awaiting shipment to the exposition. Included In the exhibit Is a price less collection of rugs. Food prod nets, tobacco, and the fine fabrics which are produced here In a per fection not known elsewhere, win also be shown. Vahan Cardashlan, Imperial Ottoman Adjutant High Commissioner and Executive Direc tor to the exposition, recently ar rived in San Francisco and will re main until exhibits arrive, when he will personally supervise their as sembling. Mr. Cardashlan gives as surance that his best hopes have been realized in the material to come to the exposition. Representatives of British eihibl tors arrived in San Francisco as early as August to inaugurate the plans for presenting their exhibits and subsequent shipments of exhib its have reached San Francisco. Japanese Exhibits. The Japanese government made an original application for 144,000 square feet of exhibit, space In all of the exhibit palaces. Under later urgent demands from Tokyo, Com missloner Ishii, after the outbreak ot the war, arranged with the expo sition directors tor an additional space of 11,419 square feet of ex hibit space in the Palaces ot Food Products, Manufactures and Horti culture. The Japanese Commission reports that the most representative displays of Japan hare been gath ered from every portion of the Em-pire.- The site of the Japanese govern ment pavilion covers 147,000 square feet The central structure is a re production of the famous temple o Kin Ka Ku Jl at Kioto, the original of which is more than 1,000 years old. The buildings are surrounded by beautiful Japanese gardens, the materials for which, as well as for the buildings, are shipped from Japan, together with the native Jap anese artisans and workmen who will erect the structures and lay out the gardens. Every item, even to the stones and turf, will come direct from Japan. The exhibits will consist of silks and the processes ot its production and manufacture; forestry exhibit-s with models of typical Japanese for ests; the fisheries, with models of Japanese fishing boats; a model of the volcano of SakuraJIma, the most recent active rolcano in the world The Imperial House hold has de cided to loan the Imperial art col lection, gathered by the late Em peror MelJI and most of which could not be duplicated. China. The Chinese pavilion Is rapidly approaching completion. In Septem ber 148 tons of material were land ed" from China for the erection of the temple within the great walls already erected. The pavilion repre sents an expenditure of $300,000 of the $750,000 appropriated by the government for participation in the exposition. In each of the exhibit palaces China will also be repre sented. A comprehensive display will be made of silks and art prod ucts and of all Chinese Industries. The essembling of the exhibits has been accomplished under the direc tion of the governors of the Chinese provinces and from this assortment the most representative displays have been selected, Philippines. The Philippine building Is prac tically finished and ready to receive exhibits. An extensive display of hemp, woods, maguey, sugar and to-. bacco will be made. A demonstra tion of the progress made in edn cational lines by the native school children under American instruction will be offered. The Honduras parilion was the first among the foreign buildings te be completed and the elaborate gov ernment exhibit Is now being he stalled. Bolivia has completed the erection of her pavilion. This enterprising and progessire South American na tion rfll show an extensive exhibit ot mining products, gold and pla tinum especially, rubber, quinine and its production, chocolate and other products of the tropics. The com plete process of the manufacture of rubber, from, the planting of the trees to the delivery of the finished product to the consumer in the form ot manufactured articles will be dem onstrated to the finest detail. Increased exhibit space has been applied for within the past week by the Cuban government commission. ,The appropriation is $250,000 and the exhibit will include a collection ot magnificent Cuban royal palms, 60 to 76 feet in height, and growing pine-apples and banana plants in fruit - South America. From Central and South America will be shown in the Palace of Hor ticulture orchids in great variety ot color and form; from Hawaii are coming tree ferns and banana plants; Franee and England are sending rare varieties of hot house plants and Japan will add to the horticultural display in the palace a collection ot lilies. Entries in the livestock depart ment have been received since the outbreak of the war from Brittany and Boulogne, France, tor two breeds of horses new to this coun try, the Bretonnese and the Boulon naise, the subjects of especial inter est upon the part of the French government which strongty desires to foster the demand abroad for reg istered animals of this class. Never before in all exposition his tory have the nations of South . America taken the same interest or participated in any exposition upon the extensive scale here shown. The Argentine, with Its appropriation ot $1,300,000, established a record. The viewpoint of the Argentine is well Illustrated by a recent address of Commissioner-General Anasagastl: "What will be the result ot the coming Panama-Pacific International Exposition?" he asked, recently. "It will be," he continued, "that all American countries will draw closer In their relations and that the com mercial development will increase to splendid proportions. Why seek European markets for the sale of various products when everything can be realized in America! We are Americans and our duty Is to strengthen our relations and develop our commerce. ' "In our exhibits we expect to be second to no country." The Argentine exhibits not only will illustrate its progress In the so cial arts, the administration of its schools, and the charms of Its cities, but it will be especially directed to present the opportunities of Argen tina to the colonist The system under which settlers are advanced land, farming material and lire stock and assisted by the govern ment to independence will be illus trated. Argentina will be extensively rep resented in all the main exhibit palaces and It is of interest to know that in the Palace of Mines and Me tallurgy the republic will have $.781 square feet of space, despite the fact that its mines have received but small attention compared with Its other interests. Australia. The Australian pavilion Is 30 per cent completed. Australia has ap propriated $400,000 for its exhibit Live stock, poultry, meats and wool and modern irrigation, all sources Oontianed om P&ee ElevMui
