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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1914)
HOOK UP TO A “LUCKY JIM” Cultivator FOR SERVICE AND ECONOMY ,‘Lucky Jim” is our great riding cultivator. Balance frame, tongue adjustable to any size team, lifting device swings gangs to either side, preserves unchanged depth of shovels. Broad tires, boxes capped, self-oiling, dust-proof. Tread adjustable 40 to 48 inches. Seat raised or lowered without operator leaving it. Every variety of gangs, shovelsl feet, including spring trip and spring tooth. Every desirable adjustment. “The King Bee” of modern riders. We make many other styles of Riding and Walking Cul tivators. Ask your dealer for Avery’s and be sure you get the best. Write us for information on any of our implements. B. F. AVERY & SONS PLOW CO., Dallas CADETS WILL GET THEIR ETES FULL PLENTY TO SEE AT PANAMA EX POSITION. MILLIONS ARE EXPECTED Construction of Handsome Buildings for Big 1915 Show Is Well Under Way. The San Prancisco-Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915 is going to be some show. Cadets who are members of the A. & M. party on this trip will have an opportunity of seeing the nations of the world on dress parade. The invitation of the President of the United States to the nations of the world to participate in the Panama- Pacific Exopsition has been formerly accepted by thirty-four nations, and the lack of others will be more than made up by individual exhibitors. Ger many, for example, will send 1500 ex hibitors, and in England 600 leading manufacturers have announced their intention of exhibiting. There will be a total expenditure on the grounds in installation and con struction of $50,000,000. Thirty vessels are engaged in bringing lumber from Northern mills for use in building the exhibit palaces. Nine of these, cover ing from five to eight acres each, are under way. . Machinery Palace ; the largest wooden structure in the world, is now ready for the installation of exhibits. Construction Under Way. Construction has begun upon a number of the pavillions of the States and foreign nations, some of the struc tures being completed and other more than half completed. A vast amount of preliminary work was necesary, such as removing build ings, grading^ reclaiming seventy-one acres from the tidewater of the bay, laying a complete sewer system, in stalling underground conduits for elec tricity, planting a thorough system of high and low water pressure, and con struction of the vast foundations. In addition, a sea wall has been built, wharves have been constructed, a freight ferry slip has been put in and connected with the broad guage termi nal railway system, with twelve miles of track within the exposition grounds Spurs of this railway will enter each of the exhibit palaces. Since the exposition does not cele brate an historical event, but is in commemoration of a living achieve ment, the completion of the Panama Canal, it will be contemporaneous rather than historical in the nature and method of presenting the exhibits. However, all articles and products which are being manufactured or pro duced at the present time will be eligi ble for review for reward, regardless of whether they have or have not been improved or changed in character in the last decade. The Bureau of Societies and Con ventions has arranged for 218 con gresses and conventions in San Fran cisco in 1915 and the list is growing daily. These embrace a wide range of interests, including economics, so ciology, ethics, fraternity, science, re ligion, art, commerce, education and other world interests. The amusement section will occupy sixty-five acres. It will employ 7000 people in its operation and represent an investment of $10,000,000. One of the most striking spectacles will be a reproduction of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. There will also be an ice palace showing winter sports in a land of sunshine and flowers. A pic- toral history of the creation of the world as recorded in Genesis will be shown in panoramic form. An accu rate reproduction of the Panama Canal will be shown on such a vast scale that 2000 people may be taken through every thirty minutes and shown the actual operation of the gates and locks. There will be a “Toyland Grown-Up” and a reproduc tion of ancient Nuremberg, Germany. There will be a dirigible constructed by the Parseval Comapny of Ham- burg ; Germany, 480 feet long and eighty feet wide, which will make fifty-mile trips from the exposition grounds. Two Track Meets There will be two great race meets, one in summer and one in fall, with guaranteed stakes of $247,000 for twenty-four days’ racing. Opposite the main entrance to the grounds will stand the Towel of Jew els, 433 feet high and scintilating with 150,000 imitation jewels. Through the tower the visitor enters the great Central Court of the Universe, 350 by 900 feet, with a triumphal arch at either end, surmounted by groups of statuary symbolizing the nations of the East and the West. Through these arches one may enter respectively the Court of Abundance and the Court of the Four Seasons. Surrounding these three courts are the eight main exhibit palaces, presenting to the bay front an unbroken facade a mile and a half in length. From the grounds can be seen on the west the abrupt cliffs of the Golden Gate, on the south the hills of San Francisco rising in successive terraces and the east the bay and beyond the clustering towns and hills of Alameda County, and on the north the waters of the bay entrance^ with the green hills of Marin in the dis tance. CUMULATIVE KISSING. As he sat on the step on Sunday evening he claimed the right to a kiss for every shooting star. She at first demurred, as became a modest maid- en^ but finally consented. She was even so accommodating as to call his attention to flying meteors that were about to escape his observation, and then began “calling” him on lightning- bugs, and at last got down to steady work on the flashes of a lantern that a man was swinging in the yards, where the trains were switching. DISMISSED ! FALL IN LINE! Begin to read the Daily Newspapers. We handle them all, and will take your subscription or deliver the paper to you regularly. Watch the new paper, The Evening Jour nal, published by A. H. Belo & Co., go. Only 35c per month Subscribe now. A complete line of the latest issues of all magazines and current periodicals always available. Out May 2nd, Paris Edition of Judge. Watch for it COLLEGE NEWS DEALERS GEO. I. LAW Headquarters 36 Goodwin Hall B. C. BALL