The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 17, 1914, Image 6

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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.
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