D anama - Pacific 

 ixposition Notes 



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AS the setting sun, sinking into the 

 Pacific through Golden Gate, bids 

 adieu to the scintillating Tower of 

 Jewels, the meandering multitude turns 

 with one accord from the more serious 

 phase of the Exposition, the exhibit 

 palaces and state and foreign pavilions, 

 to that region of carefree hilarity and 

 fascination, known as the Zone. This 

 district, sixty-five acres in area, is trav- 

 ersed by a three thousand foot road, 

 named Amusement Street, on either side 

 of which are located the ten million dol- 

 lars' worth of amusement concessions 

 which constitute the features of the Zone. 

 Less than one hundred of the six thous- 

 and applications for concessions were 

 accepted and those granted have been 

 chosen with the most rigid selectiveness. 

 Those admitted have conformed to a 

 high rank of decorum, good taste and 

 educational value, while on the other 

 hand they have satisfied the requirements 

 of effective fun-making and entertain- 

 ment. Let us take a trip through the 

 Zone, join the surging crowd and ex- 

 amine the alluring concessions which so 

 earnestly solicit our patronage through 

 the "spieler" with tin-horn and hullaba- 

 loo. 



The Panama Canal concession is par- 

 amount among the educational attrac- 

 tions, and inasmuch as the Exposition 



is being held in' 

 c ommemoration 

 of the completion 

 of this undertaking T * 

 it is proper that this 

 feature be treated with 

 considerable detail. Upon 

 entering the building, 

 wherein is located this concession, we 

 seat ourselves upon a moving^ plat- 

 form which is impelled by electric mo- 

 tors at a speed of 8> inches per sec- 

 ond, around the perimeter of the huge 

 oval model of the Panama Canal and 

 Canal Zone, which lies in a depression 

 about 20 feet below us. A duplex tele- 

 phone receiver is hanging on a hook in 

 front of our chair and we remove it and 

 place it over our ears that we may hear 

 the phonographic lecture which describes 

 the points of interest along the Canal. 

 What a remarkable model this is ! Every 

 detail has been carried out to scale. Min- 

 iature ships travel through the locks, 

 trains run along the tracks bordering the 

 Canal, the illuminated buoys marking 

 the channel flash in various colored 

 lights, sparks leap about the miniature 

 aerials of the radio-telegraph stations; 

 and all this occurs without the aid of 

 visible mechanism. The secret of this 

 lies in the application of electromagnets 

 which are moved about on tracks placec 



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