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The wide avenues are beautiful and smoothly paved, and people can 

 walk all over those grounds without miring of a wet day or walking in 

 the dust of a summer afternoon. The indications are that it is going 

 to be pleasing, and the grounds surpassingly beautiful. This hall is 

 about scjuare, but you can imagine a rectangular space a third longer 

 than it is wide; now a line from that corner to that, and the portion 

 over there to be practically level, and this portion rolling or undulat- 

 ing, and you will have some idea of the condition of the surface of the 

 park; and on that level portion of the ground, the buildings, or most of 

 them, are lying in fan shape, starting over here and coming up to a 

 common point on the hill, and starting here and coming to a common 

 point, with avenues 600 feet wide, and a beautiful lake for the gon- 

 dolas, with branching canals in the center of the avenues. At the 

 center of the forks, the handle of the fan, you have, on the brow of the 

 hill, the peristyle, about 60 feet high — or the facade, I have forgotten 

 exactly what they call it in architecture — but a beautiful structure, a 

 colonnade, with beautiful columns beautifully figured with architectural 

 designs commemorative of the early history of this country. 1,500 feet 

 long, in a semicircle; at either end a magnificent tower arises, and in 

 the center stands a temple, a great structure, and in this temple all the 

 congresses of the world will center. Between the temple and the towers 

 on the end are the cascades, so arranged that the water will fall, step 

 by step, one little fall after another little fall, from the top to the 

 bottom, in a long semicircle, and each of them going over stained glass, 

 to represent a different color. Forty thousand horsepower will be used 

 to generate electricity, and the intention is that the illumination shall 

 outclass anything ever before seen on earth. 



These are the conditions, and it is to this greatest of expositions, my 

 friends, it is to this magnificent showing of the world, it is to this point 

 where the people of the world will congregate, where the critics of the 

 world will come, that we as a State are asked to go and participate, 

 and the question that comes right up to us is, shall we be rej^resented. 

 and how shall we be represented? The commissioners say we shall, 

 and that we shall be creditably represented, and to that end they are 

 working with all the zeal and energy and talent they possess, and pro- 

 pose that no effort shall be lacking, that no stone shall be left unturned 

 in the accomplishment of this end, to a degree that shall be satisfactory 

 to you and to them, and, as far as possible, to all the people of the 

 State of California. We understand that we are limited in the matter 

 of finances. In Chicago there was $327,500 of State money expended, 

 and we have $130,000, and yet we have grown greater since that time, 

 and we are going to an exposition vastly greater. We have made a 

 reputation in that time for doing things grand and beautiful, and people 

 abroad expect much from us, and you can understand our embarrass- 



