~ 
American exposition, 
$5,000,000 from 
Today we might say that 
ago. 
Phave a more beneficial and lasting effect on humanity 
: than international peace conferences: 
____ Expositions bring together the most progressive and 
. - best natured people on earth, with their marvelous ar- 
rays of the best products that ‘human thought and energy 
have created, for the purpose of revealing - to the world’s 
best people how the result of 
invention and modern © skill 
can be applied to each ob- 
servers pecuniary or moral 
interest. Such gigantic under- 
takings for the betterment of 
the human family at large, 
have never been opposed by 
our national government; on 
the contrary each time that a 
logical appeal has been made 
for governmental co-operation, 
congress has responded with 
an appropriation commensurate 
with the motive and magnitude 
of the enterprise. 
Philadelphia, in 1876, which 
celebrated the. one hundredth 
anniversary of our national in- 
dependence, received from the 
national treasury — $3,000,000; 
Chicago, celebrating the four 
hundredth anniversary of the 
discovery of the Western Hemi- 
sphere, received from the gov- 
ernment, $5,000,000 ; Buffalo, 
in 1901, which was an all- 
received 
$3,500,000; Saint Louis, in 
1903-4, in celebrating the one 
hundredth anniversary of the 
Louisiana Purchase, received 
$6,500,000 of Uncle Sam’s 
money, also $10,000,000 from 
the states within the boundaries 
of the old Louisiana Territory, 
the outside 
states and territories, $5,000,000 
from the state of Missouri and 
$10,000,000 from the city of 
Saint Louis, and enough from 
over 400 different concessions, 
to bring the entire investment 
up to fully $50,000,000. 
The Saint Louis World’s 
Fair grounds covered 1240 
acres and was the largest expo- 
sition ever held, or probably 
WHAT William McKinley said in his last speech, one 
_ week before his assassination in The Temple of 
_ Music at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901, at Buf- 
falo, that International Expositions are the milestones 
‘in the march of human progress, is as true today as it 
waa at the time of that eventful speech fourteen years 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
GREETINGS TO CALIFORNIA _ 
and to her Magnificent Expositions, Now Celebrating 
the Opening of the Panama Canal. 
By Francis M. Chase. 
Expositions of all kinds 
The Universal 
SPACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION Co, 
TOWER OF JEWELS 
A dominating architectural feature is the 
imposing Tower of the Administration 
Building, at the south end of the Court of 
Sun and Stars. It is 430 feet high. On 
the summit is a grouping of statuary sup- 
porting the world. Elsewhere mural paint- 
ings, statuary and mosaics. 
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ever will be held during the present generation, unless Bos- : 
ton comes to the front with a new record-breaker in 1920, 
to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the land- 
ing of the Pilgrims, in which eveft the people of New 
Engl and would invite the people of California, with the 
same cordiality that the people of California. are now 
inviting the people of New England, and the remainder 
of the world’s people. 
Exposition at 
opened so auspiciously on the twentieth of February, is 
a distinctly national undertaking, determined upon by: 
the Congress of United States, 
President of the United States, for the purpose of cele- 
San Franciso that 
and designated by the 
brating the opening of the 
Panama  Canal—a ___natiorial 
accomplishment that  affeéts 
the entire world. In as- 
suming the expenses of’ 
this mammoth celebration, in 
response to the President and 
Congress the people of 
California are discharging an 
important public duty and exe- 
cuting a national trust, the ac- 
cruing benefits of which will be 
shared in by every state in the 
Union, and by the entire citi- 
zenship of the nation. While 
this great inter-hemsiphere 
water way is a national project, 
it is nevertheless a world’s eS 
set, and the celebration of . 
opening is being se ceettated | in 
by all countries and all peoples. 
The exposition is constituting 
an international concourse of 
unparalleled significance in its 
effect upon the national pro- 
ductivity and, commercial acti-. 
vity of all countries and our 
own United States in particular. 
The Exposition enclosure 
covers 635 acres, within which 
there is the “Frolic Zone’: of 
45 acres, and it is said to be 
some “Zone.” Saint Louis had 
50 «acres in -her.“Pike;” “THe 
Pan” at Buffalo had 25 acies 
in her “Dream-Land,” and Chi- 
cago had 60 acres in her “Mid- 
way Plaisance.” The writer 
handled conventions and adver- 
tising for the last three Expo- 
sitions, and: if the “Zone” can 
wax either of its predecessors 
and “sporty 
“going some.” The 
entire investment of the San 
Francisco Exposition (popular- 
ly so-called) is $50,- 
000,000. It is the 
in human interest i. 
stunts,” it is 
close 
compact, 
