THE PANAMA EXHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 5

THE PANAMA EXHIBITION

OPENING DATE FIXED. ■ Tho opening date for tho PaftatnaPaoific UniyereaJ Exposition, wlridi is to bo held in San Francisco next year, .has boon fised for February 20. The latest notification states that Uvb Exposition frill rpeniu opoii until Pecem.ocr 4. —a period of 288 days. Recent visitors to San Francisco have ■been struck by the- beauty of £ho site of tho great "shew. It is a national Amphitheatre, with a floor about tliMo miles long aud-frem a- third to half a mile wide, backed by low lulls, flanked at each end by Government teseryations and fortifications, and fronting for its whole length the azurino waters of San Francisco Bay. It iios just within tlio portals of tho Go-Wed Gate, and is-about tvvo mites from the business centre of San Fl'aneiseo. Oil the hiJls Mind it is tho best residential district of the city, Jlagnificcnt mountain and vnarino views stittound it, -Stid whether the ft.ve rests u.pcn sea oi , shore or city heidit, tliero is a charm in <ha asppet. T!» grounds coflipristt 635 , sraree, divided into t2(rec sections. In tho centre afo grouped the eleven esliiljit palaces and 'festival kill. To tho west, sprendina i'att-slwpe alone the bay, are leenteil tho pavilions of fdroign Matioiis and tho iniposiflg Buildings of tho States, while, beyond those aßflin aro the liyfv-st-ock eshiliit bui.ldii.iga aiid , face trrtsk, toverini* 60 acres, tho aviation ficM. a«d drill Rroands, cupablo cf nceomnwdatlng 10,000 troops afc one time. To tlio cast of tho exhibit palaces lie the GS acres devoted to the amusement eottccssious.