A GREAT EXPOSITION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12532, 20 June 1901, Page 7

A GREAT EXPOSITION.

BUFFALO CITY TRANSFORMED. .' WONDERFUL SCENES. ' ' [Psb Press Association.] (Per R.M.S.'Mariposa, at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. The Exposition at Buffalo; was formally and most successfully opened on May 20. Vice-President Roosevelt was t"& guest of honour, and distinguished men from almost every country in the world were present. The city was bright with flags' and bunting, and the parade of the, -occasion was, memorable. Two -thousand troops led the,' way, and we*e followed by carnages with distinguished guests and concessionaries. Fully "forty thousand people were, massed, in the esplanade of the Exposition grounds, and these, amde up a, magnificent picture. All tie American Republics were represented* The first of the ceremonies on the grounds was the flight of 10,000 homing pigeons- These, suddenly released from captivity,' rose in a cloud, cirofing round aud round; the towels of the buildings, rising higher and higher l until gradually, *s- they gob their bearings, they darted away, first, in pairs, and thea by scores, until they bad disappeared *ft tho s our paints of the compass, bearing their messages announcing; the opening of the ia> position. ' '• ' ■ " ■' At the Temple ,of Uwfi% e* the s^mm oi the "HaMuiah Chorn.s" died away, Bishop Fowier otfered an opening prayer. Telegrams and cable messages from all parts of thei w'orJd WW read, including a }concra.tulatory address from President M*Kinlay in San Francisco, and congratulations from the Governor-General of Canada, the. President's of H*yti, Columbia, Pew, Ecquador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Parguay, Argentine, San Domisnioaix and the Governors of Jamaica and Martinique. The admissions to the grounds for the day were considerably over 10X),OQO. \vonde?M electric light effects at night are a. leading feature of the Exhibition. California has fipe exhibits ,- of canned food, wines, native w/oods, grain, and ores. A model of a combined harvester commonly used, on great grain ranches excites the wonde;> of Eastern farmers, who gajie incredulously, .being accustomed to produce their crops on quite another scale. The greatest source of natural power in the United States, the Niagara: Falls, is but twenty miles' from Buffalo, and this power has been harnessed to great turbine wheels and made' to fransforan part of the prosaie, though handsome, city of Buffalo into a scene of mystio beauty, peopled by picturesque Turks and Arabs, and by more familiar folks in holiday garb. Many lands have sent of their; brightest anoV best to make this American city for one summer a dream of beauty and vender.