U. S. CAVALRYMEN IN BATTLE PRACTICE AT SAN DIEGO

News Notes From San Diego

lOURS and excursion companiesare playing a big part in increas­ing the attendance at the SanDie go Exposition. Some ofthese companies are operating

transcontinental special trains with deluxe equipment and furnishing everycomfort that a traveler would have athome. One of these magnificent trainswas run from eastern cities under theauspices of the \,yorld's Fair Company.This company's schedule of specials willbring one of the trains into San Diegoevery ten days.

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The San Diego Exposition has passedits fourth month with the best profitshown to date, and has broken all recordsin exposition history by paying expenseswith a good margin of profit so early inthe year. The success at the gates isattributed in great measure to the factthat the low railway rates from easternpoints went into effect on March 1 andimmediately released an enormous tour­ing population that refused to travel inthe first two months of the year.

With the financial success of the fairnow assured, as the bulk of the easterntourist business is not yet under way, theexposition is planning numerous specialevents which were delayed in executionuntil the visiting crowds should warrantthe expenditure.

It is also contemplated to start the im­posing pageants shortly. Detailed plans

for these were prepared months ago, butthe schedule was delayed until. spring.These are planned in connection with thespecial days set aside for the states.

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A visitor from the back country, saun­tering through the San Diego Expositiongrounds a few days ago, strolled to theFourth U. S. Marine camp, which is situ­ated between the Cafion Cabrillo andCanon Espanol. Just as he steppedthrough a grove of palm trees a soldierdashed past him, hotly pursued by a scoreof half-naked Filipinos waving bolos andyelling with glee. A moment later therewas a volley of rifles and back came halfthe Filipinos with a battalion of marinesin chase.

The back country visitor didn't waitany longer. He dived through the palmtrees and would have kept going for amile had not a stalwart man who usedshocking language tripped him up andsat on him. When the rifle fire endedthe visitor was allowed to get up.

"You darned near ruined the best bat­tle picture I ever got," said his captor."Can't you see that camera there?"

Examination showed a motion picturecompany (Lubin) at work on a Filipinodrama, in which had been enlisted thefull battalion of marines, together withthe cavalry and artillery from the gov­ernment posts in San Diego. Even theFilipinos were marines, properly dressed-or undressed-and painted within an

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inch of their lives. Within limits set bythe company director were gatheredseveral thousand persons watching the"battle."

This is the first film of the sort thathas been staged at the exposition. Manycomedies have been presented, and thepictorial news companies have made milesof film of the military and naval paradesand the visits of Vice-President Marshall,~ecretaries Lane and McAdoo, AdmiralsHoward, Uriu and Dewa and other dis­tinguished visitors. Also there is a mo­tion picture plant among the amusementsuf the Isthmus, where films are madedailv of the crowds on the Isthmus andvisitors also allowed to see the acting- ofdramas before the lens of the moviescamera.

Deda ring that the real cause of theEuropean war was the jealousy betweenthe belligerent nations for commercialsupremacy and expansion, Irvin Cobb,noted war correspondent, does not seeany end for the gigantic struggle untilone side is decisivelv beaten and its re­sources exhausted. .Cobb is a visitor atthe ~an Diego Exposition.

"I came here to drink in the beautiesof this great exposition," said Cobb, whois a daily visitor at the grounds. "As Istand here and look over this wide ex­panse of beauty and peacefulness, whata striking contrast it makes to what Ihave just seen on the European battle-

fields. There all is strife amI devasta­tion. Here all is prosperity and happi­ness. Over on the other side they wantto fight it out."

Cobb declares he is taking a muchneeded rest, but plans to go back andresume his work in Europe in May.Cobb does not appear to have lost hishumorous vein even though he has beenassociated with an atmosphere conduciveto all things excepting comedy. Goodnature radiates from every inch of him.and the fact that he has never been ac­cused of being a handsome man he con­siders quite a joke.

In all probability visitors tu the ~an

Diego Exposition in the late summerwill have the opportunity of seeing thefamous Liberty Bell, which it is plannedto take from Philadelphia to the Pacifiecoast for exhibition at both the ~an

Francisco and San Diego expositions.Opposition in some quarters, due to a

fear that the priceless relic of revoltl­tionary days might be injured in transit.has about been overcome, and the Phila­delphia city council has approved theidea. insisting, however, that the trip hemade after July 4, when Philadelphia'sannual Independence Day celebration n:­qui res the bell. 1\10st of the patrioticsocietie:. feel that the best elHls will headvancerl by exhibiting the relic to thevast throngs who will be at the exposi­tio:l r!uring the summer-a patriotic stim-

VICE-PRESIDENT'S DAY AT THE SAN DH:GO EXPOSITIONDatlallon of United States cavalry pas~ing in review before Vlee-Presldent Marshall

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CHILDREN'S DAY IN THE PLAZA DE PANAMA, SAN DIEGO

ulus in a year when patriotism is alreadyinspired by California achievement.

"The Liberty Bell announced the inde­pendence of the United States," remarksPresident G. A. Davidson. "It is appro­priate that it be honored in San Diego,where the history of the Pacific coast ofthe United States started. Cabrillo, thediscoverer, made his first stop here.More than two hundred years later thefirst permanent settlement on the coastwas made, and again San Diego was thesite."

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A late announcement from the NavvDepartment at \Vashington says therewill be seventy-nine warships and auxil­iaries in the great fleet which is to sailfrom Hampton Roads through the Pan­ama Canal and on to the San Diego Ex­position in July. The fleet will includethree divisions of battleships.

Probably a score of fighting craft nowin Pacific waters and working out ofSan Diego as the southern base will jointhe armada down the coast. although itis possible some of these will be detached

for other duty in the east during the ab­sence of the main fleet from the easternseaboard.

Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan­iels has stated positively he will be withthe fleet, flying his flag from the bat­tleship Oregon, on which he will remainuntil he reaches San Diego. Whetherhe will go on to San Francisco with thefleet or by rail is not stated. Other navydignitaries will join him.

President Wilson had hoped that hecould board the Oregon with the secre­tary, but, just as national problems pre­vented his going to the coast with Vice­President Marshall last month, so it isfeared he will be prevented from makingthe July trip. Aboard the battleshipsOhio, Illinois and Missouri will be the500 midshipmen from the Naval Acad­emy. The plan was to start them fromAnnapolis in June, but these ships maybe held back to join the main fleet.

Forty congressmen are now on thecoast, bound for the Hawaiian Islands toinvestigate the needs of the insular pos­~cssions. They are to return to \Vash-

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ington by way of the San Diego Exposi­tion in early summer. The formal in­spection by members of the appropria­tions committee of the house took placelast month, and the agricultural demon­strations at the grounds elicited sharpinterest.

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One of the new and typically Califor­nian concessions opened on the Isthmusis the Forty-Nine Camp, which threwopen its log gates with an enthusiasticbang a few days ago and was jammeduntil early morning with curious east­eners participating in the dancing. thegaming and other activities of the fron­tier display of early western life. Thecamp has its own "currency," which isgood at many other concessiol1Son thestreet, and has leaped into immediatepopularity with the tourists.

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Among the souvenirs at the San DiegoExposition which attract the most atten­tion are those turned out by the exhibitinstalled by the United States mint. Thecoil! machine turns out thousands ofsouvenir coins of the exposition, whilethe currency machine engraves an ex­position emblem on silk. Both machinesare in operation daily; but the steadystream of visitors consumes the souvenirsas fast as they can be turned out.

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It is an every-day occurrence for theprado and plazas of the San Diego Ex­position to be filled with Indian war­whoops, for the Pueblo Indians who areon exhibit in the Indian Arts Building,working at their native crafts, and thetwo hundred tribesmen from the PaintedDesert on the Isthmus decline to stay ontheir reservation.

There was a new tone in warwhoopslast week, however, when to the south­west redmen were added a befeatheredallotment from the north. These werethe Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild\Vest, playing for a couple of days inSan Diego, and seizing the opportunitybetween performances to visit the ex­position, Colonel Cody went to the

grounds soon after he reached town andprophesied that his assortment of braveswould be out before the day was done.

The prophecy was correct. A fewminutes later a perturbed gate inspectortelephoned the administration building.

"Say," he yelled, "some Indians havejust arrived, and they aren't our In­dians. They've got too much paint andfeathers."

"Let them in," he was told."You don't have to tell me," said the

gateman. "They're in. One of t~had a spear a mile long, and he dil'lfi'tlook friendly." I

Colonel Cody was an interested as wellas an interesting visitor. The west thathe knew best is the west of the buffaloplains, the northern section. He showeda willingness to know more about thepueblo section, and spent a long time inthe Painted Desert, where the exposition,through the Santa Fe, has gatheredrepresentatives of Hopi, Supai, Zuni,Apache, Navajo and other tribes, ma-iii,lyfrom Arizona and New Mexico. HisCalifornia speeches from the tanbark dealenthusiastically with the San Diego andSan Francisco fairs, and a great SanDiego banner is hung in the circus tent.

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The combination of visitors at the SanDiego Exposition from all parts of thecountry and of battle practice by thePacific fleet off San Diego Bay hascaused so many reports of naval battlesthat the newspapers have found it ad­visable to give especial prominence tostories announcing that the Americanwarships were engaged in target prac­tice. The rumble of big guns is hearddaily, and at times the salvos shake thewindows in the city. The San Diegan,knowing that the practice grounds of thefleet are off this port, pays little atten­tion to the distant thundering; but th~

easterner immediately calls up pictures ofBritish and German warships in deathstruggles and is all for hiring a launchand going out to see what is happening,even at the risk of stopping a shell ortwo himself.

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"The Painted Desert," the $250,000 exhibit of the Santa Fe S)'stem at the San Diego Exposi­tion. Is .foady for the opening of the great fair. It Is one of the most remarkable reprodul't1ons<>"el' attempted.

The Big Fair Ready at San DiegoWith Many Special Features

BRILLI G dramatic episodestaken from the religious cere­monial of the ancient Aztecsand Toltec and other mighty

IIIII1IlLJlktJ races of redmen of the pastwill be reproduced throughout next yearby a large cast of actors, supported bymusicians, dancers and a chorus, at theSan Diego Exposition. None of theseceremonials has been held for severalcenturies, and a few of them are tracedback through five thousand years to aperiod where the mist of antiquity con­ceals all knowledge of the dead nations.

This is the awaited announcement ofthe exposition in the far southwest as toits program of special events. Therewill, of course, be the usual state daysand special events of that character, but

a statement of the more spectacular fea­tures had been delayed until all con­tracts should have been signed. Theceremonials, as reproduced after cen­turies of neglect, are based on carefulstudies made in scientific libraries duringthe last year and on research made bythe explorers whom the exposition, withthe Smithsonian Institute and the Schoolof American Archeology, sent into Cen­tral and South America two years ago.

"Only a few students have the faintestidea of the rich beauty of these old peo­ples' mythology," said H. O. Davis, di­rector-general of the exposition, in com­menting on the innovation. "The greatbody of readers, even readers above theaverage, know nothing of Quetzacoatlor H uitzilopochtli or the other brilliant

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names in Aztec religion. Ignorance isjust as deep as it is about the extraordi­nary heights to which the Mayas soaredin affairs of art, heights quite as greatas attained by these redmen's contem­poraries in Greece or Rome or Egypt.We know pitifully little about the en­gineering feats of the Incas, but I thinkwe will know more.

"One purpose of the San Diego Expo­sition is to present information aboutSouth America and Central Americaas well as about the American west.The Panama Canal, whose opening willbe celebrated both at San Francisco'sand San Diego's expositions, is boundto open up our western continent to theworld, commercially, industrially andeconomically. We want to help out, too,in the realm of more poetic things. Thedisplay of Indian arts, ancient and mod­ern, at the Exposition Beautiful is themost complete thing of the sort everessayed. There was never anything com­parable to it in scope, in interest, inscientific accuracy. It is being supple­mented by this series of pageants-sixty­three are in our present list-quite as im­portant in an educational way as in theway of entertainment. We have insistedon accuracy in costumes, in dance steps,in incidental music, in every detail. Wehave not succeeded in obtaining candi­dates for the roles of victims in thescenes of the sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli,however, and I hear the removal of thehearts and other neat little features ofthat sort will have to be omitted."

The pageants will start on the openingnight, New Year's Eve, and will be givenevery Saturday afternoon and eveningand at special midweek events. All willtake place in the great plaza, which isflanked by the old mission buildings, pal­aces and other Spanish structures, all cov­ered with a riotous growth of vines andflowers and shrubbery, which make up the"Spanish city" on the mesa where theexposition is situated.

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The heaviest movement of exhibitsthat has been noticed up to date startedwhen nearlv a solid trainload arrived inSan Diego In one haul. The bulk of theexhibits were for display in the build­ings of the various states and valleys,erected along La Via de los Estados,on the lower plateau of the exposition

grounds. On the same day a steamerlanded in the Harbor of the Sun, carry­ing the forestry exhibit of the State ofWashington, collected by the universityof that state. An immense amount ofheavy agricultural machinery, for usein the outdoor demonstration work ofthe great farming display, also is on the.grounds.

The exhibits were fairly well installedby December 1, a full month in advanceof the opening date, leaving the entiremonth of December for the final im­provement work. During this month thegrounds will be closed to the public inorder to facilitate the labors of the em­ployes, now numbering close to twothousand men. Work on the main build­ings is now complete, as it also is on thestate and county groups and on the struc­tures along the Alameda. The Isthmus(the amusement street) is well advanced.with the entire frontage of five thousandfeet taken by concessionaires.

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Two hundred "electriquettes" havebeen ordered, for delivery on ChristmasDay, one week before the opening. Thisdevice, propelled by a low-speed electricmotor, so simple of control that the ten­year-old daughter of one of the exposi­tion officials operated it without previouspractice, will be the only vehicle allowedon the grounds. It cannot go morerapidly than three miles an hour on adown grade and can be stopped withinthree feet by an emergency brake oper­ated by either of th~ two passengers itwill hold. This "baby electric" was de­vised to make unnecessary the laboriouspush-chair of previous world's fairs.

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The cost of the Japanese exhibits atSan Diego Exposition is now estimatedby S. Watanabe, who is in completecharge, at $250,000. Some of the finestivories he has placed in a gigantic caseof carved cherry, with inlaid wood.which he values at $10,000. This standsin the center of the industrial display inthe Foreign and Domestic Arts Build­ing. A more typical display is that ofthe Japanese pavilion and tea garden.placed in the rear of the botanical gar­dens, overlooking one of the canons.

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shallow pool about which is a densecopse of wistaria, hollywood and curi­ous little Japanese trees and ferns withan occasional bright splash. of color.The paths to the canon are lined withfragrant flowers and the open pavilionitself is a mass of floral decoration.Some of the expert wood carvings ofJapan appear here as well.

The third of the Japanese exhibits isplaced on the Isthmus and takes theform of a concession, introducing quaintJapanese games and a small theater.Watanabe looks on this as the most im­portant exhibit which the orient has sentto the occidental world.

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Training of the two thousand pigeonswhich nest about the towers of the Plazade Panama, the main court at San Diego,has been begun in earnest, and a scoreor more of the birds are now so tamethat they alight on the shoulders andwrists of any casual visitor who looksas though he had grain or breadcrumhsready for distribution. Even the g-oldfish several thousand strong- in the La­guna de las Flores and the near-by la­gunitas have learned to swarm about aniron piping which the trainer, Jose Mira­flores, x:aps as a warning- that refresh­ments are coming-.

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March I An army of 100,000 businessmen and another army of 100,000 rail­road employes should march on to Wash­ington and' demand fair play for therailroads from the Interstate CommerceCommission. President Willard of theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad has shownthat even if the 5 percent increase infreight rates were granted, this wouldnot give the railroads all that they re­quire to meet additional burdens in taxes,wages and equipment. A 10 percent in­crease would be justified.

Yet the Interstate Commerce Commis­sion acts as if to grant anything wouldbe a favor. No favors are asked. Therailroads are no longer permitted to man­age their own affairs, make their rates orregulate their business. The governmentis doing all this and the public demandsthat it give to the railroads a squaredeal.

If the Interstate Commerce Commis­sion persists in its folly it will precipi-

tate a panic that will bring the Americanpeople to their senses. The situation isbecoming critical. For over two yearsthe Interstate Commerce Commission hasbeen investigating the facts and its mem­bers are fully familiar with them. Twoof them, Messrs. Daniels and McChord,have already conceded the justice of therailroads' request. If the majority con­tinues in its obdurate course, let Presi­dent 'Wilson summarily exercise thepow'er of removal in the interests of thepublic welfare. This is no time fortrifling.-Leslie's.

"DON'T FORGET"

A farmer lived on a lonely place.Eventually a railroad was run throughthe district. There was one train a dayand it stopped at the farmer's station onsignal.

The farmer one day set the signaland the train drew up. But he did notclimb aboard.

"Well, get on I" shouted the conduc­tor. "Get on, can't ye?"

"Excuse me," said the farmer. "Idon't want to get on. I only want to saythat you are to stop here at this timetomorrow, as my wife is going to townto do some shopping."

A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCKIsn't this picture delightfully human? What

could be more natural than Mr. Santa Fe Con­ductor Jr. climbing out of his little cot beforethe Christmas sun Is up, tlndlng the train thatSanta left him, enveloping himself In hisfather's coat and hat and romping around theChristmas tree, pulllng the tiny train? As yousee, this youngster has raised such a racketthat he has aroused his parents, who are sur­reptitiously watching their hopeful's antics.

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WAITING FOR YOU IN SAN DIEGOHere you see some of the "Santa Fe employes" who are waiting to greet you at the "Painted

Desert," the Santa Fe's wonderful concession on the Isthmus at the San Diego Exposition.

Sidelightson the Panama-CaliforniaExposition

BITH the arrival of heavy delega­tions which had delayed westerntravel until able to find both Cali­fornia expositions open, attend­ance at the San Diego Expositionhas picked up rapidly. On St.

Valentine's Day-the second day of the Chi­nese New Year's celebration-the attendancefigures brought .the total for a month and ahalf to over' 250,<XX>, a daily average of 5,500.

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A ..consiqerable delegation from the SanDiego Exposition, including officials and di­rectors, attended the opening of the Panama­Pacific Exposition at San Francisco on Feb­ruary~. This was a return of the courtesyof the northern visitors who attended the SanDiego opening. Both expositions are exchang­ing special days at various times later in theyear.

The annual battleship practice of the Pacificfleet will take place off San Die~o during thenext three months, forming an Important ad­dition to the list of special attractions offeredin the vicinity. The cruiser San Diego hasbeen in port, with nine of the torpedo boats ofthe west coast fleet, and from time to time allother vessels of the fleet will assemble. Theharbinger of the annual practice was the U.S. naval tug Iroquois, which steamed intoport after nine thousand miles of travelin ten weeks, exclusive of service at towingtargets for the maneuvers at Mare Island.The tug is to be used off San. Diego for haul­ing small ships, targets for the marksmen ofthe battleships at practice. San Diego and itsHarbor of the Sun constitute the naval ren­dezvous for the southwest coast. The sailorsand marines are almost constant attendantsat the exposition and participate in all pa­rades, with the artillery, cavalry and infantry

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regularly stationed in Balboa Park and in thevicinity of San Diego. The Mexican borderis eighteen miles to the south and anotherlarge camp is maintained near the line.

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Thousands of dollars worth of gold ore hasbeen placed on display in the mineral exhibitin the New Mexico Building at the San DiegoExposition. The gold specimens which tookfirst prize at the Chicago World's Fair areincluded in the display. A number of the orescome from the Pinos Altos district of NewMexico, where, according to the New Mexico

Exposition Commission. the richest strikesince 1849 has been made. There are also inthe exhibit several large blocks of meer­schaum from Magdalena, N. M., where thereis located the only commercially operatedmeerschaum deposit in America.

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Company L of the First Georgia Cavalry,known as the Governor's Light Horse Troopand the crack company of the state's militia,will visit the San Diego Exposition in July,according to word received from officials ofthe southern commonwealth. More than three

PARADE OF U. S. MARINES IN PLAZA DIl PANAMA., SAN DIEGO

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hundred men, bringing with them horses andequipment, will make the trip in a specialtrain. Company L has been in existence formore than half a century and is known as oneof the most aristocratic organizations of thekind in the world. The members are directdescendants of the founders of the company.

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fornia and Mexico are planning to add to thecollection of exhibits at the San Diego Expo­sition a shark sucker, known far and wideamong sailors as the laziest and most good­for-nothing fish in the seas, and generallyrecognized as a rare catch. This particularshark sucker was captured by fishermen onthe sloop Ask Me, which is in the harbor inSan Diego after a trip along the Mexicancoast. Besides being lazy and useless, theshark sucker is the prize tramp of die seven

seas. By means of a vacuum cap attached tothe back of his head he fastens himself to anymoving object and clings there for days andoften weeks at a time, calmly loafing alongwhile his unwilling carrier, if a fish cursespiscatorially to the aquatic heavens. The fish­ermen hope to display the Ask Me's catch atthe great aquarium on the exposition grounds.

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of the U. S. S. San Diega, flagship of thePacific fleet, has been received at the SanDiego Exposition and placed in the navy de­partment's exhibit. The model, which is con­structed of wood and steel, is an exact rep­lica of the powerful cruiser, even to havingthe tiny oars securely lashed to the miniaturelifeboats. Two other models of American warvessels also will be placed in the navy depart­ment's display.

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AN ATTRACTIVE CORNER OF THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION

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"ii~·DMIRAL T. B. BENTON of~II( the Pacific coast fleet is in gen­

eral charge of the Army andNavy Field Day, to be held onMay 8 at the San Diego Ex­

position.Participating will be men from all the

battleships then in San Diego harbor, theFirst U. S. Cavalry, the Thirteenth Ar­tillery, and the Fourth U. S. Marines,and probably the California NationalGuard. An imposing parade, probablylarger than the army and navy paradeof opening day, will precede the sportsprogram and lead directly to the marinebarracks in the exposition grounds.. The walls for the wall-scaling are ofcourse installed at the barracks already,and the daily drills include the rapid dig­ging of trenches and the throwing up ofearth fortifications, while the field forthe track events has already been in usefor track work and the spring traininggames of the Chicago White Sox andother teams practicing at the exposition.There remain to be brought the sparsfrom the ships for the aboard-ship frol­ics of the sailors. in which the boxingmatches on the horizontal spars are al­ways a feature.

Roman riding and "monkey drill" arefeatured by the cavalrymen. and novelexhibits by the guardsmen. The marineshave furnished some of the most spec­tacular features of the exposition since

the opening, their morning equipmentdrills at the barracks vying with the af­ternoon reviews in the Plaza de Panamain popularity. . Distinguished visitorsfrom foreign lands, such as AdmiralDewa and Admiral Uriu of Japan, aswell as prominent American officials,generally assist at the reviews.

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Upward of a billion dollars rolled intothe San Diego Exposition grounds whenthe "Millionaire Special" arrived overthe Santa Fe, loaded with bankers andcommercial leaders from many sectionsof the country. It was the wealthiestsingle delegation that has appeared at thefair. Among the prominent memberswere George M. Reynolds, president ofthe Continental and Commercial NationalBank of Chicago and its two affiliatedstate banks; James A. Patten, the wheatand cotton magnate of Chicago; AugustBusch of 51. Louis; John N. WiIlys, theautomobile manufacturer; David May ofSt. Louis; Owen Aldis of Chicago andParis; Mrs. George M. Pullman of Chi­cago; John Cudahy of Kansas City:George B. Harris, chairman of the boardof the Burlington; W. C. Brown, formerpresident of the N. Y. c.; F. H. Green,former vice-president of the New YorkCentral Lines; J. T. Clark of St. Paul;William Duncan of the Baltimore &

'Ohio; Judge E. T. Glennon of the New

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York Central; Nathan Strauss of NewYork; Louis E Mitler of Cincinnati;August Schvan, peace advocate ofSweden, and many bankers and railroad­men almost as well known. Already inCoronado were 150 wealthy citizens fromMinneapolis, including John Pitlsburyand others, waiting for the celebration ofMinnesota Day on March 29, many ofthem with their automobiles ready. Mostof the wealthy tourists are spending sev­eral weeks in and about the exposition.

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want a banquet," commented SecretaryGeorge Schlosser. "\Ve're on a vaca­tion."

Alanson Aley of Marion, 0., has justreturned east after :'seeing" the SanDiego Exposition-but not as other vis­itors see it, for Aley is blind.

"I've been to a lot of other world'sfairs," he said, "but I'm sure this is themost beautiful thing in the world, for mywi fe tetls me so. I think I can see thecathedral of California, and the missionbetls of the Indian Arts Building, andthe pigeons circling about the towers

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A few of the Indians from the Santa Fe's "PaInted Desert" here are seen on a tour of Inspectionof til<' grounds at San Diego

plans for their thirty-day tour of the\Vest and the Cali fornia expositions inconnection with the convention at LosAngeles in July.

The San Diego Exposition has beenin formed that the big party will move toSan Diego on July 15, immediately afterthe convention, at which futly 40,000people are expected.

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Two large delegations of newspapermen are scheduled for San Diego and theexposition, the California Press Asso­ciation for the May outing, and the Na­tional Editorial Association for their Julyconvention on the coast. The latter witlbring editors and their wives from atlsections of the country. "But we don't

across the plaza, just as clearly as you.Probably I can smetl the sweet acaciasand hear the bands and the organ a littlebetter, for they tell me these senses arevery acute with me."

Mrs. Aley is constantly with her hus­band, but after his stay of several weekshe was so familiar with the grounds thathe was able to guide her with amazingaccuracy and describe to her in detailwhat he "saw."

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Distressed parents who are shy one ortwo children have solved the mystery offinding them. They simply stroll to theupper encl of the Plaza de Panama anddiscover the young hopefuls spendingtheir nickels on grain to feed a few of

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the two thousand pigeons that dependon the visitors for their meals. Theirconfidence is well placed, for the birdsare getting so fat they have trouble in fly­ing. On a single day the guards re­ported fully 7,000 photographs weremade in that section of the grounds,tourists taking pictures of each otherwith pigeons alighting on the heads andshoulders of those who looked generous.

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The entire band of Indians of thePainted Desert, the Santa Fe's wonder-

The contest was arranged largely forthe purpose of supplying the Indians withnew wool for their rug and blanket weav­ing, one of the most considerable indus­tries on the exposition grounds. Themen and women, with the youngsters ashelpers, do most of their weaving andpottery making on the roofs of pueblosof the Painted Desert and in the sand infront of the "hogans," the huts of theplains Indians.

The machine shearer is disconsolAte.He says one of- the Indians prodded the

ON THE "PAINTED DESERT"The $250.000 exhibit or the Santa Fe System is receiving a great deal of attention at the San

Diego Exposition. A number of tribes of Indians are represented, living exactly as they do ontheir reservations, maklnll' blankets and pottery. weaving baskets and carrying on various otherpursuits.

ful conce'ision at San Diego, assembledin the corral the other day, wagering allthey had on Ko-\Va-Ta, champion sheep­shearer of his tribe, who was matchedagainst a white man using the latestshearing machine. They became moreand more gloomy when the white man,near the end of an hour's test, hadsheared twice as many sheep as Ko-Vva­Ta, but let out a roar of delight whenthe machine slipped and drew blood fromthe last sheep.

"No good," said Water Eagle. "Whiteman bum shearer. Pay up."

sheep and made it kick so hard that themachine slipped.

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A large collection of photographs ofthe San Diego Exposition will occupy animportant position in the spring archi­tectural exhibit at the Art Institute ofChicago, according to Charles L. Hutch­inson, president of the institute and vicc­president of the Corn Exchange NationalBank, who has just returned east aftera detailed study of the southwest coastcountry by automobile.

"The San Diego Exposition is the mostbeautiful architectural achievement I ever

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Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt". Admiral Thomas Benton Howard of the Pacific fleet. Dlrector­General H. O. Davis. Colonel J. n. Pendleton of the Fourth Marines. Colonel W. J. Davis. com­mandant at Fort Rosecrans.

have seen," said Mr. Hutchinson. "Inits field it is more beautiful than theChicago fair. and it is hard to say morethan that. The institute aims to bringto its visitors the best art the world pro­duces, and we are very glad to make anextensive showing of the ExpositionBeautiful."

Mr. Hutchinson went to San Diego fora short stay. He changed his wholeplans after one look at the exposition.then motored back to the north and re­turned with a number of banking andpersonal acquaintances to show themwhat he had "discovered." They madea very jolly party.

ABSORBING THE BEAUTIES OF THE SAN DIEGO FAIRShowing a typical crowd in the Plaza de Panama. In the city with probabl)' the most delightful

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IHAT portion of the beautifulSan Diego Exposition whichwill be permanent includes, ofcourse, the enonnous work

.......:=..;;;~ done in landscape architectureover a good portion of the 1,400-acrepark. It also includes the California andFine Arts buildings, which will house thepermanent scientific exhibits, and theBotanical Building and the great MusicPavilion, which houses the largest out­door organ in the world-all of thesebeing of steel and concrete. The NewMexico Building and a few smallerstructures are also of concrete. ThePuente Cabrillo, the 1,000-foot viaductacross the main canon, is permanent. Allother buildings, of staff and plaster, areon metal lath, so that their life should beabout twenty years. The big agricul­tural display will be used at the close ofthe fair for experimental station work.

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Uncle Sam's parcel post is now ac­cused of competing with Dr. Stork sincethe arrival in San Diego of SamuelAbraham Randolph, aged eight years, by

parcel post. It all came about 111 thisway:

Samuel lives in Salt Lake City and de­sired to see the San Diego Exposition.His parents were unable to make thetrip, so they decided to send Samuel byparcel post to his grandmother, Mrs.Jolm Waterman, who resides in SanDiego. In the lapel of his coat Samuelwore two parcel post tags. One tag con­tained the address of his grandmothe.rand fifty cents in parcel post stamps.The other tag was marked, "Fragile;Handle With Care."

The boy's grandmother was at the sta­tion to claim her "mail," eliminating thenecessity of Samuel being tossed aboutin the local postoffice as ordinary parcelpost matter.

The largest single delegation that willvisit the San Diego Exposition this sum­mer will be the Loyal Order of Moose,which will storm San Diego thirty thou­sand strong for a week's conventionbeginning on July 17. This conventionwill call there several governors, sena-

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"GOAT MOUNTAIN"A portion of the realistic exhibit by the Santa Fe, known as the "Painted Desert"

tors, congressmen and other men of highrank in national life. Vice-PresidentMarshalI, who is a member of theoreler, is likely to be there. During theweek's convention the visitors will bekept on the go. A large fund for their

entertainment has been raised. At theconvention practically every Moose lodgeill the country will be represented amimany of these have already secured theirhotel accommodations. Governor John­son, of California, who is a member of

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the order, is one of the well known menwho is scheduled to make an address.

A New York florist passing his vaca­tion at the California fairs stood in anarcade off the Plaza de Panama, gasp­ing at the battle of flowers which formedthe climax to the exposition's rose festi­val. "If that group of girls couldtransport to my sales office 011 Fifth Ave­nue the roses they have tossed on thepavement I could make a year's profitsill one day," he said. .

A Gig delegation from ~an Franciscosat on the reviewing stand at the headof the plaza and shouted itself hoarse asthe parade passed. A feature was a bat­talion of pretty girls in filmy garmentsalmost. covered with American beautyroses. Just after them came a long lineof electriquettes, the little motor chairsil~ use on the grounds, each driven by alittle girl perched in a bank of flowers.The Nevada and \Vashington delegationshad decked out their floats with flowerssent from their native states.

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END OF HIS JOURNEY"Casey" Randolph of Salt Lake City arrived

by parcel post at the San Diego postofflce. Post­master Bartholomew Is shown cancel1ln~ thestamp which brought ninety pounds of boy, in­sured for $100,000, from Utah to the San DiegoExposition.

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automobiles carrying Minnesota licenses.Mingled with them were in smaller num­bers cars from other middle west andeastern states. The summer movementis thought to have started already, as the

rainy season is past and the famoushighways of the Southwest are in theirbest condition. Incoming tourists grin asthey pass the sign at the side of SanDiego's coast boulevard. It reads:

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A vast pilgrimage of students, teach­ers .and educational experts will invadethe exposition for attendance at the sum­mer school to be held from July 5 toAugust 13. This promises to be withoutequal in the history of the progress ofeducation, for the faculty will include

and direction, mental and physical test­ing with laboratory work, elementarymanual training and primitive arts with<!cmonstrations by Indian workers, andagriculture with demonstrations. Therewill be special lectures on peace and con­ciliation, modern education, human wel­fare and arts and sciences.

To popularize the summer school theexposition directors have fixed the un­usually low fee of $7.50 for the term,

A CORNER OF THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION GROUNDSLooking across Los Jardlnes De Montezuma; music pavilion, with largest outdoor pipe organ In

the world, at the right.

some of the most remarkable authoritieson education. Standing high in this listis Dr. Maria Montessori of Rome,founder of the famed system of teachingwhich bears her name. Dr. MontessoriwiB assume direct charge of the Mon­tessori institute to be established duringthe session.

Among the courses will be history andgeography of South America, Spanishgrammar and literature, modern historyand the peace movement, modern litera­ture, culture history, American arche­ology, anthropology, vocational education

which will include admission to the ex­position. Among the educators who willbe in the faculty are Dr. J. C. Thompson,surgeon of the U. S. navy; Dr. Edgar L.Hewett, director of the School ofAmerican Archeology; Percy Alvin Mar­tin, Ph.D., assistant professor of his­tory, Stanford University; W. F. Bliss,dean of the state normal school in SanDiego; Miriam E. Besley, William T.Skilling and Maria Goddard, in additiontCJ special lecturers.

The remarkable ethnological exhibit bythe Smithsonian Institution, the ancient

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and modern Indian display, the commer­cial representation, and the quite unprec­edented agricultural and horticulturaldisplays, crowning the work in architec­ture. equip the San Diego Expositionwith extraordinary facilities for study.Practically all, moreover. is permanent,this being almost unique in world's fairachievement.

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Exposition visitors have had thepleasure of meeting another star of the

movie world. This is dainty Mary Pick­ford, who came to San Diego and theexposition with the Famous PlayersCompany to enact a screen thriller. Partof this was made on board the palatialyacht Venetia, owned by John D.Spreckels. Big crowds followed MissPickford through the exposition grounds,while the most ardent of the movie fanspressed forward to shake hands withher. Miss Pickford very graciously re­ceived them and talked with them about

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the movie art as much as her time, esti­mated at $104,000 a year, would permit.

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Forty-seven years ago the board oftrustees of the Old Town of San Diego-the site of the landing by Cabrillo in1:i42, and the first California mission in1769, the marriage of Ramona, and

otherwise distinguished in western his­tory-set aside 1,400 acres, where newSan Diego now stands, for park purposes.III this great park is now the Panama­Cali fornia Exposition. On the forty­seventh anniversary there was escortedinto the grounds Juan Guadaloupe Es­tmlillo, the only surviving member ofthe old board.

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ANOTHER LANDMARK. GONEThe famous old wooden depot which

since 1887 has done duty in San Diegohas ceased to exist. The tower-a well-

MOVING THE PALMSThrough a cut one hundred and flfty feet

long these trees, with forty-flve tons of earthcllngln/\" to the roots of each, were moved tosites adjacent to the new d('pot.

known landmark to thousands of rail­roadmen and tourists-bit the dust whentwo yard engines to which was attacheda wire cable pulled the wire through thebase of the tower and brought it downwith a crash.

Immediately after the tower waswrecked the ground was cleared and ad­ditional sidetracks were installed to takecare of the ever-increasing expositionbusiness. The big palms which formerlygraced the depot platform have beenmoved to new locations adjoining thenew passenger station. These trees weremoved through deep, wide cuts, andabout forty-five tons of earth was movedwith each palm. The earth about theroots was boxed tightly to permit of thewhole being glided along the cut. Whilemoving the palms in this manner involveda great deal of work, it would have beenimpracticable to hoist them with a cranewithout badly damaging them.

The accompanying illustrations weretaken by Fireman Gergen of the Escan­dido branch.

Grateful Patient: "By the way. Ishould be glad if you would send yourbill soon."

Eminent Practi tioner : "Never mi nctabout that, my dear madam; von ml1~t

get quite strong first."

RAZING THE OLD DEPOT TOWER AT SAN DIEGOIn keeping with the progress of San Diego, the Santa Fe has erected a beautiful new depot of

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A PORTION OF THE AGRICULTyRAL Dn PLAYShowing Lipton's tea plantation In the fOI·"ground, an orange orehal'll to the left, and a ~odel

farm to the right

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from all sections of the South-west, inhabitants of the SantaFe's "Painted Desert" on theIsthmus, gathered in wonder-

ment in the Indian Arts Building andlistened intently to the voice of the GreatWhite Father. They heard President\Vilson's message to the American In­dians given through a Columbia phono­graph record, in which form the messagewas carried to every Indian reservationin the country by the \Vanamaker expe­dition.

One of the visitors to San Diego isMrs. Isa Maude lisen, a warm admirerof Thomas Edison. \Vhen she foundthat at San Diego there were Indians whowere off their reservations at the time ofthe expedition she gained permission togive the record here.

The message is significant, being anappeal to the redmen to take full ad-

vantage of their educational and indus­trial opportunities. and to consider them­selves "not as children, but as brothersof the white man."

lI< * *Attracting much attention in the enter­

tainment of distinguished visitors to theSan Diego Exposition is O. ]. Stough,San Diego's ninety-seven-year-old youngman. Probably no person in San Diegotakes more delight in entertaining visitorsthan does Mr. Stough, a retired capi­talist. He has appointed himself a com­mittee of one on entertainment. Eachmorning he makes a round of the leadinghotels in his automobile, becomes ac­quainted with visitors and either takesthem to the exposition or places his carat their disposal. When the New :Vlex­ico Building was dedicated this youthfulnonogenarian was a loyal New Mexican.\Vhen Missouri Day was celebrated he

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SPANISH BAND IN FRONT OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY llUILDING

transferi"ed his affections to this stateand entertained visitors from there.When Governor Goldsborough and theMaryland party were here Stough was a1\1 arylander.

* * *Important additions to the comprehen-

sive scientific display at the San DiegoExposition have been placed in the lastfew days, in the form of thirty wallcharts prepared by the United StatesNational Museum to supplement the bigcollection of anthropological studies' inthe Science of Man Building.

With the placing of these charts therehas been issued a pamphlet written byUr. Ales Hrdlicka of the IllllSCllm, oneof the foremost anthropologists of theworld, under whose personal supervisionwere collected and arranged the speci­mcns from all parts of the universe, lIekatures the display as the most completein existcnce and calls attention to thefact that many of the most importantfeatures have never before been pre­sented, even in part. The expeditionssent out by the exposition and the mu­seum for the specime:ls touched everycontinent.

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ture 'for the exposition summer schoolwhich opened on July 5 for a six weekssession, in which educators from manyparts of the country are enrolled as stu­dents. The faculty is made up of spe­cialists in many fields or education, andthe courses consist largely of lecturesbased on the exhibits of a scientific na­ture. There are enlisted also the laborsof the India'ns, used to demonstrate theexisting arts and crafts of the redmenof the Southwest, supplementing the dis­play of old-time arts and crafts as prac­ticed by Incas, Mayas, Aztecs and Tol­tees, long before the coming of the whitemen.

Side by side in the room devoted tothe history of the yellow-brown races,in which Dr. Hrdlicka classifies theIndian, are panels of the Sioux typeof native found in southern Siberia.Stripped of their characteristic orna­ments, the figures are identical. Thejuxtaposition cal1s attention to the prob­able oriental origin of the AmericanIndian.

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Commission and the Daughters of theMonnon Battalion, in the arrangementof plans for the celebration on July 17of Utah Day.

From this data it appears that theMormon Battalion of five hundred menwho tramped overland from Fort Leav­enworth to San Diego in 1846-1847 forparticipation in the Mexican War andendured terrifying hardships in the de­sert remained in San Diego severalmonths. It is said that they built thefirst courthouse, the first schoolhouse.the first cement paving, dug the firstsanitary wells and, in other ways, soaroused the admiration of the Spanishtownspeople that, when the regiment wasmustered out, there was a request thatit remain at San Diego. Part of thebattalion went on to Utah by way of theSacramento Valley and is said to haveuncovered the first gold at Sutter Creek.

In these and other ways the battalioncontributed importantly to western de­velopment. I t is worth mentioning thattheir inspiration for irrigation work wasaroused by examination of the famousirrigation project at the old mission of

San Diego de Alcala, built shortly afterthe arrival of the padres in 1769-thefirst project of this sort in the countryand still being capable of operation. TheMormons did a good deal of work in thisline in San Diego and on their arrivalin Utah simply transplanted the idea,thus developing many thousands of acresin that new territory which, without irri­gation, would have remained quite hope­less for agriculture.

* * *The record kept by Chief Yeoman Pit­

kin in charge of the United States Navyexhibit shows that in one day there reg­istered at his display visitors from forty­one states and a score of foreign coun­tries.

* * *Arrangements are being made for a

visit by a big delegation of Indians fromGlacier National Park, who wish to holda pow-wow at the San Diego Expositionas a part of their stay on the coast.

San Diego already has the giant dis­play of southwest Indian life in the"Painted Desert," and also in demonstra-

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tion work in the Indian Arts Building.But there is nothing in the permanentexhibits pertaining to Indian life of theNorthwest. With a view to filling thisgap the exposition is cooperating withthe Glacier National Park managementin bringing the display to San Diego.

* * *Attractiveness of the San Diego Ex­

position and the realization of the bene­fits to be derived from exhibiting at itare the reasons why a plan has been

in a manner which will make the com­pleted display compare favorably withany ever seen at any exposition.

* * *"San Diego's Sixty-One" are desolate.

For two brief days these bachelors occu­pied the highest pinnacle. being selectedas escorts for the sixty-one Americanbeauties who were brought to the SanDiego exposition direct from UniversalCity. the mecca of their journey overthe Santa Fe last month as guests of the

A MILITARY PARADE ON THE "ISTHMUS"On", or the typical military pa -atle~ ~een almo_t dally on the exposition grounds at San Dle~o.

A division of the pllrade Is shown passing the Chinese vlIIage on the Isthmus. the exposltlon's.lIlHllleml'nt stre'et. In th .. rorP/:I'ound are several eompanles of sailors from the U. S. S. San Diego.lIal;'shlp of the Pncilk 1I",,,t. AIH'atl of the ~nilors Is a d"taehrnent of coast nrtlllelTmen from FortRoseerllns. whkh guards the entrance to San Diego harbor.

launched to place an immense Chineseexhibit at the exposition. This exhibitwil1 be made hy the Chinese government.Interested in it arc a number of influen­tial Chinese merchants and governmentofficials who recently visited here.

The scheme which these proposed wasto have shipped here a great quantity ofexhibit material originally intended forthe San Francisco exposition but whichwas not placed for lack of room. Theexhibits coming here will be about halfas comprehensive as those at the north­ern fair, yet the whole will be featured

Universal Film l\lanufacturing Com­pany. For two days they were happy.But on the next they were jeered at notonly by unsuccessful rivals but also bythe beauties of San Diego.

"\Ve're going to organize a male beautycontest." says the Bachelor Girls' Pro­tective Association. .,If eligible young'women are brought in to compete withus, we wil1 retaliate with importing eligi­ble young men."

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the beautiful Island of Coronado. Here

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cong-regate many people from all over theUnited States to spend the summer.The famous Hotel Del Coronado onCoronado Beach is one of the world'sbest known hostelries. It is a great roomyplace filled with beauti ful paintings,t:owers, cozy corners and tempting rest­rooms. In the court, or patio, are hun­dreds of singing birds, while beautifulclimbing rose bushes and Aowers of manyother descriptions beauti fy the spot andfairly enchant the tourist. About half amilc' frolll the hotel lies the great Cora·nado Tent City, wherein accommodationsfor thousands are afforded in spacious,

cleanly tents and individual cottages,with their comfortable equipment. Thesurf at Coronado is the most famous onthe coast, while polo, golf, tennis, boat­ing, bay and surf bathing are providedfor the guests at thc big hotels, whereone may live in luxury at very moderaterates. For a nominal fare the ferry maybe taken across to the mainland and thecity and exposition visited. In the eve­ning the cool return trip is very restfuland assures one spending a pleasant cve­ning at the hotel or on the bcach, and.when night comes on, thc breeze fromthe Pacific makes necessary a blanket inorder to have comfortable repose.

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San Diego Notes

IIITH heavy attendance and lib­eral spending of money theSan Diego Exposition wasable at the end of July to havea big balance on the profit side

of the ledger. Including July 1,264,561people visited the exposition, and sincethen the crowds have been coming thickerthan ever.

July's average daily attendance was9,707-a much higher daily averagethan any previous month. The total forJuly exceeds that recorded in January,the previous high month, by just 120,710.This excess is almost equal to the totalattendance of February. The attendanceby months since the opening is as fol­lows: January, 180,270; February, 133,­168; March, 153,042; April, 151,148;l\lay, 179,818; June, 166,135; July,300,980.

While the month was featured by sev­eral special events which drew largecrowds, the attendance for the days im­mediately following the celebration dayswas heavy, thus indicating to expositionofficials that there was an influx of vis­itors continuing. The exposition infor­mation bureau has just compiled statis­tics which show that visitors are remain­ing longer in San Diego than they didduring the first months of the exposition.The average visit of early sightseers was

two days, but in June and July the av­erage visit was lengthened to four days.

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"Safety First will arrive in San Diego,the first port of call, early in November."

This is the radiogram which CaptainCosgrove flashed from London, Conn.,the other day to President G. A. Da­vidson of the San Dieg-o Exposition.The message announces what will prob­ably be the most unique water trip onrecord.

At the wheel of Safety First, a smallpower schooner which displaces onlyeleven tons, Captain Cosgrove left theAtlantic seaboard on August 1. Whenthe anchor of the Safety First is droppedin San Diego Harbor, Captain Cosgrovewill have completed the first importantlap of the long trip which will circlethe globe before it ends. From SanDiego the daring skipper plans to visitthe South Seas, Australia, the Orient,and will thence take his good shipthrough the Suez Canal to the east coastof the United States.

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Ploughing up the placid Pacific theflagship Colorado of the Pacific fleet.with Admiral Thomas B. J-Joward. re­turned a !'iea-weary battalion of marinesto San Diego and the San Diego Expo­sition for the rehabitation of the marinebarracks on the exposition grounds re-

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cently, when the battalion's daily drillsagain became a part of the special events.

This, the second battalion, FourthRegiment United States Marine Corps,under command of Colonel Pendleton,had been taken to Mexican waters andthere held in readiness for weeks to per­suade the Yaqui Indians to cease moles­tation of Americans if necessary. It wasnot necessary. The Yaqui chiefs haddeclared war on Germany, Ireland, theUnited States and about all the other

thing like 300,000 miles. Although thespeed of these cars would prohibit theiruse in an elopement they are such a nov­elty that their popularity continues to in­crease. The speed, which is limited totwo and one-half miles an hour "underfavorable conditions," urges many bur­lesque races between visitors.

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countries they had heard of, but decidedif the cruiser Colorado was a sample ofwhat might visit them they would callit off.

Admiral Howard since his return hastransferred his flag to the big battleshipSan Diego.

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An enterprising employe of the SanDiego Exposition who loves to delve intostatistics and who has a head for "fig­gers" has just announced that the elec­triquets at the exposition have traveled143,086 miles since the exposition's open­ing. This fellow estimates that at theclose of the exposition the little sightsee­ing cars will have saved visitors some-

rived as much pleasure from "sightsee­ing" as a person whose vision had notbeen destroyed. Now comes the armlessman. The strangest part about his visitis that he arrived in an automobile,which he had driven from Schenectady,N. Y. He is Albert Stevens, and, whenhe pulled his machine up in front of theCalifornia Building to receive the con­gratulations of President Davidson, thespeedometer read 5,100 miles. On therun across the country Stevens was ac­companied by his wife, and many sidetrips were made.

As a result of an accident many yearsago Stevens' left arm was amputated atthe shoulder and the right one at the

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elbow. On his car Stevens had the gear­shifting levers and brakes arranged sothat he could operate them with his feet.He steers the car with the stub of hisright arm, the steering wheel having up-

right pegs into which the stub fits.Placing this half arm between thesepegs, Stevens moves the upper part ofhis body so that he can steer the machinewith ease.

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AUDITOR MEYER AND STAFF. AMARILLO, TEX.Seeond row, left to right-A. E. Meyer, auditor; H. M. Sowle, chief clerk; Charles Doud,

head disbursement clerk; M. H. Ecker, head ticket clerk; H. G. Alsip, assistant head freightclerk; I. H. Davies, head freight clerk; C. E. Weymouth. property accounts; E. A. McCaf­frey. claim inspector.

SANTA FE BAND. SOMERVILLE, TEX.The emplo)'es of the Santa Fe at Somerville, Texas. have organized a band with the result

shown above. The band represents an Investment of O\'er $5,000 and Is one of the best equippedamateur organizations In the state.

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Jottings From San Diego

IH E visit of Major - GeneralGoethals was made an event ofpronounced importance, central­ized in Goethals Day, observed

I on September 13.Exposition directors and San Diego

officials and citizens combined in an ef­fort to pay the fullest homage to thebuilder of the Panama Canal, the com­pletion of which undertaking the exposi­tion celebrates and the opening of whichplaces San Diego in a coveted commer­cial position as the first United Statesport of call on the western coast.

The Panama Canal, its history andbuilding were the topics of an addressdelivered by Major-General Goethals toan immense crowd gathered at the greatoutdoor organ pavilion on the expositiongrounds.

A special talk on the canal also wasgranted the school children of the cityduring the afternoon, the canal builderaddressing them from the top of Gatunlock in the mammoth reproduction of thecanal 011 the exposition Isthmus, thePanama Canal Extravaganza. The con­cession admitted school children freeduring the afternoon.

The exposition, in its effort to makethe day one of educational advantage to

the school children, opened its gates tothem free of charge during the day.

* * *Motion Picture Day, with a dozen or

more playing companies enacting asmany varieties of comedies and seriousdramas about the grounds, drew an im­mense crowd and kept it highly amused.Hundreds of non-participating playersfrom studios in Los Angeles and vicinityand San Diego, managers, directors andpublicity men looked on.

A feature of the day's activity was thecrowning of Francis X. Bushman andBeverly Bayne, of the Metro-Qualityfilm, king and queen of Movie Day, Pres­ident Davidson of the exposition per­forming the ceremony in a scene of regalsetting. The king and queen entered thegrounds in a motor car at the head of along parade of machines bearing stars offilmdom. Bushman and Miss Baynewere elected by popular ballot through­out southern California.

The movie stars were tendered anelaborate banquet in the evening, andthis was followed by a grand open airball on the Plaza de Panama, King Fran­cis and Queen Beverly leading the grand

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march It1 a play of varicolored" search-lights. * * *

Of a large number of more nuted or­ganists who have appeared at the great$100,000 outdoor organ at the invitationof Dr. Stewart, official organist, HaroldGregson of London is the first of theforeign artists to appear.

Mr. Gregson is now giving a series ofrecitals at the organ and is thoroughlypleasing large audiences. He is one ofthe younger men numbered among "cele-

Exceeding expectations the August at­tendance at the Exposition reached a to­tal of 229,604 according to a statementissued by the exposition management.This total represents a daily average at­tendance of 7,407 for the month.

* * *Of great singers who have appeared at

the San Diego Exposition, singing at the$100,000 outdoor organ, none, with theexception of Mme. Ernestine Schumann­Heink, whose home is near San Diego,

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hrated organists" and was a pupil of SirWalter l'arratt, "~laster of the King'sMusick," and has appeared on numerousoccasions before British nobility.

* * *The historic Liberty Bell, gloriously

possessed and zealously guarded bythe city of Philadelphia. will reach SanDiego for exhibition on its western tourearly in November. Direct charge of thehell will be in the hands of the city ofSan Diego, through the city officials, thattrust being reposed by the city councilof Philadelphia.

have so delighted exposition audiencesas three who appeared recently.

Florencio Constantino, whom manycritics recently have acclaimed the rivalof Caruso and destined to supplant him,sang to an audience that packed the spa­cious plaza fronting the organ pavilionand received tremendous applause.

Mlle. Alvce Loraine, the Parisian so­prano, decl~red to be the most beautifulwoman of France, scored a complete suc­cess in a delightfully varied program,proving her voice even in the open-airtest in no wise secondary to her great

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beauty and personal magnetism, andMiss Eleanor Patterson, "America'sGenuine Contralto," of whose "six feetof voice," a tribute inspired by her un­usual height, covering three full octaves,won new laurels under the same test.

* * *Farmers of the Middle West will visit

the San Diego Exposition in large num­bers during the last half of October andearly November, according to officials ofthe Santa Fe, who are arranging to bringthem out in special trains. Three of

the trains already are provided for, thefirst to leave Chicago on October 14.

The farmers from the interior willfind much of great interest at the SanDiego Exposition, which was designedespecially to further agriculture in theSouthwest and presents an eloquently si­lent demonstration of the possibilities inthis section of the country by exhibits ofgrowing orchards and gardens and theplanting of the grounds, all of whichhave been brought to perfection in theshort space of three years.

Photo by C. 1 . ..}Jeeu, .)ian Diego,

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ON SAN DIEGO BAYThis Santa Fe sign Is a famlllar sight to those who have made the trip by ferry from San

Diego to Coronado. It Is fastened to the piling which runs out to the Santa Fe pier. It reads:"No change to San Francisco; The Saint. 12:30 P. m." The Saint Is the name of the Santa FeOyer, made up of de luxe equipment. running between San Diego and San Francisco. The trainin "the opposite direction Is known as the Angel.

OLDEST BRIDGE IN USE ON THE SANTA FE TRAILThis crllne bridge Is located In Apache Cation, New Mexico, and over It for many years the traf­

tic of 111" Southwest passed and repassed. It was hullt abollt 1835.

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The Railways And the CaliforniaExpositions

In/ormation With Re/erence to the Volume 0/ Traffic Overthe Various Roads as Compiled by the

Railway Age GazetteIIIH E P""ma-P,,;fi, In"ma';onalExposition at San Francisco and the• Panama-California Exposition at

San Diego held this year in cele-. bration of the openin~ of the Pan-

ama Canal, are of interest to rail­waymen in several ways. The opening of thecanal was itself a great transportation e\·ent.The expositions have stimulated travel to Cali­fornia and the \Vest in g-eneral in such pro­portions as to require a great deal of prepara­tion for it on the part of the western railways,and during the past few weeks to such anextent as to tax the facilities of the linesservinR the PacifiC coast.

It is believed that the expositions have in­troduced large numbers of eastern people tothe attractions and opportunities of the far\Vest in such a way as to have a permanenteffect both in the way of stimulating futuretravel and in attracting settlers. Moreover,the railways themselves have taken an activepart in the effort to make the expositions asuccess, spending large sums in advertisingthem and making low rates, and the transpor­tation exhibits at the San Francisco Exposition,of the railways and of the railway supply com­panies, are among the most interesting fea­tures.

The Panama-Pacific International Expositionwas opened on February 20 and will close onDecember 4, while the Panama-California Ex­position at San Diego was opened on January1. and is to remain open throug-h the calenrlaryear.

RATES AND ROUTES

On account of the expositions the railroadsearly announced round-trip rates to Californiaon a basis lower than has been made for sum­mer travel to the coast for several years; $50frnm the "issnuri T{;ver. $()2.50 from Chicagoand from $94.30 to $9S.g0 from New York, thelower rate applying via the differential lines.

These rates were made effective from l\IarchI to November 3D, with a final return limit ofthree months from date of sale, but not laterthan December 31. Liberal stopovers have beenallowed on both going and return trips andmany free side trips were offered, so that con­sidering the total mileage thus made possiblethe rates offered have probably been the mostliberal ever offered for travel to the Pacificcoast. The rates were made availahle by a

great variety of routes, and, with an additionalfare of $17.50 via Portland, Tacoma or Seattle,almost any combination of routes, includingsteamship lines along the Pacific coast. couldbe selected. Several of the roads publishedhooklets outlining forty or more routes whichwere available from the Middle West.

Tickets via most of these routes includedthe round trip from Los Angeles to San Diegoand return and free side trips were offered toDenver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo, Salt LakeCity, Seattle and Tacoma, and many otherpoints from the routes which do not reachthem directly. Low rates also were made forside trips to many other points of interest.With the free side trips added, the $62.50 ratefrom Chicago covers from 5,000 to 5,400 milesand the $80 rate. well over 6,00J miles, makingthe rates per mile approximately 1.25 cents, andhy some routes as low as 1.12 cents.

PREPARATIOXS MADE BY RAILWAYS

The railways have been preparing for hand­ling the exposition business for two or threeyears. The first preparations consisted mainlyof arrangements for adequately advertising theevent, and a vast amount of literature has beenprepared by the railway advertising- depart­ments on the expositions anrl the points ofinterest to which the special exposition rateswould naturally attract many visitors.

The Santa Fe System also built a new pas­senger station in San Diego, and the SouthernPacific built new stations at Los Ang-e1es amiat Third and Townsend strel'ts in San Fran­cisco. partly to accommodate the increaserltravel expected this year.

Several 0 f the transcontinental roads puton new trains in anticipation of the expositiontravel. The Santa Fe on February 7 put intoservice ;i new traill called "The Missionary"from Chicago to Los Angeles and San Fran­cisco, and also a new train between ~ew Or­leans and Californ:a. On April 12 a new traincalled the "Scenic Limited" was put into serv­ice betwen St. Louis and San Francisco by theMissouri Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande and\Vestern Pacific. New service also was estab­lished on May 30, June 19 and June 20 by theChicago & North \Vestern, Chicago, Milwaukee& St. Paul. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chi­cago, Rock Island & Pacific and \\iabash inconnection with the Union Pacific and other

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western lines, the Union Pacific putting onthree additional trains in each direction.

ATTENDANCE AND PASSENGERS CARRIED

With the San Francisco exposition periodonly partly over it is, of course, impossible atthis time to gage accurately its success as com­pared with other expositions as measured byattendance or the number of passengers car­ried by the railways, but some figures areavailable covering July and a part of August.

On August 20, after the San Francisco ex­position had been open for six months, thetotal attendance as given out by the expositionofficials was 10,813,153, an average of nearly60,000 a day. The attendance figures bymonths are as folows:February &30.980March 1.690.042April 1,439,777May 1,677,947June 1,584,198July 2,157,661August (20 days) ..............•................. 1,432,545

Total 10,813,153

On September 4 it was reported that theattendance had passed the 12,000,000 mark.About one-third of the attendance has beenfree, including employes, exhibitors, press rep­resentatives, etc. The attendance at first wasvery large and during the first few days, afterthe special rates went into effect, the travelfrom the East was very heavy. The attendanceduring the opening week was 519.599, but afterthe first month both the attendance and thepassenger traffic from the East were consider­ably reduced until the vacation season, towardthe end of June, when both the attendanceand the number of passengers from the Eastbegan to increase rapidly. From July lon, theattendance increased at an average rate ofabout 10,000 a day for a time, and the increasecontinued through August. The highest re­corded attendance for a week was 559936, forthe week ending August 8, which exceeded thatof the opening week by about 40,000.

The attendance at the San Diego expositionfor the first six months was 1,265,718.

During the first days after the special rateswent into effect most of the roads out of Chi­cago ran their trains with extra cars or in sev­eral sections, and during the vacation periodsome trains were run with extra sections every<lay. Practically all of the lines participating inthe transcontinental business have shown aconsiderably increased travel, but for a time,between the first rush and the heavy summertravel, business was so light that many of theroads were greatly disappointed with the re­sults. Considering the entire season to date,while the California terminal lines, which areall fed by a number of intermediate lines, haveenjoyed an unusually large traffic, the moreeasterly lines that have had to divide the busi­ness to a greater extent have not fared so welland many have reported that business has notbeen up to their expectations.

No statistics are available showing the totalnumber of passengers carried to the exposi­tions by the railways, but the number handledon the special rate round-trip through ticketsfrom the East is indicated by the fact that218,000 of these tickets from points east of theRocky Mountains had been \'alirlated at San

Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and otherpoints on the coast up to August 25. As theheaviest travel was during the months of Julyand August, a large number of eastern peoplfwere in the West at that time who had not yethad their tickets validated for the return trip.

CALIFORNIA TERMINAL LINES

The lines to San Francisco, which have han­dled all the through passengers to the expo­sition in that city, except those carried by thesteamship lines, are the Santa Fe, the SouthernPacific and the Western Pacific.

The Santa Fe, which is the only singlethrough line from Chicago to California. andwhich also reaches both San Francisco andLos Angeles, as well as being the only line toSan Diego, participated to an unusualt~· largeextent in the exposition travel. On March Ithe California Limited was run in eight sec­tions. During July the passenger businesswest of Albuquerqtle showed an increase of 40percent, and 54 special trains were handledwestbound and 43 eastbound.

The Grand Canon on this line was also anadded attraction, and during July and Augustthree trains a week were run directly to thecanon in each direction. On some days asmany as 1.500 people visited the canon. theaverage for July being 575 a day, requiring theinstallation of temporary facilities. such astents and parking cars. During the first monthsafter the opening of the exposition the travelwas of course largely westbound and equip­ment was moved east empty, but since Junethe business has been welt balanced, althoughit has been Jlecessary to deadhead equipment inboth directions in order to maintain the stand­ards for certain trains. During the first twoweeks in July the Santa Fe handled more pull­man equipment in Los Angeles than was han­dled in New York City by both the Pennsyl­vania and New York Central lines.

The heavy travel also made the problem ofserving meals an important one, and duringrecent weeks the experiment has been tried ofstopping the limited trains at eating-houses inaddition to carrying dining-cars.

As the Santa Fe has the only rail line intoSan Diego, it enjoyed an unusually profitablebusiness between that city and Los Angeles.;o.J' early all the round-trip tickets from the Eastto California included a coupon for the tripfrom Los Angeles to San Diego without extracharge and a large percentage of the touriststook advantage of the opportunity. Figuresshowing the number of passengers handled bythe Santa Fe on this line were not available.but the total attendance from January 1 toJuly 1 was 1,265.718. With six regular sched­pled trains in each direction many trains wererun with extra sections, and as a large per­centage of the travel was on day trains thiswas an unusually profitable business, capableof being handled in an economical way. Withday coaches it was possible to seat ffi passen­gers in a car, as compared with almost 24 in apullman, and it was also possible to accommo­date the number of cars in a train to the num­ber of people who wanted to go on that trainso that the trains were just comfortably fitled.

The Southern Pacific, with its Shasta routefrom the north. the Ogrlen route from the east,

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and the Sunset route from the south, connect­ing with the various lines running from theMiddle West, naturally has handled the bulkof the passengers into and out of San Fran­cisco, and has probably handled a very largepercentage of all of the through passengersover at least a part of its lines. This road,therefore, showed the remarkable increase ofJ<X) percent in its transcontinental passengerbusiness for the. month of July as comparedwith July, 1914. From February 20, the dateof the opening of the exposition, until July 31,the Southern Pacific received from or deliv­ered to its eastern connections a total of 280,­095 passengers traveling on the special expo­sition excursion tickets, of which 120.777 werehandled in the month of July, and 75.083 dur­ing the last two weeks of July. During thesame period a total of 212,100 passengers to

passengers between Los Angeles and Salt Lake,including 16,966 received from connections,westbound. This road has three regularthrough trains in each direction a day, whichwere run in sections several times a weekduring July and August, and up to AugustIS had handled 112 special trains and sectionsfor organized parties. At the beginning ofthe season this company took over all theeating-houses on its line in order to makesure of good service and turned over theiroperation to the dining-car department. Onthe Pacific Limited train the plan was triedof serving an attractive 50-cent club luncheonin the dining-car, which proved very popularand increased the dining-car receipts. Its sub­sidiary, the Pacific Navigation Company, oper­ating the stcamships Yale and Harvard. durin~

the summer made four trips a week in each di-

BEAl:TIFUL AND COMMODIOUS SANTA FE DEPOT AT SAN DIEGOBuilt to accommodate the crowds attending the exposition and to meet the demand of this rap­

idly growing e1t~·. favored with a wonderful <'1lmate and entrancing environment"

the exposition were handled on local tickets,the heaviest movement also being for July,with a total of 64,354. Up to August 16 theSouthern Pacific had handled 117 special trainsaveraging at least 125 passengers each, and 190special car parties.

Officers of the Western Pacific estimated thatthis line had handled over 400 through passen­g-ers a day into San Francisco during June,July and August, and a slightly larger numberin the reverse direction, in connection with theGould lines and other connections east of SaltLake City. July showed the largest passengerbusiness in the history of the company, and,as the local passenger traffic is comparativelysmall, the increase is attributable to the expo­sition travel. In addition to three regulartrains each way a day. filled to capacity andwith frequent extra sections both eastboundand westbound, the Western Pacific handledabout one special train a day on the averagein each direction.

The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lakealso experienced an unusually large increase inpassenger traffic on account of the expositions.During July this road handled 35,707 through

rection between San Francisco. Los Angelesand San Diego, carrying from WO to 900 pas­sengers each per trip.

Low rate excursion rates also were madeduring the summer for local travel betweenLos Angeles and San Francisco and betweenLos Angeles and San Diego. To San Diegorates as low as $4 and $5 for the round tripwere made for special occasions, for a distanceof 250 miles, while tickets good for threemonths were sold for $6.25. Between SanFrancisco and Los Angeles a round-trip rateof $18.75 was made on certaiu days, while arate of $22.50 was effective every day.

The westbound exposition traffic was bal­anced to some extent by the "back east" ex­cursion rates-$72.50 to Chicago and return,$110 70 to New York and return, and $tO tothe Missouri River and return.

An illustration of the concentration of trafficat San Francisco is afforded by the fact that449 Pullm'ln cars were brou/.(ht into San Fran­cisco in three days in July hy all roads. andthe Pullman Company's laundry in San Fran­cisco during July washed from 75.000 to ilZ,OOOpieces of linen a day.

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