New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1915, Page 13

EXPOSITION A DREAM CITY COME TR RERORIEIERHKIRIEIRHRHEEHRHRI G %%%m.w‘\ 1.-—~Seohon of Palace of Horticulture. 2—Court of Four Seasons. 3.—Co- lossal statue of Buddha shown by Japan. 4.—New York state building 6—Portals of Education building. 6.—Oregon state building. '7.—Sec- tion of Palace of Education. 8— Rending the isthmus. 9.—Tower of Jowels statu HIS {s not a story of the Pan- ama-Pacific International ex- position. It is, at best, a worc picture of the setting in whigh the visitor to the grounds after the formal opening of the fair Feb. 20 will view the collected achievements of the nations. Nestling against the green back- ground of Presidio hill, with the wa- “ers of ‘the bay as its western bound- ary, the pastel. colored buildings lie— patapet and tower and dome, rose and cream’ and shadowed blue, old gold and bronzelike green, reminiscent of Spain at its'most beautiful period. To this have .been.added the charm of Venice, % the mirrored reflection in canal, lagoon | and lake. Nature and the cunning of ., those who had the task of conmstruction 7n hand have combined to cause the ¢ egrounds, to appear century 6ld, with all the softened beauty of permanency and | age. i S 3 Ongm,e:s, to the fair prepared for the ysual . glé of unrelieved imitation whité marble—a glorified version of ¥ Coney Island—and one finds within a & few 'blocKs of the business center of i «San Francisco proper a city of an- other age in another world—a dreamr I city come true; palaces which might hlve been buflt for the l\(ngq of Spain in days long past, had their subjects ever attained the appreciation of the Romans for the beautiful in architec- ture and sought to express it in their own way. There. are hedges, real box hedges, twenty and thirty feet high and of correct propdrtions in depth, which by the. magic of necessity and modern horticultural witchcraft spring up over- night and flourish thereafter. There are flowers and ferns and palms from every corner of the globe about and above one, exotics planted in a rich loam brought from the Sacramento | valley to insure their well being. And | the pillars of the palely tinted marble ‘SUNDAY LIKE RACE HORSE CHAMPING AT BT Photos by American Press Association. HONESTLY don’t know what to think of Billy Sunday. I am will- ing to be convinced that he is sincere in his purpose, but he im- presses me with the feeling that he is magp anxious to have & reputation for MR. AND MRS. BILLY SUNDAY. sending a long list of recruits to God than honestly to save one soul. For three-quarters of an hour I sat within three feet of him and watched him closely as he greeted some 3,000 persons, and I failed to seo the kipdii- gaV2g Vool ’7'\\{‘)!\ e Yoo VoaVeasVogS ROV, IRTRINTNTRC G ST JGWQGM'M N are mossy and soft, as are all true pil- lars of centuries past which touch the waters at their bases. It is as it Cali- fornia foresaw this fair before white men came to our continent and build- ed that all might be ready when the twentieth century arrived. Nothing has been overlooked in the determination of those who are in charge to retain this impression of permanency. The Midway (for since the famous avenue of fun at Chicago all others have been called Midways by the public) is situated well on the out- skirtsoof ‘the grounds in order more brilliant lighting nec this vicinity may not interfere ry in with ness 1 expected in a man with such a great purpose, says Eva Nagel Wolf in the Philadelphia Press. His eyes are cold and absolutely im- his mouth is the only part ot that the | | time. the carefully subdued effects in the ac- tual grounds. There is no tendency to- ward ‘icramping” -the effect and identity of each are 'sedu- lously retained by the broad avenues and courts. Eleven Main Exhibition Palaces. There are in all eleven main exhib tion palaces grouped about the gre: courts. In the center lies the Court of | Universe, opening to the east into the Court of Abundance and to the west ou8 way of wetting his upper lip with his tongue and at the same time giving a keen, searching glance as if on the lookout for another person who needed to be convinced that his conscience was asleep. Y His personality is not pleasing to me. The very fact that he is always on the alert, that his nervous energy is so much in evidence, would make him a t ng person to be with any length of In his face one does not find the warmth of feeling that radiates from that of Mrs. Sunday, who is of the un- selfish, motherly type. Like a race horse champing at the bit, crazy to be off, 'is Billy Sunday waiting for the noise to die down be- fore beginning one of his lectures. Each muscle seems to be connected with a cell of live wires. His words are forceful, if crude, but it is his acting and eloquence that car- ry every word that the man has to say to each individual in the audience. I am not sure even yet that his is a dominating personality. I first think it is his eloquence, seconded by as fine acting as is seen on any stage. He races up and down the platform, and when it grows too small over the reporters’ desks with such force that one wonders if he will put on the shortstop in time to save the people crouching on the sawdust be- low. He is like Peter Pan in one way only—he has not grown up, for he is still a boy in many respects and, like a boy, takes a deal of pride in his own achievements. After he has told a par- ticularly funny story he awaits the ap- plause and appreciation that he thinks are due him. He seems pleased with the very fact that he works himself into a perspiration and wipes it from his brow with the old gesture of the ball player, that all may see how hard he is working. And perspire he does! Per- spiration rains off his face, drenches his handkerchief and stains his light gray suit in a huge spot between the shoulders. Oh, no, Billy Sunday does not spare himself. He is fussy about many little things—for instance, he al- ways insists on a white reading desk, loathes being interrupted and becomes quite peeved when any one in the au- dience coughs. There is no doubt that he is essen- tially a man's man. His greeting of men is more whole hearted, in fact, than it is with women, with whom he is a bit shy—that is, if one could ever call Billy Sunday shy. He is not a large man as size goes, but his wiry body has enough nervous energy to make up for any lack of height. This man has not the sensitiveness of the thinke: he is a doer of the sledge hammer type, as his handshake would signify. His devotion to his wife, who watch- es over him like a mothering hen, is marked. He appeals to her on all oc- he capers | casions for advice, for she is truly his his face that is alive. Ha bas & curi- Amanager, buildings;~the 1 SORO8 RO, oS OB OR A e e AN VRO BT S JoaaVels 7"‘0(‘/7"’)(‘ RIVTRINTRIRN 3oR68K into the Court of the Four Seasons. Famous artists have contributed to the effectiveness of these: hroad, grassy stretches by providing symbolic stat- ues, which, mounted on the arches and about the fountains, make concrete the abstract ideas of the ar- “hite The whole is a memorable achievement, and the openir of grounds will mark the realization California’s dream, a dream of proper- ly commes mnmtm,, the |mp0rlance of the huge | of | ,America’'s gift 1o the world the great ;r:mxl which today unites the east and the west. A massive statue of Buddha, a hun- dred feet high, will stand at the en- | trance to “Japan Beautiful,” a minia- ture Japan with all thé beauty and characteristics of the Country of the Rising Sun. It will be one of the most striking exhibits Most Interesting of “Japan Beau tiful” will be the trip to Japan. In the very body of the huge Buddha the visitors will be taken on a sight seeing trip to the orient. By newly patented electrical and mechanical de- | vices the scenery will be reproduced in detail. As the visitors step out of an eighteen feet escalator they will find themselves on the deck of a t pacific steamer. They will from San Francisco harbor, the exposition grounds out | Pacific ocean. The magnificent view | of the exposition from the is ex- actly reproduced. Touching at Hono- lulu, visitors will the tropical life divers and native youths riding the surf. Arriving at Yokohama a short he ta passing by into the sce P oe Vo Vo W\\D‘/\DL& |trip to Tokyo is hdma the ship | through ‘inland (hlnle to Shanghal | splondid State Bui | The New York mansion. It co twelve rooms fo stories high, "has | the state commi |governor, a meel board, an oval re¢ men, a ball room | reception rooms, dl dining rooms and with $3.000 worth |ances The Oregon bullt of the Parthenon,, ¢ Oregon giant for this building forests and was the exposition flag ‘pole in the Oregon site as th of Astoria, Ore. All of: the state did structures and attractiveness of * HARD TO KEEP ROUMANIA OUT OF HE new Kking of Roumania couldn’t very well have come to the throne at a more diffi- cult time. If Roumania con- trives to keep clear of the war it will be something like a miracle as one will see by looking at the map of Europe. Roumania has as neighbors Russia on the east, Austria and Servia on the west and Bulgaria on the ‘soth, with Turkey not so far away. Roumania is a country that had to fight for its existence, because until within the last century the throne did not necessarily pass to the eldest son of a king. All sons were eligible and the country has the right to chose its king from among them. As a result the people quarreled among themselves as to which particular son should be placed upon the throne, and very often neighboring kingdoms were asked to take a hand in the struggle. The new king and queen own what are probably the simplest e)mhoh of monarchy belonging to anj kingdom, for the queen's crown is a plain little circlet of gold, while the king's is of iron, having been made by order of the late king from part of the metal of a Turkish gun taken at Plevna. To be a popular king in a| country like Roumania one must first of all be democratic. The present queen is a British prin- o Her father, the late Duke of Edinburgh (afterward Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha), was the second son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Marie, as she then w: was only seventeen when | Prince Ferdinand came a-wooing. A good many English folk disap- proved strongly of the idea of such a “mere child” 'being allowed to wed. Even Queen Victoria, it is said, pro- tested, but the duke answered all pro- tests by saying, “She will marry the man I choose now; later on she might expect to choose for herself.” High up in the Carpathian mountains Queen Marie has a beautiful highland home at Sinaia, and she is never so happy as when entertaining her friends there. All sorts of outdoor sports are the order of the day, and in the house the queen nearly always ap- pears dressed in the quaint national costume that so well becomes her. This has naturally enough caused a great revival in peasant industries through the countr; The national dress is probably more worn in Roumania than in any other country in the world. Even many of | the quite poor peasants possess most beautifully embroidered hand worked robes, which have been handed down as heirlooms and are worn on special occasions. one, from the highest to the always partly try she has adopted and does much for the peasants, whom she is ing to help in some way or On her marriage she was presented with a large sum of money by the wo- | men of Roumania. The money was (o | be used to buy herself a wedding gift, But in acknowledging it she said| that, with the permission of the donors, | she .would put it aside and, when she | had discovered the needs of her adopt- | ed country, use it for the good of the | Roumanian women The money was duly invested knll\ always try another t, seems to have a good word to say for Queen Marie. She certainly ten years later was used to found a KING AND QUEEN OF ROUMANIA,,V has ever since been lent work At this school keep, to wait at accounts. M the making and mel the making of th also taught, and really capable wo The king and q dren. The eldest so now twenty-one. Ni Elizabeth, who is 8 tiest princess in Bi | girls and two more w. I works hard for the people whose coun- ! school of household ecomomy, whlchlxumy