Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 41, 29 December 1913 — Page 3

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By HAMILTON WRIGHT. PROGRESS on the "Midway" at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Is so far advanced that definite Information may be given about this fascinating: concessions district. The concessions center will be one of the most marvelous features of the Exposition grounds. At night it will glow with myriads of incandescents; Its streets will be paved with gold; shafts of colored light will be hurled against its lofty towers and minarets, the tallest of which will be 250 feet in height. Many amusement features will be shown for the first time. The art of presenting huge panoramas and dioramas has advanced marvelously during the past decade, and the world's most celebrated amusement purveyors will display their finest productions. The concessions will be notable not only for their huge size and the excellence of their presentation, but for their educational merit. Between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000 will, it is estimated, be expended upon Installation In the concessions district. So far the Exposition management has received more than 7.000 applications for concession privileges. The hundred largest concessions already granted will cost more than $7,500,000. A Mood of applications is being received from all parts of America and Europe, and a staff of experts is kept busy In segregating them. Prize For Best Name. What to call the main street of ths concessions center Is a question. Chicago had the "Midway." St. Louis the "Pike," Portland the "Trail" and Seattle "The Pay Streak." Frank Burt, director of concessions and admissions nd one of the greatest amusement authorities In the world, has offered a prize for the best name and Is flooded with suggestions. Among the titles suggested are "Ths Main Drag," "The Locks," "The Canal." "The Zone," "The Isthmus" and "Ths Ditch." First work in construction on & Bum r of ths concessions has already be-

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gun. Among the more important con

cessions are the "Grand Canyon." a spectacle to be presented by the Santa Fe railway; "Toyland Grown Up." a great city in which the buildings will be enlarged reproductions of children's toys (Toyland will be a superbly artistic spectacle, a mass of wonderful palaces covering twelve acres, and it will be presented by Frederick Thompson, the famous creator of Luna Park at Coney Island); the Panama canal, working model of the great canal at Panama; "Creation," based on the first chapter of Genesis; "The Evolution of the American Navy;" a replica of the world famous city of Nuremberg; an Ice Palace in which International skating and hockey matches will be held: a Fortynine Camp; the Battle of Gettysburg; Hagenbeck's Wild Animal exhibit and prehistoric garden; Asia; Mahomet's Mountain; the Dayton Flood and the Aeroscope. "Grand Canyon of Arizona." One of the most artistic of all the concessions will be the "Grand Canyon of Arizona" in all its grandeur and power, as seen from the platform of an observation car. Some of the most noted scenic artists in America are engaged upon the canvases, which will depict the scenes of the canyon in its natural colors. This concession, to occupy 300 by TOO feet of ground space, is now under construction and when completed will cost $350,000. The Santa Fe railroad plans to make it of educational value rather than one to amuse only. Guides will deliver lectures on the points of interest, and in harmony with the setting of the panorama will be an Indian village in which members of the Pueblo, San Domingo. Navajo, Zuni and Hopi Indian tribes will present their dances in native costume and display their handiwork. "Toyland Grown TJp" will be a walled principality, almost as large as an exposition itself. The walled city will be entered by three mammoth gates. The first gate will be the Gate of Fun. and Toyland will be entered by Crazy street, with Its rookedy. crook edy buildings and rookedy. crookedy streets and rookedy. crookedy street

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car lines. Everything will be rookedy, crookedy, with laughs galore. The second gate will be the Gate of the Court of Fairyland, the Gate of Beauty. The third gate is the entrance to the City of the Wicked King, where is held captive the doll princess. This is the Gate of Thrills. Nymphs of Fairyland. Rolling its water Into Fairyland will be a wonderful cascade, which will pour 30.000 gallons of water a minute into a lagoon where beautiful girls and nymphs perform graceful evolutions in the water as it rushes down. The cascade is surrounded by a magnificent building with golden domes and coping decorated with Christmas trees. A colossal stairway on either side of the cascade forms a grand approach to the building. Beneath the dome is the Court of Youth, and thence flows the water that the sightseer in 1915 must dip his fingers in with difficulty. In the Fountain of Touth the visitor must pass through Initiation ceremonies before he is able to enjoy the pleasures of Toyland Grown Up. Among other features will be Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, sixty feet in height; a great shoe, as large as a six story city building and built in part In the form of a side wheel steamer, since this shoe will have huge wheels like the Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. By means cf these wheels the sightseer will be raised aloft. In Toyland there will be. too, the City of Peter Pan. the town that never erew up Toyland. indeed, will be the fairyland that the child dreams of. Altogether the Toyland concession will cost 'more than $1,000,000 and will require more than 4.000.000 feet of lumber. Its streets and canals if stretched In a row would be five miles long. The model of the Panama cw"l. to cost $250,000. will be an exact reproduction of the great work at Panama. Gatun lake. Mlrafiore dam and all

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phases of the canal with which Amerl- tleshlps of the navies of ths world an

cans are familiar will be reproduced In

miniature. Fortifications will be shown, and the workings of the great gates at the locks will be Illustrated in a way that will, perhaps, make their operation as plain to the visitor as if he visited the canal Itself. Two thousand people will be able to make the trip through the "canal" every thirty minutes. Incidentally, it may be observed, the gates to the concessions district, as the visitor enters it from Van Ness avenue, will be reproductions of the great spillways at Panama. Great Navy Panorama. "The Evolution of the Dreadnaught" will be a panoramic Illustration of the birth, growth and development of the American navy, entailing an outlay of $150,000. The concession is In charge

of E. W. McConnelL who produced a

"Trip to the North Pole" at the Loulsi

chored off Harbor View, with the whlta squadron coming through the Golden Gate. This panorama will become an actuality, for the nations of the world have

Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The Aeroscope presents a novel feature In construction. Crane arms. 240 feet In height, mounted upon a steel tower fifty feet high and made of two parallel riveted trusses, will operate as a balanced lever. One of the crane arms will carry a double decked case for passengers. One of the most attractive of the concessions will b that reproducing

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the Canton City Appeal, win ope rats this concession at an outlay of SIOO.OO. The face of the "Ice Palace." to b presented by Montreal concessionaires, will be unique in designs of Ice. through which will run ammonia pipes. In the interior will be a skating rink threefourths of an acre In area, upon which will be held International hockey match ea. Unique "Readtown. A unique display In one of the exhibit palaces will be "Road town." a modern skyscraper laid on Its side, with the pipes and wires and elevators running horizontally instead of vertically and with the Inhabitants of the building having free access to the open country that surrounds It. "Roadtown" Is a continuous house. Instead of grouping houses together as man does in the building of a modern city the exhibitor suggest a novel Idea that cities should be strung along for rail" through bill and dale, giving

rem berg, probably the quaintest point 1 vsr family an ample and bandy supin the old world. Nuremberg today is VJ of fresh air "Roadtown" is to be

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been Invited by Uncle Sam to send German empire which has preserved IU system and It will be earthquake proof, their best battleships and cruisers for mejieTaj appearance, Nuremberg was ; fireproof, soundproof and germ proof.

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,,la"u - the "Iron Maiden." instrument of torsponse. It is expected that more than tur Srt made her grisly entrance

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part. Each of the twenty -eight nations

that have already officially decided as governments to participate in the ex-

independent robber barons first held sway against all who came; here the

incomparable work of Franz Hals waa

Gate, and a number of the nations

have already given assurance that several of their finest fighting craft will assemble at the Golden Gate. Mr. Winston Churchill, first lord of the ad-

J miralty of England, has promised that

?lnfUl!MS.ExP0S';t,0at. V US.-lB! number of the finest Dreadnaughta. 1904 The historic incidents in the Ufe fpCtac! of thl, Tast fieet cf the navy, such as Perry , victory at WTnb,ed fr0m the world's navies will be

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represenuiuve war cra vo me v.oHi.a eating relics will be shown.

and Merrimac. Dewey's victory at Manila bay and the defeat of the Spanish fleet at Santiago, will be shown.

All of the scenes will be presented I

in chronological order. The visitor in 1915. as he enters the concession, will see first a panorama depicting the early events of America's naval history, and then panoramas of the later events, with which every schoolboy is familiar. Throughout the successive 6tages of the panorama the illusion of warships In action will be preserved. The final panorama win shew the assembled bat-

without parallel In history. The European nations will assemble their battleships at Hampton Roads, and thence, after an oQcial review, this composite fleet of the world's

j fighting craft, the largest fleet ever as

sembled, will proceed through the Panama canal to the Golden Gate. Higher Than Ferris Wheel. A novel feature will be the "Aerosoope." an inverted pendulum, which wwl carry sightseers to an elevation of feet. This la fear feet higher than the famous Farrla wheel at tmm World's

The banquet halls, folk dance halls, restaurants, cafes and concert gardens will be presented as they existed five centuries ago. Employees will be dressed la the native costumes of the fifteenth century that visitors may feel that they are In the fascinating old city of Nuremberg as It existed In the height of its glory. Typical of the early day of the west will be the "Forty-nine Camp." In which the characters made famous by Bret Harts wUl be reincarnated and mingle with the visitors. Stagecoaches of the days of '49 win meet the visitors at the entrance of the Union Ferry building and take them out to the "camp." Roulette wheels, faro games and stagecoach robberies will appeal te every sightseer. There wm be ne actual gambling, tor games at chance wm net be permitted upon the exposition grounds. Nevada mTomg men under the leaderahin mt Baa Davis, editor oX

ducted In the basement, where a mono

rail transportation system will be need. In th ""Submarine" concession sightseers will travel actually beneath the water In submarine craft corresponding in appearance and ta general equipment with the most modern type of submarine used In the world navies. Oaytea Flood ReprodweedL Henry Ellsworth, famed throughout the world as a producer of the Oberammergau. the Passion play, which has brought thousands upon thousands of pilgrims to the picturesque shrine in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, will produce a great concession to be known as the "Dayton Flood." Mechanical devices upon an elaborate scale will reproduce many of the thrilling Incidents at the time of Dayton's great disaster. The spectacle win convey a lesson, and the courage with which Dayton overcame its disaster win be exalted. "Mahomet's Mountain1 another large and Interesting attraction, wffl represent a huge man, nmety-stx feet tall, holding np s mountain. Visitors will journey through the mountain, visiting caves, waterfalls and many spectacular nlaces, ,