The Clarksburg Telegram

For the Opening of the Panama Canal with One On Now.

The opening of the Panama canal is an event big enough to be celebrated by the holding of two expositions, and both of them will be hummer. San Diego was thought to be a small city to aspire to hold an exposition; but before the gates of its Mission City open in 1915 it will be a great deal bigger than it is now.

There is some question whether an exposition is a real help to a city. but in San Diego, which is preparing to hold one in 1915, the building operations have amounted to $2,352,000 in less than six months of 1911; and for a city of some 40,000 people, that is admitted to be "going some."

While San Francisco will be content to keep its exposition open for six months, San Diego will keep its open the full year of 1915. After all, when the climate is so well adapted to that purpose, why shouldn't San Diego make the most of its show?

Italy is holding two expositions simultaneously, one at Rome, and one at Turin. The precedent is merely being followed by San Francisco and San Diego in holding two Panama expositions the same year—1915.

First to break ground for its exposition in 1915, San Diego is making a good start. It already has $2,500,000 to spend on its big show, and foreign countries will add a large amount to that.

It might seem as if all the changes had been rung on exposition architecture—the domes, pinnacles, minarets, towers and belfries of past show palaces. But San Diego has found a new style for this purpose, and one particularly appropriate and pleasing because it is the one which the Mission Fathers introduced into the New World. San Diego will use an adaptation of this, called by the architects the Mission Renaissance All of the buildings will be in this style, and all of them will be permanent, and will remain in Balboa Park for the benefit of future generations