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THE BUILDING OF A CITY,

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

AS IT IS TO-DAY.

A correspondent writes as follows:--- No man of imagination can visit Wembley Park, the site of the British Empira Exchibi tion, and come away without an impression of wonder and awe at so vast a preparation. Rather a great city than an Exhibition SUGINA to be in building, a city of great

VULGARIZING THE PRESIDENCY.

[FROM "TUK NEW YORK TIMES."]

article in The Emporia Gaceta pleads Over the revealing initials "W. A. W, an for treating the President more familiarly, Wrought, it seems, to form the habit of speaking of him by this ärst name, It was wonderful asset for President Roosevelt to

roferred to President Wilson AN Mr. William Allen Whita asserts, this was Woodrow," but it is to be feared that, as

pavilions, with gardens, avenues of shops, Some known universally as "Frldy."

theatres, restaurants, all dominated by a vast and splendid edifice, the Empire Stulium, which surely shouli rank as a wonder of the

world.

Aruly the work is so far advanced that Harding 1⁄2 done "is chill derision."

of the

town,

however, is a man from "where

their it is possible to realise what the completed first names. According to Mr. White, the people are known by Exhibition will be like. I came in by the Presidcut would like to have it applied to north catrance, and, as I stood on the site him in the White House. Here is the way

I could already see the in which the touching appeal Fate,

peal is made: wide colonnades of shops curving to Bast and West. This verad

semi-circle will incidentally provide n

way from the north entrance into the two main British buildings, the Machinery Hall on the left and

the Industrial Hail on the right. It encloses'a sunk garden, and across the grass and dowers ooo's sight will tenvel to the Grand Avenue between the two great halls, stright on and up to the Stadium on the hill to the south.

UNITED KINGDOM HALLS

The Machinery Hall and the Industrial Hall are more than half finished. Both are to be ready by August 11th. On pillared brick foundations the reinforced concrete floors have been Inid, the main pillars are up and most of the stanchious and rein forced concrete roof trusses have been erected. One skylight I noticed already These two magnificently de-

in

If the people in consulering him would

think of him a just a nunn of the one of their own kind, people, the dear common dub Americanus who is mixed up in his hous Affairs-a joiner, Elk, Chamber of Commerce booster, member of Elk, Mason, Rotarian, the Ad Club, the Retailers' Association Director of the County Fair, of the Country Club, of the Provident Association, of the Red Cross; Chairman of the Community. Chest Drive,

Dive,

to the State conven- tion of most

all-round town boomer in short,

The President in the White is having a sad time getting himself across to the peo ple who have

have yanked him on to a pedestal and coated him with a plating of austerity becausu

use he has vast

"If they only power. would think of him as Warren!

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positionings together cover more than nient for thirty years in Ohio, and that io

The argument is that President Harding was used to this sort of unconventional treat Reres, the

floor space is 1,111,000 consequently feels ill at ease when addressed sq. ft.-und five full-gauge railway tracks as if he were a statue on a pedestal in a public have been laid in the Machinery Hall, park. The old customs of larion are stil! which, with the help of over-head travel close to his heart. He would like to have the ling cranes, will amke the placing in posi. "hunch" drop in freely

and sit by the fire tion of even the heaviest machinery n with hin smoke and over

and talk

affairs the comparatively easy task. Ose line runs of the nation and the world. As an editor lin also into the Industrial Hall-an important used to be glad to get the opinion of "the fact for exhibitors who car that tho hand-hogs," and us President he often feels, it wo

which is an inevitable feature of most may believe Mr.

ling

exhibitions must frequently lead to damage intimacies hite, a longing for the old

and delay.

So much headway has been made that one is left with the impression that everything must be finished well in advance of the

course with plain

Sonalities of inter-

undress If every.

body would only call him "Warren!

Doubtless thera is something in this point of view which appeals to is common by Lowell

scheduled time, and the jereminds of the Americum trait. It was climbed Goth"

THE GREAT STADIUM,

our

habitual pessimists, who persistently mur-when he describe the mur that it *can't be ready,

presumably of Western States as a man who delight. because nothing ever is when it ought to ed to trample upon dignities, and who would bc," suddenly sound comie. These gentle. slan Caesar's self upon the back and call men have perhaps never been to Wembley him." Old Hoss." But there are deeper in since the golf links were the chief feature of stincts and feelings of the American people the landscape.

which counter to this impulse of rudo familiarity, and brush it away in tho I did not stay long in these two hails, don't like to think of them as just ordinary presence of our highest officials. We really imposing though they are. I learned-aud marvelled--that the main roof spans in each men snatched out the street to by placed are 7 ft. wide, and all the others as much as

temporarily in a great position, Reverence for it is 30. With one eye on the stadium, and as

easily transferred to its occupant. as my guide could be persuaded, we left lacks dignity, at least in public. A proper soon as my

Americans do not want their Presidents to them

It is difficals to describe this huge arena, idealizing motive makes us all desire to see because no other building in the world is an olevated and distinguished bearing go

like it. One gazes, and wonders if all Wembley is

distinguished office. distinction which not part of a dream if one has

not been magically transported through time to some palace of Athunteau giants,

Terrace on lofty terrace stretches up to a wheeran will soon be flying. On

atardunds each end rise massive domed towers. There

the firet terrace. On them half a

to

with

There is

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pointed

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between ating." It is all'

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to

friends in private, but it would be fated t

authority injuries to office if

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is another terrace with dainty tea words of political

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rooms behind. On summer days there could be nothing pleasanter than to have tea under the awning, looking out over the bright gardens of the Exhibition grounds, the sound of the orchestra behind faint one's ears.

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Thero is said to be an unpretentious resent it keenly

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behind. I held my Canadian and Australian buildings, between breath. Hat he went whistling on his way. New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, the two chief British Halls and the Stadium. uch men do not know the meaning of diness, and I was relieved to hear the only Burma-all the Dominion and Colonial sites ous serious accident has happend since the

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