Ferndale Union High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Ferndale, CA)

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A lieaaimiat C5112 Zliair I was never so disappointed in anything as I was in the Exposition. I sup- pose it was because l had built up such a beautiful conception of it in my im- agination, I had expected to see a wonderful city, a veritable fairyland of ini- pressive palaces perfect in every detail. Instead I saw a great number of barn- like buildings beautiful enough if viewed from a distance, but coarse and ugly at close view. In my thoughts I had seen the fountains and statuary as marble, or a good imitation of it, whereas I found rough casts, some of which had been marred and broken. The interior of the buildings was another great disappointment to me. I had believed that beauty would be on the inside as well as one the outside. In- stead -if frescoed walls and beautifully domed ceilings there were crude, rough rafters with no attempt at beauty. A The Lagoon was not nearly as beautiful as I had thought. Instead of the beautiful lake I had pictured, there was a shallow pond with reels growing in it and trees rising in untamed profusion around it. The floats I saw on it were miserably decorated. 'Yacht Harbor did not come up to my expectations either. Instead of I1 pretty, sheltered cove with sailboats, perhaps with varicolored sails and neat, trim, little motorboats, etc., I found plain, ordinary rowboats, a dirty canoe or two, several ugly launches, and nothing elseg no beauty. If a person got off the main thoroughfares in the Exposition and got back of some of the buildings, as he was very likely to do, he found trash heaps and flirty messes all about. The whole thing reminded me of a painted scene for a show. Of course one could not expect anything more, but then---- OLUF A. RING, ,17 Pm Gbptimiut mlm 3 Eningrh the lisqxnzitinn From the first minute that I caught sight of the jewel City, as I crossed the Bay from Sausalito, I have never regretted that I traveled miles to see it. There at the foot of rolling hills it lay. The forest covered hills at the Presidio on one side and the house covered hills of the town on the other formed a circled background rivaled in beauty only by the rippling water of the Bay in the foreground. The Exposition can truly be called a fairyland. Everything was arranged as naturally as if placed there by the hand of nature. I think that the thing that impressed me most was the arrangement of the avenues, the high buildings, the tall trees, then smaller ones, palms and shrubs and so on down to the flowers and the lawn. 24

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impossible to find it. It gives a peculiar hoot that can be heard a long way off. Several years ago a new kind of game bird was introduced into thecounty. T his was the Chinese pheasant, As yet no season has been established on them and it is still unlawful to shoot them. The trouble with the pheasant is that she makes her nest in the grain fields just as the grain is ready to cut and almost all of the nests are run over and the eggs broken by the mowing machines. Brant and geese are not as plentiful as they might be although one some- times gets a few shots at the honkers as they sail along on their migratory flight. FRANK FRANCIS, 717. Ignnka I wish I could write a chronicle of mighty and valiant deeds. But I fear theres nothing heroic about me. To be truly heroic, I think one must possess the finest and most admirable qualities. hor instance N aponeon Bonaparte, who has gained world-wide fame as a fighter, does not appeal to me as much as the scientists, physicians, explorers, and missionaries who regardless of personal danger or cost give their lives for the good of humanity. It is true l have made many wonderful journies on land and sea as well as in the airg and I have had also many wonderful adventures. But of course only in the spirit. As usual I have spent most of my time with my books, because I prefer books to any other recreation, and it has come upon me of late, what a great privilege is mine to be acquainted with great men and women, although I have never met them in the flesh. They give me, however, their greatest and noblest thoughts. My heart thrills with Sir VValter Scott in his stories of chivalry, while I enter the homes of the poor with Charles Dickens. . I descend into the depths of the sea with Jules Vernes and see all the sub- marine wonders. I have ascended into the air with Ralphson, and shared the dangers of flying. y V. I have been instructed in the mysteries and wonders of the noble red man with Cooper. Have riden the bucking broncho, and shared the round-up with Bower. Once I was with Rex Beach, and jack London, during the gold rush in Alaska, and I have sweltered in the hot, and hunting jungles of India with Kipling. I have even been fighting the Boers in South Africa with Foran, but I was a traitor at heart because I sympathized with the enemy. After all, I find myself something of a hero, because at the time I lose my identity, and truly enter into the spirit of their adventures. Sometimes my mother and I enter the fields of poverty, but with the ex- ception of Longfellow, and Sir VValter Scott, my flights of fancy end, and I drop out. Perhaps I lack imagination, or those finer qualities I mentioned above. HAROLD PETERSEN, ,IQ 23

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As I saw the color harmony of the towers and courts, I could hardly make myself believe that those beautiful pillars were not tinted marble but only a iew boards with a sort of colored plaster over them. The many courts with :heir fountains, flowers, shrubs, and beautiful statuary, seemed to take me away from earth and place me in a true fairyland. Especially the Court of the Universe where the white doves made their homes. The Tower of Jewels of which I had heard so much, was all I had expected it to be. Both night and day it glistened like a tower of precious stones. All the interiors of the buildings were beautiful and beyond description. For instance the Horticulture Palace with its tropical gardens. Tl1e Palaces of Machinery, Mines, etc., held inventions and improvements in all the fields of research. The Food Products Palace held every kind of food that one could think of. The governmentls display of fish here, was very interesting. I have heard people say that they were disappointed in the large palaces be- cause they did not find them with beautiful frescoed ceilings, but instead old brown rafters. This did not seem to have any affect on me because I realized that these buildings were not to be permanent structures and that when they were built it was not with the idea of making them beautiful palaces but sim- ply providing a place for the various exhibits. I had for a long time wished to see the best of art and my wish was truly realized when I saw the Palace of Fine Arts. This permanent structure can be compared with the architectural classics of Ancient Greece. Here I was able to see some of the most valuable and noted masterpieces done on canvas and inbmarble and bronze. The Lagoon which is in front of this building was at its height of beauty at night when the different colored and draped boats sailed out upon its smooth surface. The Country and State buildings were all very well arranged, each truly representing its own country or state. Almost every one contained a large map and as I studied these together with the products and pictures I learned .nore about these countries than I could ever have learned from a book. The Japanese and Chinese Tea Gardens with their bamboo houses, stone bridges, shrubs, flowers and fish which had all been brought over from their far-away home, were unique in design and coloring. The Zone, although it held some very foolish things, also held some that were very interesting and instructive. I shall never forget the Panama Canal, japan Beautiful, and the Tehauntepec village of the Arizona Indians. Although the wonders of the Exposition have faded from my sight, the memory of them never can. MAREN sKow, ,I7 25