McClellan, Edwin Lemare, and Camille Saint-Saens. What a chapter would
be set aside for the record of Exposition choral music! Already there
has gone abroad from the Festival Hall an impetus towards better chorus
music that will, I feel sure, firmly establish this somewhat neglected
department of musical art in the far West.



XV.

Inside the Exhibit Palaces



All competitive exhibits strictly contemporaneous, showing the arts of
to-day--Revolution worked by the motion-picture theater in exhibition
methods--The lessons of Machinery Palace--Coal and steam fast yielding
to liquid fuels and waterpower and electricity--Life-saving devices,
accident prevention and employees' welfare made prominent in Palaces of
Machinery and Mines--A contrast in locomotives--Building a motor car
every ten minutes--Co-operative exhibits in Food-Products Palace--Many
great displays by the United States Government--Educational exhibits
not duplicated, each state or city showing its specialty.



In its industrial displays, as well as its art, the Exposition keeps
steadily in view the fact that it commemorates a contemporary event; it
is contemporaneous, not historical. Hence it was decreed from the first
that the exhibits must be the products of the last decade, a rule