JAPANESE HOLD FAIR CELEBRATION

SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday, Feb. 24 -- This is Japan's day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Impressive and unusual ceremonies, which began this morning, marked the dedication of the Japanese pavilions and gardens.

Hundreds of Japanese residents of the city were present when Miss Josephine Moore, daughter of C.C. Moore, president of the exposition, pressed an electric button which sent the waters flowing over the miniature falls and picturesque lakes of Japan's section on the foreign concession.

Assisting in the dedication was Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, a hero of the Russo-Japanese war and special representative of his imperial Japanese majesty, and Baroness Urju.

At the official dedication ceremonies in Festival Hall presided over by Gen. Haruki Yamawaki of the Japanese exposition commission, addresses were made by Admiral Baron Uriu, President Moore, Gov. Hiram W. Johnson, Mayor James Rolph, Jr., Acting Consul Yasutaro Numano and others.

Japanese school children strewed blossoms at the portals of Festival Hall as the officials entered.