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PLANS FOR THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION.
San Francisco Making Great Preparations for This Exposition, Which Promises to Be One of the
Greatest Ever Held in This Country—The Leading Countries of the World Will Be Repre-
sented—Wonderful Oriental Pageants and Gardens Will Be Among the Unique Features
Planned—San Francisco Will Spend More Than $100,000,000 in Public Improvements
Within the City Itself—The State Will Also do Much for the Exposition.
(Special to The Review.)
San Francisco, Cal., May 25, 1912.
San Francisco is planning to entertain the world
on a grand scale in 1915. Before the city had
been selected as the location for the Panama Canal
Exposition more than $17,000,000 had been pub-
licly contributed in California for the big show.
Since then the public fund has reached $22,000,000.
It is estimated that more than $80,000,000 will be
expended on the exposition.
Several sites will be occupied by the buildings,
but according to an exposition authority they
will be units in a superb group. The two prin-
cipal sites are at Harbor View and in the west
side of Golden Gate Park.
Harbor View lies as a crescent on the bay half
way between the ferry and the sea. Golden Gate
Park faces the Pacific Ocean and runs back of the
city. A winding boulevard will be the link be-
tween these two sites. A trackless trolley will
run over it and it will be a permanent addition
to the city's attractions.
At Harbor View will be located the Midway
and other features that lend themselves to bril-
liant electrical effects. An existing lagoon will be
converted into a superb yacht harbor; an aquarium
will be located there and the most marvelous col-
lection of the strange and brilliantly colored fish
of tropic waters will be brought together.
Also at Harbor View will be located great struc-
tures to house the heavy exhibits that lmy be
unloaded from ocean-going vessels directly upon
the grounds. Among these will be the manufac-
tures and machinery buildings, the Palace of Lib-
eral Arts and the buildings to house industrial
features.
Lincoln Park is a lofty knoll 150 acres in area,
200 to 300 feet above the waters of the Golden
Gate. The park will be adorned with terraces and
statuary and an observation cafe, glass enclosed
and of several stories. But the crowning achieve-
ment will be the St. Francis Memorial Tower, a
huge commemorative edifice which, like Bartholdi's
Statue of Liberty, will welcome vessels from afar.
Plans have been accepted and the tower will be
850 feet high, including the shaft and a granite
anchored base 220 feet square. The shaft will be
8-i> feet square, of steel construction and of marble
and terra cotta veneering. The approximate cost
will be $1,000,000. From its summit one will be
•able to look almost straight down upon the
waters of the Golden Gate, 1,100 feet below.
From Lincoln Park south to Golden Gate Park
the distance is almost one mile. Between these
parks the exposition directors have secured a con-
necting strip of 200 acres of privately owned land
that will be devoted to the use of foreign corces-
s : onaires, to live stock exhibits, to gardens, and
doubtless to exhibits from Alaska, Hawaii and
foreign countries.
One cf the most notable foreign concessions
will be that just proposed by the Chinese mer-
chants of San Francisco, who have at their com-
mand many millions and are enthusiastic. A Chi-
nese display of large dimensions will be sur-
rounded by a mxld of the great wall of China.
The concession will be built at a cost of $1,-
0)0,000 and it is planned to have the whole work
completed by the latter part of 1914. Junks, sam-
p:ins, temples and pagodas will be included within
the concession-, and the visitor may if he wishes
t;ike a riskshaw or automobile around the top of
t'.ie great wall.
Golden Gate Park will be the site of the perma-
nent structures which will remain after the expo-
sition. Among the striking structures here will be
a huge concrete coliseum to surround an existing
stadium wi'h a seating capacity of 75,000 people
and in architecture like that at Rome. Awnings
will shade it and it is planned that an automobile
racetrack shall pass into the stadium.
A marble art gallery with the noted paintings
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of the world will be among the features, while a
chain of lakes at different levels will be connected
by a working model of the Panama Canal. In
Golden Gate Park Japanese and Chinese residents
of the Pacific Coast may build typical edifices in
which their societies can meet and their archives
may be kept.
Perhaps the most remarkable and unusual fea-
ture will be a wonderful series of Chinese, Japa-
nese and Hawaiian gardens. The rarest plants
of the tropical Orient will be shown with those of
more temperate regions. The marvels of Oriental
gardening as developed for centuries will be ex-
pounded and a wonderful Hawaiian water garden
is planned. Many acres will be comprised in this
exhibit.
All told, San Francisco will spend more than
$100,000,000 in public improvements within the
city itself. The State of California has voted
$9,000,000 in bonds for piers and improvements on
the San Francisco waterfront, aside from the $5,-
000,000 it has appropriated for exposition purposes.
The construction of that portion of the scenic
boulevard which will lie in the Presidio is among
the works which it is anticipated the government
will undertake, while the Presidio affords a splen-
did opportunity for the most comprehensive mili-
tary and government service display ever made.
The ferry building at the foot of Market street
will be the entrance to Exposition City, with a
grand court of honor and probably viaducts to
permit visitors to pass from either side of the
street. Near the junction of Market and Van
Ness streets will be established a civic center with
a great auditorium to accommodate conventions
during the exposition. A new city hall to replace
the one demolished in 1906 will form the nucleus
of the civic center, and Mayor Rolph announces
that this structure, to be built in classic style, will
be completed by March 1, 1915.
Private capital will erect a grand opera house
at the civic center and other structures within a
considerable radius will be built or remodeled to
conform to the general architectural design. Tele-
graph Hill, looming 287 feet above San Francisco
harbor, will be terraced and surmounted by the
tallest wireless tower that can be constructed; from
the tower messages will be flashed to ships passing
through the Panama Canal.
The exposition will have at its opening event a
battleship parade through the Golden Gate, com-
posed of a composite navy of the fleets of the
world. This fleet, the largest ever brought to-
gether, will be reviewed by the President of the
United States and foreign dignitaries at Hampton
Roads and will then proceed via the Panama Canal
to the Golden Gate, arriving in San Francisco
harbor about two weeks after the exposition
opens. From unofficial advices it is anticipated
that more than one hundred foreign battleships,
in addition to those of the United States, will par-
ticipate in the display. Every nation in the world
that has a battleship will be represented, says
President Moore.
Following the assemblage of battleships in San
Francisco harbor will come a succession of major
events at intervals of two months apart, with
minor events between. Among the major events
will be a series of parades and pageants of the
nations of the Orient lasting for a week. Down
the streets of San Francisco in exposition days
will pass such Oriental pageants as the world has
never seen. China, Japan, the Philippines, India
and other Oriental nations will join in a series of
displays which will rival the Durbar in magnifi-
cence and perhaps surpass the Durbar in view-
point of diversity by reason of the many nations
represented.
WELCOME KNIGHTS TEMPLARS.
Pittsburgh Dealers Decorate in Honor of Those
Attending State Conclave.
(Special to The Review.)
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 28, 1912.
The piano dealers of Pittsburgh have joined
with the other merchants of the city in their efforts
to extend a hearty welcome to the Knights Tem-
plars of this State who are holding their annual
conclave here this week. The W. F. Frederick
Piano Co. and others decorated their buildings and
warerooms with flags and bunting in the daytime
and electric lights at night, and the effect was
most beautiful. As is generally the rule with such
large gatherings the piano men received quite a
little return in the way of business.
CITES LUDWIG_PIANO IN ADV.
Leading Tailor in Wilkes-Barre Writes an Ad-
vertisement for the Man That All Clothes
Are Alike—An Admirer of Ludwig Quality.
How the Ludwig piano is appreciated by those
who purchase it and use it in their homes is
shown in one instance where a well-known tailor
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., advertises in the following
m?nner: "This advertisement is aimed at the chap
who says, 'Oh, all clothes are alike.' I want to
ask him if all pianists are like Josef Hofmann
or if all cornetists are like Herbert Clarke, or if
all pickle-lo players are like Mr. Heinz, or if all
baseball managers are like Billy Clymer.
"And I want to know if all pianos are as good
as the Ludwig? If you think they are, then you'll
probably continue to believe that all clothing is as
good as mine. But those men who use their domes
krow better. They know that wherever human
work is in competition there'll be a leader."
Julius Bauer & Co., of Chicago, 111., are in-
stalling a new varnish drying and veneer drying
system in their plant in Chicago.