Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — Page 6

Marvelous Works of Art for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

FLOWERS AND RARE SHRUBS WILL ADD TO GLORIES OF PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION .

The Court of Palms looking south toward the Horticultural Building at Ithe Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. The Italian towers at the entrance of this court will be forty feet square and two hundred feet in height. There will be two towers at each side of the court entrance.

STATUARY IN THE MAKING FOR THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

The photograph above shows the head of a huge elephant that will be the central figure in the colossal group, "Nations of the East,” at the PanamaPacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. The elephant was designed bj Frederick G. R. Roth, the noted animal sculptor; the entire group was the conception of A. Stirling Calder, acting director of sculpture. The group will crown a huge arch IGO feet in height and more massive than the Arc de Triomphe at Paris.

DELEGATES FROM ALL THE WORLD WILL MEET HERE IN 1915.

A magnificent architectural creation, Festival Hall, where the conventions of the world will meet at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco, 1915. The building will be 380x200 feet, with greatest breadth of 280 feet, the latter being taken up by the wings. A vast auditorium with a huge stage will be a feature of the structure.

World’s Greatest Sculptors and Painters Completing r—i Superb Decorative Masterpieces .

VISIONS OF ARCHITECTS COME TRUE AS VAST EXHIBIT PALACES RISE ON SHORES OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY

Whole World Will Be Represented at America’s Eighty Million Dollar Panama Cans! Celebration. \\ orrfferful progress has been attained in the superb Panama-Pacific Intel national Exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal. Thousands of men are now at work upon the exposition grounds and tho plans of the great architects for the city of expos tion palaces are more clearly revealed than they were by the first published designs and drawings. The huge main exhibit section is fast nearing completion and a world s record has been established in exposition building. I’housands of sightseers flock to the exposition grounds every Sunday and on holidays visitors are not permitted during working hours because of the njury which might result to them. From the work already accomplished the visitor gains a vision of the exposition as it will appear when completed, uge groups of statuary, executed by the world’s most famous sculptors, have been enlarged and may be seen upon the exposition grounds. Hundreds of acres, once a vast barren waste, have been transformed Into beautiful park-like areas covered with green sward in which are being set thousands of rare trees, plants and shrubs, converting the grounds into a semi-tropical paradise. A wonderful color plan has been designed by Jules Guerin, world famous decorative artist, and superb mural paintings to decorate the walls and porticos of the vast exposition courts have reached San Francisco. Several hundred, thousand dollars have been expended upon these paintings alone. 'A' -AA. A■ A' . In the opinion of notable authorities in world’s expositions the PanamaI acific International Exposition has attained a greater degree of progress than that reached in any other formal world’s exposition at a period so far in advance of Its opening. Hundreds of great conventions and congresses, whose delegates will come from all parts of the world, will meet in San Francisco during the exposition year. A wonderful display of the exhibits from all parts of the world is assured. At this writing thirty-one of the nations have officially accepted the invitation of the United States to take part in the exposition. Construction has begun upon the foreign pavilions and upon the concessions section. The concessions district will be one of the most marvelous features of the exposition grounds, entailing an expenditure of more than $10,000,000. In the estimate of the comptroller, the exposition will involve an expenditure of eighty million dollars up to Its openirig day. The opening ceremonies of the exposition will be in peculiar accord with its International character. President Wilson’s invitation to the nations to be represented with detachments of their battleship fleets as the official celebration has met with an enthusiastic response; it is believed that more than two hundred battleships will be assembled at Hampton Roads, off the West Virginia coast, late in 1914. This magnificent fleet, the most formidable array of naval warcraft ever gathered together and representing the pick of the fighting strength of the world’s navies, will proceed from Hampton Roads through the Panama canal, gathering in the Caribbean sea in time for the formal opening of the Panama canal on January Ist, 1915; thence the fleet will proceed to the Golden Gate, assembling off the site of the exposition, which opens on February 20, 1915. The dramatic passage of the fleet can be easily imagined. The eyes of the whole world will be upon this vast array of battleships as they steam to the scene of America’s brilliant Panama canal celebration.

SUPERB TOWER OF JEWELS—ONE OF THE ITALIAN TOWERS.

The dominating architectural feature of the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San Francisco in 1915, the superb Tower of Jewels, which will command the south entrance of the Court of the Sun and Stars. The towfer, 430 feet in height, will have a base one acre in extent. The tower will rise in terraces, giving way, at last, to a group of figures supporting a globe, typifying the world. The repeated figure of armored horsemen and of explorers of the oceans will be employed to decorate the tower, which, with its statuary, mural paintings and mosaics, will be indescribably beautiful. At night thousands of quivering jewels and prisms will reflect the shafts of masked batteries of searchlights. Messrs. Carrere and Hastings, architects in chief of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, are the architects.

One of the superb Italian towers that will mark the approach to the Court of Palms at the Panama-Pacifio International Exposition, San Francisso, 1915. There will be two of these courts, Identical in size, one south of the Court of the Four Seasons and one south of the Court of Abundance, which will be known as the Court of Flowers.

WORLD’S NAVIES TO GATHER.

On San Francisco bay, at the site of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1915, to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal, the battleships of the world’s navies will gather in a great international fleet. The buildings face north upon the harbor for almost three miles and are located just Inside the famous Golden Gate entrance pf the harbor to the Pacific ocean.

HUGE TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT THE WORLD’S GREATEST EXPOSITION A WONDERFUL SIGHT.

The Arch of the Rising Sun at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which will be crowned by a wonderful group of stdtuary, “The Nations of the East.” The howdah upon the elephant will be 188 feet above the floors of the court; the group itself will be 42 feet in height. This huge arch breathing the spirit of the Orient, will be upon the east side of the great Central C ourt, the Court of the Sun and Stars. Upon the west side of the Court will be an arch typifying Occidental civilization. Beneath the arches one will pass to the great East and West courts, respectively.

STUPENDOUS FIGURE OF GROUP CROWNING TRIUMPHAL ARCH —ARAB WARRIOR FOR “NATIONS OF THE EAST.”

This photograph shows a part of one of the figures of the sculptural group, ’’Nations of the East,” at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Sun hUg6 ArCh ° f the RiSin S Sun in the Court Of the the flenr thelllghe st figure in the group will rise 188 feet above v workT m t ] he . CoUrt Roderick G. R. Roth, tHe noted animal sculptor, whose Th? ent? d y knownpothin America and abroad, designed the figure above. RGrlin?(?id SrOUP ; The Natlons of the East >” was the conception of A. SI m companion B rou P, “The Nations of the West,” depicting Occidental civilization, will balance the ‘‘Nations of the East” on the opposite side of the Court of the Sun and Stars. opposite

SUPERB GROUP WILL SURMOUNT GREAT TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

Sketch of the group, “Nations of the East,” to surmount the Arch of the Rising Sun in the Court of the Sun and Stars at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915, From the base of the pedestal la 42 feet. The standing figures will each be 13 feet 6 inches in height This collossal group will rise 188 feet above the floors of the Court of the Sun and Stars. A. Stirling Calder, Leo Lenteili and Frederick G. R. Roth are the sculptors.