Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 8 August 1913 — Page 5

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AHAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION PALACE BUILT WHILE YOU WATCH HI fVeparing for M 'Movie" Camera Records Details of Construction of World's Largest Wooden Building. lama Gelabraiiott to be held at anrraticlscoy 0 HU6E STRUCTURE WILL APPEAR AS IF MM BUILT IN EIGHTY KIKUTES.

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Eighty Million Dollar Exposition Will Open On Time; Rapid Progress In All Its Branches.

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SAILi into th Golden Gate, and three miles to the southeast there

stands out against the background of the hills of San Francisco the huge framework of the Palace of

Machinery. Even at this distance the

colossal proportions of the structure

are evident and impart to the visitor an idea of the tremendous effect to

be produced by the grouping of the

exhibit buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The Palace of Machinery will not by any means be the loftiest of the

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exhibit buildings, although It will be the largest single structure, covering almost eight acres of ground. Its three vast naves, rising one hundred and thirty-five feet, will be less than half the height of the first rim of hilla enclosing the exposition grounds upon the south, east and west. To the west of the Palace of Machinery will be the center group of eight exhibit buildings, facing upon the harbor for three thousand feet, running twelve hundred feet north and Boulh, and with. Interconnecting gateways and colonnades to bind the group together so that it will, from the Golden Gate, Beem as one colossal palace, a marvelous Oriental city, with its skyline of one hundred and ten feet and with towering golden domes and minarets rising one hundred and fifty, two hundred and seventy, and four hundred feet. To construct a universal exposition almost overnight calls for thorough organization. The production of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition will involve a tremendous outlay. It is the estimate of the comptroller of the exposition that Its production will involve an expenditure of eighty millions of dollars, and this estimate, of course, does not include the intrinsic wealth represented in the vast total of the exhibits of the world. The spectacle will be fully completed and perfected In every detail upon the opening day, February 20, 1915. All exhibit palaces will be completed by July, 1914, eight months before the exposition opens. How rapidly the buildings may be assembled is shown in the construction of Machinery Hall. In six weeks huge traveling cranes with arms rising one hundred and ninety feet have assembled three-fourths of the framework with a rapidity comparable to that with which the numbered sections of a portable house are interlocked. Some of the giant trusses raised in place weigh twentyeight tons, and seven and one-half million feet of lumber and almost a trainload

YACHT HARBOR. UNDER, CONSTRUCTION

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of nails and bolts are being used In Machinery Hall; more than twelve hundred tons of steel are used. As soon as the buildings are fin

ished an army of landscape gardeners and workmen will begin setting out upon the grounds and in the courts

millions of trees, flowers, palms and rare shrubs. These Include innumer

able orange and lemon trees in fruit and in blossom, bulbs from Holland, giant tree ferns from Australia, rhododendrons from West Virginia and England, banana plants from Central America, Hundreds of thousands of cuttings are being raised In the exposition greenhouses. The landscaping around the Service Building, the first

completed structure, is finished. The exposition palaces will be set as in a semi-tropical paradise; in the vast Inner courts wonderful floral effects will lend warmth and beauty to the

colossal grouping of statuary and huge colonnades and peristyles. Many strange exotic plants will be shown in the great tropical south garden. The installation of the groups of sculpture that will tell the story of the great work at Panama will follow the completion of the exhibit palaces and of the courts. Sculptural models are now being executed by a number of the world's foremost sculptors. The sculptural work as a whole will review upon a prodigious scale the effort of four centuries to find a passage between the oceans and will exalt the spirit of energy which has resulted In the completion of the Panama CanaL Statuary symbolical of the Orient and of the Occident, r Of the explorers of the oceans, groups that tell of effort and the crowning fame that comes to exalted endeavor will be given ' an imaginative and forceful rendering. The building of an exposition Is like the building of a city. When completed the exposition will afford a wonderful demonstration in modern city planning, operating its own gas works, steam heating plant, garage, sanitation equipment and its police, fire and hospital departments. As soon a9 each exhibit palace is finished the installation of the world's displays will begin, and preparations for exhibits are far advanced. The displays of foreign lands will, it is anticipated, be the most comprehensive and selective ever shown. Of the countries that have accepted the United States' invitation to participate in the exposition, and this includes so far twenty-five nations, it is probable that the majority of them will be represented upon a more distinctive scale than at any universal exposition held outside the boundaries of the participating nation. All but three of the South American countries have sent official acceptances. The displays from Europe and the Orient will be especially interesting and instructive. Many exhibits will be

seen for the first time in America and will be unloaded directly at tne exposition ferry slips and thence transported by rail Into the exhibit palaces. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition will be a selective exposition. That is, quality rather than I ulk or quantity of exhibits is the first consideration, although indeed the aggregate of the exhibits will be enormous. A number of the individual exhibits will run in value from $250,000 to $350,000.

One of the most novel uses to which

a moving picture camera has been em

ployed is to record actual progress in the construction of a building erected

upon a time contract. Details in the

construction of the Palace of Machin

ery, a huge building on the site of the

Panama-Pacinc International Exposi

tion to be held in San Francisco in

1915, are recorded by a moving picture

machine set to take a picture auto

matically every five minutes. The camera is placed upon the roof of one

of the completed exposition buildings

and has an Inclusive view of the new

structure.

A picture every five minute

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Machinery Hall under construction and &

it will uppeax when completed Under the magic influence of the movies" a full grown building will be

conjured up, beginniug with, the bare ground and finishing in eighty minutes with a structure completed to the topmost piniif.cle. Like the Temple of

Solomon U will be built without the

sound of a hammer. The picture will

be shown all over the world.

The records will show ninety-six

pictures for each working day, or a total of 6,912 for the three months

required for completing the building.

When the pictures are reproduced the

reel will be run at the rate of 864 pictures per minute, or mora than a

weeks progress in that time. In

eighty mfnutes the entire building

will seem to be assembled.

This Is a new departure from the

usual custom of taking: photographs of buildings at different stages of con

struction. The picture will furnish the exposition officials with a valuable record of the building operations, as they expect to study the effectiveness of various methods of construction through the slower reviews of the

films.

Machinery Hall will be the largest

wooden frame building in the world.

NAME WANTED FOR AMUSEMENT SECTION AT PANANA-PAGIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

Who will suggest the name by which the concessions and amusement center will be known at the Panama-Pacific International Ei-position at San Francisco? The Director of Concessions has announced that the person who suggests the best name will receive a lithographed portrait Beason pass to the exposition. The suggestions will be filed in the order they are received by the exposition and it more than one person suggests the selected name the one first heard from will receive the pass. The contest will close August first. Perhaps, as at Chicago, the concessions district will take the name of the boulevard running through its center. As one passes along this street he will see reproduced scenes along the Panama Canal. Or again it is possible that some striking phase of the exposition as a whole may suggest the coveted name. Perhaps a name will be suggested by the marvelous Illumination of the exposition. At night the concessions' center will be a land of enchantment All suggestions should be addressed to Mr. Frank Burt, Director of Concessions and Admission, 501 Exposi" 1 Building, Pine and Battery Sf:.u, San Francisco.