Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 16, 28 November 1912 — Page 6

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NEW WONDERS PLANNED FOR. THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT SAN FRANCISCO IN 1915 .

SERVICE BUILDING, THE FIRST BUILDING TO BE ERECTED BY THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

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BIDS have been let for the Service Building, the first structure to be erected upon the Panama-Pacific International Exposition site. The -structure will be three stories in height and will be occupied by the exposition force during the building of the great fair. It will be 150 feet square with an interior court of 58 by 104 feet The environing grounds will be picturesque with flowers, fountains and statuary. The first floor will be occupied by the auditor, treasurer, railroad exhibits, admissions and concessions, police, information, telegraph and emergency hospital departments; the second floor will be occupied by the architectural, 'mechanical, electrical and ctvic engineering departments; the third floor will be used for blue printing, photograph and color studios. It Is expected that the building will be completed by the first of the year. EAST COURT, PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

THE great East Court at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition la designed for pageantry surpassing the famous Durbar of India. It will constitute a suitable setting for oriental or modern drama upon a colossal scale. From a huge staircase or from the tops of Its encircling walls the visitor to this "Court of Joyousness" will be enabled to witness the pageants that will be a feature of the exposition. The main tower of the court will contain a great pipe organ, with echo organs in the smaller towers; Within the center of the court will lie a basin containing groupings of classic statuary, dancing figures, fauns, satyrs and nymphs. Electric scintillators will play upon fountains at night Tropical shrubs and flowers will contrast with the sterner effect of the colonnades, statuary and facades of the court In its architecture the East Court, which will lie among the main group of exhibit palaces, will resemble the oriental phase of the Spanish-Moorish architecture. HORTICULTURAL BUILDING, PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION

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ONE of the most notable buildings at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915 will be the great Palace of Horticulture, constructed of glass, covering over five acres, or two city squares in extent and surmounted by a dome 150 feet high. The Palace of Horticulture will be set in a great tropical garden near the main entrance to the exposition grounds. It will be 672 feet long and its greatest width will be 320 feet An Impressive nave eighty feet high will run the length of the building and paralleling the central nave on either side will be two side aisles fifty feet in height At the main entrance to the building a huge arch will be adorned with classic bas-reliefs suggestive of the purpose of the structure. The entrance and Interior of the Palace of Horticulture will be decorated with trellises upon which flowering vines will be trained. When the exposition opens the Horticultural Palace will appear as if set in the heart of a marvelous garden. Although wood will be used in connection with glass the Palace of Horticulture will be In every sense a glass palace; it will be the largest glass structure ever built During the night illuminations at the exposition the vast surface of the building will present unusual and beautiful reflections.

President Charles C Moore of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Presenting Deed to Japan's Site to Commissioner General Haruki Yamawaki

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HIS Imperial Japanese Majesty's Commissioners to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition dedicated Japan's site in the Presidio Reservation on Wednesday. Sept 18, In the presence of more than 10.000 people. The ceremonies were highly impressive and were deeply appreciated by the representatives of the Japanese Government Commissioners, Haruki Yamawaki, Goichi Takeda and Tashikatsu Katayama. The deed to the site was presented by President Charles C. Moore to Commissioner General Yamawaki, who accepted It in behalf of the Japanese government Study of the Court of the Four Seasons, Panama-Pacific International Exposition

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TO the west of the great Court of Honor at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition will come the Court of Four Seasons one of the most elaborate and beautiful of the great interior courts that will lie between the huge exhibit palaces of the main group. The walls of the court will be partly formed by the palaces of Liberal Arts and of Education and by the two great wings of the Palace of Agriculture and partly by the classic colonnades and peristyles that wfll connect these buildings. The Court of Four Seasons, in classic Italian architecture, was designed by Mr. Henry Bacon of New York, designer of the Lincoln Memorial. In harmony with the title of the court there will be set in each of its four corners groups of statuary symbolical of the seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The sculpture will be set in niches screened by colonnades. Mural paintings, also suggestive of the seasons, will form the background for the setting. Mr. Jules Guerin, the noted artist, has charge of the color plan. The Court of Four Seasons will be 340 feet square. Site Selecting Ceremonies of His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Commission to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

JAPAN was first of the foreign nations Xo select a site at America's great Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. The extensive area which has been dedicated to the Japanese government display, five acres, will permit the adornment of the grounds surrounding the Palace of Exhibits with wdnderfu! Japanese trees and shrubs, presenting the landscape effects that in Japan have attracted the attention of tour Ists and nature lovers from all parts of the world. The Palace of Exhibits will cover an acre of ground in the center ofv this Japanese garden. One million dollars, it was stated by members of the Imperial Japanese Commission, will be expended upon the Japanese government concession.

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EACH of the four corners of the Court of Four Seasons will be adorned with groups of statuary symbolical of the seasons Spring. Summer. Autumn and Winter. The sculpture mill be set in niches screened by colonnades, and mural paintings, also suggestive of the seasons, will form the background for the setting. The Court of Four Seasons will be 34 feet square. Mr. Jules Guerin. the noted artist, has charge of the color plan and the designer of the court Is Mr. Henry Bacon of New York. TOWER OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

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FROM an architectural viewpoint the dominating feature of the PanamaPacific International Exposition will be the huge tower of the Administration building. Rising 375 feet In height and flanked on either aide by the domes, towers and minarets of the eight great exhibit palaces, the huge tower will be at all times the most conspicuous feature of the Exposition City. From San Francisco harbor it will appear as the central feature In the great rectangle of exhibit palaces, whose sky tine will be 110 feet In height, whose domes will rise 144 feet and whose lesser towers will be 17 feel in height. From afar this centra! group will appear almost as m single palace, four-fifths of a mile long and 1.200 feet in width; nearer at band it wlU b found that the exhibit palaces are interspersed with great open courts, each designed by notable groups of America's foremost architects. The Inner courts will express the highest Ideal of the architect, the sculptor, the colorlst and the landscape gardener. The Exposition palaces will be the loftiest ever constructed: the grouping of huge buildings will give an effect of almost Inconceivable massiveness and grandeur. At the base of the tower, which will occupy an acre in extent, will be a huge arcade beneath wblcb visitors may enter from the main exposition entrance Into the grand Court of Honor. This court, which will be 700 by 900 feet in its greatest dimensions, was designed by McKim. Mead & White, the New York architects, designers of Madison Square Garden, the Boston Public Library, the Agricultural Building at the Chicago Exposition and other notable structures. Before the tower the visitor will see In the Court of Honor a remarkable group of sculpture typifying the Spirit of achievement exemplified by the construction of the Panama canal.

FINE ARTS

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1HE Fine Arts Palace will be one of the most beautiful structures In Its

architecture as well as In its location at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The building. COO feet in length from north to south, will be semicircular in form and will have as its central motive a low dome

arising from a unique base. Forming the foreground will be a great lagoon surrounded on three sides by a sunken garden, which will be designed In romantic Italian architecture Upon the surface of the great lagoon the quiet classic outlines of the Palace of Fine Arts will be reflected. Here will be assembled the notable paintings of history.