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1 / u \rv'. ■ZU (ecu... Preparing fop mama Celebration Gmerieas i »e held at Saul •me* official, II Open On Time; Rapid Prog ress In All Its Branches. YACHT HARBOR. UNDER. CONSTRUCTION Njx. colossal grouping of! WORLD'S NATIONS PLEDBE PARTICIPATION S AIL into the Golden Gate, and three miles to the southeast there stands out against the back ground 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-Pa cific International Exposition. The Palace of Machinery will not MACttTNEJGrf HALL 3 El by any means be the loftiest of the C.GURS’L OF COHStlLUeiXOiT 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 hills en closing 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 tho harbor for three thousand feet, running twelve hundred feet north and south, and with interconnecting gateways and colonnades to bind the group together so that it will, from the Golden Gate, seem 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. Tho 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 invojve an expenditure of eighty millions of dollars, and this estimate, of course, does not include the intrinsic wealth repre sented in the vast total of tho 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 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 twenty- eight tons, and seven and one-half million feet of lumber and almost a trainload. As soon as the buildings are fin ished an army of landscape gardeners knd 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, rho dodendrons from West Virginia and England, banana plants from Central America. Hundreds of thousands of cuttings are being raised in the expo sition greenhonseB. 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 warpath 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 tho 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 Che Panama Canal. Statuary symbolical of the Orient and of the Occident, 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 as 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 i3 anticipated, be the most comprehensive end selective ever shown. Qf 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 pation. 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 the exposition ferry slips and thence transported by rail into the exhibit palaces. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition will beV selective exposition. That is, quality rather than bulk or quantity of exhibits is the first consideration, although indeed the aggregate of the exhibits will be enormous. A number of >—... . value from $250,000 to $350,000. tho individual exhibits will run i PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION PALACE BUILT WHILE YOU WATCH “Movie” Camera Records Detain of Construction of World’s Urges! Wooden Building. ■ - \ HUGE STRUCTURE WILL APPEAR AS U BUILT IN EIGHTY MINUTES. One of tho most novel uses to whlc] a moving picture camera has been em ployed is to record actual progress il the construction of a building erected upon a time contract Details In th] construction of the Palace of MachlQ ery, a huge building on the Bite of thi Panama-Pacific International Expo si tion to he held In San Francisoo 1] 1915, are recorded by a moving plcturt machine set to take a picture autfl matically every five minutes. TIM camera is placed upon the roof of onj of the completed exposition building! and has an inclusive view of the nei structure. A picture every five minutes Machinery Hall under construction and at it will appear when completed Under the magic influence of thd “movies” a full grown building will bv conjured up, beginning with the ban ground and finishing in eighty minute* with a structure completed to the top most pinnacle. Like the Temple o| Solomon It will he built without tht sound of a hammer. The picture wil be shown all over the world. \ The records will show ninety-all pictures for each working day. or ( total of 6,912 for the three month! required for completing the building When the pictures are reproduced th< reel will be run at the rate of 861 pictures per minute, or more than { week’s progress in that time. I a eighty minutes the entire buildinj will seem to be assembled. This is a new departure from th* usual custom of taking photo graph! of buildings at different stages of con struction. Tho picture will furnisj the exposition officials with a vain able record of the building operations as they expect to study the effective ness of various methods of construe tion through the slower reviews of th4 films. Machinery Hall will he the larges! wooden frame building in. the world NAME WANTED FOR AMUSEMENT SECTION AT PANANA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPQSITIffl Who will suggest the namo^by whicj the concessions and amusement centeR will be known at the Panama-PacifH International Exposition at San Fran cisco? The Director of Concessions has aq nounoed that the person who suggest)! the best name will receive a litha graphed portrait season pass to thi exposition. The suggestions will bf filed In the order they are received bj the exposition and if more than oxj person suggests the selected name th! one first heard from will receive thi pass. The contest will olosa Augua] first. Perhaps, as at Chicago, the coqi cessiorfs district will take the naml of the boulevard running through center.. As one passes along thfr street he will see reproduced scene* along the Panama Canal.- Or again « is possible that .some striking phase of the exposition as a whole may sug« gest 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 Con cessions and Admission, 501 Exposition Building, Pine and Battery Streets,