The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1904, Page 19

THE * SAN fRANCISCO‘ CALL, SUNDAY MAY 1, 190a. FAIR GIDES CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONS TRATE TO THE LUORLD HER GROWING IMPORTANCE Municipal Building of the Western Metropolis Is Connected by Tunnel at Home, .fllameda and Contra Costa Counties Join Forces in a ‘ Splendid Dzsplqy; ranged ‘with-gn artistic effect that aids the’ display greafly and brings it into mere prominent notice, arranged ‘in twd ‘plate glass cases. Pyramids:of 6livé oil; of which some of the finest'kirids Known in the warld, ere, produced in-these counties, refliéct thé- golden color of ‘the State. P The north end of.the space is large 1¥ given wup to .the :display of céreals, fruits -dng -vegetables, -processed, in great variety. - On the wall at the rear sre.shown .maps of the two counties, i thjs friendship they have be- at the fatr. The s ope of the most reditable in the Cslifornia. section. s large, of handsome -design,.and ays - to -visitors: im. & - convincing es:of both.. Alameda courities ‘of ¢he Staté far as rv“gm:.nn is copcerned, and I-1lldstrated in (‘n< whic e fore- seeds, canned fruits, jams and jellies. Coal, mangarese .ore, fire clay, &lass sand, briquettes,’bricks and ltme rock are shown as indicative of the mlncral resqurces of the coun- ties. Walnuts and almonds are shown in great profusiop: _ Alameda County produces great quantities of these nuts ‘and their quality is of the finest. ATTRACTIVE TO HOMESEEKERS. ‘The entire exhibit is of such a na- e as to suggest to the homeseeker the advantages of these counties as a cru- place of permanent residence. The A - gentlemen in charge are quick to give . information to visitors and all who made inguiries to-day went away with a full stock of knowledge concerning Alameda and Contra Costa. the resour. o iof ‘the iritefests nd thal that _will - saw jong - Four mammoth showcases, which & -of -proper repre- are almost towers, rise .along the cen- < bored incessant- ter line of this display. They are con- with the, pleasing structed of redwodd .and plate glass, o Mr. -Weilbye .-Each is ten féet high, with a base 3x6 " Coarity Each has four. columns; 18 s for inches square, one &t each corner, also tlemen made of redwood and plate glass, In Super heir re- ‘the casés are glass sheives, on which ed- all sorts nf fruits, and, the preoduct ar ‘the nofth “énd.of re. stahds a.golumn 18 feet high, ‘rests on a pedestal six feet square. The wine 18 s a pyramidal and kere, too, is ‘3 spiendid exhibit of - paving brick, - aof these fer-- the space displaying high grades of olive oil. In the northeast corner .-exhjbit of vegetables in jars. With all her ambition to rival as a seaport the metropolis sitting on her hills across the bay, Oakland holds no jealousy, and in her fine maps gener- ously- gives San Francisco.a place. One of these costly creations shows San Francisco as far back as Twin Peaks, which means the whote ecity. There is in the display an obelisk of grain and béans fifteen feet high. In the rear are glass cases containing manufactured products. On top of all the cases and ornamenting the top of the facade are decorative jars of pro- cessed frult. Beautiful date palms also surmount the facade. % €ood space is f of h!i'l’l» n & d- ‘composed of Sod. It 48 4 embellished - E tographs “of -heauti- fu nees al‘of home life” in t entr of . ‘the State and b of ‘San Francisco sceres Yim, orchard rtories, of ains many. There views .of the great expanse of showing the commerce of a manner that ention and_tre- There is wines, ar Opemng Day Continued ¥From Page 17; Column 5. than 15,000,000° | postoffices. and ways and has devel- portance with a more 17,000, ree y..and -to ~an- extént’ eled story. d ‘Territories of -the’ 1 ed. 264,000,000 buskels-of od - at_$152,000,000— the- wheat crop tates; 1,013,000,000° alued -at $314,000,000, 4 per cenf of the country’s product; or 38 per cent of the The wheat, corn, oats, hay and potatoes egion. in" 1900 brought It .that prompted its erection. Advantageously Located Near That of ST. LOUIS, April 30.—San Francis- co’s Municipal building in the “Model City” is rising rapidly. The main structure is up and the tower is now ascending. A force of carpenters keeps hammers ringing and on the lower floor a number of staff workers are busy making the ornaments for the structure. J. W. Evans, foreman of the carpenters, says the buiding will be completed about May 15. It is as near done as any of the others. The exhibit is about ready and will be here by that time. Not until one reaches the Fair grounds can one fully realize the great importance of this building to San Francisco and the lucky inspiration Perhaps oo o e New York. the western metropolis: will never get another equal chance to show its great- ness and illustrate its future. When the Fair management decided to erect the “Model City” it sent out invitations to municipalities to participate. This invitation came late ‘and there were few responses, it being felt that there was not time in which to erect build- ings. New York jumped at the chance and St. Paul and Minneapolis, which have a joint building, and Kansas City also accepted, as did San Francisco. New York and San Francisco, there- fore, are the only two great seaport citles represented in the row of four bufldings. One is the gateway of the country’s commerce in the East and the other on-the West. These two great trade centers will be advertised to- gether at the World's Falr and if their citizens make the proper provision they will reap a great benefit. Especially should this be so in the case of the younger and growing one at the Golden Gate, now the center of the American nafion. From many parts of the world will come people who wish to learn something of San Francisco, which is famed the world over, and here at the Fair they can be instructed. It is be- lieved that the New York and San Francisco buildings will be popular centers for sightseers. A SPLENDID ADVANTAGE, The location of the “Model City” is such as to give the municipalities own- ing buildings there a splendid advan- tage. It is right in the beaten track of the sightseeing multitudes, directly in front of one of the principal en- trances, close to the central buildings of the Fair and near one end of the great Pike. Everybody: will see the “Model City” and the mumicipalities represented there are lucky. The very fact that San Francisco had the enterprise and grit to erect a -+ its farm animals were 38 per cent of the I the whole country. 800 feet long by 250 feet widé, is ‘the largest exposition buildihg ever. con- MISSOU™I, SOCIETY. stricted by the Goverriment.- In’ addi- The- first zed action toward tion“to this is the Fisheries Pavilion, holding the na Purchase Expo- 135 feet square: gition was tak ¥ the Missouri His- The Postoffice Department: operates torical Seciety in 1595.. In respohse t0 (p - meposition Postoffice. as 2 nodel rd S At aroused by the: , stitution and as an exhibit. ‘Tito this o et e rention of dee; office a model : raflway car, ‘will run e < 3 . daily. Through the glass partitions the ates from: the twelve States and two sries, embraced in the Lauisiana Jeld 10’ St. Louls, Jan- delegates ided by, ¢:10 hold -the exposition. 1-funid for the Lbuisiana posifion " “was - 15,000,000, the ~municipality of St. te subscriptions, and by Gavernmerit. The Whole ney wwas gubscribed to the of the expositioh., The #all the operaftions of & large postoffice and ‘the Tabor-saving devices i .daily use: Methods of han~ diing mail-in. Aldska, Porto ‘Rice.and the- ‘Philfppinés . are illustrated and there are many reljcs of postai history. Sevéral bureaus of the Department of Agriculturé are represeated by new and ‘interestings displays. These in- clude a six-acre map of the United States, the paths upon the map cos- responding with the State boundaries, and growing 4n each State plat are the visitor may see [ stock funds were raised gs follows: i 0" e S e economic plants peculiar to the State. . ¥ ’ x Ehooom Methods by which the Government is R - Yaoul ghiin ddvancing the interests of agriculture riated by 'u;u—‘, through its Bureau of Plant Industry, the Astro-Physical Observatory, the Weather Buresu, the Chemical Bureau, the Bureau.of Entontology, experiment- statione, Bur-:u of Forestry, Bureau of Animal Industry, are clearly shown. The . Treasury Department shows, among other interesting things, the rotal UNCLE SAM MAKES SPLENDID -DISPLAY Government - Exhibit - at Fair Is Best of Ttz Kind Ever- 'l"fldtrtaimr. .for the purchase of the Louisiana Ter-. ritory.. The life-saving drills are a part of the daily programme. Forty thousand dollars for an Indian éxhibit makes possible a most interest-- ing feature illustrating the progress of the Indians, under the direction of the Interfor Department. The United States Fish Commission surpasses all its former efforts in the display of fish from not only the Atlan- With more mohey available than ever before for exposition purposes, the de- partmeénts of the United States Gov- ernment have planned the most exten- sive, instructive and entertaining ex- bibits ever undertaken. The building, original warrant drawn on the treasury * tlc and’ Pacific coasts, the lakes and rivers of the Unitéd States, but from the Philippines and other possessions. Among them is the sea monster known as the electric-light fish. Thé War Department {llustrates the rational defense- by equipment displays of the of the American - soldier. Outdoor displays of large guns are made. Exhibits in military engineering are a.part of the plan. The Navy Department illuslra(es the strength- and present conditions pre- vailing in-the United States navy. The ‘movements of each of the United Stdtes war vessels are shown from day to day by means of a huge chart. A very large model of the modérn war vessel is a part of the exhibit. The State Department sends many curios of great historical value, for ex- ample, a pair of eye-glasses given by Washington to Lafayette, Washing- ton’s letters to Congress and a sword he carried throughout the Revolution, together with letters from various rul- ers of other nations. The Department of Justice has gath- ered some oOf its most precious records for exhibit to the visitors of the ex- position. The Bureau of American Republics, the Department of Labor and the Con- gressional Library, the Smithsonian In- stitution and National Museum are all included in the Government exhibit. The appropriation for the Government exhit, exclusive of buildings, is more than $1,000,000. The States and Territories féllowed with appropriations for buildings and exhibits amounting to more than $7,- 500,000, and many sections and munici- palities set aside large sums for their own special displays, Uncle Sam has also provided for ex- hibits from the Philippine Islands, Ha- wali and Porto Rieo. A tract of forty acres has been set aside for the Philip- pine exhibit, which is bounded on the north and east sides by the arms of Arrow Head Lake. ~ A colony -of 1000 Filipinos, !elected from every tribe in.the 1400 islands comprising the group, will live on the grounds during the exposition. Their aquatic sports will be conducted on this lake. Their habits and customs will be illustrated In their daily life, and their handicraft. shown by practical methods, Not the least interesting of these tribes will be a family of tree- dwellers, who make their homes in the tops of trees, and live in a very prim- itive way. Interest will center largely upon the exhibits frem these cutlying possessions, for the reason .that the Philippine Islands, Hawaii and Porto Rico never have officially participated in an American exposition. OTHER COUNTRIES WELL REPRESENTED Foreigners Join Enterprise With Enthusiasm and the Nations Send Their Best. Europe, Asia, Central and South America; Australasia and some coun- tries of Africa, independent and de- pendent, have also with interested en- thusiasm joined in the effort to make this display one up to date and .with liberal appropriations, aggregating nearly $7,500,000, and ranging from the tens of thousands well up to the mil- lions, are ready to show where they march in the great processién of prog- ress and reap the bemnefits accruing from their enterprise. The States of America and the na- tions of the world have united in cre- ating landscape effects on the World's Fair grounds at St. Louis that one could not witness elsewhere unless he traveled the earth over. 3 On the two square miles comprising the Louisiana Purchase Exposition may be seen gardens of the desert and the marsh, mountain and valley, the formal.gardening of the city park and the natural gardens of the wildwood. The quaint little flower of the frigid north may be found a short distance from the gorgeous blossom that rarely attains perfection elsewhere than be- neath the equatorial sun. The landscape artist at the World’s Fair had thirty-five miles of roadway to embellish with lawn and shrub. In the gardens of the cascades is shown the most pretentious creation of formal gardening ever undertaken at an exposition. Here are great stretches of ‘velvet lawn between streams of ecrystal water, bordered by millions of gorgeously colored blooming plants and brilliantly tinted folilage plants. Tow- ering -palms and green bay trees stand as sentinels at points of vantage and accentuate the beauty of the more gor- geous but less stately flowers. In another section is a rose garden, ten acres in extent—the largest rose garden in the world. The 75,000 rose bushes, with their million blossoms, produce a beautiful bewilderment’ of color and fills the air with delicious perfume. Great Britain . reproduces a typical English garden of a couple of centu- ries agone, and shows the flowers of our grandmothers in a state of perfec- tion scarcely dreamed of. It was such gardens as these that Surrounded the Grand Trianon at Ver- sailles that gave to the great European republic the name of “Sunny France.” These gardens have been reproduced at the World’s' Fair, and any Parisian would imagine himself at home on the large French reservation. Japan, China, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, and many other nations of both hemispheres, have surrounded their homes at the exposition with gardens that show the flora of their lands in their best array. In the World’s Fair greenhouses 30,- 000,000 plants were propagated for the embellishment of the gardens. In the gardens surrounding the Agricultural and Horticultural palaces and the State and foreign buildings were used as many plants again. - Add to this the forty acres of nursery where were grown the gshrubs and ornamental trees for the completion of the landscape, one may have an idea. of the immen- sity of the task the World's Fair land- scape architects have accomplished in turning a wilderness into a garden that contains flowers and plants from every known clime. At this point it is well to make some reference to the men who are carry- ing out this great work. As at Chicago, there are here two great governing or- ganizations, the United States Gov- ‘ernment Commission and the Louisiana Purchase - Exposition Company. The former body (its members appointed by the President of the United States) is supervisory. The latter has direct charge of the organization, building and maintenance of the exposition. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Compa- ny was incorporated April 24, 1901. Its directors include ninety-three of the most successful, liberal and broad-- Continued on Page 20, Column 3, _the simple mission building on so short a notice is ap advertisement for her. Hef structure is nearer done than any of the-others and would be finished now had not the first contractor thrown up his contract. The building is better than' New York’s. It will be very handsome and showy. when completed. Every man who put:a dol- lar into this feature should feel pleased. The San-Francisco building is mod- eled after the central portion -of the Ferry depot and with its tower is a very fair representation of this unique structure. It .Is 71 feet square and is alike on all four sides. The building itself and the tower are constructed of staff, rather ornate as to cornice and of a soft cream color. The main entrance is in the center, while the two rear entrances are in each corner and are closed by large, specially designed red- Wood doors. The interior is finished m redwood and is designed after the .pop- ular mission type, as is also the furni- ture, made ~specially for it. The walis and partitions are covered with a two- tone brown. burlap which blends well with the wax finished redwoad, and forms a very pleasing background, not only for the fine art exhibits, but also for the photographs; maps, charts and graphic display setting forth the muni- cipal exhibit proper. IN THE MISSION STYLE. It was a rather happy idea to --]el‘t the mission type for the interior finish- ings, becauge it 1s not only the latest fed in interior furnishings, but San Franeisco was a mission before it was a.city; and this is the only bullding i the Model street historically sntitled te use the mission style. The evident Intention has been. to appeal to two classes of citizéns in ‘the exhibits prepared. The first is. the man who wishes to ship to the Orient. from any point in the United States, and for his benefit there will be. a large relief map of the peninsyla of San Francisco and the surrounding bay, extending from Benicia to San Jose. The ‘map itself has been well executed and its color scheme is calculated to please the eye and .to harmonize with -its sur- roundings. The exact position of the city with reference to the shipping ‘will be faithfully 'represented in a .hemi- sphere, eight feet- in diameter and mounted on ball bearings, .so that one may easily turn it to- inspect transpor- tation lines by land or water. Some really fine panoramic views .will ‘be_among the notable photographs dis< played. . Two are taken from ' Twin Peaks and give a comprehensive idea of the city’s location, each picture be- ing thirty inches wide and nearly ten feet long. Another view of equal siza. is taken from Yerba Buena Isiand, still another from Presidio Heights and an- other from-Telegraph Hill. The prin- . cipal buildings will_be made tonspicu~ ous by bromide enlargements, and in the lecture room' a motion picture’ of the entire water front will be a very attractive feature. To the.man of wealth and refinerment thére will be much to attract and inter- est. Not only willthere bé an excel- lent fine art-exhibit, but also ‘a fine showing.of arts and crafts in the vari- ous useful and ornamental articles dis- played. The San "Francisco Camera Club will have a fine exhibit in a booth near the front entrance; where it will show a comprehensive exhibit of San Francisco views photographed by its most talented members. NATIVE LITERATURE. Literature, from. the newspaper to the well-bound book, will be well rep- resented, and there will be tgbles and quaint stools- where one may read the latést doings in San Francisco, examine somie of the magazine and.newspaper cartoons or turn the leaves of some of the best productions of California na- tive wyiters. There is a stairway on each side of the reception room and office in the center of the building. directly under- neath the tower.' One of these leads directly to the -educational exhibit space in the gallery, while the othen will take one into the municipal ex- hibjt, which will occupy one-half, of the floor and wall space of the upper gallery. All- of the ceilings will be paneled with heavy cross beams and the overhanging gallery will have' caps ahd a balustrade of redwood, done’ in style. Scattered about on the lower floor will be glass cases containing choice exhibits of lace and embroidery, also some fine speci- mens of ‘china painting done by the San Francisco Keramic Club. There will be a stein rack, covered with steins and plaques and some large in- dividual pieces exhibited by individual members of the club. On pedestals will be plaster casts and bronze statuettes of some of the notable ‘statuary in the park and elsewhere In.the .city, with some portrait busts of notable people. The graphic display will be- made more attractive by colored lithographs, maps and charts in color, which, it is hoped, will tmake a very good showing for the commercial and industrial sides of San Francisco's complex life. . GATEWAY TO ORIENT. To emphasize the city's importance as a shipping center for Oriental) goods, as well as to demomstrate ‘the impor- tance of the distribution of Oriental manufactures from that port, there will be a very extensive exhibit of Japanesa and Chinese manufactures, from the finest silks to the bronzes and porce- lains, lacquers and ivory carvings, sup- plemented by a collective exhibit of Hawaiian industries and arts, Philip~ pine industries and arts and South Sea Island traffic. Accompanying these will be carefully compiled statistics showing the growth of export and im- port trade, together with some data concerning the Pacific cable already taid and that in process of laying. The importance of San Francisco's coast defenses and some characteristic exhibits of photographs will ‘show the improvement In progress at the Pre- sidio, including forestry and roadways now under the supervision of the mil- itary authorities, also photographs of Angel Island, Alcatraz and the train- ing station at Yerba Buena Island. The lighthouse at Point Lobos and the sys- tem of signaling incoming vessels from the Farallon Islands and the lightship will also speak, not only for safety, but for facilities in commerce generallw.