. Electric railway journal . division of wall, like the north wall of the other exhibit pal-aces, is a liberal treatment of the Plateresque, whichis the name for the Spanish architecture of the earlyRenaissance period and so called because of its likenessto the work of the silversmiths. The east and westwalls are after the style of the Italian Renaissance andharmonize with the Palaces of Machinery and FineArts. All the ornament and enrichment on the northand south is chiefly concentrated around the doors, win-dows and entrances. The structure rising at the right of the wall in theil
. Electric railway journal . division of wall, like the north wall of the other exhibit pal-aces, is a liberal treatment of the Plateresque, whichis the name for the Spanish architecture of the earlyRenaissance period and so called because of its likenessto the work of the silversmiths. The east and westwalls are after the style of the Italian Renaissance andharmonize with the Palaces of Machinery and FineArts. All the ornament and enrichment on the northand south is chiefly concentrated around the doors, win-dows and entrances. The structure rising at the right of the wall in theillustration is one of the decorative columns that willmark the entrance to the Court of the Universe,which is the largest and most brilliant of the five ex-position courts. The area is 900 ft. x 500 ft. ThePalace of Transportation is 579 ft. x 614 ft.; its floorarea is 314,000 sq. ft., and its volume 20,413,000 cu. average height is 65 ft. The outside height to theridge is 96 ft., and the height to the dome is 110 View of the Transportation Palace at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1278 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 23. COMMUNICATION CENTER-ENTRANCE STEEL CARS FOR INTERURBANSERVICE Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph RailwayCompany Kansas City, Mo., June 1, 1914. To the Editors: I have read the article on the Michigan Railway carin the May 16 issue of the Electric Railway Journal,and have made some comparisons between its publisheddimensions and weights and those of our center-en-trance, all-steel, interurban cars which were describedin your issue of Jan. 18, 1913. Our cars are 58 ft. long as against 67 ft. for theMichigan cars. They weigh 81,000 lb. as against 131,000lb., the total weight of the Michigan cars, giving a dif-ference of 50,000 lb. in weight and a difference in lengthof approximately 10 ft., although our cars have a 25 percent greater seating capacity, namely, sixty-four pas-sengers, as against fifty-two for the Michigan
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