. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. e museum of the University of California, authenticated andcertified by the head of the Department of Chemistry. It was the productof the Chemische Fabrik auf Actien, vormal Schering, of Berlin, and wasexhibited by Schering & Glatz of New York. 74 THE STORY OF THE EXPOSITION The Palace of Liberal Arts embodied the spirit of modernity. Not onlydid it illustrate the stage that man had r
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. e museum of the University of California, authenticated andcertified by the head of the Department of Chemistry. It was the productof the Chemische Fabrik auf Actien, vormal Schering, of Berlin, and wasexhibited by Schering & Glatz of New York. 74 THE STORY OF THE EXPOSITION The Palace of Liberal Arts embodied the spirit of modernity. Not onlydid it illustrate the stage that man had reached mechanically and scienti-fically and commercially, but it bore a bit on the change in hisSecular mental state and his theological opinions. Not many years agoit would have been a sinful spot—say, in the days when the oldfellow in Scott refused to winnow his wheat by machinery because God hadproduced wind for that purpose. Besides the wonders it displayed, its exhibits of commercial product hada wide range of interest; from the musical instruments of such makers asConn of Elkhart, Indiana, and Monzino & Son of Milan, to the diving suitsof A. Schraders Son, of London, New York, and THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEPHONE THEATER CHAPTER XIIFILLING AN EXHIBIT PALACE THE methods by which the equipment of the Expositions emergencyhospital was accomplished (which, by the way, was carried outlargely under the direction of the Department of Liberal Arts),form a fair example of the way in which the Liberal Arts exhibits werebrought together; but there was this difference between the two, that whilethe exhibits that equipped the hospital were all within a certain definitefield, those of the Department of Liberal Arts were drawn from a largenumber of different fields. The practice involved was more akin to that of a business house withsomething to sell than in the Departments of Education and Social Econ-omy, because most of the negotiations were with firms and corporationsorgan
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