. 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 . at. A dollar a seat should be ample allowance, unless by the time of the next exposition a dollar has become amuch less important matter than it is at this writing. A cooling-shed for polo ponies, with 42 stalls. Judges stand for the automobile races, with provision for newspaper cor-respondents and telegraph operators; score boards 12 by 30 feet on the roof. Several band stands. The
. 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 . at. A dollar a seat should be ample allowance, unless by the time of the next exposition a dollar has become amuch less important matter than it is at this writing. A cooling-shed for polo ponies, with 42 stalls. Judges stand for the automobile races, with provision for newspaper cor-respondents and telegraph operators; score boards 12 by 30 feet on the roof. Several band stands. The one in the Court of the Universe was 41feet in diameter and was sufficient for a band of 86 pieces. One near theFillmore Street entrance would accommodate a band of 90 pieces. A circularplatform was built in the Zone, 50 feet in diameter, for bands or dancing, andthere was a band stand 41 feet in diameter in the Music Concourse near theInside Inn that would accommodate a band of 102 pieces. The Concourseitself was terraced about it, was about 200 by 350 feet in area, and wouldpermit the seating of 11,000 persons. Green houses, lath house, and a boiler and potting room for the plantnursery in the FROM THE MURAL BY FRANK BRANGWYN FOR THE COURT OF ABUNDANCE A FEW ITEMS OF EXPOSITION HOUSEKEEPING 183 High tension building for electrical research—described elsewhere. Scintillator house, 230 feet long, on the Yacht Harbor mole, with a doubledecked roof for 48 searchlights, and the motor and generators to serve them. Transformer vaults in the palaces, and in the foreign and State section. Offices in palaces, on galleries commanding a view of the interior, forexhibit department chiefs; with jury rooms. Boilers and steam distributing system for steam effects in the Courtof Abundance, and the placing of a Southern Pacific 90-ton locomotive on thebreakwater opposite the Scintillator pier, connected with fixtures emittingsteam generated in the locomotive, to be illumined by t
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