Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . linlrimci; lo Uic IaUice of Kducatiuii. the concessions district, covering sixty-nine acres of ground. The concessionsstreet is known as the Zone and con-tains Ihc amusements selected from morethan 70(1(1 applications for space andpro|)osals for entertainment enterprises. The state and foreign section coveringlorly-lwo acres is to the west of the ex-hihil palaces, and still beyond them, thetwenly-four acres of live stock sectionand thirty-seven acres covered by theaviation and alhletic lields and mile-longrace track. 294 Pacific Service Magazine. tif^
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . linlrimci; lo Uic IaUice of Kducatiuii. the concessions district, covering sixty-nine acres of ground. The concessionsstreet is known as the Zone and con-tains Ihc amusements selected from morethan 70(1(1 applications for space andpro|)osals for entertainment enterprises. The state and foreign section coveringlorly-lwo acres is to the west of the ex-hihil palaces, and still beyond them, thetwenly-four acres of live stock sectionand thirty-seven acres covered by theaviation and alhletic lields and mile-longrace track. 294 Pacific Service Magazine. tif^^.v-ljg:, The Palace of Education, showing the half-dome of Philosophy. In all, nearly two hundred buildings goto make up the Exposition city. For the extensive gardens, surroundingthe exhibit palaces, the flora of everyregion has been drawn upon. The cli-mate of California makes it possible tokeep the grounds in continual bloomthroughout the ten months of the Expo-sition, from February 20th to December4th. With this purpose in view therewill be a succession of plantings, onevariety being removed, as soon as it hasblossomed, to be succeeded by another. The architecture of the Exposition ingeneral tone is decidedly Oriental. Thiseffect is particularly marked in the suc-cession of lofty domes that mark thecenters of the several exhibit is in the portals of the buildings andthe decoration of the several courts thatthe various architectural periods find rep-resentation. Although the buildings arethe work of separate individuals there isan harmonious simihuitv through
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