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1 I?' 1 ? ? Thousands of World's Fair Visitors Swarm to Magic Islan d That H as Been Built in San Francisco Bay By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ? Western Newspaper Union. IT WAS the morning of Feb ruary 18. Since daylight throng6 had been streaming toward San Francisco's famed Ferry building on Market street or making their way across the huge bridge that connects San Francisco and Oakland with rocky Yerba Buena island. Soon the causeway crossing the harbor entrance with the longest single span ever erected. So the two visions?airport and world's fair?were merged. Each plan speeded and supported the other. Early in 1936, while the two bridges were still building and the "clipper ship" air traf fic which brought Asia within days, not weeks, of America, was passing from the exploratory stage into regular airmail flights, work on the new airport began. United States army engineers, NIGHT SCENE ON TREA8URE ISLAND?Shown here under illumination are the arched waters of the Fountain of the Evening Star in the Court of the Moon on Treasure Island. In the background is the Tower ?f the Sun, bathed in white and amber lights. over which they were hurry ing from Yerba Buena toward their objective, a little island 300 yards pway, was packed with people. Eight o'clock) The "Portals of the Pacific," the gates between the huge py ramidal towers, swung open and the crowd surged forward for their first views of the wonders that lay beyond those portals. Within four hours more than 200, 000 people were swarming over the island?Treasure Island, it's called. Twelve o'clock! High up in the Tower of the Sun a 44-bell carillon poured out a flood of melody. Then while a mixed chorus of 500 voices sang a hymn of joy, muted trumpets sounded an invocation of thanks giving and prayer. A few mo ments later, over the radio loud speakers came the voices of Cali fornia notables?Gov. Culbert L. Olson, Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco and Leland W. Cutler, president ot the exposl tion-rwith brief messages of wal Twehre-thirty. For ? moment the loudspeak ers were silent Then . . . "The President of the United States I" From the other side of the con tinent came the voice of Franklin D, Rtoeevelt. When his message was con cluded, two world-famous solo ists led the chorus in a moving anthem of prayer and thanksgiv ing, accompanied by a 100-piece band .and the carillon. Then as the last notes of the anthem Ceded sway, cannon roared out a SI-gun salute to the Chief Ex ecutive of the and from eB deer the island brilliant day light fireworks exploded fas the And thus was the ltt? Golden Gate International exposition ever held, the one at San Fran cisco has innovations in archi tecture, illumination, exhibits and special events which make previous expositions seem quaint ly archaic. But in one respect, _ it is absolutely unique. That is its site?a man-made island set down in the middle of one of the great harbors of the world and flanked by the two greatest bridges in the world. The story of this truly magic island, which now stands where but three years ago boats plied the blue waters of San Francisco bay, sea fowl swam and fisher men cast their lines, is one of the real romances of American initiative, ingenuity and engi neering achievement. That story began less than 10 years ago when progress in aviation indi cated' that San Francisco was destined to become the "air crossroads of the Pacific." To achieve that destiny she must have a suitable airport In 1831 the San Francisco jun ior chamber of commerce sur veyed 14 possible airport sites and the final choice of the ex perts was the Yerba Buena Shoals. They lay Just north of Yerba Buena island, mid-point of the $<0,000,000 Bay bridge which was then being planned, so that no more centrally located site, from the standpoint of the entire Bay area, could be imagined. An airport there would be only 4.7 miles from San Francisco's downtown district and 7 J miles, via an arterial boulevard, from Oakland's center of population. Records showed only 141 hours of fog annually for the past 4S years and the steady prevailing winds were gentle?both essen tial elements for an airport. Meanwhile San Francisco was planning a world's fair in cele bration of the future completion of the two greatest bridges in the world. She was building the ? $10,000,000 San Francisco-Oak land Bay bridge, longest and most costly anywhere, and the $18,000,000 OoWen Gate bridge, financed with $3,803,800 in WPA funds, sponsored by the exposi tion company, began assembling their dredges. Eleven of these huge machines?a fleet of nine at one time?began pumping black sand-from-the floor of the bay and sluicing it through pipelines over Yerba Buena shoal. Around the shoal had been built a sea wall nearly three and a quarter miles long and containing 287,000 tons of quarried rock. Largest Man-Made bland. By the time the work had been completed 20,000,000 cubic yards of sand had been compacted within the seawall. From a nat ural depth of 2 to 26 feet below water, the shoals had risen to a height of 13 feet above the tides making a 300-acre rectangle of land?the largest island ever built by man I It is a little more than a mile long, nearly two thirds of a mile wide and is con nected to the shore of Yerba Buena island by a causeway 300 yards long and 37 yards wide. This causeway is the key to the J island's remarkable accessibility, for across it are six lanes of highway to lii$k the island into the traffic streams of the Bay bridge. Four ferry ships supple ment these highways in trans porting, at the peak rate of 53,000 hourly, the millions who will visit the exposition this year. Three of these ferry slips, on the San Francisco side, will land the crowds from San Francisco's Ferry building on Uarket street, discharge them into a ferry ter minal building which, with the slips themselves, cost more than three quarters of a million dol lars. The fourth ferry slip is on the Oakland shore of the island. Highways that have been con structed as a part of the general transportation plan take into ac count the dual function of Treas ure Island as an exposition site and a future airport. The army engineers who built the system across Yerba Buena island did it along novel lines. Three traf fic lanes are of permanent con struction for airport utility. Gigantic Hangars. Hardly had the water drained from the island's advancing sand fill, when construction began on three buildings that will survive the glitter of the fair to endure as airport facilities. One is the $900,000 reinforced concrete air terminal building to serve the fair.as administrative headquar ters; its permanent use will find it equipped with complete facili ties including passenger, mail and express terminals, restau rants, offices, public observation galleries and meteorological tow ers. The others are two gigantic hangar buildings, each 2ff7 by 335 feet on the ground and 78 feet high, built of steel and con crete, costing $450,000 each. For these buildings exposition engi neers applied a new design to hangar construction ? "canti levered walls" which actually aid, by their weight, in support ing the roof load. During the fair these struc tures will serve as the Palace of Fine and Liberal Arts, and the Hall of Air Transportation. Lat er, as airport facilities, their huge 100 by 40 foot doors may be heightened at centers to 65 feet to accommodate the rudders of airplanes greater than any now known. All other buildings on Treasure Island are of tem porary ^instruction, foe removal exposition ^^rovide char airport runways. TREASURE ISLAND SENTINELS? Desirners of the tifht standards ?ear the aula entrance of the Goldea Gate lateraatlooal exposition have auUta them te eauform to the ceaeral liaea of the tall palm treei. At the left is om of the Elephant Towers flanking the aula eatraaee. Above is shown one of the pic turesque Towers of the East on Treasnre Island. An ancient walled city is the basis of the exposition's struc tural scheme. In the spacious central Court of Honor stands the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, which is only 57 feet in diameter at its base but which competes in height with the lofty towers of the Bay bridge nearby. From it radiates phalanxes of exhibit palaces, each from 400 to 900 feet long and about 200 feet wide. They are spaced by broad con courses?Court of the Seven Seas, Court of Flowers, Court of Reflections, Court of the Moon, Court of Paciflca, Treasure Gar dens?names which characterize their symbolism. All of them are windowless for display uniformity under con stant illumination and have been built according to -a so-called "Pacific" style of architecture which combines the new and the eld. Ancient mystical Oriental forms have been blended into long horizontal lines, setback pyramids and masses character istic of Malayan, Incan and Cam bodian treatments. The elephant, mammoth beast of Far East pageantry, is a predominating decorative note, crowning as it does the pyramidal entrances that flank the "Portals of the Pacific." The color scheme of the expo sition buildings includes 19 dif ferent shades characteristic of both the rare shades of California wildflowers and the variegated hues of the Orient. The basic plaster body color is a yellow ivory which has been designated "Exposition ivory." Along with ' it will be seen these: Old Mis sion fawn. Pagoda yellow. Pebble Beach coral, Santa Barbara taupe, California ecru, Evening Star blue, Polynesiandirown, Sun ?GOLDEN GATE* UJ o < H i/> o a IS) UJ H < b V) Q UJ h Z 3 z H m 70 z 5 o Z ? r m ? O M H o z Design of the three-cent Golden Gate Exposition stamp which was placed aa sale at Saa Fran cisco aa February II, the open ing date el the exposition. of Dawn yellow, Hawaiian em erald green, 3*nta Clara apricot. Imperial Dragon red, Death Val ley mauve. Pacific blue, Ming Jade green (light), Ming Jade green (dark). Southern Croas blue, Del Monte blue, China Clip per blue and Treasure Island gold. These colors are reduced to half-tones or less on exteriors, to avoid the garish under night illumination which increases the intensity of the basic color. By turning their huge buildings "inside out," almost literally, stylists have achieved a cement stucco that bathes the buildings and tall walls in a radiant golden glow, sparkling with prismatic colors, day or night It's dona with vermicultte?a mica-like substance. Exposition stylists found that this material, applied to wet stucco, reflects light in a million scintillating- gems and makes the walls glow and glitter with live Are. Statues, panels in relief, great murals and paintings are used to glorify the courts and basic buildings. Nearly an the out standing western artists and sculptors are ispi teen tad there. ? a ? Makes a Living Out of Plaster Jobless Family Finds Mold ing of Figurines Is Profitable Work. OLMSTEAD FALLS, OHIO.?Fa ther's unemployment was fortunate instead of tragic for the William Crowley family?they now have a thriving home industry which is profitable for all. ' Crowley, temporarily without a job, decided to spend his time to some advantage and began experi menting with creating plaster fig ures. His studio was the family ga rage and his chief assistant, daugh ter Evelyn, who was convalescing from pneumonia. Eighteen-year-old Evelyn sketched the Crowley dog and other animals and her father followed the sketches in making his figurines. Labor Is Divided. Then the rest of the family joined forces. "Here is the division of labor," Crowley explained. "Evelyn makes the preliminary sketch, I do the plaster carving and molding, 15-year-old William Jr. is responsible for the casting, aided by Charles, who is 11, and Mrs. Crow ley paints the figures. Eight-year old Bob takes care of the jars and brushes. Our three dogs and three cats pose as models." He said the family has perfected a durable composition for statues and a washable finish, but the for mulas for both processes are se cret. "In less than a year in business we have sold more than 2,000 novel ty art objects to shops in Cleveland and other cities, including Berea, Fairview, Ashtabula and Elyria. We have also sold some objects to Buf falo stores," Crowley said. Comic Figures Made. "The objects range from statues of Washington and Lincoln to comic cowboy figures. ?"As for our factory, it- has -ex panded until it includes the garage, furnace room and the summer kitchen." He added that he is employed again, but he spends all his spare time working at home. "Give up the business because I have a job again? No, I wouldn't think of doing that," he said. "There are too many interesting things to find out about this line to give it up." * Faithful Clock It Voted 'Pension' by Town Board WISCONSIN RAPIDS.?The old town clock here has outlasted an economy move and now ticks into its declining years with assistance of a $10 a month pension. The common council voted the $10 a month over protests of aldermen who would have abandoned the clock after 46 years of service in the tower of the city library, for merly the city hall. The old timepiece is a weight wind clock and for the last 14 years kept the time without repair service of any sort. Recently an expert re paired the clock and charged $42.50. The service charge roused advo cates of economy, who said that $120 a year for clock repair was too much compared to $42.50 in 15 years, and, besides, the clock was pretty old. The objections were beaten down by aldermen who asserted that a clock which gave good service for 46 years shouldn't be abandoned for a few dollars. They voted the $10 monthly as a "special pension" with which to hire a special attendant to oil, repair and wind the clock every month. Dual Controls Used in School Driving Classes SPRINGFIELD, ILL.?Driving in structors at 14 downstate high schools employ dual-control auto mobiles to teach students driving technique and rules, the division of highways announced today. The division said that many of the other 630 high schools offering driv er and highway instruction courses were providing actual driving prac tice for students in machines fur nished by instructors and schools. High schools employing dual-con trol automobiles were at Elgin, Bel videre, Moline, Carbondale and Charleston Teachers' College high school and Charleston high. The division said preliminary ar rangements are under way for the use at dual control-cars in high schools at Peoria, Spring Valley, Macomb and other downstate cities. Professor Thinks Lore Great Student Handicap BIRMINGHAM.?Love Is a great handicap to the accumulation of knowledge, according to Dr. Ray & Musgrave, professor of psychology at Birmingham-Southern collage. Doctor Musgrave placed student romances at the top of the list o< reasons tor failures to pass courses Next came parties and extra cur ricula! activities. The well-known "grudge against the professor" and financial worries also were listed St chief factors making for bad marks. But love tops them all. Doctor Muagtave said. "When a student la In tors, he ie itnsM* to concentrate on his stud Ms." be aaM. f - By L. L. STEVENSON It is possible that when spring comes, new Treasury department regulations will govern the issuing of passes to those who wish to go to the piers to welcome friends and relatives arriving on ocean liners. Under present rules, only one pass for each passenger is permitted. To enforce such a regulation would ne cessitate checking the entire pas senger list of each ship. What a task that would be can be imagined when it is known that from 500 to 700 applications for such passes are made each day at the customhouse. The procedure is simple. The ap plicant merely fills in a blank, which has spaces for his name, the name of the passenger and the ship and his relationship to the passenger. If the clerk handling the application doesn't happen to remember a re quest involving the same passenger, the pass is issued. Hence, few pas sengers are welcomed by only one pier visitor. Usually there is a whole party waiting for the ship to dock. * ? ? Limitations on the number of pier -passes have a practical purpose. The pass admits the holder to the baggage enclosure. When a liner docks, the pier immediately be comes a place of great activity. Baggage must come ashore and be inspected by customs officials as quickly as possible. The giant lin ers of today have huge piers. But they also attract huge crowds. The crowds get in the way and cause confusion and delay. Customs men and police at the gates are firm in their refusal to admit any except holders of passes. In fact, those gates are just about the only ones in New York that can't be crashed. The trouble is that too many passes are issued. A recent arrival on one of the big liners found 23 friends waiting for him on the pier. ? ? ? Barring all visitors was consid ered at a recent conference of of ficials who are wrestling with the problem. It is doubtful if that will be done, however, because of pro tests by travelers and shipping in terests. But if they can be worked out, new and more effective meas ures of limitation will be put into effect before the rush season next summer. ? ? ? When Frankie Burke, Jimmy Cagney's double, came here for the opening of "Angels With Dirty Faces," he stopped at the Warwick hotel. Burke, whose real name is Vasselle and whose family comes from southern Italy while Cagney's comes from southern Ireland despite their similarity in features, was dis covered hopping bells in a hotel down in Las Vegas, N. M. His home is in Brooklyn and when he reached his seventeenth birthday, he started out loo lung for a job and didn't find it until Tie reached Las Vegas. One of the places in New York where he applied in vain was the Warwick hotel. Youngsters of this modern age seem to get their thrills in reverse. David and Armand, 11-year-old twins; Renee, aged 10, and Heidi Ann, 6 children of Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt Denis, explor ers, recently returned from an 11,000-mile flying trip with nothing exciting to report except a short train ride. They flew with their par ents on a good-will trip to 80 cities with the picture "Dark Rapture," which Mr. and Mrs. Denis Aimed in the Belgian Congo. To keep from getting bored on the long flight, the children took along their pets, white mice, flying squirrels and a pair of pink snakes, also a movie camera. ? ? ? The incident that saved the trip tram being a total loss to them oc curred at Omaha. There the plane was forced down by weather condi tions, so the family made the short Jump to Des Moines by railroad. Wildly excited by what they looked on as a novel form of transporta tion, the Denis kids wanted to ride with the engineer.tlow the whistle and shovel coal and though denied such a privilege came to their home near Putnam, Conn., real railroad fans. Now they are looking forward to a horse and buggy ride promised them by the village doctor. ? Ben eradicate.?WKU Service. Front Line Soldier Writes Best Seller TOKYO.?From the war front in China has come a book which today is breaking all existing rec ords for best sellers in Japan. The author, Sergt Aahira Hino, is a front-line soldier now fighting , in central China. His book was written daring rest periods in j- marches over rugged mountains in the Wuhan area. ! .The title, "Mugi to Heital," may be translated "Wheat and the Soldier." The sergeant has turned over all royalties to the war office. Sales so tar sm wen over 1,000,000 copies. Use Gay Scraps to Make Applique Quilt Pattern 1721 Color for your bedroom! Use gay scraps lor the lilies, and out line and single stitch (or accent! Pattern 1721 contains accurate pattern pieces; diagram of block; instructions (or cutting, sewing, and finishing; yardage chart; dia gram of quilt. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Nee dlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y. ( Safety Talks ) ? Most Haxardout Occupation N/IOST farmers probably would scorn the use of industry's steel-toed safety shoes, hard hats to protect their heads from falling objects, and goggles with unbreak able lenses to ward off sparks from the grindstone and spliriters from the wood-cutting power saw. If this be true, it may possibly account for agriculture ranking first as the most hazardous of occupational enterprises. The National Safety council re ports that of 19,900 fatalities in occupational accidents during 1937, agriculture, or farm acci dents, contributed 4,500. Trade and service industries were re sponsible for another 4,500 acci dental deaths. All other industries experienced fewer accident fatali ties during that year, the council said. NO FUSS RELIEVING GOLD DISCOMFORT THIS WAY! list Follow Sinplt Direction lotow ud Use Fist ? Actios Bayor Aspiria * t To mm ptln and discomfort and re duce torn taka 2 Bayor Tablets?drink 1 acfossofutafor.Ra poat In 2 hours. 2. If Ttrent li raw Iran cold, cruth and dloolx 3 B?y*r TiMdti In %|tes " r=l< It's the Wsy Thousands Know to Ease Discomfort of Celds and Sere Threat Accompanying Colds The simple way pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds. Try it Then ? see gour doctor. He probably will tell you to con tinue with the Bayer Aspirin be cause it acts so fast to relieve dis comforts of a cold. And to reduce fever. This simple wit, backed by scientific authority, has largely sup planted the use of strong medicines in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps the easiest most effective way yet discovered. But make sure you get BAYER Aspirin. ISratuTHiin) s puu. dozxn ? Play la Time When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.?The odore Roosevelt ? ? nUESTION Why do Luden's coo VV tain an alkaline factor? ?NSWER lb help boild op your alkaline reaene when ? ? yon have a cold. LUDEN'S 5* SUMTHOL COIWH MOPS . Effects el Leaning Learning makes a good man better and an 01 mad worse.? Thomas Fuller. - | CCC SAiYE rrurii* 000 cops uoum-TASLsVa I"1* 10e JfcZSc
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