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Thousands of Vfarld s Fair Visitors
Swarm to Magic Island That Has
cen Built in San Francisco Bay
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
I iL'Ye®tern Newspaper Union.
T WAS the morning of Feb
ruary 18.
Since daylight throngs 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
—_:i
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 TREASURE 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 of the Sun, bathed in white and amber lights.
over wmcn they were hurry
ing from Yerba Buena toward
their objective, a little island
300 yards away, 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.
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 1931 the San Francisco jun
ior chamber of commerce sur
...- —
TREASURE ISLAND SENTINELS—Designers of the light stand
ards'nearthe main entrance of the Golden Gatelntemat.onaleapos.
„ . a. iu-m tn conform to the general lines of the tall palm
trees /Ulrftta one of the Elephant Towers flanking the main entrance.
Cutler, president of the exposi
tion—with brief messages of wel
come.
Twelve-thirty.
For a moment the loudspeak
ers were silent. Then . . •
“The President of the United
Stntcs!"
From the other side of the con
tinent came the voice of Franklm
D. Roo&velt.
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 a«
the last notes of the
faded away, cannon roared out a
21-gun salute to the Chief Ex
ecutive of the nation and from
all over the island briHiant day
light fireworks exploded in the
ElAnd thus was the 1939 Golden
Gate International exposition
opened to the world!
• • •
Like every other world’s fair
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 $80,000,000 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 7.3 miles,
via an arterial boulevard, from
Oakland’s center of population.
Records showed only 142 hours
of fog annually for the past 45
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
$80,000,000 San Francisco-Oak
land Bay bridge, longest and
most costly anywhere, and the
$33,000,000 Golden 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 shoals. Around
the shoals had been built a sea
wall nearly three and a quarter
miles long and containing 287,000
tons of quarried rock.
Largest Man-Made Island.
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! 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
island’s remarkable accessibility,
for across it are six lanes of
highway to link the island into
the traffic streams of the Bay
bridge. Four ferry slips 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 Market 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 287 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 200 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 construction, for removal
after the exposition to provide
clear airport runways.
Above is shown one of the pic*
turesque Towers of the East on
Treasure 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 Pacifica, 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
old. 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, Polynesian brown, Sun
★GOLDEN GATE*
Design of the three-cent Golden
Gate Exposition stamp which
was placed on sale at San Fran
cisco on February 18, the open
ing date of the exposition.
of Dawn yellow, Hawaiian em
erald green, Santa Clara apricot,
Imperial Dragon red, Death Val
ley mauve, Pacific blue, Ming
Jade green (light), Ming Jade
green (dark), Southern Cross
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 done
with vermiculite—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 fire.
Statues, panels in relief, great
murals and paintings are used
to glorify the courts and basic
buildings. Nearly all the out
standing western artists and
sculptors are represented there.
■
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
Historic Footrace
HEN Capt. John Whistler ar
rived on the shores of Lake
Michigan in 1803 to build a military
post—Fort Dearborn of tragic mem
ory—one of the subalterns In his
command was his son, Lieut. Wil
liam Whistler. Young Whistler was
more than six feet tall and famous
for his strength and endurance.
A frequent visitor at Fort Dear
born was a young Pottawatomie
chief, the champion runner of the
tribe. Believing that Lieutenant
Whistler was just the man to spoil
the Indian’s record, the officers at
the fort proposed a five-mile foot
race between the two men to which
they readily agreed.
The race was a thriller. At the
start the Pottawatomie sprang into
the lead and held it for almost the
entire distance. But near the end
young Whistler managed to close
the gap between them and by a
final burst of speed plunged across
the finish line several yards ahead
of his rival.
The race had an exciting sequel.
During the War of 1812 the same
Pottawatomie chief, who was now
an ally of the British, sent a chal
lenge for a hand-to-hand combat
witfcuWhistler or any other officer
or soldier in the American army.
Whistler promptly accepted. It was
agreed that no firearms were to be
used.
The fight began. Whistler dodged
the tomahawk that was hurled at
him and closed in on his opponent.
The Indian stabbed at him with his
long hunting knife but missed. Then
the lieutenant’s t£rord finished the
duel.
• * *
An American Mandarin
IN 1859 Taiping rebels had almost
* overthrown the Manchu dynasty
in China. Fifteen of the eighteen
provinces had been captured when
Frederick T. Ward, a 28-year-old
sailor from Salem, Mass., quit his
ship and offered to put down the
revolution—if they would pay him
$75,000 for each city recaptured.
The rebels were knocking at the
gates of Shanghai when the Manchu
leaders agreed to young Ward’s
price and allowed him to train his
own army. He recruited his men
from among the human derelicts
around the wharves, but he instilled
in them the discipline he had
learned as a soldier in the French
army during the Crimean war.
Then, at the head of 500 men, and
with a pistol in each hand, he or
dered an attack on Sungkiang, held
by 5,000 rebels. His men fought
hand to hand on the top of the city
wall and held it by tossing over the
bodies of Taiping soldiers. In 24
hours Manchu re-enforcements ar
rived. When the battle was over,
Ward had only 128 men left and 100
of them were wounded. But he had
earned his first $75,000 and a wide
reputation as a military leader.
He continued to fight, successfully
taking the city of Singpo by outma
neuvering 20,000 Taiping rebels.
When they again threatened Shang
hai, he drove 10,000 of them back 10
miles with a force of only 2,500.
Then he took the city of Quanfuling.
Ward was made a mandarin and
his fame spread throughout the em
pire. Soon he was able to increase
his well-trained army to 6,000 men,
besides piling up a huge fortune.
He had been wounded five times,
but in September, 1862, in a battle
at Tseki, he was hit for the sixth
time and killed. The Chinese
mourned him as a national hero and
buried him in the Temple of Confu*
cius at Sungkiang.
* * *
Eskimo Heroine
IN 1921, science attempted to find
out whether -man could live on
the otherwise uninhabited islands of
the Arctic. The experiment proved
more. It revealed to the world
the calm heroism of Ada Blackjack,
who will be remembered as the
most courageous woman of the Es
kimo race.
Four men were landed with a
year’s supplier on Wrangel island,
110 miles north of Siberia in the
Arctic. Ada Blackjack went along
as seamstress, cook and servant.
One year later a relief ship was to
pick them up.
Hie year passed but ice floes
blocked the relief ship. Lorne
Knight, one of the four men, became
ill with scurvy. The other three left
on a trek across the ice to Siberia
to send a rescue party. No one ever
heard of them again.
Left alone with Knight, Ada
Blackjack went through eight
months more of mental torture. For
two months she nursed him. Then
he died.
The relief ship finally came. They
found her still keeping the diary
that Knight had turned over to her
when he could no longer hold a
pencil.
One entry in the diary read: “God
is the only one who will brought me
home again.” God did not fail the
faith and persistent courage that
enabled Ada Blackjack to face a
seemingly hopeless situation with
out breaking.
• Western Newspaper Union.
HOUSEHOLD A
QUESTIONS^
Washing Flour Sieves.—Always
wash flour sieves in soda water,
never in soapy water, as particles
of soap may adhere and give a
soapy taste to foods put through
the sieve.
• • *
Steamed-Up Bathrooms.—Bath
rooms can be prevented from fill
ing with steam if the cold-water
tap is allowed to run a short while
before the hot is turned on.
• • *
Preserving Rubber Bands. —
Keep rubber bands in a tightly
closed box. They keep very much
longer than if exposed to the air.
* * •
When Washing a Sweater.—Be
fore washing a woolen sweater
which has buttons and button
holes, sew up the buttonholes to
prevent their stretching.
* • *
Table Knives.—If handles are
stained, a good rubbing with a
soft cloth sprinkled with peroxide
of hydrogen will restore them to
their original color.
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First Ferris Wheel
The first Ferris wheel was the one
at the Chicago world’s fair in 1893:
264 feet high, its axle 45 feet long,
weight 56 tons, it carried 540 per
sons and took 20 minutes to each
revolution.
Weasels Found Anywhere
Weasels have no particular terri
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found deep in the forests, high on
the mountains, in cultivated fields,
around rock piles, ledges, hollow
trees—anywhere.
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The winds and waves are al
j ways on the side of the ablest nav
j igators.—Gibbon.
How Women
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Here’s good advice for a woman during her
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The End Counts
If well thou hast begun, go on;
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