Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-15
THE M0RTGAGED PAVILION.
To Redeem or Not to Rsdssm-The Capacities
Of the Pavilion Lot-Pavilion Architecture
The Logic Of success-The Location Grum-
hle.

Bile.
EDITOR HERALD: Yesterday af.
ternoon, one our most prominent
citizens made some remarks about
the comparative merits of locations
for the Pavilion. which, coupled
with the opinions expressed by va
rious other persons, on similar and
dissimilar points, call for the pub
LEGATION now, If ever, of the peril
nent and unsaid things about the
Pavilion.
Would it be sound policy to let
the Pavilion and lot of the South
ern California horticultural Soci-
ETY. go to pay the mortgage debt
and to invest the money necessary
to redeem it in other prop
erty more eligibly situat-
ed? Ii the sum necessary
to redeem 1t would purchase
equally commodious quarters and
more eligibly situated, 1t might be
answered, let the Pavilion go. But
it would take many times the sum
necessary to redeem it to procure
equally commodious quarters, as
eiigibiy located, to say nothing of
the still further cost of a more elig-
ibIe location.
If the sum necessary to save the
Pavilion cannot be obtained, how
could "A sum many times greater be
obtained to procure other and
equally adequate exposition quar-
ters?
Ought the Pavilion to be saved,
is not the question. The question
is, will Los Angeles ever have an
other Pavilion Us near to Temple
Block by about three miles, as 10
the present Pavilion, If this be
lost :?
The Pavilion lot, by the north.
ward recession of Sand street,
gains few feet, which, added to
the previously large lot, expands
the Pavilion lot to an area of about
AZ, 600, square feet. So large is the
lot that the extensive Pavilion
now upon 1t leaves three-quarters
of an acre vacant, to be at some
future time occupied by a hall,
auditorium, lodging tsnements for
and visitors, and for |
other purposes. Thoroughly we'll
built into the Pavilion is about |
lumber to pay the mort
gage debt. The floor spaces of the |
main hall and of the immense gal
leries, and the spacious rooms
below and above stairs, are suffi-
Gent for the sittings OF 1000 per-
sons, leaving q we'll hole to the
gallery, which, il foored, would
add 5000 more square feet floor
space, The stories are lofty, the
stairways numerous and broad,
the stage is ample, the gas fixtures
and water plumbing elaborate; the
with it's upward leap of
rs feet, and the lakelet, are
conspicuous central features.
There are the necessary officers,
spacious apartments for special eX-
hlbits, special meetings, commits
tees, and a refectory. The Pavilion
is one of the most thoroughly tied |
together, braced, girded and sup
ported edifioes in the State. The |
spacious towers are powerfully |
studded and double boarded. The |
entire Pavilion rests on natural
foundation of solid stone. Settling
is impossible. 1t has been tested |
by wind, rain, and by about one
million pounds ofexhibits and surg
ing visitors. Tested by the shocks
id producing which united thous-
nnds of the simultaneous footballs |
Of 5000 promeDaders fused, as it
were, into the equivalent of 300
ton trip-ham mer, the mere air |
shock of which a certain orator
Governor and certain orator
President of the United States will
never forget.
The interior and exterior archi-
tectursl design of the Pavilion, OBJ
tsined at great expense from able
architects, when fully executed,
will he no discredit to the city.
The Pavilion is central to the city.
The city 10 central to Southern
California. Southern California is
the seat of the most remarkable
norti-agricultural development in
.he United States, and, for its age,
IN the world. The Pavilion has
demonstrated itself worthy of its
lnequaled position. 1t is a success.
A success under circumstances
hat, q 2oriori, would cause the as.
tute logician to predict failure.
Every Exposition has been sue.
oess. The location cannot be bad.
The fame of these Expositions has
gone abroad. May this fame be
widened and deepened by future
Expositions in the Pavilion.
the marvels of Southern |
will become more and |
more q household word wherever
are appreciated the beautiful, the
precious and the fullness of plant
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