The San Francisco call., 1909-10-18
ARCHITECTS READY
FOR EXHIBITION
Thousand Samples of Work Are
Placed on View in Monad=
mock Building

Members of the San Francisco ar
chitectural club worked with indie
fatigable energy yesterday to have all
in readiness for their fifth annual ex-
hibition, which is to be held in the
basement of the Monadnock building
in Market street near Third. The ex-
hibition will be informally opened this
evening with a reception and private
view given by the club to $500 invited
guests. The exhibition will last from
s to 1890 o'clock. Beginning tomor-
row and continuing until October 81
the display will be open to the public.
The exhibition of the San Francisco
architectural club is given in con-
nection with the first annual conven-
tion of the Architectural League of the
Pacific Coast. On exhibition will be
architectural drawings in pencil pen
and ink, and water colors; photo
graphs of complete work with plans.
sketches of mural and interior dec
orations, furniture, stained glass and
ornamental iron; sculpture, ornamental
architectural decorations in bronze
and plaster. scale models of buildings
and pottery, and pictorial tile and terra
Gotta, specially designed lighting fix
lures and lamps, and other interesting
examples of the allied arts.
PLAN COAST EXHIBITIONS
The exhibition is to be one of the
four planned by the Architectural
League of the Pacific Coast, and already
exhibitions have been held under the
auspices of the architectural club at
Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
More than 1000 pieces of work and
art are exhibition in the basement
Of the Monadnock building and there
the members of the Committee labored
yesterday.
1t being impossible to secure help
enough to put the final touches on the
exhibits, Louis c. Mulgard, Fred Meyer,
August Headman and others who sell
dom handle anything heavier than
T square, lifted heavy andirons, plas-
ter models of hotels, union depots
municipal buildings and state capitoIs
hustling them here and there to gain
advantageous positions. They per-
spired profusely over Haig Patigians
Winged Victory and skinned their
hands in tearing apart great branches
of shrubbery to be used in decorations
On the reception committee of the
exhibition are: Frederick H Meyer
L. B. Dutton, William Mooser, A. o.
Johnson, Kenneth Macdonald Jr.. Lor-
ing p. Rixford, G. Albert Lansburgh.
CnarleS Peter w weeks, Wltlldm ii.
Grim Jr.. Willis Polk, Clarence r.
Ward Louis c. Mullgardt, Charles H.
Sawyer and August G.. Headman.
SESSION BEGINS TODAY
The opening session of the conven-
ton of the Architectural League of
TIE Pacific Coast will begin this morn
ing in the Monadnock building. The
meeting will be called to order by
the president of the league at 10
o'clock. During the morning impor-
tant addresses will be made by promi-
nent members of the league. In the
afternoon there will be a paper by a
representative of the Beaux arts So
cicty of San Francisco. The principal
address will be made by Cass Gilbert,
president of the American Institute of
Architects, on the theme of the insti-
tute.
Tuesday there will be no session,
owing to the Portola festival, and on
Wednesday the league will meet in
the Greek theater at the University
of California Berkeley. In the even
ing there will be a jollification din
ner rendered by the San Francisco
architectural club at the Architects
club rooms, Press club, at o'clock
on the program committee are: John
Galen Howard, William B. Faville
Lewis P. Hobart. George B. Kelham
Loring p. Rixford and L. C. Mullgardt
chairman.