The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-11-30
PLANS FOR FAIR
GROUNDS MADE
BY ARCHITECTS
Exposition Directors Will Con-
slider Proposals at Meeting
Tuesday Night
Civic Center to Be Discussed
With the Supervisors
Elect

A ENCOURAGEMENT was made yes
~ terday by the architectural
~ commission OF the Panama
Pacific international exposition
that its labors of months upon the gen.
eral scheme for the great exposition
were all but completed and that the
first draft OF plans for the laying out
of the fair would be finished and ready
for submission to the directors of the
exposition Tuesday night.
With the presentation of these plans
to the directors for their acceptance
or rejection. the second great step
toward exposition building will have
been accomplished. The first step was
completed when the site for the fair
was selected. The recommendations
afford the first insight into what gen
eral disposition may be made of the
great display which San Francisco is
to offer the world in 1915.
The nature of the plans and recon-
mendations to be submitted has not
the commission who have been at work
upon them. but it. is understood that
they will not include much, IL any, of
the detail of construction or adornment.
but only the general scheme of land
scape and architectural treatment and
the location of the more important
exhibit buildings, courts. monuments.
waterways and concession districts.
With such general plan as this
finally adopted by the directors, the
detail work upon individual buildings
and the details of landscape treat
ment will occupy every available day
between now and the time for the
opening OF the fair.
II the plans to be presented Tuesday
night. however, meet with the approval
of the directors. the work of grading
and preparing the various parts of the
exposition grounds can be pushed ahead
rapidly. The exact size and design of
all structures must be determined later.
but in a general way the location OF
all important buildings and features
and the architectural principles to be
made the basis of all construction will
be settled.
Civic Center Feature
1t is probable that a special meeting
of the directors of the exposition will
be held Wednesday to inspect the plans,
while the incoming board of super
visors has asked for a joint meeting
with the directors and members of the
architectural commission Thursday to
consider the civic center features of
the proposed plans. The supervisors
elect were invited TO choose a time for
such a meeting in order to promote
unity OF action between the city and
the exposition company In all matters
in which both have direct interest.
The finance department of the expo
sition company has moved into its new
quarters on the ground floor of the
Exposition building at Pine and Bat
terry streets, and there also has been
formation bureau which will be opened
TO the public tomorrow morning.
Pamphlets. maps. photographs and lit
erature of various kinds concerning the
exposition and the progress of work
upon the Panama canal will be kept on
hand for general distribution and all
visitors to the city will be invited to
call and secure information of any
kind regarding the exposition or the
products and resources of the state.
Chinese Promise Support
SHANGHAI Nov. 29.-M. H. de Young
of San Francisco. who arrived here sew
eral days ago with his family, was
given reception today by the Cham
Der of Commerce. The Chinese OF the
city have promised hearty support to
the San Francisco exposition.