The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-08-06
W0NDE Rs Of THE W0R[ D
Will Be Shown at Americas Great Celebration at
San Francisco in 1916.
The Magnicence and Grandeur Of the PanamaPaci In
ternatona Exposition Cannot Be Adequately DescrbedA
Gathering Of the Nations Of the World.

there are fourteen, are 051ng rer al
regular intervals and the highest
point Of construction will be reached
next fall. All the main exhibit pal
aces will be completed by June 25
1914, more than nine months before
the exposition opens. All contracts
are being let upon that basis. The
early completion of the buildings will
permit the setting out and planting
in the grounds and courts of several
hundred thousands Of rare trees.
plants and shrubs now being grown
in nurseries.
Early next fall the sightseer in
San Francisco will be enabled to look
from the rim of the encircling hills
at Harbor View down upon the ex-
position city and see the buildings in
progress of construction. To the
west he may look out to the Golden
Gate and to the islands in the Pacific
beyond. To the north he will see the
stream Of traffic that passes before
the exposition site.
Easy Of Access.
One may easily reach the exposi'
ton in twenty minutes from the
Ferry building. The site Of the ex.
position, at Harbor View, lies within
the city limits as crescent upon the
shores of San Francisco bay, just in
side the Golden Gate. No more pic
turesque location, nor one more ap-
OF tn no n q
maritime event, could be imagined.
On the south, east and west it is en-
circled by towering hills with vary
ing contours rising successfully from
$50 to 900 feet above sea level, like
the enfolding walls Of vast amph,-
theater. Upon the north the site
opens out upon the harbor Of San
Francisco. The panorama at Harbcr
View recalls the famous Riviera upon
the shores of the Mediterranean. In
the harbor before the site lies Alca-
traz island, the location of a military
prison whose white walls are reflect
ed in the waters of the bay. Beyond
are the hills of Marin county rising
up into the hundreds and in some in
stances into the thousands of feet,
with Mount Tamalpais, loftiest Of all,
it's summit often shrouded with a
turban of fog upon which the sun
shines as upon a vast bank Of snow.
as a background for the setting
The central portion of the site lies
slightly above the sea and is encircled
on three sides by gently sloping
ground; within a short distance from
the boundaries of the site these
slopes change to steep hillsides and
thus the center becomes the floor of
a huge amphitheater from whose sides
the exposition will be seen stretched
out below. To the east and south
the residence section encircles the
exposition grounds, and to the west
and southwest the site is embraced
by the wooded slopes of the Preside
military reservation, dark with cy-
press and eucalyptus and interspersed
with occasional vistas Of green val
leys.
All told the site comprises G25
acres; it is two and one-third miles
in length with a maximum width of
one-half mde. Its frontage upon the
harbor will be approximately two
miles and further from the bay it will
extend another one-third mile, Fort
Mason, a military post, occupying a
corner upon the extreme east and
along the bay.
Faces the Bay.
The exposition buildings built upon
an east and west axis will face the
bay upon the north; they will parallel
the stream of the great incoming traf-
fic of the world through the western
gate of the United States. The har-
Dor itself will be a part of the great
theater upon which will be staged
the worlds jubilee and the Golden
Gate will be the entrance to the the
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