Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-30
OF
FRISCO SHOW IS
RUSHING
Great Exposition Palaces All
Will Be Completed Nine
Months Before the Date of
Opening.
MOST ENORMOUS FAIR IN
HISTORY OF THE WORLD

San Francisco. oct. 2g.-Director
ot works tiarris y. "A. Connick 81 the
I.anama-pucilc international ENposi-
tion. has officially announced THAI all
col the main exhibit palaces will be
competed nine montnH before fcp-
iuufy 20, 1915. the opening day ui
the exposition, aud that some 0t the
BUILDINGS viii bc competed even
earlier.
This official announcement, follow
ing the promise of the exposition
management made more than one
year ago that the exposition would
bc completed nine months before the
opening day and that the exhibit PAL
aces would bc built upon a definite
Hchedule confirms an that was said
before. The preparations for the
event are further advanced today
than we're those at any other IN
tcrnational exposition AT u corrcspon-
ding time before lis formal Opening
The work b. now proceeding upon
schedule. there viii bc NO periods 81
delay cor OF congestion In the work.
Building contracts provide bonuses
for completion under the time limit
4 tremendous amount of prclimi-
nary work has been accomplished.
BASED upon the total amount oi pre-
paration required. the division OF
works ESTIMATES that today the expo
sition Is hore than tWo-thirds COM
plctcd.
The exposition site, covering G35
iucrcs az land close Ca the heart Of
one at the most picturesque residcn-
tinl SECTIONS OF san Francisco, was
long since cleared OF an old houses
land other structures and has been
completely fenced In. Tho under
ground work has been completed al
most throughout. IA included the
reclamation 0f eevcnty-Onc acres Of
J land from the hay At san Francisco
/ the mstnlltion of a high pressure wat
cr system for fire purposes which is
I two-thlrds completed, a low pressure
service water system, which Us also
wen advanced; an extensive ~tRinage
! sygtpm. completed IN the amusement
concessions and foreign nations dis
trirt and nearing completion ia the
main exhibit district, where Il is he
INK carried along with the buildings
themselves, and the laying OF un-
dcrgrouud Conduits For the electric
wires for the transmission OF light
and power.
At the present writing ten of the
huge exhibit palaces of the Panama
Pacific exposition are under CON
struction. of these ten the framowork
of three ls now rising and the floor
ing of practically al Of the others Is
completed and the assembled parts
are 90 n great extent ready 20 hc rails
ed Co place. More than seventy mil
lion feot OF lumber viii bee used la
this main exhibit section: more than
twenty-five million feet have ALREADY
been delivered and forty million feet
contracted for. Thirty-tWo steamers
are carrying the lumber.
The streets, avenues. roads ant
paths are laid out. the curbs are wei
ulong ana o. contract for the delivery
lof 20 0O0 cubic yards of road rock
with an ample time limit rs bcinl
fulfilled,
A standard gauge railroad Is beinl
laid. the tracks boing now nearly at
down and parts of the road IN oper
luuon, conveying material ireigh
ferry slip has been completed aud d
receiving car floats regularly.
loommodious harhOr on the wateI
front with a system of wharVes' 4
receiving steamers daily. with lum
bier and other building supplies.
The Service Building housing tn
starr OF the division of works, u
completed, even To the gardens ant
, lawns surrounding a., ana has hCci
in use all this summer.
Of the twelve great structures n
the main group of exhibit palaces
one. that of machinery, is erected
, rooted ana floored and is now rocow
Ing tx covering of imitation Travcr
tine stone, and its corniccs ana phi
{ lars
J The Palace of Education Is flnorc
land the frame ia about half up. Fran
. HHIN HHHaf
has hocn commenced this week an
the floors Of the Palaces of Agricul
ture. Liberal Arts and Manufactures
inrc nearly completed, white those q
The Palaces of Varied Industriei
Transportation and Mines and Metal
lurgy are being rapidly lnid
1 Two contract fof the constructiO
of the pnlaro of Fine Arts has bee
lct ana those Tor the Palace ~ lIoT
tlculture ana the Festival Hall wi
be awarded within a few days. a