The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-12-24
SESQUIPLANS ENLARGED, MORE BUILD
INCS ADDED, WORK TO BE EXPEDITED

Mayor w. Freeland Kendrick, of
Philadelphia, president of the Sesqui-
centennial Exhibition Association, un-
der whose auspices the international
Exposition and celebration will be pro-
jected beginning June /, next year,
has announced the addition of two
buildings to the program of the Expo
sition construction. They are Palace
of Machinery, Mines and Metallurgy
and Transportation and large aud
itorium seating approximately 10000.
Plans and specifications for the con-
struction of these buildings are receiv-
ing final revision by John Molitor, city
architect, and Director George H.
Biles, of the Department Of Public
Works.
The construction of these buildings
will be started Immediately in order
to insure completion in time for in
stallation of exhibits before the open
ing of the Exposition. Enthusiastic
endorsement for this increase in the
building program was given at a
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Association, held this week. Mayor
Kendrick will visit Washington to lay
before Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
both of whom are members of the Ma
tional Sesquicentennial Exhibition
Association, the new plan.
Following the conference in Wash
nigton, which will be held for the pur-
pose of acquainting these cabinet of
ticers with the results Of the visit to
Europe of Captain Asher Carter
Baker, Director of Foreign Exhibits,
who has just returned from a five
months tour, during which he con-
ferred with officials Of all the prin-
cipal European nations relative to
their participation, further expansion
of the program of the Exposition will
be contingent upon the future action
taken by foreign governments.
The Palace Of Machinery, Mines
and Metallurgy and Transportation
replaces two buildings previously
planned as part of the original exhi-
bition which had been omitted in the
revision. The decision to erect this
large exhibition palace was reached
in conference which the Mayor held
with the Exposition department heads.
1t was pointed out that the location
of the new building was such that
there would be no need of fill, the diff
ficulty of securing which has been one
Of the obstacles in the way of the
complete building plans. In view Of
this advantage the Mayor was assured
by the engineering advisors that the
new building could be completed in
time for the installation of exhibits in
advance of the opening of the exhibi-
ton on June /. Additional demands
Tor exhibition space nave made the
erection of the new building obliga-
tory and the Mayor gave his consent
to its erection upon assurances that
it would not retard the official open
ing of the exhibition.
The new Palace, which will cost APP
proximateIy $1,25OG0O, will have an
AGRA of 489,760 square feet of exhi-
bition space, which makes it the larg-
est exhibition building in the Sesqui-
centennial. Its exhibits will include
machinery of all kinds, both mechani-
cal and electrical, by means of which
the machine industries of the United
States will acquaint the public with
the latest mavels of mechanical eff
iciency. Steel processes, showing the
mining and refining of various ores
and the chemical and metallurgical