The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
Treasure Island---Loaded Down With Wealth
 Of Golden West, Far East---T That's Frisco Fair
BY PHIL sTNNOTT
\ servIce staff CorIrerponden.l

NEA Service Staff CorrespOndent) San Francisco, February l6. - Four hundred acres were dredged up from the bottom of San Fran cisco Bay to form Treasure Island where the Golden Gate Interna- tional Exposition opens February l8 and closes December 2. Two great bridges, the worlds largest, connect the exposition grounds with oakland and San Francisco.
 squarely in the center of the bay, Treasure Island was brought up from the bottom as an airport to accommodate Pan-American Airways' trans-Pacific Clipper fleet, but gets its first use as the site for the exposition.
 Eleven states of the far west, 20 foreign countries, 10 of them South American, are actively co-operat- Ing in this Pageant of the Pacific" The Association of American Rail- roads has announced joint tour of the San Francisco and New York fairs for a day coach rate of 800.
 The Golden Gate Exposition site Is extremely compact and accessi- ble by automobile and ferry. Three huge airport buildings are being used for exposition purposes; all other structures are temporary, and later will be razed to make room for airplane runways. Right now, Treasure Island is a welter of trucks, lumber, carpenters and ar- tisans, with day and night shifts. Most pessimistic estimates have 1t 70 per cent complete for opening day. A good guess is that exhibits will be 90 per cent complete and the "Gayway" 70 per cent complete when they ring Up the curtain. $50, ,ooo,oo
 CAN'T BE WRONG
 This worlds fair is figured a $b0,000000 show. The principal construction budget was $i7,500,0 900. Since Treasure Island was created as permanent airport and sea- plane base, the government inyest- ment is $7,200,000. Uncle Sam is also putting $500 900 into a federal building and exhibits. California is spending $6,000,000. Other vest ern states, foreign nations ad ex- hibitors' appropriations are figured ct s20,000, 900.
 Receipts from exhibit space and building site fees and advance ticket sales are figured at 4e,500, 900. Western business and industry sub- scribed an additional S7,500,000. Any surplus will be prorated. The fair looks certain to pay its way.
 "see the whole west" is the theme song, and the west will be repIete with special attractions in every state.
 Four hundred feet into the air on Treasure Island rises the slen- der Tower of the Sun. It is topped by a golden Phoenix, houses a A. bell carilion. It Is the central fig ure in the Court of Honor, whence radiate the myriad of palaces, courts, fountains, statues and so on that are the Exposition.
 It's quite an order to mix tradi- tional Oriental, early Spanish, Maya and Inca motifs, give these a modernistic treatment and still perserve a basic harmony. Yet this was done in the architecture of the main buildings. Court of the Seven Seas. Pacific Basin, Court of Pacific Shores-these and others were each assigned to 8 dif- ferent architect. "A Pageant of the Pacific not like anything heretofore built was the unifying admopition. Each developed his theme even to lighting fixtures, statuary and iandscaping.
 PASTEL
 COLORS-
 Color is washed, rather than sprayed, into the scheme. Nearly 20 colors are used, all in pastel. New materials applied in the stucco make the walls gIisten. Effect of