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Show t THE BULLETIN IP. Thousands of World's Fair Visitors Swarm to Magic Island That Has Been Built in San Francisco B ay By ELMO SCOTT WATSON crossing the harbor WAS the morning of FebITruary 18. erected. Weitcrn Newspaper Union. It D EPARTM ENT marequires 4 yards of terial, plus , yard of contrasting material and 2i yards of edging. Spring Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring Pattern Book, which is 35-in- ch entrance with the longest single span ever now ready. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell easy- - So the two visions airport and world's fair were merged. Each plan speeded and supported the ether. Early in 1936, while the two bridges were still building and the "clipper ship" air traf- Since daylight throngs had been streaming toward San Francisco's famed Ferry building on Market street or making their way across the huge bridge that connects San Francisco and Oakland with rocky Yerba Buena island. Soon the causeway well-planne- d, patterns. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, to-ma- Asia within was not of America, weeks, days, passing from the exploratory stage into regular airmail flights, work on the new airport began. United States army engineers, fic which brought Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. 15 cents (in coins) each. 211 W. Price of patterns, t) Bell Syndicate. ancient walled city is the basis of the exposition's structural scheme. In the spacious central Court of Honor stands Tower of the Sun, the which is only 57 feet in diameter at its base but which competes An 400-fo- ot over which they were hurrying from Yerba Buena toward their objective, a little island 300 yards away, was packed with people. Eight o'clock! The "Portals of the Pacific," the gates between the huge pyramidal towers, swung open and the crowd surged forward for their first views of the wonders that lay beyond those portals. Within four hours more than 200,-0people were swarming over the island Treasure Island, it's 00 called. Twelve o'clock! High up in the Tower of the carillon poured out Sun a a flood of melody. Then while a mixed chorus of 500 voices sang a hymn of joy, muted trumpets sounded an invocation of thanksgiving and prayer. A few moments later, over the radio loudspeakers came the voices of California notables Gov. Culbert L. Olson, Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco and Leland W. 44-be- ll ever' held, the one at San Francisco has innovations in architecture, illumination, exhibits and special events which make previous expositions seem quaintly archaic. But in one respect, it is absolutely unique. That is e island set its site a down in the middle of one of the great harbors of the world and flanked by the two greatest bridges in the world. The story of this truly magic island, which now stands where but three years ago boats plied the blue waters of San Francisco bay, sea fowl swam and fishermen cast their lines, is one of the real romances of American initiative, ingenuity and engineering achievement. That story began less than 10 years ago when progress in aviation indicated that San Francisco was destined to become the "air crossroads of the Pacific." To achieve that destiny she must have a suitable airport. In 1931 the San Francisco junior chamber of commerce sur-man-mad- TREASURE ISLAND SENTINELS Designers of the light standards have near the main entrance of the Golden Gate International exposition made them to conform to the general lines of the tall palm trees. At the left is one of the Elephant Towers flanking the main entrance. . Cutler, president of the expositionwith brief messages of welcome. Twelve-thirt- y. For a moment the loudspeak- ers were silent. Then . . . "The President of the United States!" From the other side of the continent came the voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt. When his message was consolocluded, two ists led the chorus in a moving anthem of prayer and thanksgiving, accompanied by a band and the carillon. Then as the last notes of the anthem faded away, cannon roared out a salute to the Chief Executive of the nation and from all over the island brilliant daylight fireworks exploded in the world-famo- 100-pie- 21-g- sky And thus was the 1939 Golden International exposition opened to the world! Gate Like every other world's fair veyed 14 possible airport sites and the final choice of the experts was the Yerba Buena Shoals. They lay just north of of Yerba Buena island, the $80,000,000 Bay bridge which was then being planned, so that no more centrally located site, from the standpoint of the entire Bay area, could be imagined. An airport there would be only 4.7 miles from San Francisco's downtown district and 7.3 miles, via an arterial boulevard, from Oakland's center of population. Records showed only 142 hours of fog annually for the past 45 years and the steady prevailing winds were gentle both essential elements for an airport. Meanwhile San Francisco was planning a world's fair in celebration of the future completion of the two greatest bridges in the world. She was building the $80,000,000 San Francisco-Oaklan- d Bay bridge, longest and most costly anywhere, and the 133,000.000 Golden, Gate bridge, mid-poi- nt financed with $3,803,800 in WPA funds, sponsored by the exposition company, began assembling their dredges. Eleven of these huge machines a fleet of nine at one time began pumping black sand from the floor of the bay and sluicing it through pipelines over Yerba Buena shoal. Around the shoal had been built a sea wall nearly three and a quarter miles long and containing 287,000 tons of quarried rock. e Island. Largest had been work the the time By completed 20,000,000 cubic yards of sand had been compacted within the seawall From a natural depth of 2 to 26 feet below water, the shoals had risen to a height of 13 feet above the tides making a rectangle of land the largest island ever built by man! It is a little more than a mile long, nearly of a mile wide and is connected to the shore of Yerba Buena island by a causeway 300 yards long and 37 yards wide. This causeway is the key to the island's remarkable accessibility, for across it are six lanes of highway to link the island into the traffic streams of the Bay bridge. Four ferry ships supplement these highways in transporting, at the peak rate of 53,000 hourly, the millions who will visit the exposition this year. Three of these ferry slips, on the San Francisco side, will land the crowds from San Francisco's Ferry building on Market street, discharge them into a ferry terminal building which, with the slips themselves, cost more than three quarters of a million dollars. The fourth ferry sup is on the Oakland shore of the island. Highways that have been constructed as a part of the general transportation plan take into account the dual function of Treasure Island as an exposition site and a future airport. The army engineers who built the system across Yerba Buena island did it along novel lines. Three traffic lanes are of permanent construction for airport utility. Gigantic Hangars. Hardly had the water drained from the island's advancing sand fill, when construction began on three buildings that will survive the glitter of the fair to endure as airport facilities. One is the $900,000 reinforced concrete air terminal building to serve the fair as administrative headquarters; its permanent use will find it equipped with complete facilities including passenger, mail and express terminals, restaurants, offices, public observation galleries and meteorological tow Alan-Mad- 300-ac- re two-thir- ds ers. The others are two gigantic hangar buildings, each 287 by 335 feet on the ground and 78 feet high, built of steel and con- $450,000 each. For these buildings exposition engi neers aoDhed a new design to "canti- hangar construction which actually levered walls aid, by their weight, in support ing the roof load. During the fair these struc tures will serve as the Palace of Fine and Liberal Arts, and the Hall of Air Transportation. Lat er, as airport facilities, their huge 200 by 40 loot doors may be heightened at centers to 65 feet to accommodate the rudders of airplanes greater than any now known. All other buildings on Treasure Island are of tem porary construction, for removal after the exposition to provide clear airport runways. crete, costing Bervle. The Matachines Above is shown one of the picturesque Towers of the East on Treasure Island. NIGHT SCENE ON TREASURE ISLAND Shown here under illumination are the arched waters of the Fountain of the Evening Star in the Court of the Moon on Treasure Island. In the background is the Tower of the Sun, bathed in white and amber lights. WNU llfera litf s f '8' This is a particularly youthful design in women's sizes nice for afternoon parties and general wear, loo. The bod ice has gathers, to give you a nice bustline. The lifted waistline This dress will is slenderizing. be pretty in fiat crepe, silk print or thin wool. No. 1681 Here is a practical house dress that you will enjoy havmg in wool or flat crepe, too, t has nice princess lines, and the scalloped closing, cut over at the side, gives a generous lap so that you need no fastening on the skirt. For home wear, make this of linen, gingham, percale or calico. The Patterns. No. 1655 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 TO. 1655 A Matachines are bands of mum mers or itinerant players in Mex ico who wander from village to village during Lent playing a drama based on the history of Montezuma. Dressed in fantastic Indian costumes and carrying rattles as their orchestra, they portray the desertion of his people by Montezuma, his luring back by the smiles of Malinche, the final reunion of king and people, and the killing of El Toro (the bull), the source of all the misfortune. Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL in height with the lofty towers of the Bay bridge nearby. From it radiates phalanxes of exhibit palaces, each from 400 to 900 feet long and about 200 feet wide. They are spaced by broad concourses Court of the Seven Seas, Court of Flowers, Court of Reflections, Court of the Moon, Court of Paciflca, Treasure Gardensnames which characterize their symbolism. All of them are windowless for display uniformity under constant illumination and have been requires 4V yards of built according to a No. 1681 is designed for sizes 34, "Pacific" style of architecture which combines the new and the 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 old. Ancient mystical Oriental forms have been blended into long horizontal lines, setback Starting Avalanches charactermasses and pyramids In the Swiss Alps, an avalanche istic of Malayan, Incan and Camor snowslide is sometimes bodian treatments. The elephant, started by such a trifling thing as mammoth beast of Far East the breeze created by the wing of pageantry, is a predominating a bird: and the slide often comes decorative note, crowning as it down the mountainside with such does the pyramidal entrances force that the resultant wind is mat flank the "Portals of the strong enough to uproot the trees Pacific." on each side of its course. Cot The color scheme of the expolier's Weekly. sition buildings includes 19 different shades characteristic of both the rare shades of California wildflowers and the variegated hues of the Orient. The basic plaster body color is a yellow ivory which has been designated "Exposition ivory." Along with it will be seen these: Old Mission fawn, Pagoda yellow, Pebble Beach coral, Santa Barbara taupe, California ecru, Evening Star blue, Polynesian brown. Sun 39-in- ch so-call- Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Oppaika HIGHLY Hmm Tenpla RECOMMENDED RatH$150to$100 lft sink of diitinctmi to stop f this btJutifnl hoftthy ERNEST C. BOSSITEK. Mn GOLDEN GATE; H PI 73 Z O Z r- - m X O (A mm The regular use of Quaker State Motor e Oil means more miles of driving. This is made possible because Quaker . State is pure . . . Eachdrcpof oil is rich lubricant . . . possesses maximum heat and wear resisting qualities. Choose Add-Fre- e Quaker State now and your car wul run better, last longer. Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., Oil Gty, Pennsylvania. care-fre- o z Golden Detirn of the Gate Exposition stamp which was placed on sale at San Francisco on February 18, the open ing date ox the exposition. of Dawn yellow, Hawaiian em erald green, Santa Clara apricot. Imperial Dragon red, Death Valley mauve, Pacific blue, Ming three-ce- nt acid-free- The Spirit of Friendliness and Fair Dealing which Prevails at the Jade green (light), Ming Jade green (dark), Southern Cross blue, Del Monte blue, China Clip per blue and Treasure Island gold. These colors are reduced or less on exteriors, to to avoid the garish under night illumination which increases the intensity of the basic color. By. turning their huge buildings "inside out," almost literally, stylists have achieved a cement stucco that bathes the buildings and tall walls in a radiant golden glow, sparkling with prismatic colors, day or night. It's done with vermiculite a mica-lik- e substance. Exposition stylists found that this material, applied to wet stucco, reflects light in a million scintillating gems and makes the walls glow and glitter with live fire. 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