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Show - Thousands of World's Worlds ' Fair Visitors Vasitors VisitorsSwarm VasitorsSwann VisitorsSwarm Swarm Swann lo to Magic Island Osand That HasBeen HasBeen Has Been Built Bulk in San f fran Francisco ran cisco Bay day , By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WATSONGT crossing the harbor entrance entranceeIiI entranceat entrancewith eIiI at Western New.paper Newpaper . UnIon UnIonwith with the longest longe-st longe st - single smgle span ever everT everT evererected evererectedSo GT I T WAS the morning of Feb Feb- Feberected February . - erected erectedruary erectedruary ruary 18 18Since So the two vislons-a vislons a visions-airport visions airport visions - - airport rport and andSmce andSince andworld's andworlds Since Smce daylight dayhght throngs had hadworld hadbeen l world world's worlds ' , s fau-were fau were fair-were fair fair - were merged Each Eachd Eachplan Eachplan been streaming streammg towar toward d San Sanother S Splan SanFrancisco's SanFranciscos an another plan speeded and d193supported supported the theother other Early in 1930 1936 6 , . while the FrancIsco'S FrancIscoS theFrancIsco'S ' famed Ferry Ferrybuilding thetwo two bridges were still building bUlldmr building buildingbUlldmr buildingbuilding on Market street or ormaking and buildingand traffic the clipper 'clipper ' ship " air trafmaking traf traf- trafmakmg - makmg making their way across the thefic thefle thehuge fic fle which brought Asia withinhuge WIthin WIthinhuge withindays huge bridge brtdge that connects connectsdays connectsSan days , not weeks of America Amenca , , was waspassing wasSan waspassing San Francisco and Oaklandwith Oakland Oaklandstage stage stagepassing pass passing into exploratoryinto from trom regular the airmail exploratory exploratorystage flights flightswork , beganIsland WIth WIthrocky rocky Yerba Verba Buena Buenaisland work on the new airport began beganUnited Island Soon the causeway cduseway United States army engineers , i ia a f 1 t tF a ayy yy t trH F r Y Y"i4 rH Y iry3'S iry3S rYr . "i4 i4 "i4ry " $ rY ' ' + ' + .n n T ry ryT ' , > 4 h 7 7.n 1 , _ _ _ _ _ _ , a 4 4NIGHT NIGHT SCENE SCENJ < . ON TREASURE ISLAND-Shown ISLAND Shown ISLAND - - Shown here under illumination are the ' arcbed arched waters of ofthe ofthe ofthe the Fountain of the Evening Star In the Court of the Moon on Treasure Island In the background Is the theTower theTower theTower Tower of the Sun bathed in io white and amber lights Ughts lightsBy over which they were hurry hurry- hurrying hurrying hurrying - ing from Yerba Buena I3uena toward towardtheIr towardtheir towardtheir theIr objective a little Island island300 300 yards away , , w wis W'1S W1S ' is Pdcked packed PdckedwIth packedwith piickedwith wIth peopleEight peopleEight people peopleEight Eight o 0 clock I ! IThe IThe The Portals of tl tI e a PacIfic Pacificthe , tbe the gates between the huge py pyramldal pyrantidal pyramidal ramldal ran-tidal ran tidal - towers swung open and andthe andthe andthe the crowd surged forward for fortheIr fortheir fortheir theIr first views of the wonders wondersthat wondersthat wondersthat that lay beyond tliose those portals portalsWltbm portalsWithin portalsWithin Wltbm Within four hours more than 200 200000 000 people were swarming swarmmg over overthe overthe overthe the Island-Treasure Island Treasure island - - Treasure Island Iland . , it s scalled scalled scalled scalledTwelve called calledTwelve Twelve o 0 clock ' ' High IIlgh up in the Twer T wer of the theSun theSun theSun Sun a 44 bell canll carlll carill n I [ lire un urt Ie 1 I f e < ( ut uta uta uta a tll (1 1 ( hod ( od of melody II I Hen f en while a all11xed amixed amixed ll11xed mixed chorus of 500 ve vc v < e c ( ( es " , sang . , sanga ang anga a hymn of joy muted trumpets trumpetssounded trumpetssounded trumpetssounded sounded an mvccation mvf mv < cation f thanks thanksglvmg thanksgiving thanksgiving glvmg giving dnd and prciyer prdyer prayer A few moments mo mo- moInent moments - - ments Inent " later over tl tt e ra lio Ito loud loudspeakers loudspeakers loudspeakers speakers came ColIne tie tt tI c e ( ' v vc VI ( I i c cs es ' > of L.dl1 Ldl1 Cab . Ccilif L.dl1f Cabf f rma rnla rnia notables GI G < ( v Cull ert Nt L LOlon LOlson LOlson Ol\on Ol on Olson ' \ Mayor Ar AI gel gt'l gtl ' i ) , Ho Rossi Hossi < ; < n of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Frar Frdr CI Cisco < ; CO and i I ellad el eI nid il1d lad W e\ e et e\er e er eer \ er held the one at San Fran FranCISCO FranCisco FranCisco CISCO has innovations in m archi archI- archItecture architecture architecture . - - tecture illumination exhibits exhibitsand exhibitsand exhibitsand and special events which make makeprevIous makeprevious makeprevious prevIous expositions seem quamt quaint quamtIy quaintly quaintly Iy ly archaic But in 10 m one respect respectit It is absolutely unique umque That is isIts isits isits Its slte-a slte a site-a site site - - a man made island set setdown setdown setdown down in m the middle of one of the thegreat thegreat thegreat great harbors of the world and andfianked andflanked andHanked fianked flanked by the two greatest greatestbridges greatestbridges greatestbridges bridges in the worldThe world worldThe The story of this truly magIc magIcisland magicisland magicisland island islandwhich which now stands where wherebut wherebut wherebut but three years ago boats plIed plIedthe pliedthe pliedthe the b ue waters of San FrancIsco FrancIscobay Franciscobay Franciscobay bay sea fowl swam and fisher fishermen fishermen fishermen men cast their lines is 18 o0e o-.c o.c o .c c oDe - . of ofthe ofthe ofthe the real romances of American AmericaninItiatIve Americaninitiative Americaninitiative inItiatIve ingenuity and fwd engincenng engl engi englneermg engineermg neermg ichievement chlevement achievement , Thit Th'lt Thlt That ' story storybeg storybeg storybeg beg in > n less than 10 years ago agowhen agowhen agowhen when prolre progress , , > s in aviation mJl mdi mJlcated mdicated indicated cated that San Francisco was wasdestmed wasdestined wasdestined destmed destined to become the Blr air Blrcrossroads aircrossroads aircrossroads crossroads of the PacJf Pacific c To ToachIeve Toachieve Toachieve achIeve tat tl t/ t ti / at destiny destmy slie she must musthave musthave musthave have a suitable airport airportIn In 1931 the Sin San 'n n ' FrancI Francisco < ; co Jun Jima JunlOr Jimafor junlor lOr for chamber of commerce comnwrce , > sur ur V Y 3 3a 3sN a , y yI : sN sNa > , . /I I / Ifi -fi fi - / 73cy 4 " a az4 s % z4 @ a k ' ' ' W - - w ? - r : w w- w ws t tA tn n ? w wA lwd2 4 A A + ' + d c s . , 3 4 Yps k y 4sy * ! . . : % T . > r 3 r rb b 7 7N 7r N r t r M tt t y yr yM yrt rt rtJ -J J - ' Y Yr r 3 . g gst M stM st stTREASURE I TREASURE ISLAND SFNTINELS-Deslgncrs SFNTINELS Deslgncrs SFNTINELS-Designers Designers SFNTINELS - - Designers of 01 the light tand stand standards standards ; ards near the main entrance of the Golden Gate International expo'il expoil exposi ' ! expostion expo'ilbon exposilion bon lion have made them tbem to conform to the general lines of the tall palm trees palmtrees At left is one of the I lephant lepbant lepliant Towers Banking flanking the main entrance Cutler president pre\ldent pre ldent ' \ of the exposl exposi exposltlOn exposition exposition tlOn tion with brief messages of wel welcon welcon welcon con e 1 7 welve thirtyFor thirtyFor thirty thirtyFor For a moment the loud loudspeak loudspeakers < ; peak peakers ers were silent ThenTI ThenTic Then ThenTl Tic Tl TI e Pres lent tent of the UnIted UnitedSt St ites ties tie , > itesF tiesF F 1 < re f cc ( m tl tI It e other side 'ilde ilde ' of the continent con contment continent tment tinent came the v nee Jlce ace of F 1 < rankhn ranklin ranklinD rankhnD D Hoo'ie\ Hoo'ie Hooie Roosevelt Hoo'ieI'll Hooseelt ' \ ; I'll Ill ' RooseveltWlun ' \ Wlun 5hcn ht n Ins 1116 his rness rnE'CS rnECS mess ' ; ifie 19f ige " wiq was W'I WI ' " ! con conciuded coneluded coneluded ciuded eluded two world famous se St s ( Io- Io Ioists I lo-ists lo ists - - IStS led the chorus in a moving movinganti movinganti movingantt anti cm ern em of prayer and thank.glv thankglv thanksgiv thanksgiving thank.glvmg . mg ing accompanied alcurnpanled by a 100 pIece pIeceband pieceband pieceband band and the can carillon lion Then as asthe asthe asthe the last la'5t la5t ' notes of the 'lntlem antlem ' inll 'lntl lntl antl em emhded emfaded emtided hded faded hdeddway fadedaway ciway dway away cannon roaredout roared out a a21 21 gun sa salute lu te to th the e Cl CI ief lef tef LX LXec Lxec Exec ec it II \ ; ve e of tl ti c e a mtion n-.tlon n.tlon n .tlon tlon nation - . and frOln from frOlnall fromall fromoil all vi v < ( t i 1 f tI ( ( t e a I island < lanrl ; I t t nil ir 'II II at ' t d'IY dIY day dayhgi divligl d'IYItg ' hgi Itg } t fire\H fire H firev.c firevc firc\\ firc fircrks \ \ . < -rks rks - rks t ( xp x1 1 I > ) , ded ed in 10 tl tI it csky t c . * .sk sk . sky skyAr < ; k > ) A Ar Ard I d thus thu'i thui ' was vas \ as tl ti tie e l1l ) 1 ] nq 1 < } Golrlen Golden GolrlenC.te GoldenCate GolncnCite C.te Cte Cate . 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Irg 1rg 1 1 I rg rgebt 5t t island ever everbUIlt everbuilt everbuilt bUIlt by marTt mir m'll mll mar ' It Tt tt is 1'5 15 ' a little more morethan morethan morethan than anile a n lie ile long nearly two- two twothIrds twothirds two-thirds two thirds - - thIrds e c ( fin ft f i t n lie tie wide and is con connede connetted connee nede netted led l < to tlie the ' shore 'ihore ihore of ot Yerba YerbaBuena YerbaBuena YerbaBuena Buena 1 islcii islar < ; 1 11 < 1 I by uy a cau causeway , > eway 300 300yards 300yards 300yards yards lonfc lonb long ' in 1/1 1 aim / 137 1 I 37 yard yards " ! wIdeThIs wideThis wide wideThis This cau causeway , > cw\y cw y ew.y ewy . \ is Ie ; the key to the theIsbnd theisland theisland Isbnd island s re 1 i irk 'Irk ark ' lble ible ble accessIbility accessibilityfor for acr ss < ; e ; it I t are six lanes ofhifcl of ofhlb ofingt ingt hlb ! way t t In III hr k tl tI e a island mto into mtot intoti intotl t/ t ti / te tia e a traffic tramc streams of the Bay Baybndbe Baybridge Baybridge bndbe bridge P 1 F < ur ferry slips sllpq supple supplement supplement supplement ment tI tlise te ese . , h gl gi g ! ways in tran trans transporting transporting ' ! portlnb porting at tl t/ t ti / te e I { eak rate of 53 000 000hc 000he 000h hc he ( uriy urly te tl t/ t ti / e in m 11 II ns who will VISIt VISItthe visitthe visitthe the exp sitK Sllll situ n this year Three ThreeI Threeof Threeof Threeof I of tliese these ferry 'illp illp ' slips " ! on the San Sanco SanFrancisco SanFrancisco ' Francisco ' > co s 8 ic- ic Ie 1e icwill - will land the thecrowds thecrowds thecrowds crowds fr i 1 ban San an Francisco Frdnclsco sF s sJo sF Jo F erry bu II 1 I 1 t nf ng n . , , n Market street streetdJ streetdisci streetdisci dJ disci , > c/ c / carge argc arge tl ti into IOto a ferry ter terrn term term rn m nit n il tI bull blili boil 1 j i i r ivhich hhlch h g \vhich vhich \\hlch hlch \ \ with theslips the thesllp'i theslips sllp'i sllpi slips ' then < ; se e Vt v ( s s < ; 10 < ( ost < ; t m rn re than thanthree thanthree thanthree three q ItU itcis hits ' > f a million dol dollar dollars dollars lar lars " ! 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