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Show AMERICAN FORK-CITIZEN in II 14 1 I I Mjsands arm to n Built of World's Fair Visitors Magic Island That Has in San Francisco Bay f,ert)TT .oer Union WATSON r Union. fining of Feb- 4ht throngs had g toward San flamed Ferry dllarket street or 4way across the "J that connects djo and Oakland Cyerba Buena J, the causeway crossing the harbor entrance with the longest single span ever erected. So the two visions airport and world's fair were merged. Each plan speeded and supported the other. Early in 1936, while the two bridges were still building and the "clipper ship" air traffic traf-fic which brought Asia within days, not weeks, of America, was J passing from the exploratofy stage into regular airmail flights, ' work on the new airport began. United States army engineers, J' A i :' 'i I j if M ,!' f V i 1 J -v-r mi-- Iki i SCENE ON TREASURE ISLAND Shown here under illnminatlon are the arched waters of is the Evening Star in the Court of the Moon on Treasure Island. In the background is the j Sua, bathed in white and amber lights. jt - j they were hurry-Itrba hurry-Itrba Buena toward jfive, a little island jiway, was packed - "atali of the Pacific," .ietween the huge py-tet, py-tet, swung open and 4 airged forward for ;ws of the wonders Jejond those portals, stairs more than 200,-Iftre 200,-Iftre swarming over 1-Ireasure Island, it's i 'fdock! e h the Tower of the Jetrillon poured out vMj. Then while a a of 500 voices sang jof, muted trumpets mrocation of thanks-prayer. thanks-prayer. A few mo-, mo-, over the radio loud-m loud-m the voices of Cali-Ja-Gov. Culbert L. tt Angelo Rossi of xt and Leland W. ever held, the one at San Francisco Fran-cisco has innovations in architecture, archi-tecture, illumination, exhibits and special events which make previous expositions seem quaintly quaint-ly archaic. But in one respect, it is absolutely unique. That is its site a man-made island set 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 fisher-men cast their lines, is one of the real romances of American initiative, ingenuity and engineering engi-neering achievement. That story began less than 10 years ago when progress in aviation indicated indi-cated 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 jun-ior chamber of commerce sur- ii i . qnnimii iiL.ni id .m mi ,. w yn.i'.nin.it.ii ii tmmmm). ummmvnm i V V'.: 1 "" if , V ' '. v' I i 5;. . - ,. -A , M ( 1 S " v t i . . '. -ik . f '!. mt TTv:.'';;'" k"i- ' A ISLAND SENTINELS Designers of the light stand- J Bain entrance of the Golden Gate International exposi- -i them to eoafona to the general lines of the tall palm I one of the Elephant Towers flanking the main entrance. Jjttt of the exposi-j exposi-j 1 messages of wel- nt the loudspeak- Then . . fit of the United J Bide of the cbn-,y cbn-,y voice of Franklin JJ message was con- World famous solo-?orus solo-?orus in a moving IfVer and thanksgiv- by a 100-piece 'J carillon. Then" as of the anthem 'ttnnon roared out a ,7 10 the Chief Ex-nation Ex-nation and from Jand brilliant day- exploded in the iM the 1939 Golden rational exposition World I 5 other world't fair veyed 14 possible airport sites and the final choice of the experts ex-perts was the Yerba Buena Shoals. They lay just north of Yerba Buena island, mid-point of 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 essen-tial elements for an airport. Meanwhile San Francisco was planning a world's fair in celebration cele-bration of the future completion of the two greatest bridges in the world. She was building the $80,000,000 San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, longest and mest costly anywhere; and- the $33,000,000 Golden Gate bridge, financed with $3,803,800 in WPA funds, sponsored by the exposi tion company, began assembling thejr 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 Bdena shoals. Around the shoals had been built a sea wall nearly three and a quarter miles long and containing 287,000 tons of quarried rock. Largest Man-Made Islapd. By the time the work had been completed 20,000,000 cubic yards of sand had been compacted within the seawall. From a natural nat-ural depth of 2 to 26 feet below water, the shoals had risen to a height of 13 feet above the tides making a 300-acre rectangle of land the largest island ever built by man! It is a little more than a mile long, nearly two-thirds two-thirds of a mile wide and is connected con-nected 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 slips supple ment these .highways in transporting, trans-porting, 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 ter-minal building which, with the slips themselves, cost more than three quarters of a million dollars. dol-lars. The fourth ferry slip is on the Oakland shore of the island. Highways that have been constructed con-structed as a part of the general transportation plan take into account ac-count the dual function of Treasure Treas-ure 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 traf-fic lanes are of permanent construction con-struction for airport utility. Gigantic Hangars. Hardly had the water drained -5 m .i :i i j ; I v 1IUIJ1 me isiauu a auvcuii.uig oauu 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; headquar-ters; its permanent use will find it equipped with complete facilities facili-ties including passenger, mail and express terminals, restaurants, restau-rants, offices, public observation galleries and meteorological towers. tow-ers. The others are two gigantic hangar buildings, each 287 by 335 feet on the ground and 78 feet high, built of steel and concrete, con-crete, costing $450,000 each. For these buildings exposition engineers engi-neers applied a new design to hangar construction "canti-levereti "canti-levereti walls" which actually aid, by their weight, in supporting support-ing the roof load. During the fair these structures struc-tures will serve as theTalace of Fine and Liberal Arts, and the Hall of Air Transportation. Later, Lat-er, as airport facilities, their huge 200 by 40 foot 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 temporary tem-porary construction, for removal after the exposition to provide clear airport runways. Above is shown one of the picturesque pic-turesque Towers of the East on Treasure Island. An ancient walled city is the basis of the exposition's structural struc-tural scheme. In the spacious central Court of Honor stands the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, which is only 57 feet in diameter at its base but which competes 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 concoursesCourt con-coursesCourt of the Seven Seas, Court of Flowers, Court of Reflections, Court of the Moon, Court of Pacifica, Treasure Gardens Gar-dens names which characterize their symbolism. - All of them are windowless for display uniformity under constant con-stant illumination and have been built according to a so-called "Pacific" style of architecture which combines the, new and the old. Ancient mystical Oriental forms have been blended into long horizontal lines, setback pyramids and masses characteristic character-istic of Malayan, Incan and Cambodian Cam-bodian treatments. The elephant, mammoth beast of Far East pageantry, is a predominating decqrative note, crowning as it does the pyramidal entrances that flank the "Portals of the Pacific." The color scheme of the exposition expo-sition buildings includes 19 different dif-ferent 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 Mis-sion fawn, Pagoda yellow, Pebble Beach coral, Santa Barbara taupe, California ecru, Evening Star blue, Polynesian brown, Sun GOLDEN GATE hi I ,v i-r I li. JLm e a h 2 M z w ffili r i r w WD fww Design of the three-cent Golden Gate Exposition stamp which was placed on sale at San Francisco Fran-cisco on February 18, the opening open-ing date of the exposition. of Dawn yellow, Hawaiian emerald em-erald green, Santa Clara apricot, Imperial Dragon red, Death Valley Val-ley maun, Pacific blue, Ming Jade green (light), Ming Jade green (dark), Southern cross blue, Del Monte blue, China Clipper Clip-per blue and Treasure Island gold. These colors are reduced to half-tones or less on exteriors, 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-like 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. Statues, panels in relief, great murals ar.d paintings are used to glorify Uie courts and basie buildings. Nearly all the out-standing out-standing western artists and sculptors are represented there. 1 ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! "Danger on the Rails" IIELLO EVERYBODY! J 1 I'm still learning what a terrific boating the human mind and body can take and still survive. The latest one to impress this lesson on me is today's Adventurer Patrick J. LatTey of Trenton, New Jersey. Tat LaiTey, as a boy in Ireland, crawled under a locomotive and was hanging to the undercarriage when the engineer started his train. His description of the heavy steel rods as they started to move, picking up speed, shoving him, battering him -well, read the story! Pat was just, as he puts it, "a broth of a boy" in 1015, living in Galway, Ireland. On this particular autumn afternoon, after-noon, he and two companions set out blackberrying. So lovely was the scenery, that they traveled farther from home than they had ever before ventured some ten miles. "We dared go no further," Pat says, "lest we net lost in our homeward home-ward Journey. We were all tired now. so we started home.' tiringing our collection of berries along." The boys crossed a few fields, when suddenly they came to a double railroad track. Kather than cross any more fences, or fall into any more ditches, they started home along the track. They had walked about half a mile when their attention was attracted by a huge engine which lay on (he sidetracks nearby. "To. me," Pat says, "who had never seen one before. Oils hune mass of steel presented one of life's mysteries." The boys watched the aged engineer as he pushed and pulled levers. "How that thing did whistle and shriek," Pat recalls. "I think I hear It now." Mystified, Pat Climbs Under the Locomotive. A little later, the engineer left his position and walked down amongst other cars on the track. The engine was still steaming and hissing. 'This." Pat says, "was our chance for a final analysis of our mystery-was mystery-was this huge thing really alive?" The more they looked at it, the more confused the boys became. They walked around it, saw its dirty, greasy iron bars, its large, shiny wheels. "And now," Pat says, "my race with death occurred. I feel a cold shiver right down my spine now. "I myself set the trap for the grim Jaws of eternity. It was a foolish act en my part, as I learned later. Now, boys, don't et a fainting spell when yon read this, but consider yourself In my position. What would you have done?" Well, here Is the Incredible thing Pat did. 'Being greatly Interested in the engine, be examined It as best he could; so did his chums. Rather than miss anything, he crept underneath the huge structure. Be was Just In there, when the engineer returned. He rebuked Pat's two chums for their presence on the property of the railroad. The boys took to their heels as fast as they could, but Uso Gay Scraps to Make Applique Quilt Pattern 1721 Color for your bedroom! Usa Ray scraps for the lilies, and outline out-line and single stitch for occentl Pattern 17'2l contains accurate pattern pieces; diagram of block; instructions for cutting, sewing, and finishinR; yardage chart; dia- I gitim ui quill. I Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Nee- cllecraft Dept , R2 Kighth Avenue, j New York, N. Y. J Please write your name, address ad-dress and pattern number plainly. Pat's battered body was on the ground under the engine. Pat, rather than face the engineer's scolding, tucked himself under the engine, never aware of his life being in the other's hands, listening for every breath, hoping the engineer would soon go away. He did decide finally to go away, but, as Pat puts it, "net without the engine." Smoke blew around, irons clattered, brakes shrieked and groaned and there was Pat, gasping for dear life itself. He clung on with his hands and feet until a huge iron compelled him to lose his foothold. He now tried to save his head and arms from being ground to pieces. The engine pulled along. Pat expected any minute to be mashed to pieces. A thousand thoughts flashed through his mind how far was he going would the engineer ever stop how long could he hold on? Soaked With Blood, He Sinks Into Unconsciousness. To Pat death was inevitable; he could see no possible way to avert It, no means of attracting the attention of the engineer. He remembered he began to shout for help, but his cries were only drowned out by that ever-increasing rattle of the engine. He remembers, too. getting a severe blow on his left side the cuts of which he bears to this day. He felt himself getting weak . . . wet with blood ... he sank into unconsciousness . . . Days passed, days for which he can give no account, days with life in the balance. Then finally, on the fifth day. Pat again gained consciousness. con-sciousness. There, beside bis bedstood Pat's parents, friends and neighbors, neigh-bors, and, in the middle" of the group, the unfortunate engineer himself. Needless to say, all were overjoyed to see this response to medical attention in a boy they had literally given up for dead. Pat afterward learned how it came" about that his life had been spared. And again, it was Just one of those almost incredible flashes of good fortune or Providence. The engineer had occasion to throw a switch, and while be was on the ground he chanced to look down at the engine's running gear. - Imagine his horror dtiWee Pat's tattered body lying on the ground under the engine. He signaled the fireman in the cab, the fireman's hand shot to the levers and the immense monster of snorting steel screeched to a stop. The engineer lifted out the unconscious form from beneath the undercarriage. If any of you adventurers ever want a ride on an engine, take Pat's advice, and be sure you get IN one, and not on the rods, because the odds, Pat says, "are against you." Copyright. WNU Servlc. Greek Law of 25 Centuries Ago Provides Fundamentals of Present Day Patent System The grant of patents for inventions inven-tions began long before the Christian Chris-tian era. Frank E. Barrows of New York says in a symposium of the American Chemical Society on American Patent Practice and Procedure. Pro-cedure. "The earliest patent system of which we have authentic record was In the Greek province of Sybaris and related to inventions of new foods," it -is pointed out. "Sybaris was de-stroxed de-stroxed in 510 B. C, and with it the record of its experience with a patent pat-ent system, but the Greek historian Phylarchus, writing in the Third century B. C, tells us about the provisions pro-visions of the system. It provided that any cook or caterer who invented in-vented an unusual and peculiar dish was entitled to a monopoly of this new invention for a period of one year. "Onlv the inventor was entitled to the profit to be derived from its manufacture during this period, and the purpose was not only to protect and reward the inventor but to encourage en-courage others to labor at excelling in that field. Thus we have in the Sybaris patent law of 23 centuries a-go the fundamentals of our modern patent systems. ' "For practical purposes the eai-liest eai-liest of our modern systems is that of Great Britain, established by the English Statute of Monopolies in 1623. more than three centuries ago. Our own patent system is next in point of time. It was established in 1790, shortly after the adoption of the Federal Constitution. "Even before that time patents had been granted by some of the American colonies. The adoption of patent systems has spread and practically prac-tically all nation have patent systems." m fuss RELIEVING COLD DISCOMFORT THIS WAY! Josl Follow Simple Direction Below md Use Ftst-Actio( Beyer Asjirle if' 3 1. Tl pala iai ? K ,1 dlteomfort Md m- fa W bin fmr tiki j Iflttttf wtttf.Rt- tltZ J. If Throit Is riw JT -Ti from cold, crush and r 'Wr dissolve Sliyir 2? Tablets la ft flats 01 wiur. 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