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Show Panama Exposition Notes. San Francisco, May 6. -James A. Barr, one of tho best known educators in the west, and Secretary Sec-retary of the California Teacher's Teach-er's Association has been ap-. pointed Chief of the Department Depart-ment of Educators of the Panama-Pacific InternationafExposi-tion. InternationafExposi-tion. During the past year Chief Barr has been manager of the Exposition's Bureau of Convention Conven-tion and Societies, and has suc-cdod-in securing for the 1915 International Exposition more than one hundred conventions and congresses. In order to complete the palace of Machinery at the Panama Pan-ama Exposition, within the time '-' HBD H !.-...:. i . AT H called for By'the contract,,-. Wti 000 feet of lumber will have to ." H be put in place in the building H each week. At this stage of the construe- M tion of Machinery Hall, 400 tons M of steel have been used in the fl form of bolts, bars and struc- IH tural shapes. The heaviest col- H umn in the building will weigh H 28 tons, the heaviest truss 10 tons. The total length of the H building will be about one thous- fl and feet, the width about, 400, H feet Three north and south M peaks will be 134 feet high and - ' H 120 in the clear. At present " ' there are 418 men employed on B Machinery Hall. This number is' M composed of 203 carpenters, 165' M laborers, 38 steel and iron work- M ers, 8 pile drivers and. 4 loco-. H motive drivers. . H |