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Show Great Lagoon Before Palace of Fine Arts at the Pananiai-Pa Int Copyright, 1913, by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. WORK has been commenced upon what promises to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque features of the landscape englneerln ; of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco. It is the lagoon in front of the Pilace of Fine Arts. This lagoon will be mad) in semblance of one of the lovely mountain lakeletg of California and will have little about it to suggest the hand of man, as It will bo natural and wild, with no such things as bridges, balustrades bal-ustrades or other artificial structures. The atmosphere of the wilderness will pervade 1L and It will be a refreshing refresh-ing spot for thoso who have been threading the formal avenues and traversing the magnificent exhibit palaces of the Exposition. The lagoon will be 800 feet long, bat with varying width, like the lakes of which it will be a replica. Natural rocks and bowlders will be placed In It, as well as a few little Islets In its northern end. The rocks will be mossy and fern-clad. Creeping vines will trail here and there, while weeping willows, Monterey cypress, Italian cypress and other shrubbery peculiar to waterways will be planted along the shores. Water lilies and other marine plants will rest upon its surface. On the western shore there will be a large rotunda, from which there will be passageways to the Palace of Fine Arts. This rotunda will be surrounded by thick shrubbery and wild plants to produce an effect of antiquity, some part being overgrown with thick vegetation, the whole suggesting the ruins of old Panama City, destroyed by Morgan and his pirates In the sixteenth century, which still stand not far from the canal the completion of which the Exposition will celebrate. The lagoon will be a characteristic bit of California scenery, and It has even been suggested that specimens of California fish, such as steel head, trout, salmon, bass and others, be released in the lagoon to add to Its wilderness wilder-ness effect. Swans will glide on the water. |