The Transit of Exposition Glories 



Festival Hall was con- 

 sidered to be an acoustic 

 masterpiece. When the 

 great organ was removed 

 to San Francisco's new art 

 center the same dummy- 

 engine that helped build 

 the structure helped to de- 

 stroy it. The Tower of 

 Jewels adjoining it suf- 

 fered a less severe but 

 more inglorious death at 

 the hands of the destroy- 

 ers. After the scintilla- 

 ting jewels hadbeen 

 plucked from their set- 

 ting and sold to admirers, 

 a stick of dynamite was 

 touched off and the tower 

 went the way of its 

 numerous predecessors 



The Court of the Universe 

 was perhaps the most 

 auspicious exhibition of 

 temporary art at the ex- 

 position. World famed 

 artists worked months 

 planning it. Day laborers 

 destroyed it in a few 

 hours. The various his- 

 torical groups forming the 

 crowning features of tie 

 lofty court arches were 

 not spared when the expo- 

 sition had lived its day. 

 The most delicately fash- 

 ioned figures among the 

 groups were pulled to earth 

 and were followed, in 

 turn, by the beautiful 

 arches themselves 



