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THE MAGIC CITY OF THE PACIFIC
of Exhibits, and John MacLaren, Landscape Gardener. The Exposi-
tion is to be congratulated, moreover, upon having secured the services
of Paul E. Deneville, who is making and placing the Travertine finish
of all the buildings, and modeling the architectural ornaments with
such skill. To H. M. Lawrence, also, must be given credit foc ex-
cellent judgment in the architectural coloring.
    When one considers the vast amount of money, energy and in-
spiration that are being poured into the creation of this vivid magic
city beside the Golden Gate-when one thinks how beautiful a
picture the towers and pools and gardens will present when once
completed-it seems positively sacrilegious to even suggest destroying
it all when the year nineteen hundred and fifteen has passed. Yet
that is what will happen. Like so many of its predecessors, this Ex-
position is doomed to only a brief existence. The beauties of line
and mass and color which all these architects, sculptors and painters
have so eagerly and laboriously wrought, are to perish-all but the
mural decorations, which unlike those painted for "World's Fairs"
of the past, will be fastened lightly to the walls, removed when the
Exposition closes, and sent to various art galleries and museums
where their loveliness may give perpetual joy.
   But even though the buildings and the sculpture will be demolished
when their period of usefulness is over, the vision of their beauty, it
is safe to prophesy, will linger for many years in the memory of man.
For those vast halls and giant statues, those tree-lined avenues and
garden-circled pools, will have voiced a message to which none can
help but listen-a message that may freshen our ideals of form and
color, and unite our builders, sculptors and painters for a common
cause. Thus, out of the beauty of this temporary Exposition, a new
architectural impulse may be born.
TYPICAL DECORATIVE FRIEZE USED IN THE TRAVERTINE BUILDINGS OF THE EXPOSITION.
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