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as well as the reliefs are by Haig Patigian of San Francisco.
Vigorous types like machinery itself are used.
The generation, transmission and application of power as applied to
machinery are most interestingly represented.
The decorated drums of the columns show the Genii of Machinery.
The eyes of these figures are closed, reminding you that power comes
from within.

Notice how from any point of view your figures suggest support at the
sides of the drum.
The very position of the arms gives you a strong feeling of support.
The figures on the spandrels represent the application of power to
machinery.
The figures on the pedestals represent:
1. "Steam Power" with the lever that starts the engine.
2. "Invention" showing a more intellectual type of face, carrying the
figure with wings spread, suggesting the flight of thought. This thought,
as it were, is above the world.
3. "Electricity" with foot on the earth, suggesting that electricity is not
only in the earth, but around it. He carries his symbol, electricity.
4. "Imagination," showing man with his eyes closed - seeing within.
The bird of inspiration, the eagle, is about to take flight.
The wings on the head suggest the rapidity of thought or action.
Inside this great palace one sees the latest inventions in machinery.
Ponderous machines capable of shaping tons of metal, great
labor-saving machines, and all sorts of electrical appliances. "Safety
first" is a pronounced feature of this exhibit.

Palace of Varied Industries

Architect - W. B. Faville of San Francisco.
The high walls, averaging seventy feet to the cornice, with their
respective buttresses, are strongly suggestive of the California missions
of the eighteenth century.
The "California bear" and the Seal of California are in decorative and
suggestive evidence at the tops of the buttresses.
The green domes on the palace belong to the Byzantine school of
architecture, such domes as one sees in the mosques of Constantinople
and other Mohammedan centers.
The windows seen in the corner towers are the same kind that one sees
used in the majority of mosques.
The beautiful central portal, facing south, is modeled after the Portal of
the Hospice of Santa Cruz at Toledo, Spain.
It is 16th century Spanish Renaissance, known as the Plateresque style
(from platero, silversmith).

The columns suggest a wood origin and look as if they had been turned
in a lathe.
The portal is the color of cork, illuminated here and there with niche
walls of pink, and touches of ultramarine blue.
The fine figure work representing the modern industrial types is by
Ralph Stackpole of Oregon, whose home is now in San Francisco. He
expresses himself most simply and unaffectedly, in clear, broad
treatment, and makes the ordinary workman a man to be honored and
respected.
The upper figures represent an old man handing his burden to a
younger man. The Old World Handing Its Burden to the Younger
World, that is America, is finely suggested.
The keystone figure represents The Power of Industry, the man who
both thinks and uses his hands.
In the tympanum are the types representing the Varied Industries.
In the center is Agriculture representing the food side of life. On the
left a workman, possibly an architect, suggests the refinements of the
varied industries, while on the right one sees the ordinary workman
with his sledge-hammer, bringing to mind the rougher side of industry.
In the left corner a woman with her spindle - a lamb standing near -
recalls the making of textiles. Commerce occupies the right corner,
holding the prow of a vessel with its figurehead.
The Workman with his pick is repeated in the four niches.
The two flanking portals are also in the plateresque style with devices
of this Spanish Renaissance period represented on them.
The shields, or cartouches as they are called, have no special meaning,
being only ornaments of this particular period.
The portals on the east of the Palace of Varied Industries and also of
the Palace of Mines are suggestive of gateways of old Roman walled
cities, like those of Perugia, for instance. This Italian type of portal is
chosen since Machinery Palace opposite is in the Italian style of
architecture.
Notice how the pastel pink accents the portal.
The figure of "The Miner" in the niches is by Albert Weinert, whose
work in the Congressional Library at Washington is well known.
The Palace of Varied Industries has an exhibition of the more refined
manufactures, those articles that are regarded more as luxuries, such as

bronzes, jewelry, silverware, fine pottery, porcelains, rugs, leather work,
silks, etc.
The Palace of Mines deals with the smelting of metals, a fine exhibition
of different ores, and above all "Safety First" in its relation to mines.
The Mines Rescue work is most interesting.

Flora of the