Your eye is enthralled with the beauty of the coloring. One sees turquoise green domes floating in a silver-moated ether, long colonnades of glacial ice columns leading to regions beyond, where quiet silver pools throw back the mirrored glories.
Battalions of daffodils holding their long sabers stand in the South Garden, making ready for the great festival. Soon those daffodils will raise their golden trumpets and will sound the fanfare at the opening of the Great Jubilee, and up will spring two hundred thousand wide-eyed yellow pansies to look and wonder at the marvelous beauty and help in the hallelujah chorus that will be one great poeon of joy - one splendid hymn of praise.
And the blue eucalypti against the walls will lend their voices, the yellow acacias will add their cadences; while down by the great lagoon, ten thousand periwinkles will dance for joy.
Far out on the waters will be intoned to the rhythm of the waves a chorus from white-robed water-lilies, who, like a throng of choristers, will send their anthems rippling over the sun-kissed waves.
The Spirit of the East that has added its domes, its minarets, its soft-glowing colors, will remain and join hands with the Spirit of the West, that strong, pulsating energetic spirit, and the harmony produced will vibrate from the shores of the Occident to the shores of the Orient and bring about a better understanding, a great world peace.
And the world will come to listen. The great music will sound across the waters, and the world will be the better in its way of thinking, of working, of living - and all because of the great beauty. Wonderful is it to be living today, to have the opportunity of watching the beginning of this mighty growth; to be present at one of the world's greatest events.
And the pastel city by the sea will not leave us, for, as the years go on, whatever be our mission, the vision of this dream-city will float before us, leading us to finer, higher works, strengthening our ideals, and causing us to give only of our finest fiber.
Table of Contents
Foreword - The Pastel City by the Sea
Ground Plan of Palaces and Courts
Prayers at Opening of Exposition
Chiefs of Departments
Architecture and Architects
Sculptors and Mural Painters
Materials of the Palaces
Material of the Statues
Machinery Palace
Palace of Varied Industries
Flora of the Avenue of Progress and the Avenue of Palms
Palace of Manufactures and Palace of Liberal Arts
Palace of Education
Aisles between the Palaces
Court of the Universe
Cosmical Side of the Court of the Universe
Human Side of the Court of the Universe
Historical Side of the Court of the Universe
Ethical Side of the Court of the Universe
Floral Side of the Court of the Universe
Festival Side of the Court of the Universe
Tower of Jewels
Jewels on the Tower
Column of Progress
Court of the Ages
North Court of the Ages
Court of the Four Seasons
Court of Palms
Court of Flowers
Italian Towers
Palace of Fine Arts
Palace of Horticulture
South Gardens
Festival Hall
Color Scheme
Index
List of Illustrations