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
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