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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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was dynamited and the big pillar crashed to earth, a mass of splintered wood 9 The Transit of Exposition Glories
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Festival Hall was con-sidered to be an acousticmasterpiece. When thegreat organ was removedto San Franciscos new artcenter the same dummy-engine that helped buildthe structure helped to de-stroy it. The Tower ofJewels adjoining it suf-fered a less severe butmore inglorious death atthe hands of the destroy-ers. After the scintilla-ting jewels hadbeenplucked from their set-ting and sold to admirers,a stick of dynamite wastouched off and the towerwent the way of itsnumerous predecessors The Court of the Universewas perhaps the mostauspicious exhibition oftemporary art at the ex-position. World famedartists worked monthsplanning it. Day laborersdestroyed it in a fewhours. The various his-torical groups forming thecrowning features of tielofty court arches werenot spared when the expo-sition had lived its day.The most delicately fash-ioned figures among thegroups were pulled to earthand were followed, inturn, by the beautifularches themselves Reducing an Exposition to Dust

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