Information for Exhibitors
A brief Description of the Exposition, Extracts of important Rules and Regulations, and an Analysis of the Plan and Scope of the Exhibit Departments

-------------1 1--------------- ------------------------------- - INFORMATION |(1915)| /or EXHIBITORS ------— —— — petition for new markets had not yet reached the present tension which must, of necessity, even be increased by the opening of the Panama Canal marking it as one of the most important events — if not the most important — in the commercial history of the world; and by the Exposition which will worthily celebrate that event so pro- ductive of universal benefit, for it will be held under conditions in relation to new activities of commerce such as have never before presented themselves and as, in all probability, will never occur again. HE area on which the Exposition will stand contains 635 acres, with a frontage of two miles on San Francisco Bay and an average depth of half a mile. The arrangement of the general building scheme will form, as it were, a triptych, the three elements of which, though distinct in detail, will blend together in the gen- eral harmonious characteristics that will govern the whole. V iewed from the Bay, to the east will stand, the sixty acres of Amusement Concessions; to the west will be grouped the buildings of the States of the Union and the Foreign Government pavilions; while the fourteen vast palaces, in which the various exhibits will be displayed, will form the center. The general impression of this central group will be that of a vast enclosed palace. The walls will be pierced