Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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cord, houses some colos-sal exhibits. When youvisit there you should lingerby the great Pelton waterwheel, and when you do you will remem-ber that this has been constructed forour company, for use in one of our pro-jected hydroelectric developments upcountry. Special mention, also, shouldbe made of the Babcock and Wilcox Com-panys exhibit, and of the displays madeby the Westinghouse and General Elec-tric companies, both of which are repre-sented in more than one exhibit palace.It is proposed to treat of special exhibitsin future numbers of Pacific ServiceMagazine. There is something of inter-est to members and friends of PacificService in all of them. In the Palacesof Transportation, Mines, Liberal .\rtsand Agriculture you will find as much toengage your scientific attention as in Ma-chinery Hall. It must not be supposed,either, that electricity has the field to it-self. Gas plays a most important part inthe exhibit line, as you have already beentold. The Collective Gas Exhibit in the
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Palace of Manufacture isnow nearing completion. Itwill be something worthseeing. Leaving shop for a mo-ment, be sure and hear thegreat organ in Festival Halland see McLarens orchidexhibit in the Palace ofHorticulture. The state and foreignbuildings have each its ownparticular point of interest.Of the state buildings thatdedicated to New Yorkstate is generally concededto have the most elaborateand best decorated interior,while our own Californiabuilding attracts the eye ofthe visitor from afar be-cause of its picturesque Mis-sion style of architecture.The writer wishes thathe could describe the won-drous scheme of illumina-tion that makes a veritablefairyland of these groupsof buildings and courts at night. Failing(he power to do so, his advice to thegentle reader is: Go and see for yourselfand, seeing, you will marvel greatly. And,if your heart will allow your mind tocome down to mundane things, you willgive at least a crumb of praise to PacificService that has supplied equipment andt

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