Mr. Paul Deneville of New York has most successfully made a plastic
travertine, composed of gypsum from Nevada combined with hemp fiber and
a coloring pigment, which has been applied to all of the Exposition
buildings, producing a most pleasing glareless background under the
sunny skies of San Francisco.

The roofs are covered with imitation tiles, since real tiles would be
too expensive for Exposition purposes.



Material of the Statues



The architectural statues - that is, those directly connected with the
architecture - are of smoked-ivory tone, so that you see them as part of
the architectural scheme.

Those far away from the eye, used as free statues, are, in the main,
golden.

Those nearer the eye simulate bronze, the special color that seems
worked out from the color of the blue eucalyptus.

All the statues of the Exposition palaces and courts are of travertine,
the material of which the buildings are made.