Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915

San Francisco (dedicated to St. Francis) in the year of 1914 watched with trepidation the darkening war clouds gradually spreading over the continent of Europe. They had ample reasons for being alarmed for they had looked forward to holding a Fair, an Exposition for the period February 20th through Dec. 4th, 1915 in honor of the opening to traffic of the Panama Canal on August 15, 1914. State after State were completing their buildings and their exhibits. The Pacific Northwest and other producing timber areas with their incomparable lumber assets was representatively identified with the Hoo-Hoo Building, it being an Exposition Club House for all Lumbermen. It is said that the term or word Hoo-Hoo is used as a warning signal when a tree-faller is about to topple a forest giant...