Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-04
THE COMING centennial.
An Appeal from the state Committee
for subscriptions for California's
Quota of Stock la the Great Ma.
tfOnal Exhibition.

To the People of California:
Sufficient progress has been made to
satify us that the grand National and
International Exhibition at Philadel-
phia next year, in commemoration of
the centennial anniversary of the ma
tion's birth, will be brilliant success
if all the States contribute the quota
ofexpenses assigned to them. Present
indications give assurance that all the
States will respond promptly and lib
orally, and California, we are sure,
will not prove the sole exception. The
magnificent buildings intended for the
display of the nations progress and
wealth and industrial activity are al
ready in process of erection. They
will cover forty acres of ground in
Fairmount Park, and will cost about
ten millions of dollars. Of this sum,
Pennsylvania alone has subscribed
four and a half millions of dollars, and
other States have contributed with
liberality inspired by "a settled purpose
to throw all previous international ex-
positions In the shade. California has
been called upon to subscribe the
small sum of ninety-fve thousand
dollars greenbacks, equivalent to
about eighty-two thousand dollars in
gold. In return, the subscribers will
personally receive Centennial stock,
for the redemption OF which all the
profits of the enterprise are pledged,
and which the managers at Philadel-
phia confidently predict will be suffi-
cient to repay the full amount of sub.
scriptions, dollar for dollar. But in
addition to this personal security, the
State of California will enjoy the
privilege of making a grand display
of her wealth and her attractions; the
fabrics of her mills, her foundries and
her workshops; the products of
her soil and of her mines; models
illustrating her social progress and
even showing in miniature the stri-
king natural features of the country
that have attracted so many strangers
to her shores. Our inquiries satisfy
us that all the space allotted to us will
be filled. The pride of our people has
been aroused and the effort will be
made to show that, young as we are,
our State can make display which
the thousands of Californians who will
visit the Exposition can point with
pride. The. undersigned have been
duly com missioned by the authorities
in Philadelphia to raise the amount
California has been called upon to con-
tribute. There is no time to be lost;
the buildings must be completed in
December next, for on the first of jan
uary the doors are to be opened for the
admission of articles intended for ex-
hibition.
We appeal with confidence to the
proverbial liberality and State pride of
our people to assist us in raising the
needful amount 1t is sufficient to say
that if we do not raise it California
cannot be represented at the Centen-
nial, for we cannot accept the place
assigned to us as a charity.
After careful consideration we have
appointed the following gentlemen to
constitute canvassing Committees for
the city of San Francisco.
Committee No. l. John ]. Vaen-
tine, G. w. Kellogg, Frank M. Pix
ley.
Committee No. 2-W. w. Dodge, G.
ID. O'Sullivan, Frederick l.. Castle.
Committee No. 3-James r.. Keen,
William Burlingame, George w. Sim
ley.
These gentlemen are authorized to
receive subscriptions to the Centennial