Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-08

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as mining, manufactures, agriculture, hor.
ticulture aud commerce No cheap or
tawdry publication or pamphlets should be
permitted to 60 out-absolusely nothing
but the most accurate statements.
Above all, the pamphlets and other
publications should be most handsomely
illustrated. This bureau of literature.
which will distribute information concern.
ing California and how to get here, will be
one of the most valuable adjuncts which
our exhibit will have.
II merely mention all these things as
showing what might and should be done to
attract people in this direction, and to en-
courage the coming of people of means, not
only OF this country, but of Europe and
elsewhere. The chance to get so MANY
people here, recollect, will not come again
for fifty years.
Now let me say word as to how many
people We could hope to bring here 1t is
estimated that from 100000 to 3 600 600
people will visit Chicago. Surely, by max
ing such display as we propose we ought
to get at least 100000 of them to visit us.
Now, the round't trip fare from Chicago to
san francisco on this occasion should not
exceed 500. Doa little figuring and you
Will md that the receipts of the various
transcoDtinental railroads would aggregate
$40 100000. Suppose only so 600 people
come. the receipts of the railroads would
be So. 600 900. 1t must be remembered that
the railroad fares of the visitors is oLlv e
part OF what they will spend. What with
hotel bills and trips to Yosemite and a
thousand and one other places they will
leave enough money in the State to more
than pay the people for any expenditure
they may authorize, let alone the great ben
ett which all will get from the free adyer.
Using that it will give us.
NOW what are our resources, and what
will all of this cost Chicago has puaran.
teed to raise SIC, 600, 900 in order to get the
fair. Suppose California goes TO the man.
ayers OF the fair with substantial backing
ana guarantee OF an unparalleled and
unique display. There is not the least
doubt but what we could not only have all
the space we wanted, but that the managers
would assist US in erecting our quarters. 1
think that at the very lowest the State
should appropriate $3.50 COO, and this can
be supplemented by private subscriptions
OF as much more. The various railroads
which would join in the benefits can assist
in raising the funds, and depend on it, #
We go prepared to make a monster show,
the people of the State will stand in and
do all in their power TO help it along.
The management must be wholly free
from any suggestion of politics. A Worlds
Fair Association should be Incorporated
and should provide for the appointment of
delegates from the various trade organiza-
tons and industries. l am heart and soul
opposed to any scheme which does not in
clude practical men. Every commercial
organization in this city and State should
be represented. The wheat growers should
have one of their number on the Board.
as should the vineyardists, the fruit.
growers, the fruit-packers, the raisin men,
The miners, manufacturers, and all the call
ings of life. When this is done the people
IL have confidence in us, and it is only
fair to expect that all the transcontinental
roads will bear their share of the expense.
"Once in Chicago, excursions to Califor-
MIA can be organized and everything DOS
slble can be done in advance to insure the
comfort of our guests.
There is one thing that must be i'm
pressed on our people-either this thing
must be done on stupendous scale or we
had best go with the rest of the States and
be crushed out of space by the more popu-
lons and influential Eastern States. We
do not want any second-class show. 1t
would do us more injury than good, and
know that it will be easier to get $780,
00O for this purpose, with an assurance
that we will have the best thing going,
than it will be to raise $4,000 for second
or third class display which will do us no
good at all.
California is entitled to the best. We
have all the elements of greatness and
on the largest scale only we will succeed.
On any other proposition we will fail out.
right.
"One of the most important sources of
revenue, provided California has separate
building for an exhibition, outlined agains.
a clear sky, will be the advertising ad-
yantages or privileges of the building.
The advertising advantages of the Amer
lean exhibition in London netted the
management over million of dollars.
know of one railroad in the United States
that paid $4,000 for the privilege of ad-
vertising its lines on wall space about ten
feet square. believe the advertising
privileges of such, an exhibition to be
worth from 500 600 to 5000 00o"