Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-31
Interview With Secretary
Nolan of San Diego.
He Likes the Chamber of Com
merce Exhibit.
Good Words for the Ladies' Annex
From the Eastern Press.
The Valuable Aid Which the Women
are Able to Give to an Enter
prise of this Kind.

Secretary George M. Nolan, of the
San Diego Chamber of Commerce, was
in the city Saturday and attended the
meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to
represent San Diego's interests in the
proposed exhibit at'Chicago. Mr.. Nolan
believes that this exhibit will be of inn
mense benefit to Southern California,
and thinks that if it is started it should
be kept up in the very best style.
Through the medium of this exhibit
many people who are doubtful about the
productiveness of Southern California
can see for themselves the fruits and
other products of the soil raised here
He also expressed surprise that Secre-
tary Patton, of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce, had been able to obtain
so good an exhibit within such
short space of time. This exhibit, he
said, would prove one of the best things
for Los Angeles county that could be ar
ranged, and it should be drawn to the
attention of every visitor. He also
spoke of a plan for dividing the county
into school-district horticultural asso-
Citations, which, he said, had worked ad-
mirably in San Diego county, and which
Mr.. Patton had agreed to put into opera
ton in Los Angeles county. Through
these associations any desired informa-
tion could be furnished inquirers at all
times The ladies' annex, he also said,
had proved to be quite an important
addition to the San Diego chamber ,and he
Thought that the annex recently formed
here would be equally helpful.
In relation to the San Diego ladies'
annex, the Philadelphia press of March
9th says:
Awriter in the Boston Traveller tells of
a visit to the Ladies' Annex to the Cham
Der of Commerce in San Diego, Cal. 1t
is probably the only organization of the
kindhn the country or in the world, and
its success has been as marked as it's ex-
istence is unique. 1t has membership
of 700, and meets regularly every Tues
day afternoon for the transaction of busi-
ness. The organization grew out of a
proposition to make one day in the week
''ladies' day." by which it was hoped to
and progress of the city of San Diego.
The project has succeeded far beyond
the hopes of those who originated it.
Lively SCHCliC lOI pIOHAOliiAS tlfC pIOc-
perity of the place is discussed at the
weekly meetings of the Annex. Before
it was organized it was impossible to
keep up a respectable exhibit of the
products OF the county in the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce. Now a
variety of excellent specimens of fruits
and vegetables are always to be seen
the improvement having resulted from
the Annex arousing emulation by offer
ing hand-painted banner to the dis
trict or locality that maintained the
most creditable display of it's own
products.
The example set by these California
women could be followed in other cities
and localities with admirable results
There are countless ways in which
woman can make her influence felt in
the ever widening life of these times.
Every city does not need a horticultural
display in its Chamber of Commerce,
but there is not city in the country
that has the parks it needs, or if it has
the space it is not properly improved.
San Diego was in a similar situation with
nominal city park of 400 acres, but
without an acre improved. The Women S
Annex of the Chamber of Commerce
obtained the liberty to make a begin
ming, and by taking ten acre plots at a
time, steady progress is being made to-
ward supplying San Diego with an ad-
mirahle park. All the work has been
done with money, trees, plants and
shrubs obtained bv the women