The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-22
WORLDS FAIR.
The San Francisco Association
Elects Officers.
An Effort to be Made to Obtain Cumulative
Exhibit in Special Buildings for
California Products.

The first annual meeting of the San Fran
cisco Worlds Fair Association was held in
the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce,
yesterday afternoon. The meeting was
called in accordance with Article XIV of
the bylaws of the association. In the
absence of the President, Mayor Pond,
G. w. McNear presided. and Thomas j..
Haynes acted as Secretary.
The small attendance gave rise to an eX-
preston of feeling, by those present, that
the association should take more interest
in its proceedings
NJ. NJ. Estee spoke at length on what he
considered one of the principal aims of the
association. He said:
A CUMULATIVE EXHIBIT.
next month they are going to agree
upon site for the Worlds Fair in Chicago.
There is one thing of infinite Importance to
California, and especially TO San Francisco,
which the delegates to the convention must
attend TO when it meets on the 18th of Sep
TENDER. The general idea in the East is
that all products shall be exhibited ire
spective of locality, and that no State lines
shall be drawn as to exhibits. For instance,
all peaches shall be exhibited as peaches,
all pears as pears, all machinery as ma
chinery, with no State or city lines, and
nothing to identify them except the name
of the grower or manufacturer. The scat
tering of her products all over the fair
would be great injustice to our State.
California should insist upon a cumulative
eXh ibit, by which l mean that the products
Of California should be gathered in one
building or series of buildings. There are
ten or fifteen horticultural aud agricultural
products which are raised no place in
America save in this State. If we have a
cumulative fair California should have her
prunes, her nuts, her olives, her five or six
distinctive wo DDS, particularly the redwood,
eXhi bited in such a manner that the world
could tell at a glance the place of their pro-
ductlOn."
The speaker then moved that it be the
sense of the meeting that the State should
take all necessary steps to obtain cumula-
tive exhibit of her products. The motion
was adopted unanimously.
LACK OF INTEREST SHOWN.
After other members had spoken in the
same vein, jules Cert called attention to
the fact that the association was not gain
ing members as rapidly as its Importance and
the interests involved warranted. He said
it had been expected that 5000 members
would have joined, whereas there were only
121 names on the roll. He asked that each
member constitute himself committee Of
one to enlarge the membership.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The association took up tie subject of the
election of Trustees for the ensuing year.
All the old officers were reelected as fol-
lows: f. b. Pond, George w. McNear,
Morris NJ. Estee, Colin NJ. Boyd, A. G..
Hawes Isidor Jacobs. A. w. Scott, A. S.
Hallidie, Jules Cert, G. Z. Bassett, C..
Carry.
Jules Cert moved that the committee elect
delegates to represent it in the convention
which meets on the 18th prox. The motion
was carried and the selection of the two
delegates to which the body is entitled, was
left to the Chair
On the conclusion of the meeting the
Board of Trustees held a short session at
which they reelected f. B. Pond President,
and Thomas j. Haynes, Secretary of tie
association