Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-16
Mr.. Ralph E. Hoyt writes to the HER

Mr.. Ralph E. Hoyt writes to the HER
AID anent the Chicago fair as follows:
In less than two years from this time
the people of California will have the
grandest opportunity ever yet offered
to show to the world what this state is,
and what are it's possibilities. The Co
lumbian exposition at Chicago, during
the few months OF its existence, will
bring together millions of people, COM
ing from all portions of the civilized
world, only very small percentage of
whom have, or will have up to that
time, any correct and adequate concep-
ton of what California is capable of
producing.
Our State made a bad beginning by
the unseemly wrangle INDUCED in over
the appointment OF chief of the horti-
cultural department. But that folly
cannot be recalled; and so far as | can
learn, the Kentucky man appointed to
the important position is thoroughly
competent.
Nature has favored this coast region
to an extent that excites wonder and
admiration as it's matchless resources
are from time to time developed by
human enterprise. With united, per-
sistent, we'll directed effort on the part
of our people the State can make dis
play at Chicago the good results of
which will add tens OF millions to their
business and wealth.
Eastern people who know much of any
thing about this country expect to see
magnificent display OF California prod
ucts at the fair, and they must not be
disappointed. Thousands who desire to
visit California as prospectors will wait
till after the exposition, and their COM
ing to this coast will depend largely on
what they see in Chicago Of California's
products. Let us make the most OF this
golden opportunity.
The permanent exhibit as we are in
the habit of calling it, which was estab-
lished in Chicago a little more than a
year ago, is doing a splendid work for
the four southern counties by which it
is maintained. The liberal offer from
the Santa Fe Railroad company of free
room rent and free transportation o.
products, was characteristic of the en-
terprising policy pursued by that cor
poration toward Southern California,
and it was fortunate that the proposition
was accepted. The little exhibit is a
big success. If any one doubts it he
should manage to spend at least
one day in Major Truman's "show" and
see the visitors who throng the rooms.
What then may be expected when, at
the Columbian exposition, our entire
state shows to the world the finest ex-
hibit of products to be seen on the
grounds? 1t is not easy to overestimate
the practical results that will inevitably
follow such an exhibit.
After all the talk and controversy re-
garding the location OF the fair grounds,
the best place within the extensive linn
it's of Chicago was finally selected. At
| least so it seems to me, and such is the
opinion of every person in the east from
whom / heard an expression. 1t is for
tunate that the scheme to divide the ex-
position-putting part OF it in jackson
park and the balance of it on the lake
| front-did not prove successful. Such a
policy would have worked incalculable
| injury to the enterprise. An exposition
cut in two, with each half eight miles
from the other, would have created almost
universal dissatisfaction, and no matter
what Transportation facilities might
have been provided. The scheme was
finally defeated; and prominent Chi
cagoan, who is in the confidence of the
directory. informed me that the defeat
of the division scheme was due to the
protest of California as much as to any
| one influence. But whatever may have
been the causes that defeated the foolish
scheme to divide the Columbian exposi-
ton, the location where the complete
display will be made is admirable. The
grounds are ample in extent for all
necessary purposes, and they are only
eight miles from the '''down town" CEN
ter OF the city; or, for illustration, from
the Auditorium hotel. They extend to
the shore of Lake Michigan, where am
pie piers will be built, SO that steamers
| from the city or from places across the
lake can easily land passengers every
hour in the day. And it is evident that
scores of boats will have to be thus en-
ployed, for even with half dozen steam
railroads and two or three cable lines
leading to the grounds there will be
need of as many other transportation
facilities as human ingenuity and enter
prise can provide.
The proximity of the grounds to the
great lake insures to visitors the
benefit of the cooling breezes that
come in from off the water
much of the time during the summer
season, and in consequence of which
Chicago is often called summer re-
sort" Whenever cool breeze prevails
there during the summer of 1893, Wis
itors at the Columbian exposition will
get the full benefit OF it. And when
the melting siroccos blow from off the
prairies lying west and south, as last
resort the sweltering visitors can easily
Jump into the lake and cool off!
Work on the worlds fair building is
now progressing favorably, but of course
the winter weather will soon interfere
with much of the work to some extent.
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