Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-13
GOING TO THE FAIR.
A Chance for Many to Visit
Chicago.
A Good Plan for Persons of
Small Means.
Facilities and C0nveniences Offered
to Travellers and Visitors.

Further inquiry into the affairs of the
Worlds Fair company, which has an
Office in this city under the management
of F. Person & Co., at 211 Sansome
street, shows that it is legitimate bus
mess enterprise, backed by solid finan-
cial support. The Worlds Fair COM
pany is incorporated under the laws of
this state. Its headquarters are at Los
Angeles, and III. T. Hazard, mayor of
that city, is its president, and A. d.
Childress, president of the City bank of
Los Angeles, is treasurer. The other
officers Of the company are well-known
business men and capitalists of that
city. The company is an outgrowth of
another company organized in Chicago,
with G. d. Stone, president of the Con-
solidated Street Railway companies of
that city, at its head.
The Chicago company is known as the
Columbian Exposition, International
Exhibit and Information company. 1t
proposes to establish and maintain dur
ing the worlds fair at Chicago an ex-
change in a building to be erected at a
cost of $500, 900, where visitors who paw
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taken care Of, directed to hotels and
boarding places where good accommo-
dations can be obtained at reasonable
rates fixed by contract. 1t Will furnish
all the conveniences of modern first
class club house. A directory of visitors
to the fair will be kept, so that persons
coming from any country or state may
easily learn who, if any, of his or her
friends from those parts of the world are
in the city, and where they are to be
found. Writing materials will be fur
nished, and telegraphic and telephone
conveniences supplied.
In connection with this company the
Worlds Fair company, of Los Angeles,
was formed. Membership certificates
in the Los Angeles company entitle the
purchaser to all the conveniences of the
Chicago company, the latter being un-
der $4,000 bonds to the Los Angeles
company for the fulfllment OF its part
of the contract.
The firm of f. Person & Co., which,
acts as the general managers in this
city of the Los Angeles company, is
composed of George Easton, the we'll
known. insurance man and brother Of
Wendell Easton, T. Person and V. d.
Duboce, all three reputable business
men.
The plan of the Worlds Fair COM
pany is this: 1t is well known that
many people can more readily spare
$3.50 week for 100 weeks than they can
raise $3.50 at the end of that time. To
members who will pay $5 down and de-
posit this weekly saving of $1.50 for 100
weeks the company offers TO supply re-
turn railroad tickets to Chicago during
the Worlds Fair, twenty-four meal
tickets on the way, six days first-class
board in Chicago, six admission tickets
to the fair, and other small accommodate
tions mentioned in detail in the con-
tract or membership certificate.
The plan is based very much upon the
plans that have made the large Euro
pean and American excursion companies
SO successful and so popular.
The member is not required to pay his
weekly installment to Z. Person & Co.,
the managers, but to deposit it in either
the Bank of California, the Fist Ma
tional bank, or the Pacific Coast Savings
society tc the credit OF the Worlds Fair
company, every deposit being recepted
for by the bank of the depositor's selec-
tion in a stub book furnished to him
with his membership certificate.
Prominent business men to whom the
scheme has been explained regard it as
feasible and practical, and affording to
persons of limited means an excellent
opportunity to visit the fair at mucL (
less cost than they could secure the same.
facilities by their individual efforts.
In estimating the cost $50 has been
assumed as the possible price of the re-
turn railroad fare, but in view of tn
fact that the railroad people have given
Mr.. Easton TO understand that the fares
may be greatly reduced during the fair
the company guarantees its patrons that
in the event of the fare being reduced it
will return them the amount represent
ing the difference between $50 and the
actual fare; SO that if the round trip
rate should be reduced to $50 the holder
of membership certificate who may
have paid in his full $3.50 will have $50
returned to him and will be enabled to
spend six days at the fair for $120, in
cluding all necessary expenditures