The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-11
FORGING AHEAD.
Campaign for Money for
the Fair Begins.
SUBSTANTIAL AID PROMISED.
Conferences to Be Held With Con-
gressmen and Others-The Gen.
eral Enthusiasm Increasing.

The success of the California Midwinter
international Exposition seems no longer
prOblematical. Both the executive commit
tee and the finance committee of fifty are
sanguine that not only will the necessary
money be raised but that the exposition
will be far greater in extent of exhibits
than was at first deemed possible.
From all parts If the State. the East and
Europe letters are coming every day en-
couraging the workers and promising SUBJ
stantial aid whenever it may be needed.
The executive committee holds daily ses-
sions at the headquarters in the Mills
building. and the members are pushing
the work as rapidly as possible. At the
meeting yesterday afternoon full COM
mittee was present. The first business was
to appoint X. Cornely assistant director
general of the exposition, with special
charge of the foreign department.
He will enter upon his duties to-day,
and, being a man thoroughly we'll vtrsed
! In exposition work, will prove great help
to the committee. Mr.. Cornely is enthusi-
astic over the proposed exposition, and
says that he is certain that the cream OF
| the foreign exhibits at Chicago will come
| here.
The secretary was instructed to write 10
| all the Congressman now In San francisco
| and ask them to meet with the executive
committee at o'clock this afternoon for a
| conference. A communicat was also
| sent to the California Press Association
| requesting a confer with committee
| from that body at 80 o'cock this after
noon al the exposition headquarters.
| The committee also addressed letter to
| the officials of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, asking that they should fix the time
! and place for a conference concerning
| business connected with the fair.
large number Of communications were
received from persons wanting concessions.
| The japanese garden, old Vienna. with Its
| ANTIQUE houses and its orchestra, as 1t now
stands in the Midway Plaisance of the
Worlds Fair. were among the features for
which applicants asked space and terms.
| MIR. del Moro, the commissioner of fine
arts and industrial arts at the Worlds
| Fair, wrote congratulating California
upon its enterprise and Offering his services
in securing the Italian exhibit as we'll as
new exhibit.
The question of selecting the four men,
| bers of the executive committee from the
interior of the State is giving the commit
| ice no little trouble. Hundreds of names
have been selected. but no two people
seem to agree upen the same man. and so.
after discussing the matter, the selection
| of the four additional members was again
postponed.
The committee ordered offices for Chief
|
Director General Cornely to be fitted up
at once.
Applications for positions from hundred
people were received and ordered filed.
During the session Mrs. Crouch. one of
the proprietors of the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
| called on the secretary and handed him
5000 in gold. saying: eff more IS needed
we " i'll do our share" A letter was read
from g. Verdier of the "City Of Paris"
inclosing check for $3.50.
The committee adjourned to meet with
the finance committee in parlor OF the
| Palace Hotel at 80 O'Clock.
At the hour named almost every one Ut
the fifty gentlemen named by Mayor
Ebert as members of the finance COM
mittee were present in parlor A of the
Palace. and there were twenty or thirty
interested spectators besides. Mayor
Ellert occupied the chair and called the
meeting to order. He stated that he had
already told the gentlemen present in his
circular letter what he and the people OF
| California expected OF them and then in
! trOdu ed the president of the exposition,
| who in brief address set forth the posi-
bili:ies of the fair and the advantages to be
derived from holding it in San Francisco.
w. II. L. Barnes followed in an eloquent
speech He said that San Francisco,
which never had any right 10 60 to sleep,
was waking up. and prophesied that the
fair would be as great wonder in its
way as the Columbian Exposition. AS to
getting the money there wasn't the slight
est doubt, and the man who had money and
| would Tot help such an enterprise was the
man that California wanted to see emf
CRATE. General Barnes was frequently in
| terrupted by applause, and at the cOnclu-
sion of his speech was placed in nomina-
ton for chairman of the finance committee
and elected by reclamation. julius Kahn
| was elected secretary.
| R. b. Mitchell announced that the COL
lection books and numbered receipr-bOoks
would be ready for the committee to-day.
General Barnes then called meeting of
the finance committee at II O'Clock this
morning, at the rooms of the exposition
committee in the Mills building, at which
time the CITY will be districted. the books
distributed and plan Of campaign adopted
so that work may be commenced at
| once.
1t was decided that any vacancies in the
finance committee should be filled here
after by the chairman.