The herald., 1893-11-28
NOW ALL MUST GO TO WORK
And Make the Midwinter Fair
Exhibit a C0rker.
The Proffer of the Southern Pacific
Company Accepted.
Tho Proceedings Of the Committoe Yes.
terday at tho Chamber of Com
morce-Aii In Favor OF Going
ON with the Display.

Mr.. Forman, who was o member OF
the committee which has been negotiat
ing with the Southern Pacific railroad
in San Francisco for the past few days,
reported as follows: The time has
come when the matter OF whether ws 60
ahead or not must be decided finally.
Let US settle it one way or another this
morning. The result of our negotiations
with the S,uthern Pacific railway is
that passengers west OF the Rockies are
given 10 days in San Francisco and 10
days additional in which to visit South
ern California il they wish. The Portland
man, for example, gets round-trip
ticket to San Francisco for single fare
and is allowed 10 days stay in San
Francisco. A coupon is attached to his
ticket by the use of which he can buy
ticket for one and a fifth fare to Los
Angeles and return, and can put in 15
additional days here, which, together
with the original 10 days and the time
allowed en- route, gives him a total of
nearly 80 days, which is just what we
originally asked. This arrangement is
much more favorable than the one that
prevailed in Chicago and is in the opin-
ion of the committee all that we have
any right to demand or expect.
To go further in our demands would
avail us nothing and would place us in
an unreasonable position. 1t has not
been generally understood that the
transcontinental business, which is the
largest part, or the part that is most
valuable to us, is fixed all right. Passen-
gers for the east can spend six months
in Los Angeles If they wish without
added expense on their tickets. The
iare from San Francisco to Los Angeles
will will be $18 for the round trip, which
is one and one-fifth, and practically the
same as the fare the other way. In ad-
dition to that We are promised plenty OF
excursions after the fair opens.
The fair itself is going to be magnifi.
cent success. To draw out now after we
have secured a choice location and had
everything thus far our own way would
be an egregious error. Funds are all
right. We can get what we need, and
the outside counties are pledged to do
their part. But whatever is done must
be done quickly.
F. A. Foster of Ventura spoke next.
He said II think perhaps you people
in Los Angeles do not appreciate the
awkward predicament in which you
have placed the rest OF us-we who are
in the outside counties. We are unani-
nous in the belief thatwe wish to go on
with the exhibit. We joined with you
on the understanding that we we're sat-
isfied with existing arrangements and
were ready to 90 ahead. Now the rail-
road offers an arrangement that is fair
enough, and yet you hold back. 1t is
too late now to 60 ON without you, for
we cannot get any space in the general
exhibit buildings.
We have been led into this undertak-
ing with you and are left stranded no.
where. 1t doesn't look to as like very
SQUARE arrangement and certainly not
one that is characteristic of Los Angeles
in her dealingo with the outside
counties.
understand that much Of the oppo.
sition comes from an organization OF
merchants In thie city who want to get
up flower show here instead OF going
to San Francisco, Theas merchants are
not going to bs thanked TO any great ex-
tent by the people In the surrounding
districts, not even in the country sec-
tions of Los Angeles county, unless l
am much mistaken. Our people have
set their hearts on making this display.
and when the fair comes off and they
90 up north and 60 through that mag.
nificent city of buildings which is going
I'D there, the people who stood in the
wav of the enterprise and caused this
section to be left out will come in for
some pretty hard criticism.
Go ahead and get up all the flower
festivals you want, but after drawing
us into this undertaking in the way you
have. don't desert US and destroy our
hopes of repeating the success we won
| in Chicago.
81 tell you people could better afford
to put up this building and donate. its
use to the outside counties ii you never
put a single exhibit in it than to force
us all to back down DOW.
Mr.. r. S. IngEam of San Bernardno
followed emphasizing the same points.
He said
"The outside counties stand ready
now to 20 on and we call on Los Angeles
to fulfill her obligations. Regarding the
citrus fair, which l understand some ci
your people are talking of getting here,
/ have talked with the fruit growers OF
every county and they prefer to see itgo
to San Francisco. They are anxious &c
exhibit there against the northern
grower end are not afraid OF the result
"The midwinter fair will be O great
success, far beyond what any of us had
hoped. A big city 10 springing up in
the park and the cream Of the worlds
fair exhibits, which it took years o.
work to get together, will all be brought
together in San Francisco. The indica
tions are that the entire coast will bt
we'll filled with visitors and Los Angeles
will get all that she wGnte.
proposition of \the railway company
seems fair enough to those who under
stand what is possible under the cir
cumstauces, and should be accepted 81
the work started.
Judge Charles Silent followed, sayin,
that he thought the railway had don'
all that could be expected. He though
that the matter had never been clearly
understood by the people generally
He had found that MANY did not appre
ciate that the transcontinental business
had been arranged in the best possible
shape for this section. Visitors coult
have four to six months here il the,
wishad it. Our withdrawal will not b.
missed, and we will find ourselves in al
absurd position if we attempted 1t. Tn
right thing to do was to go ahyad ant
when it was all over this would not be
dissenting voice to the proposition tina
they had done just right. People VIII
were now throwing obstacles in the wa
OF this committee, when they came :
go. hn