The morning call., 1893-07-18
BUILDERS IN COUNCIL.
With One Exception They Decide to
Help the Fair.

A special meeting of the members Of the
Builders Exchange was held at the ex-
change rooms, 16 Post street. yesterday
afternoon, to take action in regard to the
proposed Midwnter Fair. Charles c. Ter
rill presided and there were large num-
ber present.
Oscar Lewis, one Of the mem bers. pre-
sented resolution indorsing the fair and
proposing that the council donate $1,000
from its treasury toward the enterprise.
Mr.. Lewis said he was member of a
subcommittee of the financial committes
of the California Midwinter international
Exposition specially detailed to visit the
building trades He considered these
would be specially interested In the fair.
Apart from the general good. it would be
beneficial for the exchange to work to
raise fund which would put the laborine
men of San Francisco to work for few
months.
President Charles C. Terrill spoke in op-
position to the project. He did not believe
in putting a club in the hands OF enemies.
The railroad company would be most
| benefited by this enterprise. We were
| already hemmed In and controlled by a
gigantic monopoly. This had got into a
which it was trying to raise by this means
| The people would not gain mite to a
mountain to what its enemies would
gain.
Mr. Terrll did not believe people would
travel 5000 miles to SEQ one-tenth part ol
| something they were not going DUO miles tC
see at Chicago. He believed the fair
would be failure and especially a finan-
cial failure. He thought the people Oi
| California had always been fools in some
respects.
l. Rurlbut said he did not see what rail
roads had to DO with the matter. The
railroad was to contribute $4,000. This
money would be handled here and give
trade and real estate boom.
Mahoney thought the merchants of Sar
! Francisco ought to put their hands ir
their pockets and subscribe paltry little
$3.50, 900 without trouble. If the railroad
were going to make $4,000. 900 by this ven-
ture he, for one. did not object. 1t would
mean. at 500 apiece fare. 10000 people,
who would spend at least 500 each, oil
$3,000,000, in the city.
John L. Grant thought every member
ought to nay $50 apiece. which would give
$500. Then, with the $1,000 from the
treasury and other subscriptions the ex.
change would give $4,000. He believed
some people here were thirty or forty years
behind the times.
Oscar Lewis told humorous story OF an
old lady who used to pray for bread every
night and one night some boys dropped 9
loaf down the chimney to her. She had
proceeded to thank Providence for the
bread even if the Evil One had brought it
In the same way. he thought California
ought to be glad of the fair even If the
railroad brought it. Calfornans had sc
far been disunited; they were frst-class
GROWERS He believed that when Gabriel's
trumpet sounded the Calfornans would
sit up and complain of the trumpet-that
it was not made at the proper place or
something-and finally they would tur Il
over and refuse to rise.
Finally. at the motion of j. NJ. Dono-
| van. 1t was decided that a roll be opened
for personal subscriptions. The meeting
then adjourned.
! President Terrll stated afterward that
the bylaws would not allow the members
to divert $1,000 from the specific objects Of
| the ASSOCIATION.
Before dispensing about $4,000 was sub
scrlbed By the members present.