The record-union., 1896-03-14

gated 80, HUI, as IOllOWS.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
$3.50; Santa Clara County, $500; Stanis-
laus, 500; YoIo, 500; Contra Costa,
$3.50; Colusa, $3.50; Kern, $3.50; Napa,
$3.50; Nevada, $3.50; Alameda, $500;
Tehama, $3.50; Monterey, $3.50; Los
Angeles, $3.50; Santa Barbara, 500;
Glenn, $3.50; Ventura, 500; San Fran
cisco, 81, 900; Sonoma, $3.50; Sacra-
mento $3.50; Solano, $100; Placer $3.50;
total, So. 400.
OTHER AID.
About the same time two or three
hundred dollars were donated by banks
and individuals of San Francisco, which
was applied in relieving the boards con-
dition in relation to a few claims that
remained unpaid from the work OF in
staIling the exhibit at No. SO Market
street The above mentioned sum OF
So, 400, therefore, was all that was avail
able for the Atlanta Exposition. On this
amount the board, after some hesitation
and with some misgivings, determined
to undertake the work. For so great a
task this seemed like a small amount
especially when it was known that pub
lie sentiment in California would not
favor attempting anything at Atlanta
unless it could be done on scale that
would reflect credit on the State. But
there were conditions that rendered a
large amount of money unnecessary
In the first place, we were offered 5,OOO
feet of space free by the Exposition
Company.
In the second place, the State Board
of Trade had in its permanent exhibit
most of the material necessary for a
creditable display of the States re-
sources; and in the third place, the
Southern Pacific Company had come
voluntarily forward with the generous
offer to haul free to New Orleans and
return all the material. Subsequently,
after reaching Atlanta, I succeeded in
obtaining free transportation for our
exhibit both ways over the lines con-
Meeting with the Southern Pacific at
New Orleans and running through to
Atlanta.
In this work I received valuable as
sistance from the Southern Pacific Com
pany's able representative at Atlanta,
H. w. Nathan, for which I wish here
to make due Acknowledgement. The
Louisville and Nashville Railroad con-
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ways between New Orleans and Mont
gomery, the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad consented to haul it free both
ways between Montgomery and At
lanta, and the Southern Railroad, which
had the only track running into the Ex-
position grounds, consented to switch
our cars without charge from the main
depot at Atlanta to the Exposition
These concessions from the roads east
of the Mississippi River amounted to
about 500 a car, or in the neighbor-
hood of $500. The concessions made
by the Southern Pacific Company in
freight and transportation amounted to
$3.50 more, making the aggregate as
sistance received from the transporta-
ton companies named, about S4050.
This, it will be remembered, is counting
the freight only one way, the same as
charged by most Eastern roads for in
dividual or commercial exhibits.
1t was these liberal concessions that
made it possible for California. under
the direction of the State Board of
Trade, to make the showing at Atlanta
which it did on the small sum of
money available, and I feel, as manager
~ eAAC WOA n anu Representing
as l did at the Atlanta Exposition. |
should be lacking in gratitude and duty
We're | to fail in this report to make due
and grateful acknowledgment on be-
half of the State Board of Trade in par
ticular, and the State of California in
general, for the very generous assist
ance rendered by the transportation
companies I have named
Our exhibit from the opening day was
greatly admired, and when finally COM
pleted 1T was freely admitted to be the
most
ARTISTIC AND ATTRACTIVE
On the grounds. The arrangement was
considered by far the neatest, most per
manent and best and the quality and
variety of our products forced from
visitors succession of calculations of
surprise, admiration and wonder. The
comments heard momentarily on the
floor were of a character calculated to
please the ear of a Californian. and
when, as the fair progressed, visitors
from distant points came and told us
they had been admonished to be sure
and see the California exhibit in the
manufacturers building, that their
friends who had been to the fair and
retprned home had told them it was
the most wonderful and beautiful show
Al the exposition, we could not help but
feel that we were being repaid for the
annoyances we had undergone, and
that the determination of the State
Board of Trade to make an exhibit at
Atlanta, when others were Indifferent.
was wise and good thing for Califor-
MIA.
We took with us large quantities of
literature from the stock on hand with
the State Board of Trade, and were
fortunate in receiving large subsequent
additions in the way of pamphlets and
special editions of different live and
progressive papers of the State. We
were thus enabled to supply an eager
demand for written information about
California, from the opening to the
close of the exposition. From first to
last we distributed not less than
FOUR TONS OF CALIFORNIA LIT
ERATURE.
AS for the benefits that have resulted
to California, or that will result from
our exhibit and work at Atlanta, they
can never be told. From the very fact
however, that SO deep an interest in our
State was excited among a people that
in the main had previously possessed
only vague idea of our possibilities
and resources, it is fair to assume that
the seed sown at the Cotton States Ex-
position will ripen into fruit that will
nourish all our industries and strength
en- all portions of the commonwealth.
Some results are already apparent,
others are promised, while yet Others
will arise that are not now seen, and
in some instances are not expected.
As soon as our exhibit was installed