The San Francisco call., 1898-08-01
EXPOSITION IS
 4 NECESSITY Even Politics Should Not Interfere With 1t. UNIQUE FEELING IN PlNoLE A GUBERNAToRIAL CANDIDATE
 IN A QUANDARY. pr. Pardee Finds It Hard to Make 8 Campaign on Apologies, Explanations and E.
 Denials.
UNIQUE FEELING IN PIN0LE
s GUBERNAToRIAL CANDIDATE IN A QUANDARY.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

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 If Alameda County can spare enough time from the study and practice of poll tics, the proper thing 10 do this fall is to hold the usual exposition of products and manufactures In the past these in dustrial exhibits have done much to call attention to the real worth of, the county. They have opened the eyes of thousands to what really exists and have proved the means of bringing together large numbers of people from the interior of the county who would otherwise never meet.
 Alameda County is progressing, and the fact that Q slice has been cut from her assessment roll in year when county election is to be held cuts no figure with people of intelligence. The growth of large buildings in Oakland alone during the last four years Is remarkable and at this day several of the largest merchants are engaged in making magnificent addi- tonS to their stores.
 It is true that another foot of rain would have made q marked difference to both the agricultural and commercial in terests of the county, but this acts more as reason in favor of holding a great exposition than against it. There is only one thing required to insure a represen- tatVe show this fall. If the Merchants EXchange and Board of Trade say there shall be one, there will be an exhibition that will aStonish even those least ac- quainted with the conditions. These two bodies comprise the sinewS with which such an enterprise can be made success ful, and as there is to be no Mechanics Fair this year, the chance for Oakland Is so much greater.
 In the past there have been frictions re- gardlng the details Of the mana cement but these appear to have died natural death, and the way now seems to be open for repetition of the success Of the exposition of 1895.
 A condition. somewhat unioue. exists at Pinole. where explosions occur period tcally. The people Of the town live in an atmosphere of fear and anticipation but among the older members this changes in time to indifference, and in some in- stances to a belief in fatalism
 It is expected that sooner or later death will come to all who make their daily bread in the powder works, and this idea has been nurtured for a gen eratiOn. Each aemploye considers that he knows as much about the dangers of the place as his empowers, and this feeling or pride is so marked that when he is killed his relatives never dream of bring ing suit for damage.
 With one word they say. Tt was a pure accident. He knew everything about powder. and his time had come. nobody Is to blame This was very definitely proved at the inquest yesterday Out of the score or so of witnesses not one differed from another. All were confi- dent that there was no danger where they were working, and when the explosion came that killed four and iniiIred dczen; the surViYors calmly thought or said-fate.
 Even the daily object le{son that every emplOye seeS-the dupli$ation of the whole plant-does not defer them. The works are now so comp etc that every house liable to destruction Is duplicated in some other hill side. As soon as an explosion occurs in one section the work is carried on in the other. Three years ago one nitTO-glyCerin house went up. A week ago some fiend fired the other one Yesterday work was progressing in the house that replaced the one demol- fshed in 1895, and the man stirring the dangerous liquids worked on with as much interest and apparently as little fear as a baker kneadfng bread.