The record-union., 1899-05-30

New York, resulted at once in subscrip-
tions by 11,000 people of the sum OF
over a million and a half dollars, and
this sum has been swollen since by
constant subscriptions to the fund
Such is the financed condition of the
proposition, indeed, the Senate COM
mittee declared it to be beyond the need
of asking for gratuities.
After reciting the precedents for the
action recommended the Senate COM
mittee went on to say:
The particularex exposition at which the
bill under consideration proposes to
make the Government an exhibitor is
happily placed and planned in the heart
of communities rich, populous, enter
prising and competent, where natural
| laws condense a great commerce and
innumerable lines of travel CONVERGE;
where a summer climate of unexcelled
salubrity- invites the visitor, and the
worlds greatest natural curiosity offers
| itself as a supplemental exhibit. More
| over, this great region, central to half
| the population of the country, has never
had an exposition, and now makes It's
first call upon Congress to authorize
Government exhibit.
While the sentiment of the eXposi-
| ton of 1901, ON the Niagara frontier,
will be pan-Americanism. it's mechan-
| ical keynote will be electricity. The
vast engineering works, prosecuted for
ten years past at an enormous outlay
of capital, by which the unlimited
power of the cataract of Niagara has
been converted into electrical energy
and made transmissible for many miles,
has made the Niagara frontier the one
| spot in all the world best adapted for
such a display Of the most modern and
most wonderful achievements of cleo
trical science as has been planned for
the coming exposition.
| This special feature, not to be paral-
leled elsewhere, when added to the other
considerations which have been men
toned, seems to make a case for the
PAM American Exposition of 1901 at
least as strong as any other like enter
prise has been able to present to Con-
gress, and no reason therefore appears
why it should receive less consideration
or cooperation at the hands of the
Government than other like enterprises
have hitherto received.
Thus it will be seen that the Pan
American Exposition is to be something
| unique, vast and interesting, and of the
highest practical Importance. Cali
fornias interest in it is obvious. No
other State, in fact, will have greater
interest to conserve. We should there
fore be represented in the matter in the
fullest possible manner, and as we have
been in no other exposition.
Such an opportunity for US to adver-
tise the State, enlarge our commerce
with other American States and with
| the States of our own country, has not
before presented, and will not in all
probability offer again for very many
years. We should therefore begin now
to prepare for the event, nor depend
upon the possible action of the next
Legislature, since that will be too near
to the date for the opening of the ex-
position to be of much avail
Indeed, while we may look to aid from
that direction, it will be all the better
for US that the movement in our own
interest in the exposition should origi-
nate with and have it's chief support
from the people independently of legis
lative action.