The San Francisco call., 1903-12-31
SPACE PROBLEM
IS UPPERMOST
Commissioners Are Confronted
With Demands for More Room
Than There Is for Applicants
TROUBLES ACCUMULATING
Whether University of CaIifor-
mia viii Have an Allotment
Is Question Not Yet Decided

troubles are accommodating for the
CaIf-rnia Commissioners to s.. Louis.
Tha difficulties grow largely cut Of the
lesire Of certain counties &c occupy
arger space in the agriculture building
ar g. Louis. The room that the Com
wissioners secured could be filled sew
6rai times II the representations Of the
c1unties concerning their needs are 10
be accepted. on the other hand the
Commissioners say that some Of the
counties are mistaken in the space they
-eQuire and that it is largely a matter
% installation More can be put in a
certain space than is supposed by those
who have not had experience IN install
ing products for display at expositions
some time ago Commissioners Fflcher
and Virgins and Secretary Willis be-
took themselves 10 Catalina Island and
there talked over In seclusion the mat
ter Of space and the distribution Of il
among the counties thaI viii exhibit
At last accounts there were thirty Of
these c0unties. but IL is runored that
AZ least two in the San Joaquin Valley
that proposed TO exhibit jointly have
concluded TO take part only IN the gen
ersl State display Of California pro-
ducts and Lot show as individual
counties.
COUNTIES SEND DELEGATES.
During the two days just passed a
strong delegation. representative Of the
ZEN counties belonging 10 the Sacra-
lent0 County Valley Development As
ociauOn has been in the city confer
ing with Commissioner Filcher. No
allotment Of space has been made yet
II was Impossible TO reach a final de
-eruination when the two Commission
srs met at Catalina Island The con-
i.t0ns since have not been entirely
favorable Meanwhile the representa-
rives ~ the counties north o. Tehachapi
and Commissioners FIIcher have been
iu continual correspondence or. confer
ence.
The Question as 10 whether he Uni
versity ~ California viii have the space
an 81. Louis desired by President Whee-
Der and the faculty is stil Dr0blemat-
icaL Months ago the university was
Invited 20 select space in a section set
apart especially for universities. this
invitation coming directly from St.
Louis. but no move was made TO take
advantage ~ the offer Then the uni
Eersity was urged by the St Louis
Commissioners to exhibit. but no action
was taken. 1t was only recently that
the university applied to the author
iues az ST. Louis 10 be given a large
space for exhibition purposes. The
answer has been returned from St
Louis rhat such space can b. given
only in case some earlier applicant for
room reluQuishes what has been
awarded the relnQuishment to be
made oy The opening Of the new year.
UNIVERSITY SPACE.
In the meantime the space that was
allotted TO California in the education
building has practically all been al
I0tted 10 the public and other schools
in the State. There is therefore. a
chance, as stanford has not agreed 10
exhibit and the University Of CaIifor-
MIA has waited until the space has been
distributed, that the educational svs-
TEN of California, as illustrated by ex-
hibits at ST. Louis, viii be devoid Of
any representative showing cf either
4 its great universities.
State MineralOgist Aubury SAYS that
the space in the mining building VIII
lot be sufficient TO represent the min
lg industry Of California adequately
% competition with other States. Kan
sas and Missouri, for instance. which
have but three minerals ITO show. as
against ffty-one mineral substances. in
California, VIII occupy as greet. or pos
sibly greater, space than viii Califor-
mia al the exposition.