The San Francisco call., 1904-06-29
CAMERA CLUB AT FAIR.
San Francisco Organization Revels in
Snapshot Fiesta at Exposition.


CALL BUREAU. WORLDS FAIR.
ST. LOUIS, June 2S.-Thirty-two
members of the San Francisco Cam
era Club, under the leadership of w.
]. Street, have swooped down on the
Worlds Fair and are reveling in
snapshot fiesta that will result in
Photographic panorama of the fair
when the negatives are developed. The
Camera Club delegation is making its
headquarters at the San Francisco
building. in one corner of which the
club has a display of photographs.
These represent scenes in and about
San Francisco, including some strik-
ing bay views.
]. W. Erwin, who was president of
the Camera Club four terms, is in
teresting many people by his lectures
at the San Francisco building. His
years of devotion TO amateur photog
raphy have resulted in the production
of many excellent views that illus
trate the commercial greatness and
the scenic grandeur of San Francisco
and also the State at large and the
finest reproductions of these are made
on the screen.
The buildings of the model city are
attracting as many people as any
others on the ground in comparison
to size. There are two good reasons
for this. One is that they are locat-
ed next the Lindell boulevard en-
trance, perhaps the most prominent of
the exposition, and the other that they
represent important centers of popu-
lation, the people of which are anx-
ious to see them. Scarcely any person
who visits one of these buildings fails
70 enter the others. San Francisco
makes the prettiest exhibit of any.
Her building has been thronged each
day since ii opened and the attend
ance increases daily. George P. Will
comb and Mr.. Erwin are both kept
busy attending to the visitors and sup
plying information. 1t will be several
days before the final work is done on
the exhibit.
HUNDREDS OF VISITORS.
The few days that the building has
been open have been sufficient to
show that San Francisco is fortunate
TO be represented in the model city
and that if the work is carried along
in he~proper manner the coast me-
tropolis will be given one of the most
beneficial advertisements ii has ever
had. Hundreds of visitors make in
quiry especially about the sea voyage
to the Orient the Antipodes, Hawaii
and the South Sea Islands, and they
all show deep interest in everything
else San Franciscan.
The University of California Glee
Club. which has sung at the San Fran
cisco and State buildings several
times, has made a hit at the fair and
visitors strive for opportunities to
hear it The stu-ent singers will soon
be home in California They took
trips on the lagoon two or three nights
and the much talked of Singing gon-
doliers" had to wrap their moth-eaten
voices UP those nights and remain
mute, while the crowds in the boats
kept in the wake of the university
singers and instrumentalists. On the
Pike the boys have been swept into
shows by pleased managers, who have
enjoyed their singing outside.
The building for the Benguiat COL
lection Of Persian fabrics and old world
relics that is coming from San Fran
cisco viii soon be under way. Mordecai
Benguiat, who is experimenting the
work, is receiving every assistance
from the fair management, which is
anxious to have the exhibit installed
as soon as possible, as it deems 1t an
attractive feature.
TEACHERS ARRIVE.
An excursion from Southern and Cen
trail California with which was a Fres-
no party Of fifty people, mostly teach
ers Of that county, has arrived. The
teachers were looked after by c. L.