The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
County Commissioners Ar
range Many Excursions
to Points Near st. Louis
WILL ADVERTISE STATE
Banners Telling of Wonders
of the West Are to Be
Displayed on Every Trip
BY PAUL EDWARDS.

" irrepressible. They are not going to
let any one forget that California is on
the map. They have made the best
general display here that the State has
ever had at an exposition, and they are
not sitting down and letting 1t go at
that. They are determined to make
noise enough to draw attention to their
show. They have taken advantage of
nearly every public occasion and pa
rade to do something out of the or
binary, and now they are planning
new method Of obtaining recognition.
Sunday, the one day they have away
from their exhibits. hangs heavily on
the shoulders of the California exhib
itors in St Louis. The good people of
the city go to church and spend the
rest of the day at their homes. The
Californians don't care to attend wor-
ship because they haven't had time to
become acquainted with any pastors
and il is embarrassing to go to church
when YOU no not know the preachers.
In this extremity the county commits
sioners organization met to adopt
means of coping with the dilemma. 1t
was decided that some excursions to
shady places and cool brooks. with
iced watermelon and claret punch that
didn't have a weekday strength would
be within the bounds of propriety, see
ing they were from California. Several
heard of that were not many miles
distant on the wooded bluffs of the
Mississippi
One told Of a spot in a town in Illi-
nois with the familiar name of Water
loo, where there was plenty of shade
and where a farmer who had more
poultry than he knew what to do with
would supply chicken dinner, without
napkins, for 25 cents-all one could
eat. Another said he had been to a
place on the river in the other direction,
which had a name that sounded like
Sleepy Hollow" but wasn't that,
where there was a hickory grove, and
the owner permitted excursionists to
gather all the hickory nuts in the sea-
son that they wanted, his object be-
ing 10 drive the squirrels to suicide.
Trolley rides to various points of in
terest near St. Louis and automobile
rides through the city were also sug-
gested.
A committee consisting of Lloyd
Childs of Santa Clara. Webb n. Pearce
of Alameda and Roy Brooke of Sacra-
mento was appointed to arrange for the
various excursions. 1t was resolved that
no county funds should be used to de-
fray the expenses, and a resolution was
adopted that ten members of the or
ganization should sign an agreement to
meet any deficiencies from their own
pockets and that all surplus should be
turned into the treasury.
Then came the moment for heroes to
develop and California may pride her
self that among all her sons present
there was not one to show himself ig-
noble. The volunteers fell over each
other like the illustrious japanese who
sprang forward to ride to post mortem
glory on the lily appointed ships that
Admiral Togo chose to cork up Port
Arthur channel. through which the ef-
fervescent Russian fleet was constantly
bubbling. Every man present wanted
10 sign the agreement, so there was
really more glory for those who gave
way than for the ten who signed.
The committee has arranged for some
immediate evening and Sunday enter
tainments, and for the 2Sth inst. has
decided on a railroad excursion on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, to connect
with the chicken dinner at Waterloo A
train of five passenger cars and a bag
gage car will be run at a cost of 81 a
head. The baggage car win contain a
few tons of ice, on which will repose
watermelons and gallons of claret
punch
Now for the advertising. On every
railroad, trolley car. steamer or auto
mobile trip the Californians will dis
play banners calling attention to that
marvellous exhibit in the Agricultural
building. The men are also practicing
a California yell, which they think can
be used to good advantage.
The State of Idaho, in its effort to
develop its mineral resources by ex-
hibiting at the worlds fair, goes fur
ther than merely show ores and al
Turing nuggets and gems. r. w. Nc
Bride. the Mineral Commissioner of the
State. who has charge of it's mining
exhibit, is prepared to teach every ten
derfoot who applies how to find the
precious metal and how to locate
claim when he does find it. Idaho
doesn't care to lure the guileless city
man and farmland into her mountains
and let them waste their time drilling
into granite boulders or panning on
top Of loan hillocks. She wants them
TO find some Of the precious metal, and
is willing to point the way. Commits
sioner Mcbride is supplied with para
phernalia by which he can show en-
bryo miners how to prospect and how
to tell barren country from 'indica-
tons" He pounds quartz in a mortar
and pans it out before the pupils. He
shows them rock, clay and gravel that
is auriferous and sections of prospect
ing work underground.
Adroit Idaho has in a case in this
exhibit gold dust, nuggets, free gold
quartz and twenty-dollar pieces. The
twenties usually decide the man long
ing tn seek his fortune in tho ooI5