The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-25
ST. LOUIS DAY
HOLDS RECORD
Large Attendance at Fair
Proves of Great Benefit to
the California Exhibitor
NATIVES PLAY THE HOST
About 10000 Visit San
Francisco Building When
Exposition City Celebrates
NATIVES PLAY THE HOST
By PAUL EDWARDS.

CALL BUREAU. PRESS BUILD
ING, WORLDS FAIR, Sept. 24.-Big
events at the Worlds Fair like ST.
Louis day bring joy to the California
exhibitor. for they mean that his ex-
hibit will be crowded and that means
still greater attention drawn to Cali
fornia. The Golden State was certain
ly center of attraction on st. Louis
day, the biggest of the fairs history,
and undoubtedly the one that will hold
the record for the exposition. There
was almost jam among the county
booths IN the Agricultural building all
day long and at the California and San
Francisco buildings there were throngs
all the day. Between 5000 and 10000
people visited each of these structures,
the largest crowds they have yet
drawn. At the California building can
vas is always laid over the carpets on
big days., but at the San Francisco
building it was found necessary to re-
paint the front steps and re-oil the
floor after st. Louis day. the immense
crowd having worn them almost naked.
There was a sort of reunion of Cali
fornians at the State building and vol
unteer singing, instrumental music and
claret punch helped to make the Wis
itors happy. sAt the San Francisco
building Mr.. Erwin delivered six of his
picture talks on California and each
one was listened to by a crowd that
filed the little hall to its capacity and
the passageway at it's entrance. He
had mapped out a course of five lee
lures for the day, but at the regular
one given in the evening there was
such crowd that he Immediately gave
another for the benefit of the overflow.
Had there been hall room perhaps TO-,
900 people would have heard the lee
lures. The one given at the California
building also filled the hall to its capac-
ity. There is plan on foot now
among the county commissioners to
give a stereopticon lecture every hour
during the afternoons at the California
building.
KANSAS FARMERS ATTRACTED.
In the crowds that visit this fair are
thousands of farmers from Kansas, Ar
kansa, Oklahoma and contiguous
States. They are nearly all prosperous
now, the day when the joke about the
cyclone lifting everything off the Kan,
sas ranch but its mortgage having
passed far into the distance. They have
been having good crops and getting
fair prices, and nearly all of them have
a bank account and a piece of land
clear of lien. Conditions are not the
pleasantest, however, in most of these
States, the cyclone and the monotonous
prairie not being entirely conducive to-
the happiest existence, and many of
them are looking longingly toward the
charms of the Pacific Coast region.
They show an intense interest in Cali
fornia, and there is no doubt that this
fair, while not the most largely attend
ed of modern exhibitions, Will be OF
greater benefit to California than most
any other because of being within such
easy reach of these farmers. who would
be among the first to become residents
of that State and who have enough
money to buy homes there.
FAIR A GREAT EDUCATOR.
With the exposition a few hundred
miles farther away, there are many
farmers in Kansas and Arkansas who
would not think of visiting it, but when
it is placed at their very doors they
flock to it and gain a knowledge of
some Of the wonders of the world, in
Guiding California's climate and pro-
ductiveness. The fair is proving great
educator to the people of these regions,
and one of the most attractive things
to them seems, to be California's dis
play, the fruits shown there being in
bright contrast to the wheat and corn
grown on their prairies. They consider
a visit to the California section neees-
sary.
IT'S natural for people to become at
tached to the place where their homes
are" said a Kansas farmer to one of
the county commissioners, land we
who have gone over to Kansas and
saved some money and got hold of
some land love the State, but l know
there's lots of us feel that we would
like to go to California and live. You
see, there isn't much variety of scenery
out our way and our climate isn't the
best, even not mentioning the cyclones,
so it is natural that those of us who
want to get the most comfort out of
life should have desire to go to Cali
fornia, where climate and scenery are
perfect, providing we can do as we'll
there as in Kansas.
CAN Do BETTER HERE.
with our knowledge of farming am
convinced we can do better in Califor-
mia than in Kansas. Alfalfa, dairy pro-
ducts and livestock will make US
money from the start, and we can
gradually get into the fruit business
if we see money in it. Ranches in the
thickly settled portion of our region
are probably at their top notch of price
now, and there is plenty of reasonable
priced land in California If all the rep
reservations made here are correct.
When the money making part of it is
eliminated-that is, when man can
make as much in one place as he can
in another-he should choose for the
life residence place of himself and his
children that one which brings the
most pleasure and comfort and the
least hardship. When one can be among
fruits and flowers and perpetual spring