The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-04-14
FAIR BRINGS LASTING GOOD
G. B Patton, Electrician, Says Port
land Will be Greatly Benefited.

g. 3 Patton, Electrician, Says Port
land Will be Greatly Benefited
That Portland will experience
surprising material development
following the Lewis and Clark Ex-
position, just as St. Louis has
done, bringing investment of capi-
tai and new population to engage
in industrial pursuits, introducing
aggressiyeness into the CONNER
cial life of the city that will insure
supremacy of this city in the
Northwest, is the opinion ofG. H.
Patton, in charge Of the exhibit Of
the General Electric Com pany,
who arrived a few days ago from
st. Louis to superintend installa-
tion Of the great display Of that
corporation, which occupies a
large portion Of space in Electric
ity building.
Mr.. Patton is particularly we'll
qualified to speak upon this sub
ject, for he has represented the
General Electric Company at all
the big worlds fairs for dozen
years. Mr.. Patton was formerly
resident of Tennessee, at Chatta-
nooga, and is an old friend of
Manager Tom Richardson of the
Commercial Club, in whose Office
he discussed the relation of cause
and effect upon Chicago and st.
Louis and compared electrical ef-
fects to be witnessed here with the
beauty of Paris, which alone of
all the big fairs had in small way
anything to compare in beauty
with the novel illumination of
grounds to be seen from June | to
October 15 at Portland.
WOKE ST. LOUIS UP.
'tSt. Louis has long been known
as typical of that old-style con-
servatism that conceaIs its real
greatness under the proverbial
measure" " said he, ''but the Expo
sition has injected new blood into
its commercial life, and it is to-day
one of the metropolitan cities of
this country, wide awake and alive
to It's own power and prestige.
Chicago people anticipated too
much, and made enormous invest
ments in contemplation of fortunes
to be made from entertaining
guests of the Columbian Exposi-
ton, while the people of st. Louis
refused to b unnecessarily
wrought upon by dreams of great
profits, and took care of the In
creased business within herself,
with the result that, with the FAIR
q thing of the past, the city is ex-
periencing such growth and mate
rial advancement as has never be-
fore been known, and has rarely
been witnessed in any American
city.
Portland bears an excellent
reputation abroad, and strikes me
Is being made up Of progressive
people, alive to their business In
lerests, and, like the residents of
It. Louis, they will come to a bet I
,er realization of the Importance
IT their city. Travel from the I
Cast will be enormous to the Pa. !
,ific Coast this year, and the great 2
'st opportunity possible is pre- !
ented to permanently benefit as a 9
.esuIt. 1t must be borne in mind !
hat of the thousands to come a t
arge proportion will be induced !
c make the trip because of low y
ates and desire to, visit the J
,oast. Care must be exercised to t
Iot allow visitors to feel that they > !
re imposed upon with excessive +
harges for accommodations Of any =
ind here, else they would cut g
hort their stay and devote more b
ime to other portions of the Coast. I
n St. Louis restaurants and pub 7
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