Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-12
ADVISES HOLDING
GREAT EXPOSITION
THINKS LOS ANGELES WOULD
BE BENEFITED
Says City Is Ideal In Respect tc
Natural Resources-BeIieves
Project Would Add to
Population

THE greatest advertisement Los An
sees could ever get would be TO have
a worlds fair here. There is positively
no place i'm the United States that
would be a more popular meeting place
of the people from all parts of the
globe. Los Angeles as she is today
has everything to attract a tourist.
Briefly put. Los Angeles is in a class
by itself and should a worlds fair
ever he instituted here It would be the
greatest fair ever held in the history
of the world. d."-Abert G. Birch of
Washington, d. c.
A worlds fair for Los Angeles car
ried out on the most extensive plan
ever imagined by human brain is what
Albert G. Birch of Washington, D. c.,
has suggested as an advertising
medium for the City of the Angels.
Mr.. Birch has spent most of his life
travelling and studying the conditions
of the greatest municipalities of the
world. During that time he has vs-
tied Los Angeles score of times,
with a lapse of about two years be-
tween each visit.
Los Angeles Without Peer
But" says Mr.. Birch, "the growth
of Los Angeles that has been going on
in that time has been nothing short of
remarkable. . There is no city in the
United States that has gone ahead to
greatness like Los Angeles.
There is only one thing that is
needed to make Los Angeles the city
of the world. That is worlds fair
a worlds fair planned on the most
extensive basis that was ever before
planned for a fair. You have every
thing here that Is necessary to make
a wonedrful success of such an enter
prise.
"The main thing is the energy and
effort on, the part of the people. The
second thing is the power to carry out
such a project. Every business and
professional man has the requisite
executive about him that would be
necessary to carry out any plans no
matter on what basis they are made.
You have the advantage already
that no other place hasa delightful
climate the year round. At no time of
the year can a tourist come here and
say that the climate is not what he
would most desire. This you will find
will be Los Angeles grea test asset if
a worlds fair were held here.
Has Plenty of Room
I'm the second place you have the
room here for a great fair. l have
studied the proposition of a Greater
Los Angeles. To me it is only mat
ter of a short time until you have an
nexed all surrounding cities under the
one head of Los Angeles.
1.-THE Owens river project is the key
to the whole situation. Once the
Owens river is supplying the city Of
Los Angeles with water you will have
made the greatest step toward great
ness that you have ever taken; also
it will be the most remarkable en-
gineering feat ever attempted and ac-
complished.
THE first steps for the holding of
worlds fair here are now in order. If
not this summer it surely will be at
the beginning of the fall. The winter
would be the most profitable time in
which to hold worlds fair in Los
Angeles"
Mr.. Birch came to this city several
weeks ago. Since then he has been in
vesting i'm real estate property and his
opinion is that it will be only a ques-
tlon of a few years until Los Angeles
will be the metropolis of the Pacific
coast.