The San Francisco call., 1909-12-21
BUTTON DAY SURE
TO NET BIG sum
Exposition Committee Receives
Enthusiastic Encouragement
From Many Sources

That boosters button day for the
Panama Pacific international exposition
will be a huge success was promised
yesterday by the tone of dozens of en-
thusiastic letters and personal apph-
cations for buttons received at the ex-
position Headquarters in the Merchants
exchange building.
orders from several improvement
clubs and &ther organizations for large
lots OF the buttons were received and
offers of So and s10 apiece were made
for single buttons. AS already an
nounced, however, the whole issue of
25, 900 emblems is to be offered to the
public for the single purpose OF rails
ing a fund to defray REORGANIZATION
expenses, and not as a means of begin
ming the actual campaign for exposition
funds.
offers of large contributions are
highly acceptable and will be welcomed
when the real financial campaign be-
gins. but it is the intention to sell this
first issue of buttons at a straight price
of 10 cents each and to dispose of them
all between sunrise and sunset Thurs
day. They are boosters buttons and
nothing else, and the dimes they will
place of later contributions.
WOULD CHARGE s5
One suggestion made yesterday to
the committee was that the buttons
should be strictly limited to $4,000,
and sold at s5 apiece, instead of 10
cents, the purchase price to carry with
it the privilege of admission to the
exposition grounds on the opening day
of the fair While inapplicable to the
purpose of the present sale, the COM
mittee considered the possibility OF
adopting the idea at later date to
an issue of limited number of off,
cial badges of a more elaborate design.
Among the organizations which sent
in orders yesterday for large numbers
of the buttons and agreed to dispose of
as many more on Thursday as the COM
mittee might wish were the San Fran
cisco planning mill owners association
and the commercial travellers con-
gress.
A letter was received yesterday from
the Sutro Heights Improvement club
suggesting the western mile of Golden
Gate park and the unimproved land
adjoining this section of the park on
each side as an ideal site for the ex-
position grounds. Another suggestion
received from Lawrence Bufford, sec
retary of the Kenwood improvement
cluD or Glen Ellen, related TO the con-
cession district, which he proposed
should be built as a miniature replica
of the Panama canal itself.
Bufford suggested that this Mid
way should be known as The Canal
and that the waterway extending its
entire length should be constructed to
show all the locks, dams and spillways
of the great fsthmian ditch.
FRESNO COUNT YIN LINE
The following letter of Endorsement
was received yesterday from the Fresno
county chamber of commerce:
The board of directors of the Fresno
county chamber of commerce at a meet
Ing held on Wednesday evening last
unanimously passed a motion recon-
mending that this community help San
Francisco in its effort to get the expo
| sition OF 1916 believing It to be en-
| titled to it because of the fact that it
| has been preparing for 1t for long
| period, that as the leading city of Cali
| fornia and the main artery of traffic
/ between the east and the orient it is
/ the natural location for it. and taking
also the more sentimental view of the
case that all Californians should be
proud to invite the world to- see what
/ has been accomplished in the record
| breaking rehabilitation of a great city
/ the greatest city in California. / was
! instructed to write you informing YOU
of their action. Yours very truly,
w. ROBERTSON,
Secretary Fresno County Chamber OF
1 Commerce.