The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-16
WANT WORLDS FAIR
SAN ANTONIO WOULD CELEBRATk
 CANAL OPENING.
Texaa Citizens Projecting Great Scheme To show or Resources Of Lane star State and
 the 9eush.

San Antonio. Texas. Aug. 1H--fGpe~ cial.)--A Worlds Fair at san Antonio to celebrate the opening of the lsth-
 milan Canal has become the all absorb ing subject in these parts, and For that matter, all over Texas.
 The San Antonio Chamber of Conn., mercs win take the initial steps in the course of the next few weeks and ID the meenkime plan Of campaign wiM be mapped out. While the date of the 1 opening of the fair is stiil far die-
 tant. 1t is realized here that little time ia to be lost # it is eo be held. Owing to the climate of these parts many are in favor of the event being
 scheduled for the winter season. The
 weather here is ideal from the 1st of October to the fst of May. and even June. and for this reason a Worlds
 Fair held in the winter time seems q novelty that could be judicioualy nn-
 dertal<en.
 4 worlds fair in San Antonio would meet with the heartiest support in Mexico and every other Latin Amer
 tcan country. Southwest Texas. for several centuries typically Spanish,
 has still much that ties 1t to Latir America. and for this reason q fair here would meet general favor with the Latins. Germany would also give tt a liberal support and so. no doubt
 would Great Britain. The former country is tied to Texas by some of her best blood and extensive commer-
 cial relations. and the latter is prac-
 ticaiiy in the same position. Anofhel
 reason for their participation would bs that being the two largest merchant
 marine powers they will find special cause why they should support an exc position that will mark the opening 0f
 the Panama Canal and the develop
 ment of the Texas ports.
 Ahat q worlds fair of tremendous
 proportions should mark the opening
 of the worlds greatest engineering
 feat seems aminently proper. and that the state of Texas should be its scene
 is fitting for more reasons than one.
 That State would develop maritime importance second to no other state in the Union as soon as the Isthmian
 Canal Is thrown open. This for the
 reason that most of the exports orig
 mating in the Middle West, the south-
 west, and to some extent in the Fak
 West, will then be shipped from Tex as ports. This, incidentally. has been recognized by the United States Gov ernment with rare foresight. because to it alone are due the improvements now being made along the Texas shore of the Gulf of Mexico. The mtillona spent at Rransas Pass and other rex | as points in harbor Improvements are to meet this condition.
 | Ban Antonio is the largest Texas city | eligible to be the scene of the expcsf. l lion. Even at present it has the best | hotel accommodations of any city ID inc Southwest, and the constantly | growing tourist traffic will tend to inr crease this Moreover. 1t is the only Texas city having historical interest to | the visitor. a circumstance which in | the case of worlds fair would not be
 A small consideration. The Alamo the | Texas cradle of independence. and the
 noble ruins of the Missions could not | fail to prove an attraction to ths
 worlds fair visitor from every part oi l the globe.
 Ideal sites for the fair abound in tho
 closest vicinity of San Antonio. Park.
 like slopes on the banks of the San An. | tonic river extending for miles. and ID
 which the Missions are located, would
 form as fine an exposition ground as | was ever proeuraSIe
 | Interest in the proposed unSertakina
 Is red hot here among all classes. and l there is little doubt that the w0rld'a
 fair celebrating thu opening of the
 Isthmian Canal. the greatest engineer | ing enterprise of the age. will be heic | in San Antonio.