The San Francisco call., 1909-12-18
'PRfLIM|NARI[S IN
EXPOSITION PLANS
Personnel of the General Conn
mittee Viii Be Announced
Early Next Week
No Time Will Be Lost in Get
ting to Work on Panama
Pacific Enterprise

Active organized work Of all depart
ments of the Panama Pacific interna-
tional exposition will be begun within
a week The work of the preliminary
committee on organization is prac-
tically complete and the names of the
members of the general committee on
ways and means will be announced
Tuesday.
Coupled with this announcement of
the personnel of the general commit
tee, which has been delayed few days
because of the absence from the city
of several men who have been invited
to act upon it. will be issued call for
a convention to be held Immediately.
This will amount practically to an
executive session of the committee, as
it will be limited to committee mem
bers-
The object of this first meeting will
be to perfect organization and TO de-
eide upon methods of selecting an ex-
ecutive committee, heads of depart
ments and special committees and to
outline the general working plans to
be carried out.
THE KAHN BILL
Printed copies of the Panama Pacific
international exposition bill. introduced
in congress on the opening day of the
present session by Representative
julius Kahn, reached the city yester-
day. The bill contains the outline
of the scope of assistance which the
federal government later will be asked
to give the exposition. This tentative
plan calls for an appropriation of $5,-
100000 by the government Immediately
upon the raising of a like amount by
the exposition company, and also pro-
e. L,r = h
ident of a federal commission of nine
men to work with the local exposition
company.
Among the features of the bill are
authorizations for a naval review in
San Francisco bay during the fair, in
which foreign nations are to be in
vited to participate, and for the re-
moval of all import duties on exhibits
sent to the exposition from foreign
countries The provisions of the bin
also carry instruction to the various
cabinet members to assist in arranging
government exhibits and to the presi-
dent and secretary of state to invite
officially the participation of other ma
tions.
SUBSCRIPTION OF $1,000
From a special committee of the San
Francisco planning mill owners asso-
citation, a letter was received yester-
sition committee and announcing that
a preliminary subscription of $1,000
by the association awaited the order
of the committee.
Max E. LIGHT, president of the Re-
tail clerks international association,
affiliated with the American federation
of labor, sent letter stating that his
duties would carry him all over the
United States and Canada during the
coming year, and that not only would
he extend his personal services to the
committee, but that he would pledge
the cooperation of more than $4,000
members of the association as boosters
The Continental hotel has been the
first to introduce the exposition slogan
on its stationery. All the envelopes
and letter heads of this hostelry al
ready bear the line. Panama Pacific
international exposition-San Francis
co, 1915
WILL BE SUCCESS
Captain A. w. Lewis. who was direc-
tor of concessions at the Alaska-Yu
kon-Pacific exposition in Seattle, has
left San Francisco for Europe Be
fore taking the train for the east he
said:
From all 1 have seen during my
stay here of the spirit with which
this undertaking is being inaugurated
in San Francisco / predict that the
Panama Pacific international eSposi-
ton will rank as the greatest fair the