The San Francisco call., 1909-07-18
NOT LOOKING FOR
MANY FASTENERS
POrtOIa Boosters Expect the Big
Crowd From the Pacific
Coast States
New York City Absorbed in the
Forthcoming Hendrix Hud=
son Celebration in Fall
By c. c. CARLTON

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Portola
festival boosters" who have been
campo igning in the east TO work up
sentiment and advertise the great ju-
bilee, have 50 many ambitious plans
th1t = only half OF them are con-
summated the celebration viii be q
huge success The boosters do not
expect that there viii be a great rush
OF fasteners TO The festival, for the
October date is not entirely favora BILE.
Eastern people seem 10 prefer a
winter sOJourn in California, when the
ice and snOwbound east and sunny
California offer SO marked a contrast
Besides, so far as New York city is
concerned, the festivities here in Sep
tember, TO celebrate Hendrix Hudson's s
ascent Of the great river named for
him, viii keep many from the celebra-
ton in honor Of PortOla's discovery of
The bay OF san Francisco.
New Workers are notoriously self
sufficient and. as Mr.. Roosevelt once
remarked in a spirit OF fun. The aver
age New Yorker thinks the sun rises
out OF the East river and sets just
west ef the Palisades"
The papers here have devoted little
Or no attention as yet 10 the Portols
festival
However. it was not TO be expected
that the POrtola jubilee would draw
=EAe from Lilc east. IADDEIL A. tlQOE
estimates the attendance viii be fully
200.o chiefly from California and
Pacific coast towns. But the greatest
amount OF good TO San Francisco and
10 California viii be in the worldwide
advertising that VIII result, calling at
tention TO the remarkable vitality of
the state and city. its wonderful re-
sources and the4 great energy Of the
.Caifornians in rebuilding a great city
within three years.
The plan OF James Woods to have
The chief hotels in the big cities give
special dinners, or at least have ''Por-
rola" dishes and tOssts October 1S. in
connection with the plan OF Mr.. Roos
and Homer BOushey TO have the school
children in cities all over the United
States observe ~Portoia day" can not
fau 10 draw general attention to the
festival and its significance.
Mr. ROOs' idea is 10 have the school
children lined up at noon Of October
ls and "hurrah" for san Francisco.
Anything more than this in New York
city would probably be too ambitious
q program. for there are 65O,O00 school
children in Greater New York. For in
stance. 10 equip each child with q 5
cent Tag would cost S32,500. So unless
each pupil would furnish his own flag
this would be too great an item Of
expense.
When Roos saw Acting Mayor Nc
GoWan Thursday the latter told
good story illustrative OF the thrift
fnot 10 say Wisdom) that sometimes
accomps MES the gifts Of school chill
dren. Al the time OF the Galveston
food teachers requested each child TO
hiring a small cash donation for the re-
lief Of the sufferers.
When the envelopes were opened
bout SIS 600 had been contributed and
many amusing notes accompanied The
coin In one letter q fond mother
wrote: Ny son Johnny Smith is glad
20 bring 25 cents toward the relief of
the poor Galveston people" In the
same envelope was a solitary nickel
and another note. scrawled by Johnny
himself reading as follows: i have
taken 20 cents Of the . in order TO
keep Tammany from getting it.
Little Johnny"
asked Mr.. Roos If he felt quite
sure that President Taft would be at
The PortOls opening
T haven't the slightest doubt OF it."
said he Not merely because he said
so. but what impressed me was his
earnestness when Senator Flint and
called 10 see him."
How about getting the governors
Of the various states and mayors Of
the big cities 10 issue proclamations
calling attention 10 the significance OF
'PortOla day2
i VIII take this matter up with Mr.
Boushey and the committee when
return 10 San Francisco. and, judging
bv the quick and cordial greeting
given by President Taft and by Acting
Mayor MCGOWAN Of New York, 1 feel
sure that the governors Of states and
ma vors OF the big cities would CO.
operate heartily. in fact this Portola
proposition is a thing that carries it
self It's object is so apparent at once
and appeals strongly TO the sympathy
or everybody.
in an address delivered before the
American therapeutical society DR.. II.
w. Wiley. chief Of the chemistry divis-
ion OF the department of agriculture,
said that the most preposterOus dieta
lie had ever heard concerning diet
same from physicians. The practice
Of medicine in the future, he asserted,
would be largely a practice OF dietet-
les. He also gave some interesting in
formation concerning fresh fruit
juices, saying in part
Physicians often prescribe fresh
fruit juices for invalids and GONZALES
cents. The fresh juices Of the apple
and OF the grape are those usually en-
ployed. About a year ago Judge Nor
cisco came TO my Office on his way
home from Germany. where he had
been advised by his physician to drink
fresh pasteurized apple juice. and he
had done so with great benefit He
came 10 me to ask where he could get
fresh pasteurized, unchemicalized ap-
pie Juice in this country.
i reluctantly told him. continued
Dr. Wiley. that / did not know: that
my experience in buying fresh apple
Juices on the market had led me to
believe that they were almost univer-
sally dosed with some antiseptic, either
salicvlic acid, sodium benzoate or sui
phurous acid.
AT present. however, I can say that
matters have improved very much.
Large quantities OF fresh apple juice
and fresh grape juices are now placed
upon the markets without the addi-
tion Of any chemical whatever, and
they are preserved in a much more
paIatabIe and much more salable state
than ever before"
List Of CaIifornians registered at the
eastern bureau Of the California Pro-
motion committee during the last week:
From san Francisco-Robert Buck
hurst, DR.. la Grange. Robert A Roos,
r. A. McCarl. William Marks, Miss
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