The San Francisco call., 1910-04-07
MOORE At HELM
OF EXPOSITION
Urges, United and Prompt Action
in Raising of S5,000,OOO
Subscription Fund
Pressure of Other Business Conn
pels w. B. Bourn's Resig=
nation of Craftsmanship

With two weeks set as the time
limit within which to lay the founda-
tion for securing the bulk OF the
$5,000,000 Panama-Pacific lnterna-
ton exposition fund to be raised IN
this city, Charles G. Moore yesterday
took the financial helm of the exposl-
ton, succeeding William B. Bourn, VINO,
after paving the way toward hnanclal
success by weeks of earnest laoor, was
forced to resign as chairman OF the
nnance committee because OIL lne
pressure of other business.
Moore's election to the leadership Oh
the financial campaign took place at
meeting of the exposition finance com
mittee, held yesterday afternoon In the
| assembly room of the chamber OF COM
| merce.
URGES ALL TO ACT
His acceptance of the trust was made
in speech in which he pledged NM
self enthusiastically to the exposition
cause, called upon every member OF
the committee to turn energeucally 10
| the task ahead, and declared:
The next two weeks is going to
tell the story. The crisis has
arisen in which we can not delay
minute or fail to do our at1idlafs gdmost
There is work, and lots of it, for
every one of us to do in the next
TWO weeks. we are IIl0 Il uSLCOo
for the interests of this city and
| this coast, and If there is any man
here who can't see his duty plain
before him and and who 1t,, isn't no1 wallihs u ing
time for him to step up 10 the al
tar and get religion.
The members of the executive COM
mittee of the financial committee are:
! c. G. Moore IT, D. Grant
W. B. Bourn 6. Frederick Kohl
| NJ. J. Brandenstein Seward McNear
| Francis Carolan c. r. Walter
| Charles II Crocker Louis F. Monteagle
E. L. Eyre William Fl. Crocker
! COMPLETING ARRANGEMENTS
The work of the next two weeks is
! to be given over to completing ar
rangements for the actual subscrip-
tion of funds. Already a large amount
| has been tentatively pledged through
| the efforts of w. B. Bourn, and the
city has been thoroughly gone over
| and listed for the active work of So
! liciting funds when the canvass is be-
| gun.
Charles Sedgwick Aiken, editor o1
| Sunset magazine, has been appointed
| to take charge of the publicity cam
| paign. Aiken has had wide experience
! in the line he is now undertaking, and
| will direct the general publicity work
during its formative stages lie VIII
| open an Office today at the exposition
| change building.
The San Francisco board of deputies
of the Independent Order of Foresters
at its last meeting decided to take the
| initiative in the matter of having the
order in the United States, Canada
Australia and England boom the 1915
exposition. a committee of which
John P. Murphy is the chairman was
appointed to communicate with each
| Jurisdiction of the order in the coun-
tries named to take up the matter and
| work to the end that there shall be a
representation from every section OF
| the world In which the order exists, to
assist in a demonstration on a fra
ternal day.
1t was decided to invite the supreme
body of the organization to hold its
session in this city that year and have
| the executive board of each jurisdic-
| tion represented at that time. 1t was
also decided to invite all fraternal as
sociations in the city and state to join
with the Independent Foresters on
| Fraternal day at the exposition
The order has a membership of $780,
! 900 distributed in 4,940 courts under
| 55 high courts