The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

possible gladly turned their fellows the reins OF
management of the vast enterprise Before adjournment
the meeting had named committee consisting OF
James Roph r president of the Merchants exchange
James McNab president of the chamber OF commerce.
Andrew NJ Davis president of the Merchants associations
Homer S. King, president of the Pacific Ocean exposition
company r. B. Hale who first suggested the exposition
and Charles c. Moore former president OF the chamber OF
commerce and had authorized this committee to lay out
the preliminary work of organization.
The work has moved steadily forward and as the plans
have grown bigger the confidence of the public IN the
ultimate of the undertaking has kept full pace
Out of the abors of the original committee OF SIX grew
the ways and committee OF than ZOO local
citizens, augmented later by the appointment OF men rep
resentng every of California and every
of the Rockies Within this again. there formed
directing committee of so, which, subdivded into special
committees, has performed the executive functions of the
REORGANIZATION period.
House bill No. at the present session of congress
document introduced by Representative Julius Kahn
calling for federal appropriation of S5000000 to be
devoted to the work of the exposition The bill has not
been pressed for the money needed yet and the
organizers of the exposition have pledged this city to
SoOooOo fund be raised by popular subscription before
the government actually asked to extend financial aid IN
like amount.
That congress will stand ready to extend the aid
desired when the proper time assured President
Taft himself has expressed most favorable comment
corning the project, and the members of the committees
which will consider the recommendations to congress
the subject have aligned themselves behind San Francisco
been asked nothing aid the undertaking Pledges
support promises of material assistance have
poured in from quarter not of the city alone but OF
the state at large In the es at the exposition headquar
in the Merchants Exchange building thousands
upon thousands of letters of enthusiastic Endorsement
There has been reason for all this The time was
quite ripe for the appeal for financial aid On the
day of the initial meeting O. D. Baldwin leaped to his
feet and with pledge of personal subscription of $4,000
proposed raise 100000 among those present before the
meeting adjourned There there who doubted
that it could be DONE but the time hand There
remained all the detail of organization be adjusted and
thousand and one preliminary matters to disposed Of
At last the of preliminary work IS all but cleared
away There has been named chairman OF finance tor
the exposition big in the financial world of the west
William B. Bourn He hesitated long before assuming the
task for which he chosen by the behind the expo
ston affairs but pledged the work he has taken
hold with will and enthusiasm that spells nothing but
success even greater than at first dreamed Of
On w. B. Bourn devoves the responsibility of guiding
the second step toward exposition building Within the
next fortnight, probably there will issue through him
appeal to the people of San Francisco to pledge by in
vdual subscription fund of S5ooOOoo. Does any loyal
San Franciscan, any who has the
city rise like magic from its ashes any who knows the
heart OF its people doubt what the will be when this
call is sounded?
The beginnings have been made. The foundation is
firm and solid. The work ahead has been organized
that future mssteps will An exposition that
will rank with the greatest in the worlds history is the
making The fund be raised here will be but the nucleus
of undertaking which, by conservative estimate, will
represent total investment OF than S5OOOO0OO,
which will draw attendance of 100000 during it's
progress and which will win for this and city the
attention, recognition and admiration of the world
The ultimate of the Panama Pacific interna-
tiona exposition lies with the people of San Francisco
There part every do Let revive
spirit that has carried city triumphant through
every trial. the spirit that SCOTS doubt msgving the
spirit has truly made San Francisco The City Loved
Around the World Let pull together, shoulder to
shoulder during the five years and when the gates
of the PananaPac international exposition opened
in 1915 it will be present the world an exposition
unsurpassed in splendor and magnihcence