Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-24
SOLID SOUTH
IS WATERING
New Orleans Opposed as Pan
anna Exposition City.
TEXAS FAVORS SAN FRANCISCO

Decided Falling Off In Enthusiasts In
Lone Star State as Evidenced by
Articles Appearing In Papers of
FL Paso and San Antonio-swing
In Line For the California City as
the Logical Site.
While New Orleans is Industrious
~ claiming the endorsement of the
Mississippi valley region and the
middle west it is allowing the solid
south" to waver in it's supposed al
legiance and slip away
A few days ago word came from
San Antonio, Tex, that there was a
decided falling off of New Orleans
exposition enthusiasts in that city
owing to the greed of the Crescent
City in attempting to secure the Ma
tlonal Bankers convention for next
year, after San Antonio had put in a
bid for their entertainment. Such
action was not considered ueighborly,
especially after the Texas city had
been asked TO support New Orleans
in its struggle for exposition honors.
Now Ell PaSO, Tex, has apparently
swung into line for San Francisco
as against New Orleans as the log
ical site for the Panama exposition,
judging by the following in the Ell
Paso Herald of Oct u:
lei Paso's Interest as to the lOca-
ton Of the Panama exposition of 1915
all lies with San Francisco as against
New Orleans. AS one commentator
says: There never was an exposi-
ton so successful as that at Seattle,
and there never was one so forlorn
failure as that at jamestown, Va,
Notwithstanding the fact that half
the population Of the country is with
in days or a nights ride of James
town An exposition at San Fran
cisco will promote the development of
the west and that is what we are
after"
Sometime ago New Orleans secured
an endorsement in ST. Louis and that
success appears to have induced the
belief among the Crescent City boost
ers that the entire middle west was
only waiting for an invitation to
climb on the New Orleans band
wagon.
Next New Orleans announced that
Omaha was for it, but the announce
ment was premature. In its hurry
to report result the New Orleans bu-
reau at Omaha sent broadcast over
the country that New Orleans had
been endorsed as the exposition city
by the Commercial club, the largest
and most influential organization of
business men there.
Immediately the Commercial club
held meeting, repudiated the alleg-
ed endorsement of New Orleans and
endorsed San Francisco by an over
whelming vote. The city council of
Omaha, by unanimous vote, passed a
resolution also endorsing San Fran
cisco
Still asserting title to the sympathy
and influence of the entire middle
west section, the New Orleans boost
ers descended upon Chicago and re-
quested an endorsement. The re-
quest was politely but firmly refused,
but New Orleans, nothing daunted,
continued to claim" Chicago's sup
port confident in the belief that the
endorsement would come later. But
on Oct. Chicago showed unmistak-
ably where she stood in the exposi-
ton fight when the National Business
League Of America adopted a resolu-
ton, which after setting forth the ad-
vantages Of San Francisco, conclud-
ed, That San Francisco be, and
hereby is, strongly recommended as
the proper site for the proposed ex-
position"
New Orleans suffered another re-
buff when she sought the endorse
ment of Washington, D. G. Washing
ton refused, whereupon the New Or
leans promoters dismissed the sub
ject with the remark that Washing
ton did not count anyway.
New Orleans hopes" to raise about
100000 for her proposed exposi-
ton, which will be entirely made
quate for so great an undertaking,
but Senator Foster of Louisiana
seeks to minimize the Importance of
having sufficient funds to insure the
success of the enterprise Admitting
that San Francisco will have more
than twice as much money for expo
sition purposes as New Orleans, he
pleads that sit would be mean and
unfair for congress to take that fact
into consideration"