The San Francisco call., 1910-06-18
San Francisco
Viii Hold
the Fair

New Orleans tried in 1884 and the result was bankruptcy leaving
debt of 100000 to the government which still remains unpaid
Jamestown Va tried the thing later with dsas
results in financial way
worlds to be a success something more in
the way Of outside attractions behind that these expoons
have lost their novelty In Europe and America these great shows
have been held frequent intervals for than half century
and their lies chiefly in the fact that they mile
OF progress science and the In other respects they
longer unique Their present chiefly
ton they do not draw sufficient patronage to make them financially
successful That the with the jamestown and New Orleans
eHPositiOns and the result in both failure.
On the other hand California and the whole Pacific
intrinsic and etrnsic attractions that bring people
here when offers and for made reasonable.
Such the with the Seattle and Portland expositons which
both without subsidy government
They left debts the treasury unpaid the with
eNposons held in the southern states Nobody wants to visit
New Orleans for any
in that neighborhood With California Francisco
different 10 American considers his education complete unless
he has California and its world famous
New Orleans noorousy dilapdated city, unkemp and
lnsanitary with abomnabe climate. fair
city simply of the question, and hold it in winter
people to travel when they much prefer their
unless they are compelled to leave them by i'll health In that
relation ang person would New health
either summer winter The neoable logic OF circumstances
conclusive against the proposition which,
when tried ended in disastrous failure The reasoning
on a score 50 conclusive that IS tar to assume that the
promise OF New Orleans subscribe %5000O0 nothing
than a bluff. That OF talk is cheap
Conasted with the established failure Orleans in this
ed the accomplished OF the Adwnter city
Our people carried that enterprise their shoulders and made
pay We do the thing again much larger scale
All the world there people see what we have
done great city which four years ago laid in ruins
by earthquake Francisco is today spc and span
from the hand the builder the most modern
great city in the world.
San Francisco asks the government for no subsidy nb .
other cities that have held expositons in
the This practice has fallen dsepu chiefly because
of the jamestown failure Thus the Savannah Ca News writing
OF prospective fairs:
hen the exposition at jamestown Va ended being failure
the az hade
eNpoons to last for least hall And Notwithstanding
sentiment confronted three
namely the celebrate the opening the Panama the one
celebrate founding OF New York
orate the emancipation OF the What
all of them? of
fa that there deficiency likely people
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used Tor 4e
San Francisco plans raid national treasury and #
well that this fact should be thoroughly by the states
the other side of mountains If we choose TO undr. ~
exposition at and risk of the government
is that we be gwen clean field for enterprise promises
success We ahead and if New Orleans
rashy designs to enter the field in competition same time
that Will be 50 much the worse for New Orleans