The San Francisco call., 1910-03-24
INCORPORATE FOR
GREAT EXPOSITION
Directing Committee of 1915
Celebration Forms Company
Capitalized at $4,000, 900
Plans for Campaign for Funds
Will Be Discussed at the
Meeting Today
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desirable site in the state of California
in which to hold a celebration COM
memorating the opening of the Panama
canal.
The finance committee will immedi
ately proceed with the work of secur-
ing the amount of capitalization in or
der that representatives of this city
may go before congress and ask that a
similar amount be appropriated, in or
der that the preliminary expenses OF
the proposed $50, 100000 exposition may
be met.
Under the articles of Incorporation
the name of the organization is the
Panama Pacific international exposition
company of San Francisco. the desire
being to promote, finance and execute
in this city an exposition in commence
ration of the connecting of the Atlantic
and the Pacific by the opening of the
Panama canal in 1915.
To form a permanent organization.
under the new charter, the directing
committee of the exposition Will meet
at the headquarters in the Merchants
Exchange building at o'clock Thurs
day. At this meeting it is beheVed
that the plan of campaign for the rals-
ing of the exposition funds Will be
definitely outlined, the finance commit
tee instructed and a secretary ap-
pointed to succeed Frank V. Dunham,
resigned.
j. M. Mcclure, clerk to the directing
committee, delivered an address before
the Alameda chamber of commerce last
night showing numerous reasons why
the exposition in honor of the opening
of the Panama canal should be held IN
San Francisco.
The Builders exchange at a meeting
held Monday endorsed the exposition
project in resolution reading
Whereas, the Builders exchange,
through its board of directors, has
indorsed the holding of an eXpoSl-
tion in SAM Francisco to celebrate
the opening. of the Panama canal
in the year 1915: therefore be it
Resolved, that the members OF
the Builders exchange. in annual
meeting assembled. approve of the
above action and pledge our united
support to the movement.
S. III. KENT. president.
JAMES A. WILSON, Secretary.
SUPPORT SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES, March 23.-Members
of the delegation representing the Mer
chants and Manufacturers association
and the Los Angeles realty board re-
turned today from Santa Barbara,
where they attended the Panama-Cali-
fornia exposition conference yesterday.
w G. Kerchkoff headed the Mer
chants and Manufacturers association
delegation. He said:
We agreed to support the fair in
San Francisco provided they ac-
cepted the compromise we offered
The compromise suggested was for
proportionate division of the
state appropriation based on the re-
spective amounts subscribed San
Francisco is to advertise the San
Diego fair and San Diego is to
waive the federal appropriation.
San Francisco representative ac-
cepted this suggestion, but the San
Diego promoters would not enter
tain the compromise suggested.
AS the situation now is, the Los
Angeles delegations are on record
as supporting the San Francisco
fair providing the northerners
abide by the compromise which
they accepted yesterday.
Another effort will be made to
get the San Diego promoters to ac-
cept the compromise offered at the
conference. This is in charge of a
committee of which Max Mayberg
is chairman.