Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-28
SAN DIEGO CAN ACCOMMODATE
UNLIMITED THOUSANDS
Climatic Conditions in Southern City
Far Superior to Those of San Francis
co Thus Making Former Ideal Place
for the Panama Exposition

Palace, steam heated, double blanketed
and within reach of the office telephone
that summons the bellboy with ice
water to cool their throats after
breathing the hot air of these
luxurious and enervating hostelries.
But of course we will build hotels
and apartment houses and well
equipped lodging houses in the next five
years; we expect to offer an up-to-date
city of at least 10000 population by
the time our exposition opens on Jan
uary l, 1916; but for the vast overflow
that will deluge us during the year we
shall provide a tent city capable of
accommodating a hundred thousand
people, confident in the belief that the
great majority of those who come out
of the blizzard-swept east, or the
sweltering middle west, or even from
the fog wrapped bay region of Califor-
mia, will delight to dwell in our tents
and prefer that healthful and inYigorat-
ing method of habitation to the sy-
baritic luxury of steam heat and two
pairs of blankets; and we are not so
sure that those who visit us in 1915
will not pay a premium for the tent
life so superior to that which is usually
demanded for steam heated hotels and
janitor dominated apartment houses" ."
The San Diegan's table companions
who had come to scoff were finally con-
strained to admit that the retort upon
their assumption of San Diegos in
capacity was unanswerable; provided,
of course, that it would be practically
demonstrated. Whereupon the man
from San Diego offered the record of
the San Diego weather service for the
past thirty years in behalf of his as
sertion that the climate of that sec
tion is an all-the-year out-of-door
proposition.
Weather Bad in North
san Francisco" he said, will be
able, probably, to house all who come
to its Balboa exposition, and the
visitors will not be Inconvenience on
those days when the inclemency of the
weather prevents them from attending
the show. You cannot deny that there
will be many such days, especially in
the winter months, for you must admit
the seasons here are distinctive enough
to be designated by the names they
bear in New England and other places
where they steam heat their houses
and base burn their fuel to make
themselves comfortable from October
to April. In San Diego it is quite
otherwise" he added somewhat malic-
iously. "In San Diego we have no win
ter climate in the sense that other less
favored regions speak of that season,
and in truth we are seriously thinking
of advertising our so-called winter
months as less desirable than our sum-
mer season merely because the tourist
of the blizzardly eastern states is
tempted by the universal claim of Cali
fornia that it has a mild winter climate.
The assertion has become monotonous,
and down in San Diego they are get
ting tired of the sameness.
'It is just as desirable that the broil-
ing, sizzling, perspiring population of
the sunstruck east should escape the
deadly heat of their midsummer with
all it's accompanying madness as it is
that they should get away from the
below zero weather of their mid
winter. They cannot go to Florida or
to the Riviera, for it as hot in these
fashionable and famous winter resorts
as it is in New York city or Chicago;
and they find but partial relief at the
bathing resorts of the Atlantic coast or
in the average altitude of the Adiron-
dacks. Their choice in this desire,
therefore, is between Labrador and San
Diego; and even her most inVeterate
contemners will not say that the
natural charms of San Diego are very
far superior to those Of Labrador, sum-
mer or winter
Somebody at this point turned the
conversation upon the midsummer
jinks of the club and the San Diegan,
finding that the traditions of the club
were an insuperable obstacle to ac-
ceptance of San Diego's cordial invita-
ton to hold the great festival in the
Oak Groves of Descanso or Ramona,
eminently suitable for the presentation
of a beautiful Druidic theme, he plead
ed an urgent business engagement and
gracefully retired from the symposium
DON GASPAR.