Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-06
SAN FRANCISCO THE
PLACE

w will, before they leave the con-
W fines of the state, become con-
vinced that California is, above all other
states in the Union, entitled to hold
the international exposition in celebra-
tion of the completion of the Panama
canal. and that likewise, the largest
city in California is entitled to be the
location of that exposition. There are
many considerations which point to the
appropriateness of San Francisco as
the exposition city.
The city of New Orleans and the
state of Louisiana will probably be no
more benefited by the opening of the
Panama canal than will a dozen other
eastern seaboard cities and states. The
state of California, with its 100 miles
of coast line, will be more benefited by
this great national improvement than
all the balance of the Pacific coast put
together, and to this state should
be accorded the privilege of celebrating
it, This is particularly the case when
its largest city, which asks permission
to build and care for the exposition,
which will probably be larger than
has ever heretofore been invested in
an international fair.
Besides, the fact that San Francisco
has within the past four years accom-
plished something which the world has
never before witnessed, namely, the
complete rebuilding of a great city that
had been destroyed by fire, and has
been reproduced infinitely greater and
grander than it y IS before the calam-
ity, and the desire to see so wonder
full a spot on the face of the earth
would undoubtedly attract many thou
sands of foreigners to San Francisco
who would not be attracted to any
other American city.
In addition to this, the city of San
Francisco Is the center of a popula-
ton Of nearly a million people located
sufficiently close to it to permit of
daily attendance at the fair, very
much larger population of this kind
than New Orleans can boast And it is,
after all, to = daily attendance at
an exposition of this sort, by people
who go day after { for the purpose
of studying it's many wonders that
an enterprise of this kind must look
for it's financial success.
Furthermore, there are few cities In
America equipped for caring for great
crowds of visitors from a distance as
is San Francisco. In addition to three
tho htOhaG Gt
class, the city has innumerable other
hostelries where visitors of more mod
crate tastes can be accommodated.
There are probably not five other cities
in America so we'll equipped for car
ing for large crowds by every kind of
hotel as is the city of San Francisco.
And above all is the fact that the
city has a climate which for the whole
course of the exposition, even were 1t
decided to continue it open fer year,
would be absolutely ideal, Its sum-
mers are so cool that the climate would
have the attraction of summer resort
for visitors who would attend during
the warmer months. It's winters are
SO delightful that the exposition could
be continued throughout the winter, if
the attendance justified it, and
again the climate would have
the attraction of winter resort for
people from the colder ATTITUDES who
might combine a visit to the exposi-
tion with a search for moderate eli
mate.
We believe that If our banker friends
will examine with an unprejudiced
mind the claims of San Francisco upon
the exposition, they will be convinced
that it is, above all other cities in
America, the place where 1t should be
held. And should they come to feel
this way about it, we trust they will
use their influence when they return
home to bring about the choice of
san Francisco by congress as the place
for holding what should be the great
est international exposition that this
country has ever offered to the world.