The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06
PORTOLA FETE
SIDFTRACKFD
SEVEN YEARS
DON Gaspar Will Not Revisit
San Francisco Until After
Panama Exposition
Every Effort VIII Be Concen.
trated to Make International
Fair World Wide Success

u order that every energy of the
-ity may be concentrated in the effort
make the Panama Pacific exposition
he greatest international affair of the
sort ever held. there will be no Portola
festival this year
That was the decision reached at the
last meeting of the Portola committee.
Furthermore. it was determined not TO
aold another Portola festival until the
year after the Panama exposition. Al
ready the Office furniture, appurte-
nances and records of the Portola COM
mittee have been offered to the exposi-
tion committee for its use.
UNDIVIDED EFFORT NEEDED
The Portola committee took the step
toward doing away temporarily with
an annual festival only after long and
careful consideration. All the members
of the PortOla executive body are mem
bers of the ways and means committee
81 the Panama Pacific international eX-
position, and il was decided that the
united effort OF both the committee and
all citizens Of San Frnacisco should
be directed undoubtedly toward making
the exposition a great success. By the
elimination Of the festival the energy
IF every active worker Will be aimed
TO the same end. the funds that would
be necessary annually for festival
purposes can be saved for the worlds
exposition, and there viii be nothing
intervening to detract from its even
1ual success.
A new milestone IL exposition history
viii be passed today. when the ways
and means committee of the Panama
Pacific international exposition gathers
for its second meeting, to receive the
report of its special nominating com
mittee and TO devise plans for imme-
date work in many directions The
meeting viii be held at $50 o'clock on
the floor OF the Merchants exchange
and il is expected that practically every
member of the committee of more than
zoo will be present.
COMMITTEE OF THIRTY
The most important business TO come
before the ways and means committee
today viii be the selection Of direct
ing committee of 30. Nominations for
membership on this committee have
been prepared by the special commit
tee consisting of i. ". Dohrmann. Leon
Sloss and J. w. Dutton, who were ap-
pointed for this particular purpose at
the initial meeting.
With the formation Of this directing
VIII center in the hands of two bodies
and all the preliminary committees
which have carried out the original
work and plans VIII pass from exist
ence. The ways and means committee
viii continue as the general directing
body, while the directing committee
viii devote itself at once TO questions
Of policy and organization.
The directing committee probably
he rlfl-- -f-raT TO
Its own membership an executive COM
mittee OF five or seven members in
which executive power viii be central
lied and which later will choose the
president or director general Of the
fair At the same time the directing
commiUtee may be given the power to
increase the membership of the ways
and means committee by additions of
names from time 10 time. and will be
instructed TO subdivide the ways and
means committee into special commit
tees.
WORK FOR SUBCOMMITTEEs
The subdivisions into which the ways
and means committee viii be resolved
bg action OF the directing committee
Wlli include committees TO deal imme-
diately with matters Of the most press
ing Importance. These committees will
be authorized TO act on exploitation.
participation. county participation, out
side state participation, foreign partic-
ipation. organization. bylaws and other
subjects. 1t is probable that the out
lining Of the financial campaign will
be left 10 the directing committee.
The notice Of the closing up of Por-
tola festival affairs and the offer of
furniture and supplies to the exposi-
ton committee was contained in the
following letter received at the expo
sition headquarters.
Gentlemen: I am instructed by
The executive committee of the
Portola festival 70 tender to you
the use Of its office furniture and
appurtenances. Ii WAS the sense
~ the meeting at which this reso-
luiion was adopted that the Por-
tola festival viii not be repeated
this year, but the committee would
be glad TO reserve the right to re-
cali this furniture i'm the event Of
another festival being held An
carly reply viii be greatly appre-
ciated. as il is the wish of the
committee TO close its affairs at
once. ! have the honor to remain
very truly yours,
HOMER BOUsHEY,
Secretary Executive Committee
in addition OF the large amount Of
desks, filing cases 'and Office furniture
OF various kinds included ia this leg
scy, the exposition committee probably
VIII receive many records Of value.
such IS mailing lists and literature that
may be 0f great aid in the preliminary
work.
FOREIGN coz NTaIES INTERESTED
a letter from II. A. Van c. Torch
lana, president Of the Santa Cruz
chamber Of commerce. was referred to
The exposition committee yesterday by
=. C. Moore. Torchiana wrote that he
had received from the Netherland
chamber Of commerce in America with
headquarters in New York, a request
FOR all reading matter obtainable per-
tanning to the exposition, and a similar
request from an influential organiza-
tion in Holland.
Torcniana also stated in his letter
that ne was making early efforts to in
duce the manufacturers and producers
OF the Dutch East Indies and the