Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
STEAMSHIP co. TO
BOOST EXPOSITION
1amburg-AmeriCan Line to Send
Ships Through Canal
to San Diego
OFFER LOW RATE FROM N. Y.
Col. Collier Returns from Tour of
East, Bringing Rosy
Messages
OFFER LOW RATE FROM N. Y.

EXPOSITION Lne ftanDufB-AHer1Cdn
steamship line will put on passenger
service from New York to San Diego,
Los Angeles and San Francisco, via
the Panama canal and with stopover
privileges. The ships will be equal in
every way to those now operated by
this company between New York and
European ports.
Admiral bob" Evans will act as
commissioner of the exposition and will
visit ali the governments OF South and
Central America and Mexico as the
accredited representative of the ex-
position company
The transcontinental railroads prob
ably will grant single fare rate good
to San Diego, Los Angeles and San
Francisco at a uniform price and with
stopover privileges.
These are the most important de-
velopments of Col. d. G. Golfers visit
to the east. Col. Collier, who is direc-
tor general of the San Diego exposi-
tion, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday
noon and departed last night for San
Diego. He was away seven weeks.
During that time he accomplished
much in the way of securing publicity
for the San Diego fair and in making
necessary business arrangements. He
was accompanied on the trip by Rob
ert r. Connolly, director of publicity,
and who formerly was in charge OF the
Los Angeles office of the Associated
Press. Most of their time the two men
put in to good advantage in Washlng-
ton and New York, but brief stops
also were made in Chicago. Boston and
other eastern cities. Everywhere they
went they found much interest in San
Diego's plans for celebrating the open
ing of the great canal.
SECURE SPEEDY SERVICE
The most important accomplishment
of the trip was an arrangement with
the Hamburg American people to in
stall a first class and speedy passeu-
ger service between New York ana
California, through the canal. Or
flcials of the company assured Col.
Collier that this will be done. They
promise q low rate and ships or the
first class, equal to any passenger craft
now afloat; and they agreed TO make
n flat rate between New York ana
san Francisco, granting stopover priv
iliges at both San Diego and Los An
geles without extra charge. This, OF
course, will mean that practically all
easterners coming by water to the san
Francisco exposition will stop en- route
both here and at San Diego.
"In all our plans" said Col. Coliler
Yesterday. 1--WE have aimed to include
los Angeles in the benefits San Diego
expects to reap through the fair and
7 think we have been successful. All
of the neutrality-suspicious. liners VIII
stop here as well as at San Diego ana
at San Francisco. You're going to be
surprised when their rate is announced,
too. They expect to carry lot OF
people and I guess they'll DO II;
"I had several talks with Admiral
Trvans and made an arrangement with
him under which he will act as com
missioner to the foreign governments
to +he south. He will visit them all
and will endeavor to interest them IN
the San Diego fair. We want big eX-
hibits from Mexico and from every ma
ZION in South and Central America,
and think the admiral is just the
man 10 get them for us. He Is In ex-
rellent health and is walking without
a crutch for the first time In flVe
years.
No WoNEY wANTED-wELcONE
ain washington. when they found
we weren't going to ask congress for a
nennv. they welcomed us with open
arms. Everywhere we went the news
napers printed columns about the san
Diepo fair plans and about Southern
California generally. Many OF tne
newspaper men had heard, of course
that san Diego and San Francisco were
rights and they were much surprised
when told them that all differences
had disappeared and that Cal1fornla
e+ood united in favor of a worlds falr
FOR San Francisco and OF great
southwestern fair for San Diego
When they asked me what l meant py
that / told them that we purposed to
hold an exposition to demonstrate the
possibilities of arid America and TO
show to the world what has been ac-
complished recently in the way of lrrl-
cation. We expect to have big exhibits
along these lines from Southern Cali
fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada
and Utah, and to have exhibits also
from all of South and Central America
and from Mexico.
IT fold them. too, that all our build
ings will be in the Mission style of
architecture--and that applies to every
structure on the grounds, If 1t Is only
n. soda water kiosk-and that we shall
hold the fair in the City park, using
as much of the $4,000 acres as we may
need. The park is only fifteen minutes
walk from the center of the city. Then
I said that we are going to spend more
money to make our fair than Seattle
spent for the Alaska-Yukon exposition,
but that we are not going to ask con-
gress for O. cent. When I told them
that they began to sit up and take
notice.
SOUSA AGREEABLE
ST had a talk with John Philip Sousa
and practically made arrangements
with him to bring big band to the
fair. We shall have an amphitheater
with a seating capacity of $4,000, and
daily band concerts will be feature
I am planning to secure county build
ings from each county in Southern
California That will be a novelty
and 1 believe it would appeal to east
erners. Our counties, you know, are
larger than many eastern states.
IT wish you would say that there Is
no truth in the story that 1, or any
other loyal San Diegan, ever even
thought of an alliance with New Or
leans on the subject Of worlds fair
We are for San Francisco. and we have
been for San Francisco ever since the
compromise agreement was reached.
We are for it strong, too, because we
believe that practically all of the tour
lists who will visit the San Francisco
fair also will visit u.s.
"Should any new dispute arise in the
future between our organization and
that formed in the northern city 1t will
be arbitrated, we appointing one con-
ference committee and they another,
but / do not anticipate any further
trouble"
Colonel Golfers wife joined him here
and his two sons, David and Clifton
Collier, now pupils at the Harvard
Military academy in this city, passed
Yesterday afternoon with their parents
in the Angelus hotel