Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-21
EXPOSITION WILL
Be BIG SUCCESS
DIRECTOR D0SCH TALKS OF
SAN DIEGO FAIR
PRIME OBJECT is TO ATTRACT
LARGE IMMIGRATION
Man Who viii Arrange the Exhibits
Favors Having the Panama.
California Show on the
Original Lines

ileges at the Alaska -Yukon-P Pacific eX-
position at Seattle and veteran i'll
exposition management and organlza-
ton, who has been i'm san Diego for
some time, said yesterday: Judging
from the amount of dynamic force
have seen evidenced in San Diego in
the way of sentiment expressed and
the more substantial stock subscription
of $1,OOO,000 that is just about com
pleted l think no San Diegan need feel
the slightest doubt of the outcome of
their Panama California exposition
project"
Colonel Dosch has participated in
eight great demonstrations of industry
and his assistance and advice have
been sought whenever an exposition
has been attempted. At Seattle he
had jurisdiction over several of the
largest buildings on the grounds, ana
to his energy and executive ability is
due in large part the success Of the
Alaska a-Yukon-Pacidc exposition.
THE holding of an exposition any
where depends largely on what it is
held for" he said. Chicago Buffa-
10. St Louis and osaka, Japan, were
held purely for commercial purposes;
Omaha, Charleston Atlanta, Portland
and Seattle were held principally Tor
immigration purposes. After looking
over your city for two weeks. I take IL,
plated exposition must be added. Of
fetal connection with the last eight
large eXpositions, including Japan.
could not fail to give me broad eN-
perience, and / speak from the knoWl-
edge so gained, not from feeling or
sentiment that so often warps one S
better judgment.
Benefits Far Reaching
"The results of a successful expo
sition can never fully be estimated, as
the benefits are so far reaching ana
long enduring that the end cannot ne
seen even of those eXposltons held
years ago You will find this true or
the Panama California exposition when
convincing years have come and gone
even unto the third and fourth Gener-
alton No doubt you have the usual
number of doubling Thomases and up
to-date knockers that are the portion
of every exposition ever conceived, but
cheer up. these kill joys of popular
advancement when the success or the
exposition is assured are the most ar
dent proclaimers of it's glory, and the
first to nod their wise heads over
sage 4 told you So
"I have not learned yet on how large
a scale you intend TO have your expo
sition. but from what I have learned
Of the management and the enthusiasm
that seems to radiate from that source
7 think the result will be something
over which all California may feel
Justly proud. Emerson has SAID
Nothing was ever accomplished Win
ont enthusiasm Comparisons may be
odious. but they are also conVlnclhs'
end so to stimulate the existing en-
thusiasm and for the special benent OF
the omnipresent l5nocker, permit me
to ouote the results of few o. the
past eXpositions: ~.
when omaha held her TRANSMITS
sissinni exposition in 1898 she had sO'-
oO0 inhabitants IT was a dun, proNih-
cial town, with large brick and stone
bIocbs absolutely empty In less than
five years she doubled her population
every building was occupied, ana To-
day-less than twelve years-O,iild 10
ter with a population OF 35O'ooo people
Buffalo an Illustration
"1,ook at Buffalo. Her business was
ouietlv slipping out of her grasp, Wheh
some one suggested an e-iposltlon;
| When I went there to look the heiu
over I found nearly very other dwell
inc in All the fine residence districts
marked for sale. on the east side, as
! il is called. were miles of homes where
thousands of laborers lived, their
homes covered with mortgages Whlch
the owner could not pay. The eXposl-
tiOn was held there eight years ago
When I returned two years after lts
| gates had closed l found all the 'for
! Sale signs gone, the houses occupied
| and mortgages no longer menace:
! Mr.. Adams. then mayor and owner OF
| the largest department store, told me
that his clerical force had doubled.
! The president of the Fidelity trust
! company said TO me in answer to my
question. yes, millions of dollars have
! been paid in to take up the thousands
of little mortgages on the homes over
on the east side The whole city had
a look of prosperity, and the census
showed last year that since the expo
sition. old city of the east that she
was Buffalo had gained 80 per cent in
population.
LET us come nearer home and more
! in line with your city. There is Port
land, Ore. which held her Lewis ana
Clark Centennial exposition five years
ago. The results are simply marvel
aus unbelievable, and yet statistics
show that Portland grew from "A city
| of 100000 to a city of 250,000 population,
and not only did Portland benefit, but
Seattle. Tacoma, Spokane and the
commonwealths OF Washington and
| oregon practically doubled their popu-
lation and stimulated a manufacturing
and export trade that even the most
sanguine had not hoped for,
Seattle Is Benefited
"I,ast year we had the Alaska Yu-
kon-Pacific exposition in Seattle. and
the results are already felt, both at
the exposition city and the other cities
named. Today fifteen and sixteen
story steel structures are going up in
the business centers of Seattle and
Portland at an amazing rate, thou
sands of homes are being erected in
every direction and large hotels are
being added to the numerous hostel
ries already in existence TO accommo-
date the influx that has come pouring
in. and will continue to come, as re-
suit of these two eXpositions.
"These are facts, and not the Vaga-
ries of an Imagination. If you want
the proof two days travel will con-
vince you. 1t is not chimerical nor
imaginary to think that history will
repeat itself in the case of San Diego.
Climate is one of the greatest assets
that any exposition held or contem-
plated could offer to the world whom
she invites to gather within her gates,
and | think l am only repeating what
every tourist who has ever been mere
has sighed or exclaimed or calmly
stated. There is nothing like 1t in the
world-this climate of yours! No need
to dwell on the advantages that the
opening of the Panama canal Will OF
fer. They have been set to music,
believe, down here in this first port
of CALI town.