The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-10
EVENTS OF WEEK
AMONG The CLUBS
Merchants Association to Make
Trip Over Western Pacific's
Interior Trade Excursion

delegation from the Merchants
association went to Sacramento in the
interests of the Panama Pacific ex-
position.
On Saturday, September "a, members
of the association will make daylight
excursion over the Western Pacific to
the California state line. The special
train viii leave San Francisco at $3.50
a. M, and the excursionists will return
Monday morning at $50. Stops will
be made al Marysville. Oroville, Portola,
and other points of interest along the
road.
The association is arranging for a
hVe days invasion OF the lower San
Joaquin valley by the jobbers and
manufacturers of San Francisco. This
invasion will continue from October II
to 90 About 10 interior towns will
be besieged by the San Francisco mer-
chants. The purpose is to increase the
commercial relations between those
towns and San Francisco. Many cities
which Were formerly customers nave
become competitors. 1t is necessary for
San Francisco to hold and increase it's
trade. Such excursions have proved
highly profitable to Chicago, Kansas
City and Houston.
The association reports that manu-
featuring in San Francisco is increas-
ing, and that in general the retail bust
ness is improving San Franchises
bank clearings are greater than those
of Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland and
Tacoma combined, and three times that
of New Orleans
The association further reports that
a recent reinspection of San Francisco
after the lapse of one and a half years
shows the city to be in clearly a
condition as it was under the most rigid
federal inspection. DR. G.. NJ. Converse
Of the federal service has made this
report to Washington, and it will soon
be issued in health bulletin that is
sent to all the principal cities of tht
world.
CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
At a meeting held, Tuesday the Cali
fornia development board devised a
comprehensive scheme for assisting the
Panama Pacific exposition. The plan
involves forming a fedora ton of all the
civic. commercial and Improvement or
ganizations OF the state. The board
recently issued its annual report It
contains many valuable statistics as to
the growth of the state with particular
and emphatic reference TO San Fran
cisco.
HOME INDUSTRY LEAGUE
The league has just brought to a
successful conclusion its exhibition in
the Hale Bros building of California
made goods. The exhibition was we'll
attended and will no doubt greatly re-
dound to the benefit of the exhibitors.
TWIN PEAKS Tunnel CONVENTION
The report of the Twin Peaks tunnel
and Improvement convention is now
under consideration by the street com
mittee of the board of supervisors. The
committee has taken the very com
mendable attitude of desiring to safe
guard the interests of the city in its
negotiations for the purchase Of the
Spring Valley water company's proper-
ties at Lake MERGED in connection with
the matter of the construction of the
Twin Peaks tunnel.
In this respect the committee has the
support of the Twin Peaks tunnel con-
yention, which desires to safeguard the
interests of the city, while at the same
time it is solicitous of having this great
Improvement accomplished.
SOUTH OF ARMY CLUB
AT its meeting Thursday evening at
1916 Mission street P. d. Broderick of
the board of public works, who lives
in this district, was the invited guest
of the South of Army Street improve
ment club. He told of the proposed
widening of Virginia avenue, the pro-
posed widening of the Bernal cut the
proposed Ieveling of the Randall grade
and the extension of the Ocean avenue
boulevard to San Bruno road. He
pointed out how all of those improve
ments would assist the south of Army
street district
On Saturday evening the club flooded