The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-01
SAN FRANCISCO HoLps JUBILEE.
Business Men Dance on Asphalt to Music
OF Brass Bands.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31-With a
gala spirit that excelled any OF the far
san Francisco today and tonight cele
brated the adoption by the house of rep
resentatives In Washington OF the rcso-
luton naming this city as tie site Tor
the Panama Pacific International eXposi-
ton 10 be held In 1915 10 commemorate
the opening OF the Panama canal.
The news was greeted with burst OF
enthusiasm seldom witnessed even in the
spontaneous west. The firing OF bombs
from the newspaper buildings announced
the victory 10 the eXpectant city and was
the signal for the sirens and steam whis-
Ties of every craft In the harbor and from
the factories and power plants on land.
As by magic the great steel and gran
lite piles OF the business district. reared
since the fire of 1905, which destroyed
is. 000 buildings. broke out in bunting
wreaths and ponnants and from every
flagstaff fiuttered the national colors,
The courts adjourned in the midst Of
testimony and argument; unable TO keep
within bounds the enthusiasm OF their
pupils. the clty's schools closed and gave
the children a half holiday in honor of
the event while down town stad mer
chants threw business TO the winds and
danced in the streets TO the music OF
brass bands which suddenly appeared
from various directions and paradcd the
streets during the afternoon and tonight.
aglow with the little red lights OF sub
scrlbers ringing in and asking for de-
tails of the vote in Washington.
The fair is ours" was the cry every
where. and 1T was fully an hour before
the downtown section OF the city settled
down 10 routine business again. while in
the clubs. safes, theatcrs and on the
streets impromptu celebrations continued
during the afternoon and tonight The
downtown streets and cafes rival the
scenes OF New Years eve tonight. To
be prepared for the rcvel and carnival
spirit. Chief OF Police Seymour ordered
out all the reserves for traffic duty in
the congcsted streets.
The entire city is in festal array: i'm
mense electric signs with San Francisco
1915. spring up by dusk while the Call
fornia bear. garlanded with the yellow
poppy. the state flower is dancing on
huge posters on the blllboards under The
prediction "a Million Population in
1915"
When the final vote was announced a
mass meeting OF citizens was called on
the floor of the Merchants exchange. So
many sought admission 10 the place that
when the speakers arrived the police had
great difficulty forcing AN entrance for
them. Several women in the crowd
tainted and Il number suffered minor in
juries from the crush. The police finally
succeeded in closing the doors.
James Rolph. Jr., president of the Mer-
chants exchange. presided over the mass
mer Governor James n. Gilett, Benjamin
lde Wheeler, president OF the University
OF California, Acting Mayor John a. Kelly
and many other prominent citizens.
Resolutions adopted by the mass meet
ing thanked President Taft his cabinet
men who favored San Francisco and the
committee sent TO Washington for the
favor extended to this city by the house
of representatives.