The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-12
Utah S Opportunity.

't1tah must certainly send to the San
Franz isco exposition the very best e%iibit
il can get together. Tho san Francisco
people are very friendly toward our state
and they VIII give Utah choice site. IL
will bc a grand opportunity lor Utah 10
put before The eyes of the worl6 what she
has 10 offer. Our building must be fine
STRUCTURE and our displays typical OF our
magnificent resources. The exposition
committee holds meetings every day and
Is working iudeiatgably. Tho site OF the
exposition will he laid out upon great,
comprehensive scheme. The exhibits VIII
nc carefully grouped and classified, so
that anyone who Is Interested in pay
iiculsr subject may easily lind the tn.ns
ho Is looking for. The committee has
S5O. 900. 900 available, and II is doing
thiugs on a gigantic scale. for example
the arrangements will be srch that INC
greatest snips-warShips OF every nation
can lie brought right up 10 the piers az
the exposition, and visitors may go
aboard without the use OF launch. That
is onlS. one of the many things that Is
planned, but ii shows you the greatness
of the scale upon which IL viii all be
done.
Japan WAS planning an exposition In
lis own country, but now The Japanese
have changed their minds and will bring
their exhibit 10 San Francisco. and am
told that the Japanese exhibit win be a
colossal affair. The japanese llgurcd u
out that at san Francisco they would
reach the people from all over the world
the. Teople they want TO reach-whcrc-
as ii they held an exposition in their own
country IL would be. of necessity. al
Chance for Salt Lake.
1t Is TO see this great worlds fair that
thousands OF people viii pass through
Salt Lake and Utah. Many OF these
thousands are looking FOR an opening.
nifty for tho man with small capital or
the ono with no capital ut all. All the
opportunities that California offered d
| Jew years ago arc closed except TO the
man with wealth II is therefore for US
to snow these travellers that we In Utah
! have 10 offer everything that California
ever had and man, more attractions be-
esIs We will induce great many u stay
with us.
At Seattle Mr. Park and Mr.. Keyscr
made as thorough study OF municipal
affairs as their brief time would per-
nit
'Whsn 1 vas told that all that has
/ been accomplished in Seattle was done in
eleven years, | was astonished, said Mr..
| Park. II attended banquet given in
honor of Mr.. Thompson, the city ongi-
necr. who was then retiring after d period
of service OF twenty years, 10 become
engineer OF the port ! learned at that
banquet that MIR Thompson had at the
/ beginning mapped out plan OF inn
proVemcni designed 10 provide for 2. city
of million inha bi5ants and that every.
thing that has been done was done along
tho line Of that plan OF course slight
! deviation was sometimes necessary. hui
never was there a material departure
1 from the general scheme. Under this
plan they cut down great hills and bull,
1 parks. MI Thompson explained at the
/ banquet that the gigantic undertakings
which came under his plan all had one
object In view-thc easy movement ol
traffic. The street system had one OBJ
Ject-in riew-thc providing Of means tr
get from one place to another in the
quickest possible time.