The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-24
WILL HAVE ITS OWN
EXPOSITION ANYWAY
San Francisco Traveller Asserts
Preparations Are Already
Under Way.

''whether San Francisco is officially
recognized as the exposition city for
1915 or not, San Francisco win have a
fair of her own anyway"
Ben Bruins travelling entertainer,
chief talker for the Brother Benjamin
Remedies, one Of Hawaii 8 stanchest
friends, and who in return has scores
of friends ali over the Islands, in the
cities, towns and hamlets, arrived
again for tour Of the Islands on the
steamship Sierra last Friday. He Is a
Californian, and as much in earnest
about the exposition as che biggest
banker in San Francisco. The above
statement evidently crystallizes the
sentiment of all California.
"The San Francisco people have sub
scribed $4,000, 000,'' said Mr.. Bruins
Yesterday, "and they'r going to use
| it whether congress recognizes them or
not. And they can hold the biggest
kind of an exposition, one to which
the people of the world will flock
for Can Francisco will be one of the
greatest of American cities in 1915
They have the money and are going to
spend it. And they're good Indians
too, for they intend to make an ar.
rangement with the railroads for round
trip tickets from the East. to take in
San Francisco. southern California and
then East again along one of the south
ern routes, with a ten-day stopover il
New Orleans. just think Of it'll II
that isn't playing square, nothing il
square,"
Palatial Steamers.
Bruins was a passenger from Los An
geles on the new steamship Harvard
which, with the Yale, plies like ferry
boat between Los Angeles and SaI
Francisco. According to Bruins, there
is no service equal to it. The boat
leaves Los Angeles and San Francisco
at certain hours and arrive at an exac
time, fogs, rain, storms not interfering
with the time at all. They equal tn,
! time of the railroads between those twt
points.
Tickets are sold for the use of state
rooms only. There is regular dining
| room aboard and a lunchroom. Meal
| are paid for as one wishes them. TIL
, passengers who are subject to seasick
ness have the run to San Francisco
from Los Angeles much cheaper thar
the one who eats three square meals il
the fourteen hours running time. Th
steamers are palatial and are enjoying
the best kind Of patronage.
Bay Cities Booming.
| San Francisco, he says, is booming
j The cities around the bay are boom
t ing All railroad lines into the cite
; are electrifying and are cutting dow
l time. The Western Pacific railway
t cutting in with good service and
= putting on a line of transbay ferries.
: Ben Bruins, or "Brother Benjamin,
n as he is called in the patent mediein
. world, is an entertainer. He is accon
panied on his trip here by Col. Cha
Smith, the eastern representative of til
!. Brother Benjamin Remedies Compan
q in New York, and by Bobbie Reed, VIII
= has been one of the best steeplechas
: riders in the middle States and is
{ protege of Ben's. He is also accon
c panied by Buster Brown, fox terrie
the grandson of the famous Dudi
! which was a familiar figure ON Hon,
/, 4 lulu streets year ago, during Brun,
I first visits. Dude was a high-divin
dog, and was killed while making
$ dive. One of the men holding the M
g let it go, and the dog was killed il
stantly The dog used to make hig
g dives into the water at the Healal
t boathouse.