The daily banner., 1914-07-25
WEST ENTHUSIASTICALLY
WITH WILSON.
Sen. Carville Benson Finds West
Busy With Greatest Crops in His
tory, And People Well Pleased
With Wilson Administration.

Much sunburned, travelworn, but
beaming with enthusiasm, State
Senator Carville d. Benson return
ed home last night from San Fran
cisco, and delivered 20 Baltimore
the Vests big age-that the
United States is reaping the great
est wheat crop N its history and The
flood of prosperity is coming.
Senator Benson and Robert j.
Beacham were the only two mem-
bers of the executive committee Of
the Maryland commission to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition to return
directly to Baltimore. The other
Commissioners will drop in later.
Speaker James McC. Trippe stop
ped off at Pittsburg; Andrew Jack
son Cummings Gailied for awhile N
st. Louis; J. C. Roulette, preferr-
ing a more direct route than that
taken by the commission proper,
came straight across the continent,
and Roberdeau A. Mccormick, chair
man of the commission, Left the
train at his home ,Timonium. Chas.
A. Morrow, the Baltimore builder,
who accompanied the Commissioners
was with Senator Benson and Mr..
Beacham. The executive committee
left Baltimore about three weeks
ago for the exposition to prepare
for the Maryland exhibit and build
ing there.
There is no doubt about the
prosperity in the West, particularly
this side of the Rockies said Sen.
Benson He was in the lobby Of
Union Station, surrounded by sew
eral members of his family who
had come to meet him. Through
out the wheat belt proper they are
declaring tha: no such crop has
ever been reaped before in this
county. Nebraska's harvest, for
instance, is averaging about 33 nu-
shells to the acre and as good for-
tune has it, there was planted an
large areage, not only N
that State, but III other Western
States and in Canada.
along the Pacific Coast the
wave IS not yet an ac-
tuality but they feel that it IS On
the way there, too. Politics are dis
for the time being, but
there is noticeable general tone
of satisfaction with the success OF
the Wilson adm; ;nistra ton"
Senator Benson had much to
say about the cordiaiity with which
the Maryland delegates were receiv-
sz4.-in San Erspe.sca. and in other
Western and Canadian cities where
they were entertained. In San
Francisco one of their most assidu-
Gus hosts and sponsors was Henry
r. Scott, native of Baltimore
county, who is one of California
prominent capitalists and member
OF the Exposition Commission. He
was formerly president of the Union
Iron Works and is now a bank
president and kead of the local
telephone company.
The Senator declared that while
Maryland's building, which is 10
cost about $4,000 will have one
of the exposition grounds most de-
sirable sites, the selection of which
was the chief purpose of the COM
mitIee's visit to the coast the State
Commission would "have to get a
hustle on to catch up with the adj
vance made by other States in get
ting their exhibits under way.
1t was probable, he said that the
contract for the erection of Mary
Lands building would be given to
Mr.. Morrow, who gave his advice to
the officials toward the selection
of the site. This site, by the way,
adjoins that of Nevada, Utah and
Idaho on the east, and Indiana Mas
sachusetts and Washington on the
west. It. overlooks the Golden Gate.
The buildings are more than three
quarters completed, and occupy an
area about two and one-quarter
miles square.