The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-28
Urges Importance Of Bringing
More Visitors to the, Capital
Exhibition Every City Of the United States Of Views Of
Washington Urged One Trade Body, Instead
of Three, Is Suggested.

| slides land it might be noted here. that
choice set, furnished by the chamber, in
dozens of cities in the far WesD, and an
| application from q Southern Senator had
! to be refused because of lack of more
! slides. An expenditure of less than 5000
| would put in the hands of each of ninety
Senators 100 slides depicting some of the
| beautiful buildings and scenes in Wash
| ington. No advertising man. no maya
zine writer. no publicist needs to be told
of the value of the pictures as compared
with the printed page.
! Every city in the United States, large or
small. should have. as often as possible.
| exhibitions of views of the Nations Cap
. ital and such exhibitions would. beyond
shadow of a doubt, create a desire. or
! increase one already existing. to see at
! first hand the attractions of Washington.
The case of the two Senators is cited
| to emphasize how keen Is the desire to
show pictures of Washington. dozen
other applications for the Use of the
slides had also to be rejected for the
same reason-lack of slides, and lack Of
funds with which to purchase.
A number of our local real estate men
recently returned from the Pacific Coast.
and speak in glowing terms of the
growth of the cities of California, and of
the great expenditures by the Chambers
of Commerce of that State to welcome
and entertain the visitor. but they have
overlooked the most interesting fact, that
| in the memory of a comparatively young
man. Los Angeles was a small and strug-
Cling village.
An enterprising "Hoosier." poor in
health and purse, while visiting in Los
Angeles for his health saw the wonderful
possibilities to come from proTer eX-
ploitation.. Frank Virgins was the first
of the Los Angeles army of boosters.
What person who has visited Atlantic
City has failed to see the California EN-
position in the Arcade of the MARI
borough Blenheim. and, having seen. has
not stopped, admired, purchased, and re-
solved to some day the originals at
first hand. Frank Virgins started these
exhibits
StereopticOn slides Urged.
Washington cannot show exhibits of
wonderful specimens of oranges and 9TH
err fruits. but it could display replicas OF
the beautiful models of the city used by
the American Institute OF Architects for
the park development scheme. II could
have attractively designed wall-sze pic
lures for distribution in every city in
the country, and it should, beyond all
doubt, have at least ninety sets of stere-
opticon slides actively at work showing
the citizens of the United States that
their Capital. naturally beautiful, has
been made more so by architecture and
design.
Take from Washington the thousands
of tourists and visitors who come here
annually, and the hanks, the merchants,
the hotels. the cafes. the sightseeing
companies, and the street railways would
suffer a loss of hundreds of thousands of
dollars annually.
On the other hand, double the present
number of visitors. and a prosperity
never before known in the Capital would
benefit and bless the little group of bust
ness men who, year in and year out, are
called upon to draw checks for the fol-
lowing:
Dues to the Board of Trade.
Dues in the Chamber of Commerce.
Contributions to