PANAMA PACIFIC
EXPOSITION NEWS
(Continued from yesterday.))
Hut the Great Idea would not die. In
the fall of 1906, while San Francisco
still quivered from the shock of her ,
terrible experience and her people were
still homeless and searching for the
place where their houses and places'
of business had stood, there was in
troduced In the state legislature a bill |
to amend the constitution so that the j
stockholders In the exposition company
should be exempt from the usual stock
holders' liabilities. This bill became a
law.
On December 10th of the same year
articles of Incorporation of the ‘‘Pa
cific Ocean Exposition Company" were
filed, and three days later the directors
organized and elected Homer S. King ,
president.
On January 14, 1907, State Senator!
Edward 1. Wolfe, at the request of the j
executive committee of the Facitic
Ocean Company, introduced a bill in
the legislature carrying an appropria
tion of $1,000,000 from state funds to
"pay expenses necessary for the proper
representation of the state of Califor
nia, and of an exhibit of the products
thereof, at the proposed international
or world’s exposition, to be held in
the city and county of San Francisco
in nineteen hundred and thirteen com
memorative of the Four Hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of the
Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez Halboa,
and to provide for commissioners
thereof,” The bill was passed by both
houses of the legislature but died by
pocket vote.
And still the Great Idea would not
down. It was retarded, but it remained
alive. San Francisco W'as determined
to have an international exposition and
refused to lose sight of this idea amid
the hurly burly of Rebuilding herself.
In November, 19o9, letters were sent
out to 2,500 representatives of the com
mercial organizations of the city, ask
ing them whether or not they wanted
an exposition. Almost without excep
tion the replies were strongly in the
affirmative. A mass meeting was
called for December 7, 1909, to be held
on the floor of the Merchants’ Ex
change.
Meantime, the proposed San Fran
cisco exposition was once more brough 1
to the attention of the nation through
the introduction by Congressman
Julius Kahn of a bill carrying an ap
propriation of $5,000,000. The United
States, and incidentally the world
learned, with amazement, that San
Francisco, through all her trouble, had
kept alive the flame of her faith and
had never lost sight of the Great Idea.
The day following the introduction
of Congressman Kahn’s bill the mass
meeting was held, and it was determin
ed that a committee of six be appoint
ed to name a Ways and Means Com
mittee of one hundred, or more if nec
essary.
On December 26, 1909, the committee
of six returned a report containing
two hundred names, whose owners be
came the Ways and Means connnttt
Three days later they met and organiz
ed. F. W. Dohrmann, one of the pro
minent merchants of San Francisco,
suggested as a slogan "San Francisco
Invites the World.” This changed
since to ‘California invites tlie World"
in recognition of the fact that the ex
position belongs not to San Francisco
alone but to tlie entire state, since the
state has worked with San Francisco
In building the exposition, and a fitting
slogan it has proved.
The Ways and Means Committee
named a directing committee of thirty
which afterwards became the board of
directors of the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition Company. The
latter company was incorporated on
March 22, 1910, Homer S. King being
elected president.
On April 28, 1910, only four days
more than four years after the tie
ginning of the great fire, a mass meet
ing was held on the (lour of the Mer
chants’ Exchange Building at which
$4,089,1)90 was subscribed toward the
exposition in less Ilian two hours.
Then eame tlie contest with New
Orleans as to which city shuuid have
the honor of being the scene of a great
exposition in 1915. Each city had its
vigorous supporters, but when, finally,
tlie tide turned in favor uf Ban Fran
cisco, Lite nation having been led to
believe that tlie city that only four
years before hud been a heap of ruins
was really capable of pulling on tbe
log show. be it said to Lite credit uf
Hie disappointed Buulherii city and its
supporters tliat llicy all turned to and
gave tlie California metropolis alt pos
sible assistance.
Work on the exposition was now be
gun in earnest. More mass meeting
were held and further subscriptions
received. Gavin McNab suggested a
municipal bund issue uf $5,UUU,U0u at a
meeting at which it was guaranteed
that Ban Francisco would raise $7,5uu,
0UU toward tlie exposition.
uu September 19, 19iu, tlie legisla
ture met ill a special session and pro
posed for public approval two consti
tutional amendments; one to raise
$5,0UU,UUU by slate lax, and llie other
to permit Ban Francisco to bond itself
for a similar amount. Both amend
ments were approved by tlie people,
funds thereby being provided for actual
construction work. These two later
augmented by a Congressional appro
priation of $5,000,000.
Homer S. King having resigned, on
account of leaving the state, Charles
C. Moore was elected president of the
exposition company and lias carried
the great work to successful comple
tion, his election taking place April 4,
1911.
Ground was broken for the exposi
tion on October 14, 1911, by President
Taft. From that date the dirt began
to fly and there was never an hour, day
or night, when Han Francisco and Cal
ifornia were not actively engaged in
preparing for the opening of the great
est exposition in history.
On February 2, 1912, an invitation
to the world was sent out to he present
at and participate in the Panama-Pa
eific International Exposition
And the world promptly responded.
Practically all the states of the union
and all the nations of the earth ac
cepted the invitation and promised to
erect suitable buildings and install
fitting exhibits.
Since that time manv things have
happened. The Fnited States has suf
fered something of a financial and In
dustrial depression, due chleflv to the
unsettled condition of the world gen
erally The most terrible and bloody
war in history has broken out and to
day is being waged with steadily In
creasing fury.
(To be continued )
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PEKIN, June 2.—The new treaty
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to which the Yuan government has
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TOKIO, June 2.—The Nippon navy
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Japanese navy as fast as completed.
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LONDON, June 2.—The British
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ment's arrogant attitude toward the
United States, ns displayed in the al
most contemptuous treatment of the
Wilson notes, demonstrates that the
Germans are still persisting in their
insane idea that their war power still
continues to bluff the remainder of the
neutral world.
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