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PreparingiNor f or the Great 50,000,000 Panama, Canal Fair, in 191
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WITH a food of lll.HI.MI already
Mcortd toward a ftO.000.000
exposition planned to eatebrat
tha opening of th Panama Canal. San
Francisco, which la 110 was a city of
ruins, with t400.0oa.000 worth of prop
art r destroyed, with fl hundred and
eight 'city blocka laid waste and Its
antlra business interests, (with tha ex
ception of shipping and removing; tha
debrts). paralyzed. Is now busy making
very preparation for tha bis; fair
which It Intends to hold In lilt to
memorialise, tha amaxlng commercial
prestige which will come to tha Paclflo
Ocean when tha canal, which repre
senta tha most Important achievement
In American history, and probably In
all the world, haa been completed.
Tha fair which Is to be known as tha
Panama-Pacific International Exposi
tion will be tha most magnificent dis
play the world has ever known. Of tha
J 17.500.000 already raised. 17. 400. 000 Is
represented In popular subscriptions to
th stork of the Kx pool t Ion corporation,
while the sum of tlO.Ootf.OOO Is compris
ed In the bond Issue voted at tha Nov
ember Mtate election. San Francisco
and the ftate of California have each
guaranteed IS.000.000 worth of bonds.
Sack of the movement to celebrate
the opening ot tha Panama Canal lies
the story of a succeeful struggle
against tha greatest odds that any
American city ever encountered. Not
only waa the city demolished by tha
fire and Its business paralysed, but Its
affairs were In the hands of perhapa
the shrewdest and boldest lot ot graft
ers who ever got rich quick through
the letght-ot-hand dlspnsltlon ot muni
cipal privileges. Abe Huef Is on his
way to the "pen" and San Francisco Is
regenerated both morally and physi
cally. Five hundred and eight blocks
In the business part of tha city wera
destroyed In 10. yet today a stranger
to the city would never know that a
fire had occurred.
The most active propaganda ever
undertaken In the West haa been car
riled on In behalf of the Panama Paclflo
Exposition. The money raletng end of
the fair dates from April it last. Just
four yeara and ten daye after the great
fire. when stork In the exposition cor
poration waa offered at auction at a
public mass meeting- la one hour and
fifty mlnutea 4.t.0a of the stock
was subscribed by San Francisco mer
chants, business men. professional
men. and working people. Tha stock
old at the rate ot $37,171 a minute or
$199 at each tick of the clock. A -lively
young business man, Larry Harris,
was tha auctioneer. lie picked up bids
from the crowd so rapidly that It waa
difficult to keep up with the tally. In
the excitement a banker who bid for
SS400 of hares was assessed for 1 : 4.000
and the exposition profited by the mis
take. A merchant who had built a
hack over still smoking embers on a
day shortly after the fire, and who had
moved la tha next day with a stock of
goods, contributed IM.ftOO. Banka and
fraternal organisations subscribed aa
high as SSSO.OOO. Thousands of ahares
were taken by working peoplo who
contributed from 110 to 160.
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Over I400.000.0o9 of property waa wiped
out In 10, but mora money haa been
anent In tha Improvement of tha city
than waa lost tn the disaster. Tha
money wiped, out and the reinvestment
required exceeds three-quarter of a
Milton dollars. Aa against this. llSi,
04. was collected from Insurance com
panies. But tha suspension of business
resulted In huge loa. Local tnduatrtca
wera practically paralysed during tha
last eight months of 1004.
Pan Francisco Is today rebuilt and la
going after tha exposition with tha vim
of its rebuilding. Since tha ftra build
ing permits granted total mora than
Cot.OBo.OiMi Furnishings will amount to
S7SX0 more. The outlay In steel and
concrete wharves, muni--! pal lira protec
tion system, schools. and streets
exceeds tloO.flOO.OCOi To bring a water
system from the Sierra Nevada Moun
tain Pen Francisco haa bonded Itself
for $tS.W0i Private Investments bava
kept pare with public development. A
stsgle street railway company ha ex
pended over 1'-4,000,000 In tracks and
equipment since tha fire. The lighting
and electric corporations have probably
expended more than half that amount.
ITtvate capital Is now constructing a
mammoth convention hall, the grounds
and buildings costing It.S0.0UX Tha
structure will be five feet wider than the
famous Olympic In London and four feet
wtder than Madison Square Garden. Al
together .. dollars will not cover
the money expended In rebuilding Baa
Francisco.
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Back of tha movement for tha Panama
Pei lie Exposition are tha great trans
continental railroad companies and the
steamship line that croae to tha Orient,
do a coastwise trad or run between tha
Pacific and Panama and South Amertcn
porta Every Chamber of Commerce In
tha West and soma In the Middl West
has pledged tta aid toward rendering tha
exposition the best.
The sew San Francisco Is olem!ldly
equipped to hold a great exposition. Tha
city Is roomy and the most frequent
fsrry system In the world connects San
Frsnclsco with Its suburbs Oakland.
Berkeley. Alameda. Sauealllo and Tlbu
ron. all of which are serosa San Fran
cisco Bay. More thn X0.OV0 persona pass
over these ferries dslljr. To tha south,
on Saa Francisco peninsula, fast subur
ban trains take thousanda of commuter
to and from the city. In tha city Itself
there ars' to.) first-class hotel room be
sides thousanda ot apartment rooms. In
a recent three days' festival San Fran
cisco accommodated 140.000 strangers. A
ingle corporation Invested tS.0W.0O In
two hotels. Half a mtlllon dollar was
spent In furnishing one of them.
It Is predicted that lSlt will sea tha
greateet passsnger rata war aver held la
tee L'nlted States. The. opening ot the
Panama Canal will determine whether It
will be cheaper to travel across) tha Na
tion by saa or land, but both steamship
and railroad reallie that th canal will
be mutually profitable. Aa official of
the Southern Pacific Company haa pre
dicted that rates will be cut In half If
not mad even lower In 1IS.
Neglect of Body Is Not
Evidence of Rely
Isa te Be Hetprml aawwld Be
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BT MADISON C PETER.
HEARTILY glad am I that w havs
gotten beyond th notion that
neglect of th body la an evidence
of platy.
Carlyle .might have bad a sweet
heart and a happy home, but for hi
dyspepala. John Calvin's theology
would not have been so blood-curdling
If ha had had a good digestion .and
bounding blood.
Helpful man hav been healthful
men. Success depends upon working
power, and working power la contin
gent upon sound digestion and healthy
blood.
Herbert Spencer saye that knowing
bow to keep tha body In. good working.
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costly thing and carelessness of health
I both a aln and a crime.
We are tha most bustling, hurried,
bard-working nati on earth. Wa do
ot know bow to rest. We make hard
work of ear holidays and we com from
outlnga mora weary than when wa
went. Wa are glad to get back to our
work to reat from th dissipations of
our recreations.
' We go to extremes In play. Tha prec
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tion from th unwise Indifference of
tha Past, but now th pendulum has
swung to th other extreme and athlet
ic are being turned Into a degrading
sporting erase a erase not confined to
the rich. It haa attacked the laboring
claasss and spread through every town
and village until people think Ufa not
worth living until they spend their
time In. and waaie their money upon,
aomo sport.
Toung men In stores, bank and fac
tories labor, not to achieve promotion.
ut with, mind latent upon th outcome
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of th latest gam ar eager for "quit
ting time."
In college halls, where Minerva once
held away. Hercules Is now enshrined.
The principal talk among college men
Is ball rather than books. The promi
nent undergraduates ar those who can
run tha fastest, or kick th highest.
The ball gam that promised so much
for the physical manhood of tha over
worked haa become tha rendesvoua of
the gambler and tha swaggering wo
man. Th passion for recreation needs
curbing, lest. Ilk tie gladiatorial
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shows of Rome, Ilka the bullfights of
Spain, like the famous races at Long
Branch, ball games may become a Na
tional nuisance.
The employment of every concelv
able ingenuity in getting here la fine
ly Illustrated by the storyl of the em
ployer whose office boy came to him
and announced that his grandmother
was dead and that he must go to her
funeral. "My dear boy." said the em
ployer. "I know all about the ball
game. Don't you remember you burled
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You can't bury her again, so soon."
It Is as possible to play too much
and to have too large a passion for
amusement as it la to have too large
a passion for what we call Indulgence
of the appetites.
In one form or another our sport
ing craze is the Indirect cause of three
fifths of the forgery, embezzlement and
the fearful catalogue of financial dis
honor and crime.
God speed the mission of the gym
nasium, the preventer of the dyspep
sia ot tomorrow. Aa inch -to a man's
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shoulder adds a year to his life. Tha
cramped conditions and unfavorable
circumstances in which most of our
young men are placed today make the
awakened interest In physical devel
opment and sports a merciful provi
dence. A strong man is a worthy achieve
ment, but strength without character
Is revolting. .Brain and bravery, muicla
and manhood, manners and morals,
strength and character blended, repre
sent the elements of manhood Which
God has Joined together.