Merchants' Association review . se more comment and do more good than if it were devoted to advertising^^M S ^^^ ^P°-tat feature will probably be a roof garden cafe, where California food products will be served. r. Symmes, president of the Merchants Association, and a member of the Committee on Display, has been selected by the committee to go toSt. Louis, open the bids and award the contract for the building. •ach ?h Vr ^? systematically apportioned among the business houses of San Francisco, according to the carefully ascertained rating ofe airness of the plan, and its advantages over the o
Merchants' Association review . se more comment and do more good than if it were devoted to advertising^^M S ^^^ ^P°-tat feature will probably be a roof garden cafe, where California food products will be served. r. Symmes, president of the Merchants Association, and a member of the Committee on Display, has been selected by the committee to go toSt. Louis, open the bids and award the contract for the building. •ach ?h Vr ^? systematically apportioned among the business houses of San Francisco, according to the carefully ascertained rating ofe airness of the plan, and its advantages over the old haphazard method of solicitation, has been so promptly recognized that up to the pres-ent time not one firm has failed to contribute the full amount asked for. MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REVIEW, FEBRUARY, 1904. SAN FRANQSCO DISPLAY AT THE WORLDS FAIR. Occasion is Presented to Offer Ocular Proof of the Citys Pre-eminence in the West. By FREDERICK H. COLBURN, General Manager Joint Committee on Display. r r^TYr^nv-^. ? ~r> -. \>«:a- The Cascades at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, near which the San Francisco Building Will Stand. San Francisco has the chance of her munici-pal lifetime, in the invitation to erect a buildingin the Model Street, at the entrance to the fairgrounds at St. Louis this summer. There isnot likely to be another big international expo-sition in the United States soon, and there neverhas been one so near this city before. With the great majority of visitors to any ex-position it is a question of seeing as much aspossible in a few days, and the novelties are thefirst things sought out and inspected. Realizingthis, the St. Louis managers have hit on thenovel plan of having a model street, four blockslong, at the main entrance to the grounds, whereabout twenty of the largest cities in the UnitedStates, having made the greatest progress inthe last decade, are asked to erect buildings andinstall complete municipal exhibits showing howthis progress has be
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