Accused of being a "knocker" by City Attorney Cosgrove, Colonel Ed Fletcher came back at Cosgrove in a long statement in which he justifies claims made at Washington during El Capitan water controversy.

Fletcher said in part:

"I stated to Secretary Lane that the city of San Diego had approximately a four-year’s supply of water on hand in its reservoirs, and read the report of Manger of Operations Lockwood for June 1, 1916, showing on hand at that date 14,252,000,000 gallons of water, which is more than a four year’s supply, including leaking and evaporation, as the entire demands on the San Diego system last year was 3,117,000,000 gallons.

"What I did say was, ‘I am in a position to show that the city of San Diego is absolutely assured of an eight year’s supply of water at the present time; and that no emergency exists.’

"It is my opinion that San Diego has 10,000 less population today than at the commencement of the depression. I will let people be the best judge of that, and I expect San Diego will lose 5,000 more within the next 12 months, after the exposition closes.

"We can have our fairs, our municipal piers, our Tijuana race track and everything possible to draw people to San Diego, but in the last analysis, sooner or later, the people of San Diego will become convinced that until a large scheme of water development of San Diego’s back country is completed, and water put on our suburban lands, San Diego cannot expect to have any permanent prosperity or appreciable growth."

Colonel Fletcher said he was sorry to see so much publicity given to a matter of comparative unimportance.

What’s going to happen to San Diego’s fine exposition next year?

Will it be necessary to close the gates, and let the grounds and buildings go to rack and ruin?

It became known for the first time today that numerous San Diegans of prominence, backed by local civic organizations, are working the problem out along the most practical lines.

For one thing, a movement is on foot to have those exposition buildings which are temporary reproduced in exact detail by permanent structures, to serve as memorials to wealthy and public-spirited San Diegans. Carl Heilbron, who saw the preparedness parade through to success and who has been a prominent worker on the exposition board, has taken this proposition up. The idea is to have the names of the reconstructed buildings changed in honor of the men of wealth who pay for the new buildings. It is estimated that many of the structures can be torn down and rebuilt permanently at a cost of from $100,000 to $150,000.

It is believed that a number of San Diegans will be bound who will help boost the game along by taking over a building.

The California building, the Fine Arts building, the Southern California Counties building, the Oregon building, the beautiful Horticultural building, and the ideal ranch house are some of the structures that are already permanent. These will remain for many years as a monument to the exposition builders.

It was said today that a number of the foreign exhibitors will agree to leave in the buildings some of the most attractive exhibits. The permanent buildings will also be used as museums for the preservation of the products of the arts and industries. San Diego, in this way, will be able to preserve and to further build up one of the most magnificent museums in the country.

The cost of the upkeep of the grounds will, according to present plans, be taken over by the city park board. The council will be asked to supply free of charge the water needed to keep the grounds. It was said today that, under these conditions, the upkeep cost will not be excessive. A small admission fee should be charged on special occasions, it was pointed out, and a tidy sum realized from time to time to help defray expenses.

In this way, the beautiful grounds of the exposition would in reality become a part and parcel of the splendid city park system, and would serve as a playground for the men, women and children of this city.

The exposition boosters were also planning today to have the attention of the state legislature called to the fact that the section of the exposition grounds now devoted to agriculture would be ideal for use as a state experimental agricultural station or college.

It is also probable that the exposition grounds will be put to a use first advocated here a number of months ago by W. C. Bobbs, Indiana publisher, who was an enthusiastic exposition visitor here. This would provide for the maintenance of an annual fair of Southern California, for the exhibition of the products and the exploitation of the advantages of the most wonderful section in all creation. This one attraction alone would draw thousands to San Diego annually, and would be of inestimable value to the southern part of California.

Congressman Kettner has also agreed to keep things moving at the nation’s capital and to have a U.S. military or naval academy or training school established on the exposition grounds, as soon as such an institution is located in the west. The U.S. army authorities will also be asked to station a guard of marines or regulars on the exposition grounds.

These, and many other plans, are being worked out.

One thing is certain, the San Diego exposition grounds, comparable to the most beautiful gardens of the old world, and one of the most remarkable show places on the globe, are not destined, after 1916, to perish from the face of the earth.

San Diego paid homage to Oregon yesterday on the Exposition grounds. When the Third regiment, Oregon National Guard, under the command of Major T. Bowman, gave a splendid series of drills to the music of its own regimental band. Exposition visitors are accustomed to the parades and drills of the marine corps, the Fourth regiment at that --- and the United States service can offer nothing better --- but those Oregon boys gave Exposition visitors one of the big surprises of their lives yesterday.

Every movement was done with precision. The applause was enthusiastic and broke out many times during the drills. If the National Guard of every state is as efficient as the troops from Oregon, which has the credit of being the first to mobilize, Exposition crowds will be quick to place a stamp of approval on these volunteer defenders.

Following the drills the Oregon band remained on the plaza and played a short concert, which proved its merit and increased the popularity of Oregon. It was, in fact, Oregon Day on the Exposition grounds, although it had not been so designated on the Exposition calendar. President G. A. Davidson was one of the first to compliment Major Bowman and his staff on the excellent showing of the Northerners.

It was a big day at the Exposition. In addition to the regular concerts by Tommasino’s band and the organ recital by W. W. Carruth of Oakland, who played an excellent concert in place of Doctor Humphrey J. Stewart, Guido Deiro, piano accordionists, was one of the hits of the day. Deiro gave a half-hour concert of classical numbers, without even a ragtime selection as an encore. So insistent was the crowd the Deiro had one of the hardest afternoons of his career, and when he concluded the warmth of the afternoon and his exertions had given him the appearance of a man who had taken a shower bath fully clothed.

The crowd was one of the best of the year and was estimated at better than 8,000. The exhibit buildings were thronged during the day and the Isthmus had a big play.

Among the Exposition visitors yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Smith of Los Angeles. Mr. Smith is excursion manager of the Times-Mirror and predicts big Los Angeles travel for the remainder of the period.

Keep the gates of San Diego’s exposition open during 1917!

With this as a slogan, a large number of San Diegans were today discussing with interest The Sun’s exclusive story yesterday on plans for the maintenance of the exposition grounds next year.

Improvement clubs and civic organizations are today planning through the appointment of special exposition committees to cooperate with the exposition board, the city council and with others in this city, with a view to keeping the grounds in trim at the smallest possible expenditure.

State Senator Edgar Luce said today that he is heartily in accord with any effort that will bring to San Diego’s exposition a department of the state agricultural college. It is planned to have Senator Luce head the combined campaign of San Diegans at Sacramento for the establishment here of such a agricultural station. Ranchers in Southern California, it became known today, have been "sounded" as to their interest in an annual Southern California products fair at the exposition, and many of them have fallen in enthusiastically with the plan.

"While the permanent buildings at the exposition will always be there," said Carl Heilbron, who is prominent in the movement to keep up the exposition grounds, "it will be a good many years before even the temporary structures crumble away. These, I believe, can be replaced from time to time; and renamed in honor of the loyal citizens who contribute to the work of reconstruction."

It is planned to have the park board assume the expense of maintenance of the exposition grounds while the city council is to be asked to supply water free of charge.

Editor, Sun: The visiting Oregon militiamen who have been encamping here, arriving not long ago, have naturally tired of the constant camp routine and have sought recreation by visiting the local fair. A few days ago some of the boys were invited by a "California" showman to view a nude California girl for the price of "ten cents." It was in a concession located on the Isthmus, known as "Midnight in Paris." This was indeed a curiosity to some of the boys, as such exhibitions are unknown in their native state. It is only natural that out of any large body of men some will be found who would view such a disgusting exhibition. The interior of this show house is very small, accommodating only about 40 or 50 persons, and after investigation the writer has found from reports that there were only two of the shameless exhibitions viewed by the Oregon boys, and they were not all Oregon boys at that. For this and other reasons, it is respectfully requested that you withdraw your statement about the "howling mob of Oregon militiamen." The boys of Oregon would ask if there has been any record of arrest for drunkenness or disorderly conduct, or any reports of same in this city.

It appears to the visiting troops that such a splendid fair as the local exhibition would offer some recreation other than dances now being conducted on some parts of the grounds, where one must mingle with an element beneath the moral standard of any respectable man. We wish to call your attention to that fact that a heavy percentage of the Oregon boys represent some of Oregon’s most prominent men. Should it become necessary for the "howling mob of Oregon militiamen: to shed blood for the protection of the "Native Sons," we sincerely trust that the sacrifice will be received with more spirit than their entrance into this city. If it becomes necessary for the California militia to visit the state of Oregon, they are assured a warm and hearty welcome.

The opportunity for viewing the $100,000 Netherlands art collection in the Fine Arts gallery at the Exposition will be offered only three more weeks. July 31 has been set as the date of departure for this collection of Dutch masterpieces.

Of all the paintings in the Netherlands collection it is doubtful if any have met with more popular approval than those of Herman Hayenbrock, known throughout Europe as the painter of the great industries. The paintings of this artist of men and machinery, of which "New Building," "Steel Work," "Belgian Colliery," "Factory in Winter," "Extinguishing Coke," and "Belgian Glass Factory" form a part of the Netherlands collection are the result of an intensive study of conditions in the industries and factories of Europe.

Concerning the life and work of Hayenbrock, Miss Florence Larrabee Lattimore, art critic, writes in the "Survey" magazine:

"He wanted to demonstrate what may be called a twentieth-century genre --- not the conventional genre showing the people in their cottages at homely tasks or a work in the fields, but a genre of the changed life, depicting the people as they were in the long days of labor in mines and factories and mills.

"To carry out his dream he needed a better understanding of the people and the best way to gain it was to study them at their tasks. So he picked up his easel and followed them into the great industries. From the Botinage he went into other mining and factory districts of Belgium. Then he sketched in the copper, iron and chemical works of Wales, Newcastle, Middlesborough and Glasgow. He traveled to Germany to visit the giant Krupp works at Essen and those of Horder Verein and then back to Belgium again. At Charleroi and Mariemont he gained vivid insight into the daily life of the children employed in the glass factories."

Villas has been captured in Mexico and is in a cell at the Exposition. Along with him is Zapata, who has succumbed to the Americans. They were turned over to the Exposition authorities for exhibition yesterday after they had been taken in a fight fifty miles below Tijuana. They are known technically as ocelots, although Zoo Keeper Frank Coffman [sic] says they are a cross between a mountain lion and a lynx. The pair are about seven weeks old.

The two cunning little bandits were taken in a fight after the mother had killed a valuable colt belonging to an American resident. Later the three kittens were found and were stunned into submission.

Every feminine visitor to the Exposition zoo at the north end of the Isthmus wants to pet the "cunning little kittens." Yesterday when this privilege was accorded Miss Elvira Kirchhoff, it resulted in Villa stabbing her hand and causing a stream of blood to flow. Villa and Zapata were promptly put into a sack and returned to their cell, where they are providing entertainment for Exposition visitors, along with the lions, leopards, hyenas, bears, and other Exposition animal celebrities.

The ball will be started rolling on Tuesday in the question of keeping the big exposition intact as a perpetual monument to the achievements of San Diego and Southern California.

Ever since The Sun opened the subject a week ago local citizens have been busy on the matter.

The Reverend R. D. Hollington has made a thorough and painstaking study of the whole subject. He is anxious to point out to members of the chamber of commerce and friends of the city and the exposition that there are many things in favor of making the exposition grounds and buildings into something permanent that few have thought of. He will tell about them at the Tuesday chamber of commerce luncheon at the San Diego grill.

Doctor Hollington’s plan, as indeed it is the plan of thousands of San Diegans, is to make the big place a community center for the culture and education of the Pacific coast.

This "community center" idea also embraces the formation here after the close of the exposition of a nucleus for a "University of the City of San Diego," starting first on a modest scale and gradually working up in a period of years to a really large institution, the center of education and culture on the Pacific coast.

"Oakland paid some $2,000,000 for her auditorium. Other cities have expended similar amounts for other educational advantages," said Doctor Hollington today. "If we were New York and wanted something like San Diego wants, it would cost us $20,000,000 to begin from the bottom.

"But here it is different. We have the grounds --- beautiful grounds. And we have buildings on them that will last 20 or 25 years as they now stand, and in which our great undertaking could be started. As it progressed, the present structures could be replaced with new and permanent ones and thus eliminate the expense customary in starting such a big undertaking on a large and flashy scale."

It is expected that the largest and most interested gathering of the year will be present to hear Doctor Hollington. It is a certainty, too, that following the many new, unthought of points he will present, the question will be taken up throughout the city with the enthusiasm that has made possible the original successful "dream city."

July 16, 1916, San Diego Sun, 13:4. Great times at Exposition as many come.

The "Burlesque Derby," which is to be offered on the Exposition Isthmus at 8:30 o’clock tonight, promises to be one of the greatest free amusement attractions every seen on the Joy Street, and is expected to prove the biggest feature of Ohio Day, Commercial Vehicle Transportation Day, and Los Angeles Stores Day, which are being observed today.

The Isthmus presents the scene of a veritable race track and the paddock in front of the ’49 camp, the judges’ stand near the Isthmus stage, and the "betting ring" at the head of the street provide the evidence to show that nothing has been overlooked to make the scene realistic and complete. Four events will compose the big racing card. The first will be a pony harness race of three heats; the second, a running handicap with ponies; the third, a sprint with donkeys, and the fourth or exposition handicap, a race between goats with monkey jockeys.

At 7:30 o’clock this evening there will be a grand moonlight dance on the Plaza de Panama in honor of the 2,000 employees of Los Angeles stores. The plaza has been attractively decorated, and spotlights have been placed which are expected to add to the beauty of the scene. From 9:15 to 10 o’clock free motion pictures will be shown on the Isthmus open stage, and at 10 o’clock there will be five dive exhibitions in the locks of the Panama Canal.

More than 20 trucks arrived at the Exposition this noon from Los Angeles on the Panama-California International Exposition commercial car endurance contest. This afternoon the final mechanical tests will be made on the motor demonstration field, and certificates of merit awarded by the Exposition to trucks who made a perfect score on the two-day run from Los Angeles. At the completion of the tests a program of novelty motor events was to take place on the demonstration field.

This afternoon on the Plaza de Panama the Ohio Day program was being held with special music and addresses. The speaker of the day is Judge William A. Spill, the silver-tongued orator of Ohio. From 4 o’clock until 5:30 there was to be a reception in the Woman’s Board Headquarters to all Ohio residents and former residents.

Mrs. Pope, who is in charge of the Aged People’s Day at the Exposition, Monday, July 17, has obtained the names of more than 100 aged persons who have expressed a desire to visit the Exposition. With this number of persons, many of whom have never had the opportunity to view the beautiful grounds and buildings, eager to make the trip, Mrs. Pope believes that the movement has proved itself a worthy one. Automobiles have not been offered in sufficient numbers to assure everyone of the 100 persons being cared for, and Mrs. Pope, at the Proctor telephone Main 1008 would appreciate the loan of automobiles for Monday morning.

Mme. Bernice de Pasquali’s concert at the exposition organ pavilion yesterday proved one of the greatest musical events at this famous out-door concert pavilion. An audience estimated at 10,000 persons was held throughout her generous and varied program, and then was loath to leave without further numbers, so entranced they had become with the rippling song of the coloratura soprano, Metropolitan prima donna.

Mme. De Pasquali was accompanied by S. Camillo Engel at the piano, Mrs. Freida Foote Chapman with the violin, and Warren D. Allen at the organ. Tommasino’s Italian band also contributed to the program, and in one instance served as accompaniment to Mme. de Pasquali. This was when the band played "Star Spangled Banner" at the close of the program and the singer was heard singing it within the organ pavilion.

A remarkable feature of the concert was that the rare quality of the singer’s song was not lost in the wide expanse of the open-air pavilion, her voice carrying to its far reaches with fine clearness.

The good work of the park board bids fair to be disrupted through civil service activity, according to Carl I. Ferris, a member of the park commission. The civil service board has called an examination for general foreman to be held August 24. The park board yesterday asked the council to exempt General Foreman F. A. Bode and nine other employees from civil service rules because of their efficiency. This the council refused.

The park commission requires efficiency and does not question an employee’s place of residence or nationality, according to Commissioner Ferris. All employees have for several years resided in or near San Diego, he claims.

Park Commissioner Ferris said this morning he was under the impression that when the council was ready to act the park commissioners would be notified so they could be heard. Instead the board was not represented when the matter was considered by the council yesterday afternoon. Ferris said he would ask that it be reconsidered so the commissioners could state their reasons why the present force should be continued. The request that they be exempted from civil service rules was in writing. Ferris declared the council could do this by ordinance.

In addition to calling an examination for general foreman, Secretary Ernest Davies stated this morning that this would be followed with examination for gardeners and other employees.

According to Park Commissioner Ferris the technicalities by which at least six park employees may be barred from the examination include non-residence and non-citizenship. Three employees live in Normal Heights, just outside the city. This could be overlooked by ordinance, according to Ferris. A half dozen employees have taken out their first naturalization papers and must wait a certain time before they are granted full citizenship.

"The park forces are well organized and it appears to me to be foolish to disrupt all that has been accomplished by the present force," said Commissioner Ferris.

"There is no better man to be found in San Diego or elsewhere for that matter than Foreman Bode. He was in charge of the exposition grounds for Frank P. Allen when the present commission took over the park. Perhaps the only men in the city who might qualify are Otto and Bernard, and I doubt if they would give up their business for $100 a month salary. It is true that Bode lives in Normal Heights as well as do some of the others. They spend their money in San Diego and Normal Heights should be regarded as a part of San Diego.

"Sam Harvey is an expert powder man. He is a Canadian who has taken out his first papers. He also lives in Normal Heights. We know that he is an expert and the board does not feel like trusting such risky work to someone who might be able to answer questions but not be able to protect the lives of a number of workmen. We know that all the men under us are efficient, for if they were not they would not be kept on the payroll.

"A visit to the park and exposition grounds would satisfy any resident that the park board has in its employ only men who know their business and who do not shirk. The civil service board might send us some man who has successfully passed a technical examination, yet he might not be able to do the work to the satisfaction of the park commissioners."

In all ten men are involved by the council’s ruling. They are F. A. Bode, R. Grah, G. Call, Sam Harvey, C. Battista, G. Sharp, A. Stark, A. Anderson, W. M. Harrah and D. C. Pereler.

Bode has been the general foreman of the park department since February 1, 1915. Prior to that he was foreman of the nursery at the exposition. He is regarded as an expert in floriculture and horticulture.

Grah had charge of the botanical building at the exposition. He worked at the exposition from January, 1912 to February 1, when he was transferred to the park.

Sam Harvey has been with the park board three years and is regarded as a fine gardener.

Harrah and Battista have been with the park over three years. The latter is a blacksmith and looks after the repair of park tools.

Sharp has been a gardener in the park for three years.

Stark has been in the park over four years. He is an expert on lawns and has charge of the sprinkling service.

Anderson and Peveler have been worked on the exposition grounds two years and have been with the park since last February.

Gall is an expert tree pruner who has been regarded as one of the best men of the department.

July 28, 1916, Minutes of Board of Park Commissioners:

International Harvester requested privilege of selling and removing Company’s building and shed, now situated on Exposition grounds; granted, but buildings not to be removed until after the Exposition.

Request from Exposition for privilege of installing tennis courts on Plaza de Panama denied.

Chamber of Commerce requested camping ground inside Balboa Park; suitable camping grounds now provided by the Exposition for the accommodation of automobile parties; no action on request until after Exposition.

The half our operatic recital to be given at the exposition organ pavilion tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock b Signor Michele Giovacchini, dramatic baritone, will mark the appearance of one of the most popular present-day opera singers of the United States.

Of Signor Giovacchini’s voice the Chicago Tribune recently said: "Mr. Giovacchini’s voice is warm and sympathetic. It is well schooled and faultlessly controlled. It accomplishes every dynamic nuance with ease and becomes the servant of an admirable interpretive intention." The San Francisco Examiner said: Giovacchini is a genuine artist, worthy of any baritone place in the Metropolitan.

Giovacchini studies seven years in Bologna, under the great maestro and composer, Donzelli, a brilliant pupil of Rossini, and made his debut in Pavia 24 years ago. After spending eight years in Spain, in which country he sang a repertoire of 50 operas, he came to Mexico City with a noted Italian grand opera company headed by Helen Fons, the greatest genuine Spanish "Carmen." At the outbreak of the revolution the company disbanded and Giovacchini joined the Lombardi opera company in San Francisco.

Signor Giovacchini will be accompanied in tomorrow’s recital by Charles R. Stickney on the piano, and will sing among other selections the "Canzone-Barcarola" from "Gioconda: (Ponchielli), Tosti’s "Serenade" and the "Credo-Monologue" from "Otello" ( G. Verdi).

San Diegans who love their city, who have faith in its destiny, and glory in its inspiring traditions, will welcome two sumptuous volumes issued by the press of Paul Elder and Company of San Francisco descriptive of the salient architectural and garden features of the Panama-California Exposition, Historically San Diego is the genesis of all things Californian; the Panama-California Exposition is a culminating memorial of this history stretching across five generations from Junipero Serra to G. Aubrey Davidson --- a retrospect, a fulfillment and a promise. Or if we would go back to the beginning, we may trace the lineage of the city to the vague vision of Balboa when with eagle eyes he stared at the Pacific; or to the far-flung ambition of Cortez dreaming of empire on these mysterious shores of El Dorado; and we may date the reality coincident with the coming of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, more than three centuries before the American flag was raised at the Old Town of San Diego --- more than two centuries before Padre Serra planted the palms that mark the place where he founded the Mission of San Diego de Alcala.

Books That Tell the Story

The books published by the Elder company deal chiefly with the esthetic features of the San Diego Exposition. The volume entitled, "The San Diego Garden Fair," was written by Eugen Neuhaus, assistant professor of decorative design at the University of California, from personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme, and other esthetic aspects of the Exposition. The later publication, entitled "The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition" is a pictorial survey described by Carleton Monroe Winslow, together with an essay by Clarence S. Stein, with an introduction by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, advisory and consulting architect of the Exposition, and illustrated from photographs by Harold A. Taylor. Both works are authoritative, but the last named is explicitly so, and we are informed as to the designers and builders of each structure --- a phase of the great enterprise that has been but vaguely comprehended even in San Diego. We now know, for example, that the permanent buildings of the California Quadrangle, the California State building, and the Fine Arts building, were from the designs of Architect Goodhue; that the noble approach to the Exposition from the west, across the Puente Cabrillo, was designed and constructed by Frank P. Allen, Jr., director of works, who also designed and laid out the pergolas and walks of the Montezuma Gardens; that the Administration building and the Foreign Arts building were designed by Carleton M. Winslow, as was the Serra Memorial at the end of the chapel apse of the Foreign and Domestic building, facing the Botanical Garden; that the landscape gardening is largely the work of John Morley, the superintendent of parks; that nearly all the decorative features were designed and modeled by the Piccirilli brothers, New York sculptors; and that John Olmsted was the consulting landscape architect. Nothing has been omitted except the myriad detail which, after the general effect, engages the delighted attention of the observer, be he connoisseur, amateur, or uninstructed layman. But what the text cannot depict the Taylor photographs amply supply to the finest minutiae of line and form. Those pictures, of which there are sixty-nine in the volume of Architecture and thirty-two in the book of the Garden Fair, are more than admirable. Each little illustration is a little work of art which will serve as a fond recollection and cherished souvenir for this generation of San Diegans and all who have found their idea of rest and beauty amid the gardens and palaces of this unique Exposition; and when posterity shall look back to this event in the city’s history, they will see it as we saw it, but mellowed and interpreted through an artist’s vision.

For the second time in a month a jury of women in Justice George Puterbaugh’s court yesterday failed to convict Miss Linda Weatherbee, also known as May Hayden. The jury disagreed and was discharged.

On the complaint of Sergeant E. F. Forbes of the police department, Miss Weatherbee was arrested July 3, after a performance at the Paris After Midnight concession, where it is alleged she posed in the nude as "Stella."

The first jury, also entirely of women, failed to agree. At the second trial of the case yesterday nine women composed the jury. They were said to stand seven to two for acquittal.

The members of the jury yesterday were: Mrs. J. Fishburn, Mrs. George Swain, Mrs. Ida Stickney, Mrs. Hilda Temple, Mrs. H. G. Muller, Mrs. W. J. Fulkerson, Mrs. L. Greene, Mrs. W. C. Cling, and Mrs. E. Graham.

Several police officers who testified yesterday were of the opinion that Miss Weatherbee appeared to be nude. Members of the Oregon cavalry camp testified that the lights were turned dim and they were unable to tell whether there was a violation of the law or not. The soldiers testified that Miss Weatherbee did not perform any objectionable dances. Other performers at the Paris After Midnight show said that Miss Weatherbee wore a flesh-colored piece of satin.

The jury was out for about two hours and when it was reported that the members were not able to agree, it was dismissed by Judge Puterbaugh. It is unlikely that the case will be tried again, according to police officers.

From 9 o’clock in the morning until 1:30, the time of the speech, at least 1,000 persons sat patiently waiting in the sun to hear Mr. Hughes. They came early to get seats and had their lunches with them in boxes. And they were well repaid, judging from the enthusiastic shouts and applause with which they greeted Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and punctuated his address.

Many who did not get close enough to hear the speech had the pleasure of shaking hands with Mr. and Mrs. Hughes at the great public reception of the plaza, and so it was a red-letter day for them, too.

And if the San Diegans were happy, the guests of honor, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were equally so, and entered into the program prepared for them with all their hearts. They were graciousness personified, and whether it was shaking hands by the hour with countless people, posing for kodak fiends, viewing the exposition, visiting with the Indians of the Painted Desert, or watching the Hawaiian hula hula girls and the Spanish senoritas dance, the were intensely interested and pleased.

If San Diegans thought the Presidential candidate is cold and haughty, the idea was dispelled today a hundred different times. As the auto bearing Mr. Hughes to the exposition was passing the Grant Hotel this morning a good-natured Irishman from the crowd on the sidewalk shouted:

"Have you seen the harbor yet, Mr. Hughes?"

And the former Justice smilingly nodded that he had. Later he referred to the incident to those about him as the best thing he had heard today. Again he said in his address he was glad to be able to say he had seen the magnificent harbor, which he described as a great national asset.

Their graciousness was seen again when Mr. and Mrs. Hughes posed repeatedly for people with kodaks, while seeing the Point Loma view. When in front of the old lighthouse, Mr. Hughes posed, as requested for some kodaks, and then as he was leaving an eager mother rushed up and asked him if he would please pose with her little boy, and he did with the same happy manner.

At 5:30 o’clock this morning the Hughes train arrived and by 8:30 o’clock Mr. Hughes was ready for the day’s program, having had breakfast on the train, prepared under the direction of Mrs. Hughes, who assumes personal charge of every meal served aboard the train to her husband.

Shortly after 9 o’clock, the distinguished visitors were greeted by President and Mrs. G. A. Davidson of the exposition, John A. Akerman, chairman of the committee in charge; Mrs., Akerman and the reception committees and the woman’s board for the exposition. Mrs. Hughes was presented with a huge bouquet of carnations by the woman’s board. The visitors were then whirled away for a drive to Point Loma and Fort Rosecrans escorted by eighty members of the reception committee.

They viewed the beautiful scene of city, harbor, ocean and the Coronado islands in the distance, while numerous aeroplanes from the government aviation camp at North Island whirred over their heads.

"Wonderful, wonderful!" said Mr. Hughes, and he then fired question after question at Colonel W. A. Glassford, commander of the North Island aviation school, who was in the party.

The same keen interest was displayed by him at the exposition where the high cultivation of the shrubbery and plants in so short a period seemed to impress him strongly.

At 10 o’clock they returned to the train and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were transferred to an elaborately flower-decked auto, which carried them to the exposition. All along the way of the procession of automobiles the crowds on the streets shouted and waved to Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, who smiled and bowed in a pleasant manner.

The distinguished guests were quickly taken through the French building and to the beautiful rooms of the woman’s headquarters where coffee was served by Mrs. George McKenzie and other ladies of the board. Mrs. Hughes was presented here with an exquisite bouquet of Los Angeles roses, a new variety, by Miss Teresa Morley, daughter of the park superintendent. A small reception was held, the public being excluded, that Mr. and Mrs. Hughes might rest a little.

The great reception on the Plaza de Panama followed and there more than 2,000 persons shook hands with and spoke to the standard-bearer and his wife. As many more were turned back by the guards as the time for luncheon approached.

Before the handshaking began, Ellen Beach Yaw, the California songbird, sang her "Skylark" and "California."

From the plaza the party was escorted to the Cristobal, where 600 guests were assembled. Republicans, Progressives, men and women of every party, were in the crowd. Mrs. Vernon Root presented to Mrs. Hughes a handsome bouquet, in appreciation of the latter’s attitude on women’s suffrage.

Then the candidate’s party visited the Painted Desert exhibit.

When Mr. Hughes talked to his vast audience at the organ, he was introduced by Lyman J. Gage. The standard bearer spoke gracefully of his reception and impressions of San Diego, and then launched into a telling arraignment of the Underwood tariff, especially as it strikes at the sugar industry of America.

"Our friends," he said, "discovered their mistake after awhile, but we desire to be represented by those who have foresight and not simply hindsight."

He declared against any action that involved the crippling of American industry, saying:

"I protest equally against any abuses. I protest against any use of tariff schedules in favor of the few at the expense of the many or rather to build up private privileges at the expense of public interests.

"There is not going to be an grip on public privileges or right for any corporate interest, or any combination of interests, at the expense of the people of the United States if I can prevent it."

The speaker then referred to conditions that will be faced after peace comes to Europe. Then it is that America must find itself, he declared --- when Europe is recalling her strength from trench to factory.

Continuing, he said in part:

America must be sound and honest in its public life and it must have business-like administration; it must be direct, it must be patriotic with America first and the America efficient. I believe that we are going to lay a broad foundation in this work. I would lay that foundation deep in a consideration of human needs and the requirements of the betterment of human life. I do not look upon men and women as mere economic factors. We are cooperating as human beings to build up the standards of human living and to diffuse happiness and prosperity. (Applause)

The man who looks upon the laborers in his employ as mere economic units has not caught the vision of the twentieth century. (Applause)

I should see to it that our race is protected. You may be sure that there is not a great nation in the world but what is going to look after that. I should have the foundation of our security laid in protecting women from extortion, in preventing children from being imposed upon by being drawn too early into the hardships of industrial life.

I believe we can control public utilities in a straightforward way. You need not suppose that I favor in the slightest way any interest getting the best of the public interest. (Applause) At the same time I favor justice in public enterprises as well as in individual work outside the scope of ordinary regulation, I have stated that firmly. And I shall continue to stand for justice to the man who has got his investment, and for justice to the laborer who is laboring for his wages, the preservation of individual incentive and the strength and paramountcy of the public interest in all public concerns. (Applause)

I desire to see this nation inspired with a respect for American citizenship. I deplore the way in which, down in Mexico, American lives have been sacrificed because of our failure to protect them. American citizenship, you must hold in the highest esteem, whatever the individual may be who bears the name of American citizen. (Applause) If we ever lose that sense of national obligation we shall become a decadent people.

I spoke a moment ago of Mexico. It is not necessary to deal with the facts before this audience. You know perfectly well what the conditions were and are. But the administration has not right to attempt to control Mexican politics, and to destroy the only government Mexico had, and leave the people of Mexico and our citizens to the ravages of revolution. (Applause)

We had one clear duty. That duty was to see that American lives and the property of American citizens were protected in Mexico. (Applause) That duty we could insist upon performing, and Mexico should have understood that. That is the primary duty of nations. We lost not only the friendship of the Mexicans, but we lost their respect when we failed to do that which they knew it was our duty to do.

My friends, we have got to begin, in a sense, over again. We want Mexico to understand that we are friends. We desire a stable government there. We do not desire to meddle with what does not concern us. We are anxious that the past shall be retrieved. Those people are starving --- they need assistance; they need every sort of aid that we can given. We want them to be established with a firm government and prosperous. We want to do all that we can properly to assist them to that end. Mexico, however, must understand that first and last American lives and the property of American citizens are going to be safeguarded. (Applause and cheers)

I wish I could go into some matters that I wanted to speak to you about with respect to our reasonable preparedness. I believe that this nation should have the strength which self respect requires. Not threaten anybody, but that we may not be misunderstood because of obvious weakness unrelated to our real power. (Applause) I want not simply appropriations. I want competent administration, military and naval, under leadership that is efficient, competent and qualified for the task.

This great country cannot afford to have its great departments in charge of those who are unequal to the task of administration. I make no criticism of individuals so far as personal character is concerned. But I want to see this whole government set up to a standard of efficiency which will command the respect of the world and satisfy the just ambitions of Americans. (Applause)

From this remote corner of our country, I shall turn to another remote corner of our country with a new inspiration and an intense desire, if you wish it, to serve to the best of my ability our common country --- the United States. (Applause and cheers)

Charles Evans Hughes is not an orator of the "spelling binding" class; he appeals to reason rather than to the emotions of the man and women whom he addresses.

His vocabulary is ample, but he does not waste it in ornamental rhetoric or use it to tinsel generalities already glittering! Nor does he adorn it with meaningless epithet after the manner of those silver-tongued orators who delight to draw the thread of their verbal finery than the stable of their argument.

He is eloquent, but it is the eloquence of a thinking man who has resolved the questions which he discusses by deducing his conclusions from incontrovertible data through processes of cold logic.

Mr. Hughes does not ask his hearers to agree with him unless they are convinced that he had stated his proposition truthfully, in the first place and argued it accurately thereafter.

No person going away from a Hughes speech will ask himself why he yielded to the "spell" of the speaker in his presence, seeking to analyze in cold blood the substance of what he has heard divested of the florid emotionalism that held him while listening to mere words artfully combined to produce a factitious effect.

The keynote throughout all that Mr. Hughes utters is efficiency.

It is not enough, in his opinion of what constitutes good government, that a public official should be honest and capable --- those are qualities that are presupposed in all officials --- he must know how to apply his knowledge and energy to the best purpose.

This purpose must be the highest well being of those whom the official is elected to serve.

The personality of the public servant must sink in the office with which he has been entrusted; he must become the embodiment of the will of the State.

In his public addresses thus far during this campaign Mr. Hughes has made it clear that he knows thoroughly the duties of the chief executive of the nation, and he has also made it clear that he has no desire to usurp any of the functions of the coordinate branches of the government; but he insists that in the exercise of his executive functions it is part of the duty of the chief magistrate of the Republic to see that all the other departments perform their full duty within the limits prescribed by the Constitution and the statutes.

As Mr. Hughes expounds the science of government to his audiences competency is the very first requisite; and incompetency through political favoritism has been the chief defect in the present administration --- to many spoils have been appropriated by victors unfitted to transact the business of the State.

He does not think that "the voice of the people" is ever uttered through an incompetent administration of the people’s affairs; not does he believe that the people are ever satisfied with such administration.

When a great national party persists in conducting the affairs of the nation in an incompetent manner because it permits the administration of those affairs by . . . incompetents it admits its own incompetence; it admits that it lacks the proper material of efficiency in its ranks; and it confesses to the indictment that its sole purpose as a political organization is the procurement of emolument for its leaders and their political serviceable following.

No person who listens to the clear thinking of Charles Evens Hughes on this phase of his exposition of principles will have the slightest doubt that he not only knows what he is talking about but that he means what he says, and that if elected to the executive control of national business he will see to it that fitness shall be the first desideratum of public service; that economy shall be the moving feature of the administration; and that the greatest good for all concerned shall be the dominant policy.

Candidate Hughes has come and gone.

Probably the biggest crowd in the exposition’s history heard the distinguished guest speak at the exposition yesterday. Hughes praised our city and harbor, scored the Democratic tariff policies and flayed Wilson’s Mexican policies.

"What sense is there," he said, "in enacting tariff laws that will destroy American industries, so that we can buy goods abroad? This is the policy of the Democratic party. The Republican party stands for protection of our home industries, a doctrine which we are particularly in need of at this time. Our friends on the opposite side do not believe in protection to build up industry, but only to raise revenue. The Underwood tariff was not enacted for the benefit of United States industries --- in fact, it proved injurious to many of them, notably the sugar industry.

"We must all work together at this critical time to mold an efficient and capable nation. This great nation must hold to unswerving loyalty, one allegiance to one flag, and overcoming all prejudice of race and creed, work together for the common welfare of our country."

Speaking on the advantages of San Diego harbor, Mr. Hughes said:

"While I was riding though your streets this morning, an enthusiastic citizen ran alongside of my automobile and asked me, as soon as he could catch his breath, if I had seen your harbor. I am very proud to say that I have seen the harbor. I am very proud to say that I have come to understand its wonderful advantages. If I am entrusted with official powers by the American people, I will know to what good purposes your harbor can be put."

In speaking of the exposition, Mr. Hughes said:

"In this beautiful exposition we have exemplified the unswerving loyalty and progress of the people of San Diego."

"This is the most beautiful auditorium from which I have ever spoken. Within the grounds of your exposition you have nature enabled by art. There is no more beautiful spot on the face of the globe. Regardless of the result of the political campaign, I shall feel that I have been repaid for the strenuousness of this trip by the beauties of this favored spot. I have yet to meet a San Diegan who does not hold first a spirit of allegiance to his city.

In taking the crack at the Democrats for their lowering the sugar tariff and then later raising it, Mr. Hughes said: "The Democrats came to see their mistake. The Republicans knew that the sugar tariff reduction was a mistake from the start. We ask your support for a party that displays foresight and not simply hindsight."

While Mr. Hughes was speaking, the platform, the peristyles on either side of the organ, and the great open space in front of the organ as far back as the Plaza de Panama was jammed and packed with a tremendous crowd. Thousands there were who came too late to get within sound of Mr. Hughes’ voice. Half an hour before Mr. Hughes started to speak a great crowd was jammed for half a block in front of the Laurel street gate. A crowd almost equally as large was forcing its way through the gate at the east entrance.

In referring to the Mexican problem, he said it was not a question of Huerta or no Huerta. That was a question for the judgment of the administration in power, he said. But he declared the administration had no right to attempt to control Mexican affairs, destroy the only government Mexico had, and leave Americans in Mexico to the dangers of anarchy.

"It was our duty to see," he said, "that American lives and American property in Mexico should be protected. Out of it all we have lost Mexican respect and in its place is only Mexican contempt for us."

He reiterated former statements of the "blunder" at Veracruz. "There was no salute, no reparation, and nothing but hatred from the Mexicans."

Hughes’ statement about Mexico brought the biggest applause of the day. He warned all to prepare against the cooperation which the European nations have learned to use and which after the war will be turned from military to industrial pursuits. He again warned the United States to prepare against the "inevitable industrial invasion." He then left in an automobile for his train.

San Diego entertained in her usual hospitable style a distinguished visitor yesterday.

We refer, as you may have guessed, to Charles Evans Hughes of New York, who aspires to succeed Woodrow Wilson as president.

Disagreeing with Mr. Hughes in many of his policies, and differing still more with the Big Interests that are shouting the loudest for him, The Sun refrained yesterday from printing an attack on our city’s visitor. Had we followed the lead of our contemporaries, who have on a number of occasions insulted men high in office on the day they came at our invitation to open our exposition, and to similar affairs, we could have been just as disagreeable as that. But we didn’t.

Mr. Hughes has come and gone. We heard him tell what this country should have done on different occasions, but not HOW it should have been done. We heard strenuous protests against the policies of one man who sits far away at Washington and wrestles conscientiously and devotedly with non-political problems affecting every man and woman in that great audience, as well as every man and woman in America.

But we did NOT hear Mr. Hughes answer any one of the half-dozen pertinent questions propounded to him by a coterie of distinguished non-partisan writers in an advertisement in yesterday’s Sun.

We did not hear Mr. Hughes say what HE would have done in specific instances. The eternal question: "What would you have done?" remained in the mind of every fair listener. Mr. Hughes offered no solution to our great national problems.

San Diego ever delights in honoring her guests. We did so yesterday to our everlasting credit.

But no political history was made!

August 22, 1916, San Diego Union, 4:1. EDITORIAL: Hughes and Booth.

It was entirely apparent long before Mr. Hughes came to California that Hiram Johnson would be a misfit in a Republican senate. Mr. Hughes’ tour of the state has emphasized that fact. If he is deserving of the vote of Republicans --- and none of them doubt that he is --- they also owe it to him to do what they can to secure to him a senate whose majority shall work with him. California has only one senate seat to fill. Republicans should make sure that it is filled by Willis H. Booth, the only Republican who is a candidate for it.

Charles Evans Hughes has seen San Diego. San Diego has seen Charles Evans Hughes. Neither was disappointed.

To the contrary, Mr. Hughes and the Exposition City seemed to blend perfectly. They were friends from the very start and when his special train shot away for the north yesterday afternoon, fully 40,000 San Diegans who had seen him and heard him speak joined in the verdict that the Republican standard bearer is even bigger and better and more generally lovable than they had so fondly pictured him.

"Hughes Day" was a four-ply success from beginning to end. Not a single hitch was recorded. A veritable sea of humanity surged into the Exposition grounds yesterday to welcome the presidential candidate. It was not only estimated as the largest crowd that ever thronged the Fair grounds to greet any speaker, but was declared to be without doubt the most enthusiastic. A great patriotism and love of country seemed to swell in the heart of every person there. Republicans of city and county, who heard the candidate’s inspiring, sensible, masterly address, went home with a new and mightier pledge to work untiringly for his election until the last vote is cast.

Scores of the leaders of the united party were in evidence to pay their personal respects and give assurances of support to the standard bearer.

To meet Charles Evans Hughes is to admire him. He has a genuine personality. His eye is clear as a cloudless sky, merry at times, severe at others, but always kind and sympathetic. His famous whiskers are neatly trimmed and really becoming, hiding to no extent a strong set of regular, white teeth. His smile is radiant, and his handshake is firm and cordial. Even after he had shaken hands with fully 3,000 San Diegans, who formed in line, he displayed no sings of weariness, and hand-shaking is hard work. Moreover, a smile went with every shake of the hand, and he smiled in such a way to show that he meant it.

That the sentiment of San Diego is overwhelmingly for Hughes was manifested by the tremendous ovation that was accorded him when he stepped on the platform in front of the great Spreckels organ pavilion. The air literally rang with cheers, and hats, parasols and handkerchiefs were waved in wild profusion. On the speakers’ platform with the candidate were Mrs. Hughes, John D. Spreckels, President and Mrs. G. A. Davidson, Lyman J. Gage and Senator M. L. Ward. On the organ platform in the rear were others of prominence.

The candidate made a masterly address, which will be found in full elsewhere in today’s Union. No more convincing speaker has ever visited San Diego. He felt free to criticize the Democratic administration, but he did so with a simply dignity, eliminating personalities.

Speaking with a sincerity that was easy to see, Mr. Hughes indulged in the highest praise for San Diego and its Exposition, pointing out that the people of this city should be an example to the people of the entire nation because of their patriotism, loyalty and manner of doing business. In fact, he took the "San Diego Spirit" as the text for his remarks.

The speaker was not slow to enthuse over San Diego harbor. He declared that he had seen it, and knew what he was talking about.

"As I came along the streets of San Diego in the parade this morning," he said laughingly, "an enthusiastic citizen ran alongside the car and, as soon as he was able to speak, shouted, ‘Have you seen the harbor?’ I was glad to be able to inform him that I had seen the harbor. That harbor is a great national asset. One cannot fail to consider its potency, its importance, its available national uses. I am glad that I have seen something of the Pacific coast, and I would not willingly have missed a visit to San Diego harbor, in the company of those who could tell me about it, so that in the coming days if I am entrusted with official responsibility, I shall know something of the uses to which it should be put in the interests of the United States."

Did San Diego appreciate this coming from a man like Hughes? San Diego certainly did. The crowd cheered the speaker until he was forced to desist and hold up his hand for silence. Governor Hughes’ visit to Point Loma, where he viewed the harbor, was one of the features of the day. It is fully described in a separate article in today’s Union, as are also the happenings at the Hughes luncheon at the Cristobal Café at the Exposition.

Hughes told of his desire to give both capital and labor an equal chance. He denounced the Democratic tariff and explained that Californians are well able to judge as to its effects, without being told. He flayed the administration’s Mexican policies. He declared that regardless of the results of the election he would always consider that his visit to San Diego was worth his long campaign tour. And to President Davidson, on parting, he said, looking that official squarely in the eye:

"Mr. Davidson this is the red-letter day of my trip. It is one of the biggest days of my life. I am glad that I came. I hope to come again."

Mrs. Hughes, just a plain American woman, sweet of manner, intelligent, thoughtful of others, and at all times modest and sincere, voiced the same sentiments.

The American Indian went on record as being strong for Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and party visited "Poor Lo" in his wigwam at the Painted Desert, following the luncheon at the Cristobal. They had a typical reception.

"Ugh!," grunted one of the oldest chiefs, sizing up the candidate and admiring his beard. "Hughes, him big man."

As Hughes seated himself to watch the weird Indian dances started for his benefit, Chief of Police J. Keno Wilson picked up a papoose and thrust it into the candidate’s arms. The papoose was delighted. So was Mr. Hughes. He placed it on his knee and chucked it under the chin until it crowed with delight. At the same time Mrs. Hughes put one arm over the shoulder of an older Indian child and kept it there during the dances. A mountain goad, owned by the Indians, strolled over for a look at the candidate and happened to sight a large bouquet of roses carried by Mrs. Hughes. He "bahed" expressively as if to say, "This is great. I haven’t eaten a rose this year," and proceeded to munch on the bouquet. Mrs. Hughes and her husband both laughed merrily. As the candidate and his wife made their way back to the automobile, the Indians followed, chanting their approval. Later they sent a painted, feathered delegation down to the organ pavilion, to give the candidate a final send-off. Hughes was tickled. He smiled upon the Indians like a great big boy, and the crowds smiled with him.

"I have always wanted to see San Diego," said Mr. Hughes to a Union reporter. "I feared at first that I should not be able to include this city on my trip, but when it was announced that we could make it, my heart rejoiced. You have a wonderful city. It is one of the most beautiful spots I have ever seen. I hope that sometime I may become better acquainted with San Diego and its people."

The candidate talks little on national affairs with the newspaper men, holding this for his speeches.

Regarding the Republican party he said:

"I am glad to stand as the spokesman for a party that stands for the protection of American industry. I desire to see the United States hold up its head among the nations of the earth."

Charles Evans Hughes is just like a man from home. Get "the governor" away in a corner somewhere and talk about anything sensible, and he’ll talk right back and make you feel so much at home that you might be induced to try to borrow money from him. He seems like a next door neighbor, quiet and dignified, but as easy as an old shoe. His laugh is cheery, although a bit husky after he has delivered an address. He meets all sorts and conditions of people, but he plays no favorites. When asked a question, he answered quickly as the snapping of a steel trap. He has the ability to remember names as well as faces. He says a great deal in a few words, and, whether you agree with him politically or not, you leave his presence convinced that he is a fine type of American gentleman. Hughes has not difficulty in making himself agreeable. He is naturally that way. He is particularly fond of children and went out of his way yesterday to speak to the little folks.

One small boy wanted to shake hands with "the governor," but seemed afraid. Hughes’ clear eye took in the situation. He walked over to the boy, grabbed the little hand in his, and said, "How are you this morning, my little man? I am glad of the chance to shake hands with you."

Despite his dignified appearance, you feel sure after meeting Mr. Hughes that if you were a little better acquainted, he would insist on calling you by your first name. It wouldn’t take much to make you call him by his, big as he is, if you only dared.

As the writer talked with Hughes, he couldn’t help recalling a little occurrence said to have happened back East, shortly after the governor was nominated.

The newspapermen at that time began calling him, "Mr. Justice."

"That will hardly do, boys," he said. "I am not entitled to that honor anymore, you will recall."

"What is it them, Mr. Hughes?," they asked, "shall we call you judge?"

"No," he smiled. "I am no longer that either."

"It must be ‘governor’ then," they said, "or would just plain ‘Mr.’ be best?"

Hughes told them they could take their choice of the two last, and among those best associated with him it has since been "the governor." But, of course, when they are personally addressing him, they always drop the "the."

Men and women were heard to compare Hughes to Lincoln up at the Exposition yesterday. In fact, one old Republican was heard to say, "He looks like Lincoln all over again and talks like him. He’s more handsome, that’s all."

"Governor" Hughes sticks to facts and logic, as he sees them. He seldom resorts to anecdotes or stories to hold his audience. Yet once in a while, behind the scenes, he enjoys these little pleasantries as much as anyone.

Traveling together on this long tour, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes seem to be repeating their honeymoon. His hair is shot with gray, and Mrs. Hughes is not as young as she once was, but they are just like boy and girl when in each other’s company.

Not far from the press box, where a Union reporter was covering a big part of this story, a woman with a black parasol said something about Mrs. Hughes that made me think she is almost as popular with her sex as the "governor" is with his. She remarked:

"I think Mrs. Hughes would make a good neighbor."

It is pretty hard to beat a compliment of that sort, paid to one woman by another.

To those who yesterday met Charles Evans Hughes it appeared that he has read a great deal and forgotten nothing. He seemed to know almost as much about the San Diego Exposition as the men who built it. The one gloomy thing, he declared, in connection with his visit here, was that he was to be torn away just as he was getting started on his Exposition explorations.

Talking with the newspaper boys who have been with the candidate since the day he set foot on the campaign trail, the writer of this found that they were all fond of him as a traveling companion. He was one of them, they said, and frequently came back to the newspaper car to talk with the correspondents after work hours. At these times he talked socially, and for a few hours at least he seemed to be willing to forget that he is probably the most conspicuous man in the United States today. Everywhere he went in San Diego he was the mark for movie men and camera artists. He stood up under the fire nobly, scarcely seeming to notice that they were there. The motion pictures of the candidate taken here will be shown all over the United States within the next few weeks --- with captions telling of the different points in the Exposition grounds where they were taken.

The writer of this story paid special attention when the governor stood in front of the United States Government building shaking hands with the long line of his admirers as they passed in single file before him. Hughes seemed to enjoy it as much as they did. A man with grease-covered overalls received the same hearty grip and cheery word as the man next to him in the Palm Beach outfit. A ragged woman, carrying a baby, received even more of his attention than the fashionably dressed woman a few feet behind.

The candidate was closely guarded. At the reception where he was shaking hands, the secret service men paid keen attention to every person that passed. When a pocket seemed to bulge, it was cautiously felt. At the Cristobal a suspicious-looking character who had made his way close to the candidate and who was muttering under his breath, was quietly ejected. Outside he said that he meant nothing and was merely excited. He carried no arms. Letters written elsewhere threatening Hughes and sent out in the press dispatches were hardly ever taken seriously. Yet precautions against a possible attack upon the candidate by a crank were increased. Mr. Hughes, himself, only smiled when he heard of it. It didn’t seem to worry him at all.

When the Hughes special pulled away at 3:10 o’clock just behind the regular train, a crowd of prominent San Diegans had assembled to say farewell. At almost the last moment, Mrs. Claus Spreckels arrived, accompanied by her husband, and presented to the candidate a huge bouquet of California poppies. Mr. Hughes gracefully acknowledged the gift and shook hands with many of the persons gathered to bid him goodbye. As the regular 3 o’clock train pulled out, the passengers crowded to one side and waved from the windows and platforms at the candidate, who bowed and waved his hand in return. Just as the candidate’s special pulled away three rousing cheers were given. He answered with a last wave of farewell. Mrs. Hughes smiled goodbye. Then the two turned and went within the car for the next leg of their journey.

Members of the Hughes committee and vice presidents of "Hughes Day" are entitled to no little credit for the splendid manner in which the entire affair was conducted. It was clock work all the way.

Aside from Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, an executive staff of fifteen men and the newspaper correspondents were included in the Hughes’ party. Charles W. Farnham, who has wide experience on campaign tours, is the manager of the present Hughes’ trip. W. R. Van de Bogart, of the New York Central, is the manager of transportation, and with Mr. Farnham is responsible for much of the arrangements of the tour. Dr. Norman E. Dittman is the physician of the party.

Lawrence H. Green is the private secretary of Mr. Hughes and Carl D. Shepard is the director of publicity for the tour. Sergeant Brierton, whose whiskers somewhat resemble the candidate’s and Frank W. Tyree, formerly a member of the Roosevelt parties and later United States marshal of West Virginia, were the secret service men of the party. A part of Mr. Shepard’s work is to furnish all local newspapers and the correspondents of the party with transcripts of the candidate’s speeches, and three shorthand reporters, James G. Marsiott, Charles A. Morrison, and Frederick D. Elmer, worked in relays when Mr. Hughes delivered his addresses.

In San Diego the stenographers did not have time to conclude transcribing the speech, but The Union had its own stenographer on the ground and later an official transcript of the candidate’s remarks, typewritten on the train before it reached Oceanside, was brought to The Union office from Oceanside by a special messenger. It appears in The Union today.

The appreciation of the Exposition and San Diego for the generous service given Exposition celebrations during the year by Ellen Beach Yaw, California’s popular singer, will be expressed at a special day in her honor at the Exposition Thursday. Miss Yaw will give two concerts during the day for the invalids and crippled children who are to spend the day at the Exposition through the efforts of Dr. Belle M. Pope.

The first concert will be given at the organ pavilion in the afternoon at 3 o’clock, and for the first time in the history of the Exposition, automobiles will be permitted to park near the organ pavilion for a concert. While preference will be given to automobiles carrying invalids and crippled children, all cars will be allowed to take advantage of the special privilege.

Miss Yaw will appear again at the evening concert of Tommasino’s band at the United States Fisheries building at 7:30 o’clock, and will sing the aria, "A Fors a Lui" from La Traviata and the "Swiss Echo Song." At 10 o’clock she will sing the "Star Spangled Banner," accompanied by the band.

Ellen Beach Yaw Day will begin at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon with a reception to Miss Yaw by the women’s board of the Exposition in the California Quadrangle. A singing and dancing entertainment will be given by the Spanish troubadours as a part of the entertainment. From the reception the party will go to the organ pavilion for the special concert. Assisting Miss Yaw will be Walter E. Hartley of Pomona, who will play several selections on the organ. Miss Grace Bowers will be the accompanist.

At 4 o’clock there will be a reception and tea in the women’s board headquarters, and a musical program in which Miss Yaw will participate. At 10 o’clock, immediately following the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," there will be a special Ellen Beach Yaw supper at the Cristobal café.

The program to be given Thursday afternoon at the organ pavilion for the invalids and crippled children is as follows:

"Queen’s Aria" from Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer)

"Queen’s Aria" from The Magic Flute (Mozart)

"My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair" (Haydn)

"Who is Sylvia" (Schubert)

"You" (Mary Carr Moore)