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Show In New York, made a contribution setting forth why a trip to the Pacific coast was a liberal education to any American, and telling of the vast benefits ben-efits that would accrue to the nation from pilgrimages from the cast to the. San rranclco fair. He portrayed the revelation of national resource! It would be to the visitor and told of the many who would linger to develop the vast natural wealth of the west to the resultant good of the whole nation. na-tion. In fact, Mr. Rich struck the. keynote of the. claims of the Pacific ccast In this statement: "California Is a part of the earth which very traveler, the worlJ over, holds the wish to ee and which dU-?ppolnts dU-?ppolnts no one 'ho baa come under the spell of Its scenic beauty. It is a land which. onc vliited. one must needs linger In. and from which few depart without a longing to see It once more." Los Angeles Herald. SAN FRANCISCO THE PLACE. The New York Evening Post, which Is the exponent of everything that Is staid and stable In the Arnerlcau metropolis, me-tropolis, has been conducting an lu-qulry lu-qulry into the respective merits of New Orleans and San Frauclseo as to tbelr fitness for holding the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exposition In 1913. Arguments Argu-ments have been submitted by Governor Gover-nor Glllett of California and Governor Sanders of Louisiana. CUllfornians have reasem to be proud ef the showing show-ing made by their state, and the reading read-ing between the l.nes is that the Pacific Pa-cific slope is gaining ground every day and will have the bucking of the real element In New York that counts for succeps. It appehrs to be generally conceded that the Panama canal will make the Paclllc const the new neighbor ul the seuports of the Atlantic, and that the natiouul celebration that 6hall turk the Joining of the world's two greatest great-est highways of commerce should be held either in New York er In thai city of the Pacific coast which makes tbe strongest bid for It. New York stands a?ldo In deference to her newer new-er neighbors, and while New Orleans Is regarded as an important way station, sta-tion, It cannot be classed as the big port at the end of the line. Therefore New York and the east are coining to the opinion that the big fair should be held at the front uate on the Pacific, and In the back yard on the Gulf of Mexico. Governor Gillett's claims made for California marie to the New York Post wet forth the claims of San Fran-cIkco Fran-cIkco for the privilege and tho advantages advan-tages that wuulj accrue to the nation by holding the fair there, while Governor Gov-ernor Sanders merely put In the plea j that San Francineo wu.s difficult of access u the dwelleru of the ex-U. Uavld Rich, a Callfoiniau residing |