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Show VICE-PRESIDENT OF BIG SHOW ft f ' y. : -V-v.. . -'.''.:. - Nt J" - ... .i f v Reuben B. Hale, the vice-president of the Panama-Pacific International exposition, to be held in San Francisco in 1915, celebrating the completion of the Panama Canal, was one of a special spe-cial commission appointed to make a trip abroad to lay before ministers of foreign affairs and army and navy authorities, the details and scope of the enterprise. The commission sailed on the Mauretania April 24th. Mr. Hale is a well-known merchant of San Francisco, who was the first per-.son per-.son to suggest the holding of an exposition ex-position to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. The commission consists of Mr. John Hays Hammond, president; Mr. Reuben B. Hale, vice-president vice-president of the Panama-Pacific International Inter-national exposition; Brigadier-General Clarence B. Edwards, U. S. A.; Mr. William T. Sesnon, vice-president of the San Francisco chamber of commerce; com-merce; Mr. Theodore Hardee, execu tive officer; Mr. Charles F. Wilson, diplomatic oflicer, and Mr. Archibald C. Emery, secretary. General Edwardg and Admiral Staunton were detailed by President Taft to represent the army and navr. The commission is accredited by the department of state to American Amer-ican ambassadors and ministers abroad, and bear letirs to the highest government gov-ernment authorities of the various countries visited. |
