Panama-Pacific Exposition
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX great congresses and conventions, some of them with membership running as high as a hundred thousand persons, have voted to make San Francisco their headquarters in 1915, so as to avail themselves of the privilege, at the same time, of attending the world's fair. This will make an average of four conventions running daily throughout the life of the exposition. Fully three thousand other conventions, many of them made up of organizations whose membership is scattered in a dozen foreign nations, are in correspondence with Mr. James A. Barr, chief of the Exposition Bureau of Conventions and Societies, and hence many other conventions will doubtless decide to come to the exposition city next year. In planning for the many conventions and congresses that are expecting to meet in San Francisco during the exposition next year, the management has deemed it expedient to have societies that are doing related work grouped in the same month. For instance, April will be devoted to congresses and conventions having to do with public health; May to social science, religion, and ethics; July is the educational month; and September will be devoted to engineering, electrical and other technical congresses; and October to the world's insurance organizations. Other groups are yet to be assigned. Many of these congresses will have vast exhibits and working models, which may be seen all the time during the exposition.