Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ceedings of these two gas congresses are among the most interest-ing books in gas literature, and are mile-stones that mark the road of progress ingas engineering. When San Francisco was selected asthe exposition city to commemorate thecompletion of the Panama Canal, thePacific Coast Gas Association decidedthat there could be no more fitting oc-casion to bring together the gas men ofthe world in an International Gas Con-gress than the celebration of this great-est of worlds engineering achievemenets,and so San Francisco was selected forthis Exposition and Gas Congress on ac-count of the spirit of its people, andthe wonderful location of the beautifulcity covering the hills of the peninsulaguarded by the Golden Gate. This charm-ing cosmopolitan city on the Bay of SanFrancisco, with its charm enhanced bythe delightful climate of California, is initself a perpetual Exposition. As far back as 1911 the Pacific CoastGas Association at its meeting in Oak-land, appointed a committee on Inter-
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rOVRTH FLOOR EXP05ITI0N AUDITORIUM 5AN F R AN C I 5 C O . C A L.I FO H N I A 234 Pacuic SiiKvicK Magazine national Gas Congress, and at the meet-ing held in San Diego in 11)12, a delegalcwas named to attend the meeting of theAmerican Gas Institute at Atlantic Cityduring tlie month of October for the pur-pose of conveying an invitation fromtlie Ilu-ilic Coast Gas Association to theAmerican Gas Institute to participate inan International Gas Congress, to be heldin San Francisco during the Expositionperiod, to take paternal charge of thecongress, and to issue invitations to thegas associations of the world in the nameof the American Gas Institute. This in-vitation was also accompanied by onefrom the Panama-Pacific Exposition Com-pany to the American Gas Institute re-questing that its annual meeting te heldin San Francisco in 1915. The delegatewas courteously received, and there wasmuch enthusiasm in favor of visitingCalifornia during the fair. It was unanimously voted that theAmerican Ga

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