Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-19
THE EDUCATORS.
HOW THEY ARE ENTERTAINED IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Headquarters The Opening
Exposition Hospitality I'm
bounded.
SAX FRAxc1sco, July IS, 1888.


gates to the National Educational Associa-
ton. the San Francisco teachers and their
managing committees have done them
selves great credit, and the State very much
more. The RECORD. UNION representative
during four days last past has had excep-
tionally good opportunities to form cor
rect judgment as to the receptions and
notably those on the trains, many of which
he has witnessed having Travelled with seven
different committees, while he has visited
all the headquarters in this city, and wit
messed the methods of hospitality and
welcome adopted. The committees sent out
upon the trains have met the guests at var
ious points between San Pablo and Dixon.
Ia every case they have been composed
equally of ladies and gentlemen, and have
been met and welcomed the guests in a
manner wholly sincere and peculiarly Cali.
fornian in breadth, warmth and solicitude,
These committees made no distinctions, they
gave precisely as much care to one as to an
other; they proceeded at once, on botrling
train, to hunt out teachers and friends ac-
conpanying them, to welcome them
SIMPLY AND CORDIALLY
And then to consult them as to their
wishes as to location while in San Fran
cisco, and the style in which they desired to
live. This ascertained, they gave them
cards on which to fill out details for the
Registry Clerk and Room Committee so
that Immediately on arrival they could be
assigned to quarters to suit tastes. Arriv-
ing in the city the committee personally
escorted the teachers to the reception
rooms at the Palace Hotel. Here they
were registered, given rooms, informed
concerning all entertainments, excursions,
etc, and al meetings of the Association
and its departments, and every other detail
necessary. Meanwhile refreshments were
served to them, their baggage looked after
and sent to quarters, and finally the guests
were escorted to their rooms. When rested
sufficiently other committeeman and wo.
men put in appearance and escorted the
guests to the Flood Building. where the
| local executive managers and committees
| are TO be found in great number, every de-
partment of the work being represented in
detail with a clerk and committeeman
for each in constant attendance. Thus
these great rooms are lined with the desks
of Committee on Badges, on entertain
ments, on excursions, on halls, on kinder
garten work, on Normal shools on sessions,
on programmes, on membership, on fra
tefnities and half-score of others. When
the guest has gained all the information in
every detail he or she desires, he finds all
manner of devices OF hospitality afoot for
his comfort.
HEADQUARTERS
OF the various State delegations are main
| tanned in halls and hotels centrally To-
| Gated, and several of the counties OF
our own State have rooms where
| they receive and entertain. Thus Colusa
county teachers have Irving (Dashaway)
Hall, on Post street, and Monday night
opened their headquarters with a lecture
by Rev DIR. Simmons, of very humorous
character and retrospective of old-time
school work. Here, too, the fruits and
flowers of Colusa, its growth and products
are shown in abundance. Alameda county
also has headquarters at the Nucleus, where
they entertain with unbounded liberality.
Humboldt county headquarters are at the
Lick House, Napa at 727 Pine street, San
Benito at the Russ House, Santa Cruz
county at the Pleasanton Solano, San
joaquin, Contra Costa and San Mateo are
at the Lick House; Shasta, Ell Dorado,
Amador. Sonoma and Santa Clara are at
the Palace. The normal schools of the
otoOS haFC at lut didGe.
have looked in vain for a Sacramento
headquarters but it is said they will be
established to-day.
THE PRESS GANG.
At the Occidental Hotel rooms 80 and 40
have been richly and tastefully decorated
| and opened as press headquarters. Sec
rotary II. j. Lask and his assistant, Mr..
Pease, are In constant attendance receiving
visiting journalists and providing for their
entertainment uuwearyingly and with an
ease and grace worthy the occasion. Thus
| they secure them the press courtesies for
| the theaters, tickets anu badges for admis-
sion to the sessions of the Educ tioual
Association and to all entertainment -,iven
by the General Committee They have a
lOngt ist also of press excursions, as, those
through Chinatown (taken Monday night,
to the Stanford University, to the beautiful
! home of Daniel O'Connell, to The Cliff and
other points. There is no Headquarters
that really contributes more or as much to
| the comfort and real satisfaction of guests,
indeed, as the press headquarters. 1t is a
veritable bureau of information and kindly
favor, and does honor to the city, the State,
and to California Journalism There is
not in this commendatioh particle of SEN
| timent born of fellow feeling but simply
| the record of fact. And it is sustained by
reason, since the best posted men, those
best adapted to give information concisely,
direct and to the point are the men Of the
press.
THE LOCAL TEACHERS
| Are doing very handsome thing in en-
tertaining at the Art Association rooms
They have the aid of the Art Association
| also, and between the two an example OF
! California hospitality is given that l have
| Eot known to be equaled anywhere The
Teachers Mutual Aid Society, in the His
tory building on Market street, entertain in
| royal style, also. So, too, the Woman's
Temperance Union, on McAllister street,
keep open-h for the States guests, and
their rooms are thronged constantly. Neat
| cards are to be found posted at all head.
quarters, and in all committee rooms, in
| yiting the people to visit the Union rooms,
and this bit of lhoughtfulness is blessed by
| many person who otherwise would not
be likely to find the rooms of these philan.
| thropic workers.
THE OPENING
| OF the session of the Educational Conven.
| ton took place last night at the Mechanics
| Pavilion. place the number present al
not 10 exceed 5000, and net less than 5000
OF these, think fully 5000 were teachers
| But there were 600 persons in the chorus
loft, and am told fully half of these are
local teachers. Probably 500 did not attend
| the opening session, which was not to be q