Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-14

} mailed free to leading educatlona
people all over the United States. II
will go to press early in March. Il
will contain thirty-two pages, the
print on each page being six and
half by nine inches. 1t will be bounC
by q co er autographed in four colors
The work of obtaining corrected lists
OF addresses of prominent educators
| all over the United States, through
State, Territorial and local superinten.
dents, and the writing OF wrappers,
has been going on actively and cad
lily for several weeks. 1t will require
to make this bulletin eight tons Of
paper, and its total cost, including
wrapping. addressing and postage will |
be about $6 ,000 The committee will
meet this from the pages devoted to
advertisements, nearly all of which
has already been taken.
The excursion committee has ar
ranged excursions around the bay,
and at greatly reduced rate s, to all
points of interests in this and adjoin-
ing States, and to Alaska and the
Sandwich Islands.
The music committee is arranging
the programme for monster concert,
with a chorus of 500 trained voices
and an orchestra of seventy-fve picked
| musicians, in connection with the ex-
| ercises OF the first, or welcoming night
at the Pavilion. The cost OF this will
be about $4,000.
The California delegation at Chicago
pledged to the assocition, if it would
would come to California, a local
membership from this coast OF 2000.
The honor of the profession here and
OF all connected with it is involved in
the redemption OF this pledge.
What the actual attendance from
east Of the Rockies will be, can at this
time, of course, be merely matter OF
conjecture and estimation. All the
conditions, influences and indications
are favorable, and give assurances Of
very large attendance. The most
careful and conservative calculations
place the number at from 5000 to 1000 I;
and from these the figures vary from
1000 to 10000. Among the favorable
conditions and data are:
1. The meeting comes in the early
part of the time devoted all over the
country to the long summer vacation.
2. There is an army of over 312 900
public school teachers in this country
who will be enjoying this furlough,
besides those engaged in private
schools, colleges and universities.
3. The low fares. A round trip
ticket for one fare, first-class accom-
modations, Pullman palace cars, stop
over privileges both ways, choice Of
routes returning, and tickets good for
ninety days.
4. The general desire of people,
everywhere, to visit California.
5. The visits here of the Knights
Templar and the Grand Army of the
Republic.
6. California's rcnown as a royal
hostess.
7. The sharp competition of rail-
road lines East, and the widespread
advertising by them of the meeting.
8. The reports from the national
officers and the State directors-the
excursions which are organizing all
over the country, the inquiries for ac-
commodations, which even at this
early day are pouring in upon the
tions-the ticles in the educational
journals of the country, and the action
had by educational bodies in the vari-
GUS States, all indicate veritable ma
tional enthusiasm.
9. The gallant fight just made in
Washington to bring here one of the
great national party conventions will
aid us, as having freshly and widely
advertised our resources for accommO-
dating guests by tens of thousands.
The great labor involved in all this
detail of preparation is labor of love
on the part of those to whose hands it
comes the stimulus being a genuine
and loyal State pride that California
has at last received recognition OF
her educational status, to the extent
of having this great educational asso-
citation cross the continent to hold
here it's meeting OF 1888.
The expenses as well as the labor
will be great, if California shall at all
maint in the proud name she justly
bears in all the land as a hospitable and
generous hostess. While all cannot
share in the labor, all can share in
In due time the Finance Committee,
composed of Hon. Henry L. Dodge as
Chairman, and sixteen other promi-
nent and respectable gentlemen of San
Francisco, will afford the capitalists
and business men of that city an op-
portunity to show their appreciation
of this great meeting of many thous-
ands of the observing, thinking and
talking men and women from the
other side of the Rockies and the ben
eft to California and San Francisco to
flow from it.
In the meantime, and to meet the
expenses already upon the committee
and constantly increasing-current
expenses, rent, fuel, gas, stationery,
printing, postage, expressage, tele-
graphing, telephone and messenger
service, clerical work, etc.-each
county and city superintendent in the
State has been appointed Chairman
of local finance committee, himself
to appoint tho others, from two to five
to solicit contributions within his
jurisdiction, and transmit the same as
collected, to the Treasurer, James w.
Auucts sun, superintendent VI OCuoolS,
San Francisco.
1t is asked that the committees be
literally met in this call; the distinct
understanding being that no further
demand will at any time be made by
any one, for this committee, upon the
cities and counties outside of San
Francisco. Let this contribution,
therefore, be liberal one, such as
you are willing to have stand recorded
as the ultimate measure of your ap-
probation and help in this direction.
Organ Recital.
At the First Baptist Church this ev-
ening will be given an organ recital
by Prof. John G. Dunster. of London,