The herald., 1895-09-07
IA FIESTA OF NEXT YEAR
The Annual Celebration Is Now
Positively Assured
JOINT MEETING LAST NIGHT
Of tie Three Organizations Which Will
Control the Affair
To Be Held Under the Auspices of the Cham
he of Conn Roard of Trade au6
JOINT MEETING LAST NIGHT
To Be Held Under the Auspices of the Cham
Der of Commerce, Board OF Trade ana
the nerchants' Association

bne Cndm Der OF com merCe, buo uOdEi OI
trade and the Merchants association.
held at the chamber OF commerce. last
night, brought out an enthusiastic gath
ering and resulted in a good beginning
towards next years Fiesta. Charles
Foreman, first vice. president of the
chamber of commerce, was chosen chair
man of the meeting, and Gregory Per-
klns, jr., secretary.
In the unavoidable absence OF W. c..
Patterson, president of the Los Angeles
chamber Of commerce. the following let
ter from him was read:
81 regret that previous engagement mt
which l could not break prevents my at
tendance at the meeting tonight, but as
the presiding officer of one of the organi-
cations to which the Fiesta is committed,
and az Citizen having the best inter-
ests of the under taking at heart. | beg to
offer few opinions as to the method OF
managing next years Fiesta for what
ever thev may be worth. and in the hope
that this letter may not be thought an
ODtrusive contribution to the discussion.
'At the last gathering of the com mercial
organizations | expressed the pelief that
the Fiesta did not need a director gen.
| eral and could be more quietly and easily
| to five business men. one of whom-the
| secretary-shouid be the active executive
| officer of the enterprise. My friend. Mr..
Meyb berg, does not agree with me in this,
and his opinion is entitled to great
weight, owing to the success with which
| he has managed previous Fiestas.
| "Other public work. however, has been
| done in this city besides and before the
| Fiestas, and it has been successfully done
without investing any one person with
| absolute and exclusive authority.
"Of course great care must be exercised
| in the selection OF the three or five peo-
| pie who are to have the active manage
ment. 1t will not do to jump at them off
| handed, and for that reason | would rec
ommend that they be not chosen at aEv
public meeting where the qualifications
of the various people and their capacity
to work well together cannot be frankly
| canvassed. larger committee than hive
would be unwieldy and awkward, but in
order to interest the largest possible
| ber of people, there should be an ad
visory body of from twenty TO thirty. l
do not think that it would be wise to
| make this larger committee up directly
from the combined boards. as We. or
most OF us, are already too much invnlveu
| in public work. This larger committee
| could itself be enlarged by the formation
| of a mum Der of subcommittee. of which
! members of the advisory board could be
| made chairmen. In this way one hum
| dred and fifty or two hundred people
| might be drawn into the undertaking.
| the more the better.
| LET the general advisory board be
made the unit, so to speak, from which
you can figure to both the larger and the
smaller bodies-thus: Suppose it is de-
cided ton light that this advisory board
pointed from eacn body, or by each body,
as some may be appointed from the peo-
| pie at large. These selections should not
| be made hastily, but should be com pleted
| within the next week. Then this ad
visory board should. with due care. select
| its executive committee, or committee of
management, consisting of three or five
| persons, all of them good men pledged to
| stay with the work. This committee
| should meet at least once week, whereas
| the advisory board need not gather
oftener than once month.
LAS to the taking into The original
council representatives of trades unions,
| Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias,
| G.. A. r. and A.P.A A. organizations. etc.,
as has been suggested by some, while it
seems to me wise to gain the cooperation
| of all societies interested in the welfare
of the city, yet 1t would probably make
| the original organization too big and
| cum bersome were this attempted. In my
| judgment the active management had
better be restricted to the three com mer-
cial bodies. Later on | see no reason why
we may not call upon all the various as
sociatiOns to help in the various depart
ments of the work.
Il consider the inauguration and sue
cessful conclusion of the Fiesta of 1896 of
vital interest to the city of Los Angeles
and its environs. l therefore implore
those who may be present at the meeting
tonight to give the occasion the benefit
of their most cool and deliberate judg-
ment.
Il feel sure that the con- mon interest
which every gentleman present will feel
toward the enterprise will allow none
but the wisest counsels to prevail.
communication was then read from
Hancock Banning, president OF the Man
ufacturers' association, containing a
copy of resolutions passed by that body,
pledgins its hearty support and express
ing its Willingness to cooperate in max
ing the next Fiesta a grand success.
Similar letters were received from other
organizations. but they were not at hand
and could not, therefore. be read.
Several stated that their associations
would collect funds from their mem bers
and thus save the Fiesta committee that
Inconvenience.
Major Furrey made brief speech,
ferrng to the objects of the meeting ana
concluded by moving that 1T be eX-
pressed as the sense of the joint meeting
that La Fiesta he celebrated in 1896, and
that it be held under the auspices of the
three associations there represented. The
motion was carried by an unanimous
vote.
The consideration OF the advisability of
having director general and of arrang-
ing for executive and advisory commit
tees to manage the coming carnival was
then taken up and speeches were made
by j. o. Koepfi. Il. f. G. Klokke, Major
Furrey, Max Mey berg, J. S. Salkey, Mr..
Bluett and others.
A difference of opinion was expressed
as to the manner of dlsposing of the man
agement of the Fiesta-some holding that
it was unnecessary 10 have a director
general, while others thought it best to
follow the precedent of former festivals
and eject one man who should be the
governing head. The latter opinion APP
peared to he the most generally shared
in but the settlement of the matter was
left to the committee of thirty, which
Will be appointed by the presidents of
the three organizations, ten members to
come from each. Upon the suggestion of
II. Jevne recommendation was made
that such committee be appointed and
given full power to act upon all matters
pertaining to arrangement of La Fiesta
of '96.
Charles Foreman, in speaking of the
favorable beginning which had been
made. said that it might be we'll to start
with the understanding and determIna-
ton that subscriptions be made before
the first Of the year so that the fiesta
committee might know how much money
they would have to work WITH and might
devote their attention to the i'm portant
details of arranging for the celebration.
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