The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
Half Million Club Excursion
Leaves on Its Mission
Tomorrow.
EVERY DETAIL COMPLETE
The Whole State Is Enthusiastic
Over Movement for United
California.

teal shape and form. Tomorrow, Mon
day, AprilE15, at P. NJ, the Half-milllon
Club will drive its first train from the bay
city toward the orange land ard the fiesta.
The northern and central counties will
Join hands with the southern counties
amid common expressions of joyous good
will. In the series of excursions that will
follow the inaugural trip tomorrow, the
people of every section of the State VIII be
given royal opportunity of becoming &C
quainted with the people and the resources
of every other section.
The people are enthusiastic from one
end of California to the other. Chairman
d. NJ. Carman of the transportation COM
mittee of the Half-million Club said last
night:
The arrangements are complete in every de-
tail, and every indication is for splendid ex-
Ncursion down TO Los Angeles. We are also as
sured of eminent satisfaction for the return
excursion, and we trust that our Southern Cali
fornia friends viii come north IN numbers
even greater than now are anticipated. BY so
doing Californians will become acquainted
with each other and the denizens OF the south
may see what the central sections and the
north can show for their enlightenment and
pleasure.
This excursion will fail to accomplish the
purpose of its originatorS If ii does not serve TO
unite all sections in an aggressive effort along
various and broad lines.
Among all the suggestions that have thus lar
been made as to how San Francisco can become
q city of half million inhabitants one OF the
most important has been overlooked. No even
casual visitor to Southern California can fail
TO realize that the country south OF the Te-
hachapi Mountains, and Los Angeles in par
ticular, has been made what it is chiefly by the
influx of well-tO-do people from the East, who
have gone there not so much for the purpose
OF making money that OF finding desirable
n " themselves.
Thousands of people come from the East an
Aually into Southern California for the sole
purpose OF spending pleasant winter, and
having thus come often remain, or return for
permanent residence. Now, there is no reason
either elimatically or from a scenic or any
other standpoint why many OF the valleys sur
rounding San Francisco bay should not be
filed with Just these classes OF people. In
order to attract such, however, it is necessary
that something be done to render their stay
ipleasurable. II this movement develops as 1t
Is expected ii will series of entertainments Of
various kinds viii be insugurated, eommenc-
ing in Los Angeles in december and closing
perhaps at Santa Rosa in May of the coming
year, which will be of sufficient magnitude,
variety and interest to attract much larger
number of people to California than could
otherwise be brought here.
Millions of money are being spent in Europe
annually that should be spent in California,
the Italy of America. But even this is not the
most important suggestion that the committee
has in mind but its plans have not developed
tar enough to admit of publication.
1t is expected that the meeting OF the COM
mittee representing all parts OF the State at Los
Angeles will take action and work into definite
form many of the suggestions that are TO be
presented by the club.
The Importance of the excursion is being
more fully appreciated every day by rea-
son of the fact that the people of the in
terror recognize that it is an honest effort
on the part of the people OF San Francisco
to assist in developing the whole State
n M Of ba
committee said yesterday:
It is the first time in the history of our city
that her people have attempted anything of
this kind. San Francisco has always responded
generously in cases of disasters at other points,
but at no time have her people made the in
terests of the whole interior their own in
terests. Let me tell you that visitors from the
interior-farmers, miners, stockmen, orchard
ists-are calling on the Half-m1llion Club at
room %, Mills building, to thank the club Tor
its work, and to say that they feel encouraged
and that they want the club to understand that
its work is thoroughly appreciated.
The eXcursionlsts Will go to Los Angeles and
Santa Barbara for the purpose of having good
time, and they are prepared to compliment
those sections on their thrift, enterprise and
artistic tastes. Several San FranciScans, who
are looking after their property interests in
Los Angeles, have written TO friends in this
city to say that they stand ready to extend any
courtesy to the people from the bay.
Colonel Byrne, a popular San Francis
can, who is the owner of a business block
Just being completed in Los Angeles, has
notified Mr.. Bunker that he has made
reservation of many windows in his build
ing at the corner of Third street and
Broadway, and such windows will be at
the disposal of members of the Half-mil-
lion Club and their guests. There are
sixty-eight four-fOot windows fronting on
Broadway, and Mr.. Byrne has given the
privileges of a majority of them to the
A Cd 10 IF 7 nc AM in
der that they may reap some financial
benefit from rentals during the fiesta
The itinerary is a very attractive speci-
men of the photographic art, and it will
certainly be preserved by the recipients
not alone as memento of the occasion,
but for the historical value it will have, as
the excursion represents the opening of the
new era for California.
The badges for the excursionists, with
the legend limited California" printed in
black on yellow satin, were yesterday fin
ished and delivered to the office of the
Half-million Club.
Chairman ALI Bouyier's report on enter
tainment, which was submitted yesterday.
was simply a repetition of Mr. Bouvier's
interview published in yesterdays CALL.
O.. B. Olufs, secretary of the Fresno
Chamber of Commerce, yesterday sent in
the names of III. r. Briggs and Harry
Sherwood as delegates to the Half-million
Club committee from that city. Fresno
will be well represented at the fiesta.
President ]. A. Filcher of the California
Press Association communicated with
Chairman Bunker to the effect that he
would lay before the executive committee
of the association the matter of appointing
a committee to accompany the Half-million
Club through the northern and central
portions of the State, feeling quite sure of
favorable action in the premises.
81 beg to assure the Half-million Club, s"
concluded Mr.. Filcher, that in its labors
to unite the efforts of all Californians in
grand and patriotic movements for the
upbuilding of the State it can depend upon
the sympathy and cooperation of the Cali
fornia Press Association"
Chairman D. NJ. Carman of the trans
portation committee yesterday sent out
the following circular 20 the Mayors of
cities and interior towns along the route:
The committee is very DESTROYS that vour
representatives and as many others as possible
should join the return excursion and make
the entire circuit from Los Angeles to San
Francisco. In order to encourage this we have
succeeded in making an arrangement with the
railroad company by which special rates will
be made from all points not on the main line
to and from the nearest main line points, and
from all points on the main line round-trip
rate will be made.
If you have not already done so, wire us what
Pullman accommodations are desired by your
people, in order that the arrangements may be