The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
The Town and All 1t Contains
Surrendered to the
Invaders.
EFFEY's HAPPY GREETING.
Requests the Visitors to Take Any
thing He May Have Forgotten
to Turn Over to Them.

com mercldl travellers SpeCldl excursion
train had the right of way on the broad
gauge to-day and ran from San Francisco
to Santa Cruz in three hours and ten
minutes.
The travellers and their companions,
numbering altogether $50, did not permit
the speed of the train to check the current
of hilarity. On muslin banners stretched
the length of the car were such notices as
''You can josh US this time, "We are out
for pleasure and not for business" "Santa
Cruz is o K, and so are we, at times"
water carnival we will have at Santa
Cruz" "When we are gone write US if
your time will permit" and ''Draw on US
at sight and we will remit-our thanks"
The car decorations were inspired by
"Billy' Bernheim and Sig Heller.
Colonel W. n. Mention of the Southern
Pacific had the excursion in charge and
felt elated when he saw the Monterey ex-
cursion sidetracked to give him room to
run fast.
When the train arrived at Santa Cruz the
travellers filed out. The landau with
four blacks" and other vehicles conveyed
the ladies to the Ocean House. The men
marched with the Hastings band, Mayor
Effey and Director r. H. Davis leading the
column. From the balcony of the Pacific
Ocean House the Mayor welcomed the
tourists in happy speech. Said he:
Ny friends, 1 have been scheduled, accord
ing to programme, TO make an address of well
come, and have been wondering all the way
down on the train what am here for. well
come of Santa Cruz to the commercial travel
ers seems to me superfuous. We know you all
so well, and you know US all, it seems alto
gether like SEINE of our own boys coming home
so there is nothing left to say but come in and
make yourselves at home"
These are the reasons why some of us do not
like TO see you here at all: You come down
here during the of season and work off on us all
the old-time chestnuts you have heard on the
road; you take all our money in the way of
orders that we don't like to give and win all
the pretty girls of the town away from some
OF US that have aspirations in that direction.
In fact, your worthy president, now at my right
is the chief offender in that way, in having
taken away from us for good one of the fairest
blossoms of Santa Cruz. These are some of the
reasons why we don't care to see you in Santa
Cruz.
sAnd yet, with all your faults, If you have any,
We love you still. Evan with the nstilI' some
of US may have brought with u.s.
Z To the casual observer the crummers life is
always a happy one, and one continual round
of pleasure. But TO those who have travelled
from the hot sands of Alaska to the frigid shores
of Patagonia; who have faced death in the
dining halls of our leading hotels and walked
with unblanched cheeks to the railroad lunch
counter-those of you who understand all these
and kindred vicissitudes know that tourist
life is not happy one; and knowing this and
not unmindful, further, of the fact that you are
all here on pleasure bent and not for the pur-
pose of working of chestnuts on us or "pulling
our legs'' for an order, we extend the glad hand
and open heart of welcome, and hope that your
short stay may be pleasant to you in all re-
spects as feel sure 1t will be to the citizens of
the City of the Holy Cross.
have only to add that the city is yours. If
1 should inadvertently have omitted this little
formelity, know you would take 1t anyway,
ana If you happen to see anything you want
that have not mentioned, just ask for it OF
work your hypnotic power on US and you will
get it just the same.
Speaking on behalf of our people, can only
say that we are more pleased to have you with
us than any feeble efforts of mine can convey,
and we hope that you viii return to your
homes and labors with a sincere conviction
that your stay has been pleasant one.
The Mayors speech was hailed with
tumultuous applause by the audience. In
response W. J. Barrett, president of the
association, said:
Honorable Mayor and Citizens of Santa Cruz
With your characteristic generosity YOU have
seen fit to bestow an invitation upon the mem
bers of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travellers
Association to partake of that hospitality
which has made Santa Cruz famous. Commu-
mites have distinctive traits as individuals.
and of the features of Santa Cruz none is more
prominent than hospitality.
President Barrett paid tribute to the
enterprise of Santa Cruz, saying that in
this respect it was one of the foremost
cities on the Pacific Coast. He also spoke
of the natural charms of the city, men
tioning that the commercial travellers,
knowing every section of the country, are
8 recommendation to any place they select
for holiday making. He returned thanks
to the citizens and also thanked the South
ern Pacific Railroad for courtesies ex-
tended.
az would like Also" said President Bar
rett, s'to express feeling of friendship
which the association entertains for the
San Francisco CALL. We regard it as the
foremost and most enterprising journal on
the Pacific Coast"
The sentiment called forth applause.
Three cheers for the CALL were proposed,
and the vast audience responded with
three rousing hurrahs.
AT o'clock the travellers had the town
and the town donkey, and were holding
both in good style. The event of the night
was the ball in honor of the commercial
tourists at the Ocean House. The decora-
tons were elaborate and beautiful.
Among the travellers and others attend
ing are:
Sanford E. Seller, R. M. Mcnamara, Thomas
F. MullIn, w. F. Hobson, r. w. Rupee, A. Wal
braith and wife, John sroup, ]. ]. Dunn, E. M.
Loser, Frederick Cox ]. II. Rohr, A. d. Willis,
Jarvis Smith, L. N. Tryon and wife, Frank P.
Pinkham and wife, Miss l.. Henberg, Miss s.
Henberg, Herbert Bigler, Mrs. Warren Bigler,
Charles Vescelius and wife, T. E. McShane and
wife, G. C. Griffith and wife, T. E. Dunn, George
C. Shurtleff, F. T. Barlow, A. C. Bildemann and
wife, Martin Eisenbaeh, w. F. Petersen,
John Phair, ]. H. Frost George w.
Harris, E. w. Crysier, sigmund NJ. Heller,
Eate Mayer, ]. C. Eubanks, S. F. Thorn, C.
Jarvis and wife, Ed Owens, Thomas Keogh,
Alpine Kelly, G. c. Grifiths and wife, Thomas
Kenny and daughter, ]. Goodfriend WILDER F.
Knapp, Oscar Boldeman, J. Marcuse, Max
Goldsmith, Alex L. We'll, Ed Lowenberg, C. B.
Sedeewick e. NJ. Fraser, Colonel w. H. Mention,