The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-27
TRAVELLING MEMS HOLIDAY
Benefit at the Columbia for the
Commercial Mems ASSo.
citation.
The Proceeds of the Entertainment
Will Be Added to the Relief
Fund.

The knights of the road will own the
| Columbia Theater this evening.
Fannie Rice will play to crowded
house, composed exclusively Of members
and friends of the Pacific Coast CONNER
cial Travellers Association. Besides the
fun Of the evening the jolly fraternity ex-
poets to realize from the entertainment a
sum equal to the proceeds of the previous
annual benefits, Scheel's concert last year,
"Ali Bahia" at the Grand and the Baldwin
benefit in 1892, all netting over $1,000.
Tickets were issued to the members early
this month and the boxoffice sale Friday
last was a speedy one, all the lower floor
having been sold in half an hour. The
price of tickets was 81 for any seat in the
house.
The proceeds will be added to the death
be nefit," which entities the relatives of a
deceased member to $780, or the relief
fund in general, for the aid of members
VINO are IN temporary straits, such help
ranging, according to needs, from S. 10 $l5
week.
Since the association was incorporated,
| July 10, 1891, help has been extended to
| 700 persons and ten death benefits have
been paid. The present membership is
$50 and the sum in the treasury $4,000. Any
Pacific Coast traveller of good moral
character is eligible to membership, ac-
cording to the constitution. The mem bers
comprise half of the number of commercial
men on the coast.
A prominent member said yesterday
that the association had experimental
knowledge Of the adage that in union is
strength.
"Our requests for concessions from
transportation and transfer lines and
hotels receive respectful attention be-
cause they come from strong organ
ization," he said 1--WE have secured
mileage books from every road in the
State except the Donahue line, which will
| be issued on the first of the year. We be-
| lieve that membership in our associa-
ton gives prestige to ourselves and the
| houses we represent. We secure the adj
| vantages without the disadvantages of
| trades unionism."
Tomorrow evening the association will
hold its annual high jinks at B'nai Birth
Hall.
THAT will be the one evening in the
year when our wives won't like u.s." said
| the chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee seriously.
| "They have peculiar aversion to our
staying out all night, you know"
But the secretary promptly renewed his
confrere's courage by saying: But We'll
get them in a good humor by taking
them to the benefit tonight, and We'll
tell them about the one that's coming
next year. Then, you see, we will all be
so happy when we get home that we won't
care if they don't like us"
| W.. J. Barrett is the president, A. G.
Boldemann secretary and Sig Heller treas
urer while the board of directors con-
sists of: S. H. Heller, r. IL. Davis, S. K.
Thornton, w. +. Peterson, G. Eubanks,
| B. L. Schlff, 3. Galland and H. l.. Judell.
! The committees are as follows:
Auditing and finance committees. NJ
| Heller (chairman), H. L. Judell, B. Galland.
| Railroad committee-R. H Davis (chairman)
T. Veach w. f. Peterson.
! Employment committees. K. Thornton
| (chairman), A. c. Boldemann Secretary, R
| b. Iaidlaw, Cal Eubanks, w. f. Peterson.
Relief committee-A +. Wheaton (chairman)
| B. Galland w. f. Peterson, S. K. Thornton, &
| K. Savage.
| Literary committee-H. L. Judell (chairman)
| R. H. Davis, S. NJ. Heller.
Printing committee-B. Galland chairman
| T. Veach, c. EubanKs.
| Entertainment committee - r. H. Davis
| (chairman) w. f. Peterson, w. B. Forman
| Felix Cohn, Nate Jacobs, b. Galland, H. L.
| Judell, A. Well, r. Veach. r. d. Laidlaw, S. K
| Thornton, w. A. Bernheim.
| Headquarters committee-B. Galland CHAIR
MANI A.C. Boldemann, C. Eubanks, Ii. L. Judell
| r. d. Laidlaw.