The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22
A NOVEL EXPERIENCE.

vention be held at San Francisco the dele
gates will be treated to an experience
altogether novel in the history of National
conventions. This will be not only the
generous hospitality which the visitors
will receive in all parts of the State. but
also the peculiar and delightful character
of their entertainment. We are all familiar
with the disagreeable commonplace at
tending the private and social features of
such conventions held in other parts of
the country. These consist solely in
scramble for hotel accommodations and
in speedy return home after the ad-
journment.
The experience in California would be
altogether different. Besides the unaided
pleasure of simply seeing strange and
beautiful country with natural, social and
industrial conditions utterly unlike those
to be seen in any other part of the Union
and singularly attractive in themselves,
will be the enjoyment of hospitality
such es no other State has any reason or
inclination to extend. A better under
standing of it's character may be had from
a statement of the manner in which it
will be exercised and the peculiar delights
which will be the incidents of its ex-
preston.
Long before the convention will have add
journed, and possibly even before it has
bled, representatives of the various
sections OF the State VIII have agreed upon
plans for the entertainment Of the visitors.
The outcome of this will be arrangements
for the free transportation of the visitors
all over the State on some agreed system
of distribution, the wishes of the visitors
themselves of course being consulted. Let
US for example follow the course of the
party which will be taken over the Coast
Division of the Southern Pacific Company.
They will first be stopped at the Stanford
University, which will be revelation;
they will see the splendid homes of the
millionaires along the line and part of
the wealth of the Santa Clara Valley as
represented by its vineyards and orchards.
AT San Jose they will be quartered at the
best hotels without charge, and then the
royal hospitality of the residents will come
into full play. The visitors will be given a
reception by the citizens. gorgeous
floral display will be made. Carriages will
be on hand to convey the delegates to the
great Lick Observatory on Mount Hamil-
ton and through many of the thousands of
orchards and vineyards that carpet the
valley. The strangers will be shown where
wine is made and stored, and at every turn
its good flavor will be freely and abundantly
in evidence. They will see olive orchards
and great fruit-drying and fruit-canning
establishments, and many fascinating in
dustries entirely novel to their experience.
After seeing all these things the party
will be taken further south. The unique
sugar-beet industry, which is conducted on
so large a scale at jacksonville, will be in
spected, and the trip will end at Monterey,
the quaint, beautiful, historical old Span
ish town which gave birth to California's
constitution, and which has the Hotel del
Monte and charming variety of other at
fractions.
At whatever town the train may halt
the citizens will turn out with offerings of
hospitality. The train will be loaded with
wine, fruit and flowers, banquets and bar
becues will be given and every other thing
done that can express hearty good-fel-
lowship based on prosperity and gener-
Gus desire that all others might be able to
enjoy the bounties that abound in the
homes and lives of Californians.
This is but one of the numerous itinera-
erary will have it's own distinctive charms,
for each will bring to view some strange
condition, scene or industry that is pecu-
liarly it's own, and each will be accompa-
MED by that hearty hospitality for which
Californians have unique distinction.
In Southern California the leading men
and women of Los Angeles, San Diego, San
Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and other
cities of similar Importance will take the
visitors in hand. In the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys similar steps will be
taken, and all over the State there will be
Joy and jubiiation in honor of the strangers
within our gates.
If these reasons-and we have even
weightier ones to present hereafter-are
not an inducement we have a small under
standing Of human nature and OF the value
which it rightly ascribes to good-fellowship
and wholesome pleasure.