The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
A Luxurious Special Train Will
Speed Along With Flags
and Banners.
BANQUET BEFORE THE START.
The Tippecanoe Club of Ohio Will
Whoop a Welcome and Act
as Escort.

1t is now son to st. Louis with the
Republican leaders.
Between now and June IL the National
Convention will absorb the political in
terest OF the party in this State. Its pros
poets and the preparations for 1t will be
watched with close attention, and little
connected with local and State Republican
affairs will develop until the convention
meets and then let's the campaign break
like storm.
Those who expect to go to the conven-
ton are particularly interested as well in
the arrangements for the trip, which are
actively under way by the direction of Dan
T. Cole, John d. Spreckels and o. A. Hale,
the committee having them in charge, and
Allen B. Lennon of Santa Rosa, secretary
of the delegation.
The California delegation and a crowd
of friends will rush to st. Louis in superb
style. The special train that will start
from the Oakland mole on June IL will be
the most luxurious and magnificent one
that ever bore eastward a party of Cali
fornia representatives. 1t VIII be made up
of cars belonging to the Sunset Limited
service, new, richly furnished and decor
ated and provided with all that present
dav ingenuity has devised to increase
the luxury of modern railway travel.
The special train will be made up of the
necessary baggage cars, combination car
containing barber shop, Longing room,
library, etc.. a dining car well stocked and
four or five sleepers. all as fine as the
finest which car builders have made.
The train will proclaim its iden tlty in
striking but tasteful decorations. On each
side of the first car will stretch banner of
canvas four feet wide and sixty-three feet
long. In the center portrait OF Mckinley
will appear surrounded with decorative
designs, and those who see the train will
read: California delegation to the Re-
publican Convention, St. Louis, 1885,"
Along the full length of that side of the
second car will stretch a similar banner
bearing Protection to American Indus
tries % with at one end a bear and at the
other a picture of the Golden Gate with
symbolic figures in the foreground. Amer
lean flags on the engine and two on the
front of each car will further deck the
train with peculiar appropriateness.
The delegation vi Il have made an ex-
ceptionaily rich banner to be carried in
the streets and displayed at the head
quarters. Over $500 worth of rich silk,
gold and skilled labor will go into the
making of it.
All the delegates are expected to gather
in San Francisco on the 10th and on that
evening they will be banqueted by the
Union League Club.
The tram will depart at 10 A. NJ. of
Thursday, the 18th of June, and proceed
to St. Louis by special and fast time over
the Central Pacific, Rio Grande Western,
Denver and Rio Grande and the Burling-
ton routes. The itinerary shows that Ogden
will be reached at P. NJ, June II. Denver
at IL 80 P. NJ, June Ii, and st. Louis at
$3.50 A. M, Monday, June 10.
At the depot the delegates will be met
by the Tippecanoe Club of Ohio with
pomp, music and Joy, and then will the
California delegation dive into the gayety,
thinking of the Republican National Con-
vention.
Headquarters at the Southern will soon
be reached. The California headquarters
Will be one of the prominent and valuable
ones, the MUSHROOM OF fhe Southern, forty
by seventy-tive feet in size, having been
engaged. Many of the Californians have
already engaged quarters at the Southern
and others at the Lindell.
The delegation is not going with any
cheap hurrah and will not dispense Cali
fornia wines with the discrimination
that has been seen. There will not be
California wine and fruit for all the mob
that can crowd into the headquarters. No
carloads of these refreshments will be
taken along, but there Will be a supply
sufficient to enable the delegates to show
pleasing measure of California hospital
ity to such friends and acquaintance as
they may choose to invite as guests.
The fare for the round trip is $67 so and
tickets will be good for thirty days. The
Californians will return by regular trains
at their convenience. Berths on the
special train will be SIS for the trip to st.
Louis.
Those having the arrangements in hand
are especially urgent that delegates, alter
mates and their friends who propose to go
communicate at once with Secretary Allen
b. Lennon at Santa Rosa that quarters
Louis may be reserved, and that it may be
known at once how many and who will
make up the party on the special train.
1t appears now that all of the eighteen
delegates will go together with many alter
mates and other prominent Republicans
and their friends.