The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12
EASTERN GUESTS
OF CALIFORNIA,
Hotel Men En- Route to Los
Angeles on Special
Trains.
TOUR OF THE STATE,
The Strangers Will Visit Santa
Barbara During the Floral
Festival.
COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Red ands, Santa Monica, Riverside
and Pasadena to Assist in the
COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Red ands, Santa Monica, Riverside
and Pasadena to Assist in the
Entertainment.

tuc IcpItS6llaGifC llOtci IlCil VI the States
and Territories of the Union-the MEM
bers of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit
Association of the United States and Can
| ada which will hold its seventeenth an
nual convention in Los Angeles, COM
mencing on the morning of the 14th. in
Music Hall. The delegation is fully 400
strong.
The Ohio and Indiana hotel men will
reach the city in advance of the specials
They travel in the Pullman car CIeopatra
and will arrive over the Southern Pacific
tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock. The
reception committee will meet them at
Arcade station and escort them to the
Hollenbeck. The three specials will reach
Barstow on Monday m orning at 10 O. clock
and will be met by the members of the
committee on arrangements and the re-
ception committee. There are 1OU ladies'
among the visitors, and each will be pre-
sented with basketful of choice flowers
at Barstow. Boutonnieres will be fur
nished the hotel men, and all the visitors
will receive beautiful souvenir itineraries.
The delegation will reach the city late
Monday afternoon, and the following
morning the convention will assemble.
AiS 1iOtSi i1OiiSACCCh VIII NC the Ded0-
quarters for the visitors. Last niqht q
force of men was busy decorating the
lobby OF the house with greenery and
flags, and to-day the effect is most pleas
ing. The committee of arrangements con-
sists OF George w. Lynch of the Hotel
Florence of San Diego, chairman; A. C.
Blllcke OF the Hollenbeck, this city, secre-
tary and treasurer; NJ. NJ. Potter of Hotel
Westminster, this city; E. S. Babcock of
Hotel del Coronado, and E. w. Caty of
Hotel Arlington, Santa Barbara.
On Monday evening there will be a re-
cep:ion at the Hollenbeck. Mayor RAIDER
Will deliver the address of welcome. The
delegates will meet at Music Hall on Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock At1P. NJ. of that
day an 'al fresco" lunch will be served on
the beautiful grounds of Judge Charles
Silent on West Adams street, whereon 1t
Is proposed to build tourist hotel, to cost
S30O,0OO. This will give the visitors an ex-
ceilent idea OF the regal setting chosen tor
Los Angeles tourist home. Ats o'clock
conveyances will be on hand for drive
through the most attractive and pictur-
esque portions of the city, including some
of the public parks. Later in the after
trains to Santa Monica
Wednesday, April 15 will be spent at
Santa Monica, where the citizens are max
Ing elaborate arrangements to entertain
the visiting hotel men. Among the amuse-
ments already outlined is a grand Spanish
tournament, including pole-tent pegging,
fitting rings, plucking the rooster, lariat-
ing will steers, etc. About the noon hour
an old-fashioned Spanish barbecue will be
served. During the afternoon there will
be series OF aquatic sports at the North
Beach bathhouse, which will be thrown
open for the free use of the visitors.
That evening the trains will leave for
Santa Barbara, carrying the strangers to
the annual flower festival, arriving there
at midnight. Breakfast will be taken on
the cars Thursday morning, April 16, after
which the forenoon Will be spent on the
beach and at other points OF interest. Fol-
lowing lunch on the train, the visitors will
proceed to the tribune built for their es-
pecial accommodation. with seats for 500.
Soon the great floral parade will take place.
followed by the battle of flowers. At 6 80
P. NJ. dinner will be served i'm the dining
cars. and the train will leave for Pasadena.
Carriages will be in waiting Friday
morning for drive in and about Pasa-
dena, including MaIengo avenue and Raw
mond Hill, where the great RAYMOND
Hotel stood; the Arroyo Seco and Alta
dena. Then the train will go to Redands.
and there the visitors will be given drive
about the celebrated Smiley Heights.
Following the drive an "Orange SUPPER
will be served in Redlands' elegant new
tourist hotel, Casa Iona, to be followed
by a concert.
On Saturday morning, April Is, the
guests of the Southern California Hotel
Association will awaken in Riverside, the
mother orange county in this sunny south
land. After breakfast they will be taken
for a drive down the famous Magnolia
avenue. The joys of "Orange day''-Riy
ersides annual fruit festival-will be par
ticipated in, following which the travellers
will once more be slowed away in their
several trains, en- route to that Mecca of
all Southern California travelers-the Ho-
tel del Coronado.
Sunday, April 49, will be spent at the
II otel del Coronado. 1t is probable there
will be services held in the spacious hotel
theater and the usual sacred concert. AS
the stay at Coronado is to be for two days.
every one will have an opportunity for
general recreation.
On Tuesday, April 81, the party will
leave Coronado for Mount Lowe, where
Tuesday night will be passed. Wednesday
morning, April 3D. breakfast will be par
taken of at the Echo Mountain House and
the early hours will be spent in exploring
tho veriOus trails therabouts Ar 10 o,o1ooI,
all will leave for Los Angeles. Immedi-
ately after Luncheon everybody will go to
the tribunes, adjoining Central Park, to
witness the fiesta parade. AT 4 p NJ.
promptly the special train will leave
the Arcade depot, via the Southern Pacific
line, Ell route to San Francisco.