The record-union., 1897-07-05
Christian EndeaVor COlors Mingle
With the Stars and Stripes.
San Francisco's Broad Area Is a Sea OF
C00rS.
All the Buildings Covered and
Notices of Welcome Every
where-AIl Arrangements for
Reception of Visitors Perfected
What the Visitors Are Doing
on the Route from the East.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.-The
broad area of this city is sea of col
ors. the decorative ribbons of the
Christian Endeavor Societies, the stars
and stripes and the bunting hung up
in honor of the National holiday, float
ing with the breeze, in mingling waves
of blue and gold, purple and white,
with the motto of the young peoples
organization displayed on every hand.
From the ferries to the outermost civic
limits by the Golden Gate, buildings.
both public and private, business
houses and residences, are covered
with variegated colors and with in
scriptions of welcome. The grand arch
on Market street is the most conspic-
uous of all the decorations. With its
thousands of electric lights, illuminat-
ing the many colors of its adornment,
from each feature of which a grand
welcome fairly blazes, the hospitality
of which it is the demonstration,
should go far to compensate the trav-
elers for the weariness of an overland
train in summer.
The advance guard of the Christian
Endeavor delegates who arrived in this
city yesterday received few additions
to their numbers this morning. Prob
ably the total number of to-day's early
arrivals did not exceed 400. By to-
morrow, however, they will be coming
in on every train and boat, and late
this evening or early tomorrow ten
special trains, containing eighty-five
cars and 2127 passengers. will arrive
over the Southern Pacific from the
Santa Fe alone. Several distinguished
delegates are already here, including
John Willis Baer, General Secretary of
the organization, who came in this
morning and Tamil Evangelist David
of Ceylon, who has made the trip from
his Cingalese home specially to attend
the convention. From now until the
close of the convention the Reception
Committee, which numbers LOCO, will
meet train and boat and escort the Wis
iting delegates to the convention head
quarters in the Mechanics Pavilion.
In order to avoid the Inconvenience
that would attend the assigning to
quarters of delegates arriving in the
city after midnight, arrangements
have been made with the railroad COM
pany whereby no trains will come in
later than IL p. m. or earlier than 4:40
a. m. Such trains as would under or
Urinary circumstances lalQ passengers
in San Francisco between these hours
are to be sidetracked on the other side
of the bay. The passengers will re-
main on board until the regular local
trains begin to run, when they will be
transferred and carried through on the
locals.
The street car companies will run
cars from the ferries during the con-
vention at an earlier hour than usual
beginning at daybreak every morning
This arrangement will put the Recep-
tion and Registration Committees to
the necessity of being on duty from )
O'Clock in the morning until after mid
night. To attend properly to the re-
ception and registration of the visitors
the committee will be divided into
three watches, each to stand six or
seven hours duty each day.
The railroad company is at a loss to
find accommodations for all the cars
that will arrive this week. They ex-
pect to have the yard at West Oakland
filled to its utmost capacity as well as
every available side track between
Oakland and Niles and Port Costa
Over 450 Pullman cars are expected.