The San Francisco call., 1897-07-07

strip the travellers vehicle of ropes, etc.,
and ANYTHING that could be used as SOU
venirs
The Los Angeles and Southern Califor-
MIA Endeavorers arrived in two sections,
one reaching the mole at 500 and the
other a 3:3) The first train consisted OF
eleven coaches, with over 800 excursion
lists Endeavorers from the Emanuel
Baptist Church of Los Angeles filled two
coaches. the Or,ega and Quieto, which
had been gayly decorated with palms and
bunting. The 220 delegates in the six
coaches of the second section, comprised
a delega ton of forty-eight from Pasadena
and sixty-eight from Riverside and San
Bern ardino County.
Few OF the Endeavorers at the m ole
were aware of an unfortunate accident
which occurred about the time of the
arrival OF the Los Angeles trains. Frank
McQuoid, a Wells Fargo employe at the
mole, WAS struck by the Oakland local as
it was backing into It's place. HIS left
arm was broken and he was cut about the
head and face. He was taken on the next
local train to the Oakland Receiving Hos
pital, where his injuries were attended TO.
Even before the rush of special trains in
the evening an immense amount of bag
gage had been received. AT 4 O'Clock over
1900 pieces of baggage hao been trans
ferred from the trai ms to the erryboats.
An extra force of porters and truckmen
kept The baggage from piling up to any
manageable extent.
Seven coaches bearing visitors from
Vermont and ST. Louis pulled in at 5 :45.
The majority of the passengers, 157 in
mum ber belonged to an excursion party
from St. Louis, organized by w. H. Nc
Lean. Three score OF Vermonters made
up the trainload.
The first section of the monster delega-
ton of 1900 which Iowa will send arrived
at 6:25 There were seven coaches with
247 excursionists, all but a dozen or so be-
ing Iowans.
They wore blue ribbon badges with
medals bearing pictures of a hawks head,
which proclaimed them on sight as repre-
sentatives from the Hawkeye State. This
train and the other two sections of the
Iowa excursion were all under direction
OF State President A. D. Ringer of the
Iowa Christian Endeavorers
Nine of the twelve coachloads which
Nebraska will send arrived at Z 40 O'Clock.
Two hundred of the 300 delegates were
on it, A. ID. Harmon. the Ner taska State
president. was In charge.
The me bers of the party, all of whom
wore bright red ribbon badges, declared
that they had had an unusually enjoy a lie
trip, as Manager A. d. Stiles of the Union
Pacific had come all the way throug h
with them. With the Nebraskans came
one coach filled with Philadelphians, a
second coach from the Quak City having
been left be hind at Sacramento.
Between 7:40 and 9:20 the only arrivals
were a coupe OF locals, which brought
only scattering bands OF Endeavorcrs
The mem bers of the reception committee
at the mole enlivened the dull hour by
Staging a number of Endeavorer hymns
Even the busy tralnmen stopped to listen
to the melodious choruses as they re-
echoed to the ralters of the vast depot
A party of San Jose politicians arrived
on the train from Niles to take the Oregon
express. They are going off for hunting
and fishing trip in Oregon, and they ere
dressed in full mountain ering regalia.
Some OF the fair members OF the receipt on
com mittee at the mole and mistook them
for Endeavorers and overwhelmed them
with welcomes.
The party included Judge W. A. Lori
gan, Assem- blvman NJ. E. Arnerich, j. H.
Freyschleg. Harry Piummer, ex- District
Attorney Y. A. Scheller, Clement Argues
and Arthur l. Jrigan, all OF San Jose.
The regular Ogden express pulled in at
S:35. There were only bout thirty scat
tered Endeavorers from Ala bama, inGi-
ana and Wyoming on board.
A private excursion, com posed Of prom
inent Philadelphans, came with the train
in special Pullman, chartered by Dr. G.
Nicholson and Mrs. Rebecca Nicholson OF
Philadelphia The party came by the
c., B. and @ to Denver, thence by the
Rio Grande 10 Ogden. A run was made
10 Salt Lake from OGDEN. There are
thirty-seven in the party, and after stop
ping here for five days thev will go to Del
Monte, and after touring all over the Stale