The San Francisco call., 1899-07-14

Tomorrow Stockton delegates will be III
charge.
The rush for tickets to see the Chinese
theatrical performance is very great. AS
teachers are being complimented by the
entert ainment committee at no cost they
are admonished to apply early for tick
cts. The troupe will arrive on Saturday
and will parade through the city escorted
by a delegation of prominent local China
Visiting teachers are taking every op-
portunity to view the adjacent places of
interest This morning four carloads went
to Mount Lowe and four tally-hO parties
visited San Gabriel and Pasadena. over
200 went to Redondo to enjoy the bathing
and fishing. The Terminal Railroad
carried several hundred to the Terminal
Island and Long Beach. The people of
Long Beach are keeping open house and
welcome the teachers with hospitality
party of 1S0 was taken over the kite
shaped track by the Santa Fe. The party
visited Redlands enjoyed the beauties of
Smiley Heights and was dined at the
Casa Iona. Later two hours were passed
in viewing the orange groves at Riverside.
Up to noon to-day the joint ticket office
of the general headquarters had stamped
1000 tickets. and the railroad agents esti-
mated that about 1000 more were still un-
stamped This would make a sale of
$4,000 tickets including Eastern and local
tickets, disposed of by railroads. The
local tickets comprise those that were sold
west Of Ell Paso and Albuquerque and
south of Portland.
Mrs. Hopkins, who has had the expert
ence of five previous meetings of the
National Educa tional Association, to-day
said that so far 10000 memberships had
been issued and that at least 2500 would
follow before the close of the season.
Taking these two official figures of stamp
| ing tickets and of issuing memberships
| as basis of calculation, the total at
tendance in Los Angeles for this National
Educational Association session will fall
below 1900, but will exceed the Denver
meeting by several thousand as the capt.
tai of the Centennial State entertained at
the session of 1897 little over IL 900 dele
gates.
The delegates from among the Chicago
teachers, who are all members of the Chi
| cago Teachers Federation, held session
2 O'Clock until $3.50 p. m. The meeting was
| called for the purpose of taking steps to-
ward the formation of a national teach
ers federation on the lines of the Chicago
organization. President Catherine Cog
gin of the Chicago Federation was elected
chairman to serve until a permanent or
ganization is effected, and Miss Margaret
Haley was elected secretary to serve for
the same time.
r. c. Baner, the national supervisor of
Indian schools. said to-day: Il consider
this gathering of Indian instructors the
greatest success we have ever had and a
great compliment to Miss Estelle Reel S
astuteneSS in selecting Los Angeles as the
place for our meeting" In speaking of
the Indian outlook he said: THE out
look with regard to Indians is that in
very short time there will be no Indians
in the usual sense of the word, for all will
be patriotic American citizens. The girls
will make civilized homes for the boys,
and the boys will be ready to carry the
muskets behind the stars and the stripes. "
Tomorrow will wind up the business of
the regular session. The evening general
session will include an address on The
Usefulness of the University" by David
Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stan
ford Junior University.