The San Francisco call., 1899-07-06
COMING FIFTEEN
THOUSAND STRONG
Los Angeles the Mecca
Of Teachers.
ATTENDANCE WILL BE GREAT
ARRIVALS ARE EARLIER THAN
IN FORMER YEARS.
Each Incoming Train Brings to the
City of the Angels It's Quota
of Instructors From the
East
ARE EARLIER THAN
IN FORMER YEARS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, July 5-The school
ma ans of the nation are headed for Los
Angeles, 15 900 strong. This information
is based on the reports that from time to
time have been received at local National
Educational Association headquarters and
that are now confirmed by DR.. Irwin
Shepard, the general secretary of the
National Educational Association.
Up to the present the influx Of teachers
has beer greater for ante-COnvention
dates than at any previous period in the
history of teachers national conventions.
1t was too much to expect that the teach
ers would leave before July 4, as the pub
lie schools in many States close in the
last days of June 1t is apparent that
July has been chosen for general de-
partures from the East.
Among the prominent educators that
viii on Saturday morning arrive are Dr..
William T. Harris, United States Com
missioner of Education at Washington,
d. &C, and family; EIphalet Dram Lyte Of
Millersvile, Pa, the president of the Ma
tional Education Association, and family
/. c. Mcneil of Superior, Wis, the treas
urer of the National Education Associa-
ton, and wife; DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter of Columbia University, New York
City, and DR.. Louis Seden, superinten-
dent of the public schools OF st. Louis
This party will on Sunday be followed by
the SkidmOre and Phillips parties from
New York, New Jersey, Washington and
PnlladeIphla.
Professor Frank A. Fitzpatrick, an old
educator and who attends the annual ses-
sions OF the National Educational Asso-
citation, no matter where held, arrived
from Boston this morning. Mr.. FitZpat-
rick will have charge Of the American
Book Concerns exhibit.
Teachers and many others are now ar
irving here at the rate of about 400 a day,
and the number of visitors will grow daily
until the first day of the convention.
The Southern Pacific south-bOund train,
due at 1:20 this afternoon, was nearly four
hours late, the result of a wait st Tracy
for the ogden express, which was to bring
to Los Angeles three Pullman palace cars
and as many tourist sleepers, all filled 10
OVerfiOWing with National Educational
Association guests and their friends The
Southern Pacific will, on Friday morn
ing, bring in six Pullmans, carrying teach
ers and others from Tucson and Phoenix.
The train is due at the Arcade about $50
a. m. on July T.
To-morrow's Santa Fe overland will
bring 119 passengers, who are being
brought here in two sections. The first
train carries forty-two passengers for this
city and the second seventy-seven pas
sengers.
FOrty-fve teachers west bound spent
July 4 in the Grand Canyon. A party Of
twenty-five went into the canyon to-day.
The Santa Fe's passenger list from the
East to-day numbered 129, who came in
two sections.
The city of Cincinnati is after next
years National Educational Association
convention, and with an energy which,
unless headed off by some of the other
competitors for the distinction, bids fair
to capture the prize.