The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-25

the delegates who We're too late to pro-
cure them are apt to make things inter
esung for the umbrella brigade if the rain
continues.
The Natives feel that they have entered
upon a new era i'm their knowledge of
their State in coming to Salinas. Here
tofore the Grand Parlor has explored the
mining districts, where the still uneX-
hauSted wealth of CALIFORNIA; famous
gold mines could be adequately studied;
has looked into the forgotten past and
uuearthed the secrets Of another and
older dynasty, as it were, among the
Spanish CalifOrnians Of San Luis Obispo,
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; has
made estimates in businesslike WaV
from actual observation of the great grain
output Of the San Joaquin. and the fruit
producing capacity Of the Santa Clara
Valley, has calculated to an inch the
amount OF timber that could be taken out
of each tree in the wonderful redwood
forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains and
has talked wisely with the savants Of
Stanford great university at PalO Alto,
so that California is well nigh an open
book to her enthusiastic Native Sons.
one chapter however, remained TO be
Conned-a chapter outlined and largely
filled IN by the enterprise of the Pacific
Coast s famous sugar KING, Claus Spreck-
els, and completed into one Of the most
interesting portions of the States his
tory by the energy OF the people of the
Nt4nas Nallcv-tbat chapter which re
lates to the beet-sugar industry Of the
State. This phase of the commonwealth
them here in the center of the immense
reproducing section and their visit to-
day to the nearly completed Spreckels
sugar factory, the largest in the world,
has helped to Undue them with the con-
victiOn that the sugar beet industry will
be TO the California of the future what
the gold mines were to the California of
the past.
The man Of all others to whom is due
the credit Of presenting the development
OF this phase of the States industry TO
the Natives is p. +. Zabala, chairman OF
the present executive committee a promi-
nent figure in the political world Of
Monterey County and eX-District At
tOTney Of the county. He ii was whose
energies succeeded in bringing the Grand
Parlor TO Salinas, and he it is who has
spared neither time nor money to make
the present week the most successful in
the organizations history.
The delegates were resplendent with
badges this morning despite the rain
playing as many as six or eight, while
the breasts of "A few, grand officers and
other officials, were literally covered with
ribbons, pins and buttons. The official
badge for delegates is especially notable
and appropriate to the scene of action
Il is an eight-inch white ribbon with gold
fringe and pin representing the Amer
lean eagle holding the nations flag. On
the badge is a large sugar beet i'm the
natural colors, in the center of the foliage
or which Is a small button bearing
tory. The lettering, in red and blue at
the top and bottom, is Grand ParIor n.
5. g. W. Santa Lucia Parlor No 81, n.
s. G. w, Salinas City, Cal, 1899. while
across the center of the beet is the word
delegates" in yellow
An amusing incident was witnessed
when a sudden heavy shower descended
in the midst Of one number of the con-
cert programme being rendered bv the
Fifth Regiment Band of San Jose The
musicians were seated in the open hand
stand and when the rain came upon them
they rushed wildly for shelter blowing
as they went. Reaching the interior of
an adjacent building, they finished their
piece without having lost a single note
The opening business session of the
Grand Parlor occupied nearly all the
morning. The work was particularly
notable from the fact that the early his
Monterey, the old capital city. its historic
Cotton Hall and other buildings figure
prominently in the secret work of the
Native Sons organization. and this being
the first time a Grand Parlor has ever
convened in Monterey County, these