Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-26
REALTY DEALERS
IN CONVENTION
VISITORS ENJOY Los ANGELES
HOSPITALITY
BEING ROYALTY ENTERTAINED
At Opening Meeting Of Delegates
Byron Erkenbreeher Urges
Thorough Organization
Throughout State
BEING ROYALTY ENTERTAINED

Hospjtality on the part Of Angelenos
and enthusiasm as a characteristic Oh
the visiting delegates were prominent
features of the opening session of the
California State Realty convention
which opened in Los Angeles yester-
day.
over 100 delegates from all the large
cities of the state, with the exception
of San Francisco, arrived in Los An
geles yesterday and half again that
number are expected to be here today.
Convention headquarters are at room
TO2 of the Merchants Trust building
and the sessions are being held In the
assembly room Of the chamber of COM
merce.
Pleasure preceded business yesterday.
The visitors were given a tally-ho ride
about the city in the morning and the
opening session was called to order at
1 o'clock in the afternoon at the cham
ber of commerce, with the election of
Byron Erkenbrecher as temporary
chairman and Robert Baird tempor-
ary secretary.
The session closed at 4:30 o'clock. af-
ter which the delegates were escorted
to the Jonathan club, where many spent
the time until the further social enter
tainments of the evening were an
nounced.
Evening Entertainment
AS the guests of the Los Angeles
Realty board, the visitors in parties,
which the entertainers were pleased to
call personally conducted" spent the
evening as they chose in listening to
the great violinist Ysaye at Simpson
auditorium, seeing 1.-The Girl and the
Judge" at the Belasco, or the vaude-
VILE program offered by the Orpheum.
This morning the real work of the
convention will be taken up with the
hearing of reports from the committees
on permanent organization and resolu-
tions, and general discussion on the
formation of a state organization, to-
gether with addresses by D. C. Collier,
jr., of San Diego and Herbert Burdett
of Los Angeles,
In the afternoon the visitors will be
taken on trolley excursion to Holly
wood, Santa Monica, Ocean Park,
Venice, Playa del Rey, Manhattan
Beach and Redondo, which is to be
followed in the evening by a smoker at
the Angelus.
The open-armed cordiality with which
the Los Angeles real estate men are re-
ceiving their professional brothers of
other cities was personified at the open
ing session yesterday afternoon in the
welcome extended by Byron Erken-
brecher, president of the Los Angeles
Realty board.
Urges Organization
He asked that the visitors should en-
joy themselves in every way possible,
and followed his words of welcome
with a few brief remarks on the neces-
sity of organization among realty men
of the state to bring about needed
measures and reforms.
THE Importance of organization in
all the professions is best seen through
the results which organization has at
tained," said Mr.. Erkenbrecher.
Foremost among the addresses of the
session was that of Leonard Merrill of
the Los Angeles Realty board. 1t
touched upon what the business had
done for California, the secrets of
business success, with the sterling
qualities of honesty, which, he said,
should underlie all dealings.
Other speakers of the session were
F. w. Crandall of Oakland. P. S. Cas-
tleman of Riverside and Francis Fer
rier of Berkeley.
Saturday the question of permanent
organization will be taken up, ]. r.
Fusher of San Jose will deliver an ad-
dress on Contracts" and the conven-
tion will come to a close with a lunch
con at the Lankershim, rendered to the
visiting delegates by the Los Angeles
Realty board.
Some of the Visitors
Among the prominent real estate men
of California who are in Los Angeles
as guests are the following: S. w.
Lockwood, Palo Alto; f. w. Crandall.
G. w. Austin, M. e. Barnard, Frank
Bittigstein, G. A. Tyrrel, Oakland; John
Mccarthy, w. P. Woodsey, H. d. Irwin,
w. S. Moran, S. S. Quackenbush, Fran
els Ferrier, F. p. Argall, Clinton r.
Morse, DIR. S. d. Block, Walter d.
Leon, Berkeley; Robert Lee Bettner,
w. w. Wilson. J. Van de Grift b. 3.
Bush, ]. e, Paddock. w. B. Johnson,
p. S. Casteman, w. T. Thompson,
Riverside; c. w. sheats, Santa Ana;
w. B. Artz, Tustin; T. A. Randle. San
Diego; j. r. Neff, San Bernardino; ].
r. Fisher, S. T. MONTGOMERY. San lose