Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-18
Hit of the Week

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women, Joined in this yell, which occu-
pied quite a little while in it's emission,
and it made the hit of the week. Spe-
c1al cars carried the promoters from
the Portland hotel to the grounds, Pres
ddent III. w. Goode of the exposition and
a party of local "boomers" doing the
escorting. Rufus p. jennings, execu-
tive officer of the California committee,
acted as chief pilot during the four
days of sightseeing at the exposition
and in and about Portland with plenty
of local pilots who knew the lay of the
land and the wanderings If the wa
tiers to assist him. In a breezy little
address Mr.. Jennings remarked:
1--WE are here to give Oregon the glad
hand and say hello for California. You
have an exposition here that means as
much for California as it does for Ore
gon. We are all jointly interested,
land California is feeling as good over
fhe exposition as Oregon is. Our COM
mercial interests are largely the same,
and whatever is good for one state is
good for the other"
/. Andrea Sbarbora, chairman of the
promotion committee, said: 1.-The ter
ritory of Oregon and California is
equal to that of France and Italy.
These two nations have a population
of 70,000,000, while our two states have
but 100000. In California and Ore
gon everything can be produced that
can be produced in France and Italy.
All that is needed is more people,
"Commotion Committee"
local wag called the visitors the
"California commotion committee" be-
cause they created commotion where
ever they went. The spielers on the
Trail yelled rubber! every time
party Of the yellow-bsdged trailers
passed along, and the other people
were sure to rubber"
AS soon as the promoters reached
the California state building the sill
very chimes in one of the towers of
that unique structure rang out "Home,
Sweet Home" These chimes, by the
way, have taken the grand prize for
popularity. There is a set of chimes
in the United States government build
ing, across Guilds lake, which were
supposed to ring the national anthem,
America" on opening day, at the mo-
ment when President Roosevelt, in
Washington, pressed the key that start
ed the exposition machinery.
President Goode of the exposition,
after waiting a minute or so, an
nounced that for some reason the
chimes had failed to work, but it was
discovered later that they had rung
the anthem, though not loud enough to
be heard across the lake. The Califor-
MIA chimes are so sweet and clear that
they carry far, and every day at noon
America" sounds forth from the tow
er of the San Luis mission, repro
duced here as one of the four archi-
tectural fronts of the California build
ing. A Southern California woman,
Miss Henrietta Hardenberg of River
side, plays the chimes, which come
from the Glenwood Mission hotel at
Riverside. Miss Hardenberg, who is a
skllful chimest, will remain here dur
ing the exposition, delighting the visl-
tors with Spanish melodies and Ameri-
can patriotic tunes on the Ginning
bells.
Round of Fun
The visit Of the promotion committee
has been a continual round of enter
tainments and exploitation functions,
beginning with the Monday morning
exercises in the auditorium of the ex-
position, where California oratory
flowed like California wine-rich and
seductive. There was luncheon at
the American inn. which corresponds to
the famous Inside inn at ST. Louis; a
brilliant reception in the New York
state building, attended by many So
ciety people of Portland and by most
of the state commissioners and other
officials; a steamboat trip up the
mighty Columbia river. to give the
Californians an idea as to Oregonian
scenery and so on until Thursday,
when the visitors bade adieu to Port
land with many expressions of praise |