Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
SAN FRANCISCO DELEGATION
COMES IN FIRST
MORE SPECIALS DUE TODAY
Reception Committee Promptly Hsn-
dies the Throns Of Visitors and
Gets Them Satisfactorily
Located

train from san francisco, bearing nNe
hundred travel-stained and time-wear-
led excurslonists, arrived at the AR
cade depot at 11:15 o'clock last night,
and bears the distinction Of being the
first delegation of Knights Of Columbus
to reach Los Angeles for the national
convention and annual reunion which
begins tomorrow and continues until
the early hours of next Sunday morn
ing.
The first special came In two Sec
tions, the second section arriving flf-
teen minutes later than the first Sec
ton, and brought four hundred visi-
tors and their families.
Both sections were met at Santa Bar
bara by an advance guard from the
| local reception committee, who accom-
panied them into Los Angeles and ex-
planned the arrangements made for
their entertainment as the train speed
ed towards the city
Visitors Promptly Located
On arrival at the depot, the recep-
tion committee took them in charge
with guides on special cars, and in
thirty minutes after their arrival all
the guests were registered and assigned
to their rooms This prompt work,
which passed off without a hitch, was
the first evidence the visitors had Of
the magnificent detail with which all
arrangements have been made for
their comfort and entertainment while
guests of the local council and the citi-
zens of Los Angeles.
The expressed intention that the vis-
itors shall return home after the con-
vention week with renewed and in-
creased ideas of hospitality, as inter-
preted by the Angeleno, bids fair to
become a pleasant realization If the
satisfactory manner in which the first
consignment of visitors was looked
after last night Is to be taken as an
indication of what will follow during
| the week Not detail that was neces-
sary to promote the comfort and hap
piness of the guests was overlooked,
and the reception committee is en-
titled to the words of congratulation
and praise which were showered upon
them after all their guests were safe
ly and satisfactorily located in their
hotels.
! Among the arrivals last night were
Joseph j. Rosborough, district deputy
from Oakland, and Philip j. Fay, grand
knight from San Francisco, who are
staying at the Lankershim.
Mr. Rosborough said last night that
this was to be the greatest convention
and reunion in the history of the order,
and would be attended by record
breaking number of knights and their
families.
He said that San Francisco felt a
pride in the coming of the knights to
California, and that the 200 visitors
from that city were coming to ''help
the local boys whoop 'em up and make
Los Angeles and California truly ap-
preciated as the breeding spot of hos r
pitality."
San Francisco Reception
The San Francisco delegation will
give reception to the knights at the
Lankershim Wednesday night, at
which their League of the Cross band
will assist in the program of enter
tainment by concert.
After the close of the convention
next Saturday night, the San Francis
co delegation will escort the army Of
visitors on their trip to their city and
John J. Quinn, chairman of their en-
tertainment committee, is at the Lank-
ershim as busy as anybody could pos
sibly be, helping to entertain and make
things pleasant for the visitors, chok-
ing down the desire to constantly tell
them of the good times ahead of them
when they start northward. He will ex-
plode in about three days, if not be-
fore, and then the volumes of elo-i
quence which he has had on ice for
the last twenty-four hours, in an hon
est endeavor to preserve it until the
Crucial moment" will flow like the
gentle rivulet down the mountainside.
He says that Los Angeles has been
monopolizing the fame OF California
for hospitality, and probably justly so,
he adds. but San Francisco will at
tempt good-naturedly. to put crimp
III lIdl reputation WHen the time comes
for that city to emerge into the lime
light of public gaze. He adds eonfiden-
TALLY that the visitors, who will see
wonders while in and about Los An
geles. will be astounded when they get
to San Francisco, and here he gasped
for breath long enough to apologize
for having unintentionally released the
safety valve long enough to convey an
idea of the immensity OF good things
his city had on tap for those who were
wise enough to accept the invitation to
stop off.
Two more specials from San Francisco
are scheduled TO arrive this afternoon.
the first coming at o'clock and the
second coming fifteen minutes later.
Five hundred persons are due to arrive
via the steamship line at 1:40 o'clock
this afternoon, which will complete the
San Francisco delegation OF nearly two
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