Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
TWENTYTHOUSAND
VISITORS COMING
NATIONAL REUNION KNIGHTS
OF COLUMBUS
WILL BE HERE FOR A WEEK
Greatest Convention In the History
of the Order to Be Held In
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It is less than a week until the be-
ginning of the great human landslide
upon Southern California, when the
knights of Columbus and their fami-
lies. numbering more than twenty thou
sand, will begin the grand rush upon
Los Angeles for the annual con-
yention and reunion of the order.
From Maine to Florida, and through
out the entire country, will begin the
laundering Of special trains headed for
Los Angeles. Their human freight Will
be a vast army Of bankers, attorneys,
business men, the clergy and profess
sional man, attracted to the land OF
sunshine and flowers by the occasion
of the national reunion of the order
and the magic wonders of the country
new to nearly all of them.
The reunion will begin with the re-
ception at the chamber of commerce
On Monday, June 5, and will continue
until the close of the week. 1t will be
a week of business and pleasure Tor
the visitors, as we'll as their hosts, the
local council of the Knights Of Colum-
bus and the hospitable citizens of Los
Angeles and surrounding towns.
Entertainment Fund
Great preparations are being made
for the proper and befitting entertain
ment of the visitors. Money has not
been considered in the plans for MAX
ing the hospitality of the Angeleno 20
thing of beauty and joy forever IN
the memory of those who shall partake
of it.
Enthusiasm in the ranks of the local
council has been at fever heat for sew
eral weeks, as the executive committee
would announce the satisfactory pro-
gress being made in the arrangements
for entertainment of the visiting
knights and their families and, when
the time arrived for taking up the COL
lection" and providing an entertain
ment fund to defray the expenses con-
tracted for by them. the scene IN the
hall of the local council was most re-
marBable. In response to the call for
money the sum of fourteen thousand
dollars was quickly raised and placed
at their disposal.
In speaking OF this remarkable sub
scription, Assistant Secretary Alphonse
Zinsmeister, of the executive COM
mittee said:
1.-The enthusiasm which has pervaded
the knights of Columbus circles
throughout the entire country has had
a local exhibition in the remarkable
subscription raised in Los Angeles
council at it's last rally during the past
week, when, in addition to $4,000 already
raised by voluntary assessment, the
sum of $4,000 was voted outright from
the treasury, and before the enthusi-
asm consequent upon this action of the
council had subsided, the call for vol
untary subscriptions was made and,
before the subscription list was closed,
an additional sum of $4,000 was raised in
that manner, making a total Of $4,000
subscribed, to be used solely for the
entertainment of the visitors by the
local council whose entire numerical
strength is only $50 members"
Remarkable interest has been exhib-
tied in San Francisco incident to the
national gathering, as already over
1000 tickets have been actually sold
thirty days ahead Of the day set for
the national gathering, and Mr.. Judah,
assistant traffic manager of the South
ern Pacific, is authority for the state
ment that this is the largest excursion
his company has ever handled and over
the longest distance in the history of
the road. The San Francisco delega-
tion will come down in three trains.
The first will leave San Francisco Sat-
urday morning, June 3, the second the
same evening and the third the follow
ing evening, June 4.
Already arrangements have been
made for magnificent reception at the
Hotel Lankershim, which will be the
headquarters Of the San Francisco del
egation, and for which it is intended
to issue $500 invitations to local prom
inent people, including the state and
civic officials and at which Archbishop
Montgomery and Bishop Conaty and
Bishop O'Reilly of Baker City, Ore,
will be present in their official robes.
With the San Francisco delegation
will come the League of the Cross
band, one of the famous musical or
ganizations of the state, composed of
total abstainers, being founded by
Archbishop Montgomery while a priest
In San Francisco some fifteen years
ago. Archbishop Montgomery will
preach the sermon at the pontifcal
high mass to be sung in the cathedral
by Bishop Conaty on June 6, and at
which from 800 to 500 priests will be
present.
Chamber of Commerce Reception