Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-18
.VENETIANS INVADE
SISTER CITIES
FIVE HUNDRED BOOSTERS IRA
VERSE ORANGE BELT
With -Four Bands for Inspiration
Beach Hustlers Visit and Cover
kite.shaped Track With
Their Literature

| ing over the kite shaped track into the
orange belt yesterday and when the
! time for return visits comes the Venice
| Midway VIII not hold them all.
Venetians captured Pomona, Ontario,
| Riverside, Redlands, Orange and San
| Bernardino through her pretty maids
and matrons and her energetic men.
They went out for that purpose. They
wanted Southern California to come to-
| ward the beach once more before the
tourist rush comes.
And their efforts spell success with
a capital s.
1t was daybreak when the brotherly
love excursionists started and past
midnight when they returned home.
| Eleven carloads and full baggage
car left the ocean shore at a. M, but
the baggage car was empty when the
| long train returned Commissary Pete
| McMullin took $500 sandwiches along,
and of wet goods no statistics are
available; and it all went into the ex-
cursionists, adding more energy to
their bodies and more power to their
voices.
Oh, Venice was there with the goods.
There included 10000 booklets, six bar
rels filled with advertising cards and
bales of dodgers besides. In fact the
whole Southern Pacific right of way is
strewn with literature.
Eleven Carloads
Only eleven carloads were in the ex-
odus because the railroad could not
furnish more equipment Four times
as many Venetians were eager to go.
1t chagrined the committee to cut off
1900, but there was no help.
Admiral Frank Lawton and his ex-
ecutive committee, consisting of Mayor
Dana Burks, Abbot Kinney, A. Ed.
RobinSo Force Parker, G. e. Barnard
and Marshal A. F. Webster had charge
of the affair. Their right-hand man,
and the one on whom most of the
detail work FELL was Charles M.
| Spanking, chairman of the committee
on decorations and supplies. Mr..
Spanking hasn't slept three nights.
Fred Limouze, chairman of the dance
committee, did effective work also.
| No fairer or more diplomatic commit
tee worked for Venice than did a bevy
of young women, who at every town
extended a general invitation for all to
come to Venice. These included Miss
Katheryn Fink, recently of Oakland;
Mrs. NJ. Harriott, Miss May Burns, Mrs.
Doc M Roberts, Misses Lottie Walters
and Grace Howard all of Venice and
Ocean Park; May Moore Of San Ber-
nardino and Matilda Ehring of Los
| Angeles.
| The party reached the Arcade depot.
Los Angeles, at $3.50 a. M, took on
few privileged guests and started for
the orange belt, the four bands aboard
playing salutes alternately whenever
the train stopped.
Welcome Awaits
Ell Monte's citze' turned out to
greet the party, the platform committee
Including these fair daughters: Misses
Gladys Quinn, Grace Evans, Edna
Schirtzer, Frances Tucker, Lessie
Wheeler, Ethel Reed, Margaret Nc
Sweeney Ethel Loree, Ottella Robinson
and Nellie Guirk.
Pomona. the pretty college town, had
her people lined up on the streets. The
500 on the train marched in fours to the
music of bands. traversing the prln-
clpal streets. A half hour was spent IN
talking Venice" and seeing the sights.
Ontario was the next stopping place,
The thoughtful people here had wheeled
boxes Of grapes on trucks to the depot,
and all the Venetians were loaded down
with clusters of grapes.
Cotton received serenade. too, and
! her good people turned out noply. On
the committee there were r. r. Suther-
land. Noah Davenport, j. SWlnnerton,
Mrs. A. Castle, Misses Spring, MISS
Kate Mannion of San Bernardlno, MISS
Ressie Brown and Miss Bertha Bishan.
Riverside with its beautiful streets
hanked by modern buildings, oftered a
cordial welcome and cheered Justify as
the pedestrians trod the perfect THOR
ouehfares in quickstep time.
Among those who greeted the new
conoers was a committee consisting OF
Misses Ruth Maurer, Elsie Harper;
Helen Miller, Lille Hammond ana
Edith Joy.
The athletic games held in the PARK
at Riverside were the principal Ieature
of the afternoon. The contests and
prize winners were
Athletic Winners
Boys so yard race, under 10 years,
7. 70. Mullin of Los Angeles Herald
won first prize, a suit of clothes; NIL
ton Nelson, second; w. Nelndor1' thlru'
Ladies' so yard egg and spoon race
Mrs. V. T. Renter, first; Vlra Randel
second.
Fat mems hurdle race, so yards-B.
p. Guenn H. Marcus, o. l.. Keep ana
B. T. Renter, winners in order named
Sack race, so yards-T Nyeda, M.
Yamasaki, S. Tanoka and Homer Law
ton. winners.
Silt races. Tanoka, Y. ona and A.
Hashamato, winners.
five men-Won by team made up OF Y.
Takei Inouye, Yasunda, Sakurai and
Hashunota.
Redlands made a warm impression on
the boosters from behind the sea- for
the enterprisinC city had street cars
provided to carry the guests to Smiley
Heights. The fine scenery, the magni-
fcent groves of oranges and the end
less lines of hedge-surrounded gardens
all made a favorable impression.
1t was dark when the team reached
San Bernar1ino, where, after refresh
ments, the entire party carrying red
lanterns, paraded the streets to the
auditorium, where a concert and en-
tertainment was given, followed by
dancing.
La Belle Fatima, the streets of Carlo
dancer, and Latifa Abdeaur daughter
of the manager of the show, were popu-
lar attractions on and off the train.
They were readily recognized by all
those who had seen the oriental shows
at the fairs at Chicago st. Louis and
Buffalo.
Boston Celebrates
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