Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-04
LONG BEACH PREPARES
FOR COMING SHRINERS
FIESTA WEEK WILL BE GAY ONE
ON BEACH
Canal Proposition to Anaheim Re-
newed-lncrease in Building Per-
mits-Rushing Work on new Hotel
Permanent Relief Committee
Special 20 the Herald.

Special 20 The Herald.
LONG BEACH, May 3.-The program
for the reception and entertainment of
the visiting Shriners to this city will be
carried out during Fiesta week. The
grand Shrine ball which was to have
been held during the jubilee week will
be held during Fiesta week. There will
be no change in the entertainment of
the visitors, except for the change in
the date, and that is only partly
changed, as commencing May the
local lodge of Shriners will keep open
house until May %, the date of the ball
Secretary Van Sittert of the Hospital
association is in receipt of a letter from
Surgeon Cobb of the United States
Marine hospital corps in which the
surgeon states that patients from San
Pedro will not be cared for at the
Long Beach hospital The reason for
the refusal Of the government to do this
is that there is no electric car line be-
tween this city and East San Pedro.
The Pacific Electric has a franchise
for the road but has not yet commenced
work. The patients will be cared for in
Los Angeles.
Work on the extension of the Pacific
Electric lines from Seaside Park to
Terminal island and West Long Beach
will commence within sixty days.
meeting of the Greater Long Reac ch
Improvement association was held. The
association was formed for the purpose
of fathering the canal proposition near
the Anaheim road. Now they are turn
ing their attention to a project for
boulevard from Los Angeles to this
city. Property owners have signified
their consent to the widening of Pacific
avenue, which will be the Long Beach
terminus of the boulevard
Building permits to the value of $162.-
795 were issued by the building in
spector's Office during April. This is
an increase of $S6,626 over April last
year.
meeting of the executive committee
OF the new hotel was held and the last
OF the contracts were awarded. The
Los Angeles Pressed Brick company
secured the tile roofing for $4,000. f. 70.
Newberry q Co. the electric wiring for
$4,000 and an additional contract for
telephones in the building for $500. e.
A. Hough & Co. secured the boilers at
$1,000. The hotel will be ready for OPEN
ing July 4, 1907.
A half carload of American flags were
received in this city They were con-
signed to the reception and entertain
ment committee of the Shriners. They
Will be used in the decoration of Pine
aEshue from Ine ocean TO Fifth street
meeting of the San Francisco relief
committee was held at the city hall
with S. L. Lent presiding and it was
found that the committee had collected
$4,000 for the sufferers. OF this
amount S45OO has already been expended
and the remainder will be held in the
local committees hands. 1t will then
be forwarded to San Francisco. No
more supplies will be purchased by the
local committee. The committee formed
itself into a permanent Associat ted
Charities, electing S. L. Lent, presi-
dent; c. L. Heartwell, treasurer, and
r. II. Van Sittert. secretary. A CON
stitution and bylaws was adopted.
The annual election of officers will be
held next November.