Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-30
AUTOMOB|L|STS
BOOSTERS FOR
OWENS RIVER
Volunteer Campaign
Plans Perfected
Committee at Chamber of Commerce
Ready to Give Away Thousands
Of Banners to Cheerful
Citizens

The automobile colony of Los Angeles
will furnish one of the most spectacular
and inspiring features of the campaign.
Beginning today the friends of owens
river who own automobiles will string
from their machines white muslin PEN
nants bearing the line: owens River
Vote for it June 12''
The campaign committee of the cham
ber of commerce has had printed sew
eral thousand of these artistic trian-
gular cloth pennants, 12X1S inches in
size, with four-foot poles. The Owens
river automobile pennants are arranged
for fastening to lamps of automobiles.
Automobile owners are notified to call
at the campaign committee rooms at tha
Chamber of Commerce and secure the
flags for their machines
This branch of the volunteer cam
paign work on behalf of the Owens river
water bonds has been done by special
automobile subcommittee of the realty
board committee, which latter body is
headed by Gilbert s. Wright. The auto
committee is composed of Charles L.
Hubbard chairman; David H. McCart-
ney and H. ]. Benedict. Chairman
Hubbard of the automobile committee
said yesterday:
Free Auto Banners Ready
"The people are responding very read
lily to our call for the use of automobiles
on election day whenever we present
the matter to them personally. But we
doubly appreciate those owners of auto
mobiles who take the trouble to ring us
up on the telephone and offer the use
of their machines. We have made good
progress and expect to have between
300 and 400 machines in active service
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1t is our desire to have the pennants
displayed on practically every automo-
bile in the city from now until election
day, and the banners will be dispensed
free to all callers at the campaign rooms
in the Chamber of Commerce, beginning
today"
When the real estate men first un-
dertook the campaign to enlist several
hundred automobiles Gilbert S. Wright
of the Wright e. Calender company
headed the list with a donation of the
use of five automobiles and the neces-
sary chauffeurs. Since that day about
forty automobiles have been voluntar-
lily subscribed in addition to those en-
listed by the committeeman, making
total of sixty conveyances to date.
Althouse Brothers, the real estate
men of the Bumiller building on South
Broadway, yesterday broke the record
SeHeTOSlly III SlNlHS VI
by offering nine splendid machines and
one surrey, together with the services
of the necessary nine chauffeurs and a
driver
The splendid response of the real
estate men and automobile owners is
a striking illustration of the general
public spirit demonstrated on all sides
in the campaign for a tremendous ma
jority for Owens river on June H.
Everybody Is Boosting
Men of all classes have come forward
in unexpectedly large numbers eager
to do their part toward the success
of the water project.
One instance yesterday was the offer
of G. Lyon, proprietor Of the Boyle
Heights Cyclery at 19741a East First
street, who in addition to donating the
use of two automobiles and chauffeurs,
offered to make all repairs necessary
to the machines on election day free
of charge in behalf of the water bonds.
Mr.. Lyon will pay out of his own
pocket salaries of the men and eX-
penses incident to keeping the auto
mobiles across the river in perfect trim
for rapid work.
The realty board compittee of ten
are working in cooperation with the
campaign committee, and has appoint
ed a second subcommittee on election
day. which is composed of Gilbert S.
Wright, chairman; A. Chappelle, o. E.
Parish, T. ]. McGarry. These gentle
men will see to the successful COM
pletion on the day of the vote of the
work now begun.
Want Experienced campaigners
Perry w. Weidner, chairman of the
campaign committee at the chamber
of commerce, stated yesterday: I'm
our organization for getting out big
vote on election day we are enlisting
volunteers of all factions, grades and
parties. | anticipate that the force at
work reaping votes on June IL will
be the most thoroughly representative
body of election day volunteers ever
seen united in one cause in Los An
geles.
1--WE want particularly to get the old
experienced captains and committee
men of the established political parties
in charge of the work in their reSpec-
tive precincts, and hope that these
gentlemen will call upon us at the
cha nber of commerce at once. Many
of them have come forward already,
some of them Republicans, Democrats,
non-partisans, Socialists, Prohibition
lists. Union Labor, Public Ownership
party men.
"Of course it is impossible to COM
municate with all of these political
factors individually; but l should like,
through this statement to the press, to
extend a cordial invitation to all OF
these precinct captains and precinct
committeeman to come to see us at
the chamber of commerce committee
rooms and join in the work for the
good cause, which in this case recog-
nizes no party or creed, but only the
welfare of the entire community"