Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
MAYOR HARPER
TO GREET BRYAN
PARTY WILL MEET DISTlN-
GUISHED GUEST
Great commoner's First Appearance
to Be at a Lecture for Benefit
Of Newsboys' Home at
Auditorium

william Jennings Bryan practically
will be given an official welcome to Los
Angeles upon his arrival on the morn
ing OF Monday January rs.
Mayor A. G. Harper VIII be the first
to greet Mr.. Bryan when the visitor
steps from the train.
At meeting yesterday Of the original
committee on arrangements, composed
Of twenty-five leading Democrats of
Los Angeles, it was decided that the
committee should resolve itself into a
reception committee, with Mayor Har-
per, one of the members, as chairman,
The committee, with Mayor Harper
at the head, will gather at the Arcade
depot on the morning of January 2S
and be in waiting on the platform when
the train from the north, bearing Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan, arrives.
After an informal greeting the dis
tinguished visitors will be conducted
to carriages in waiting and conveyed
to the place where they will be enter
tanned during their stay in Los Angeles
Thereafter it is expected that Mr.
Bryan's movements will be at his own
convenience and in accordance with ar
rangements that may be made by per-
sonal friends.
For the Newsboys' Home
1t is expected that Mr.. Bryan will
rest during the greater portion of Mon
day, in view of the lecture which he
will deliver in the evening.
This lecture, which will be the first
of the University course under the
management of l.. E. Behymer VIII be
given at Simpson auditorium, and the
receipts will be for the benefit Of the
Newsboys' home.
;e ,,ti ri anYin1S in
view of the philanthropic nature of the
event, that the lecture be a financial
success, and in the various letters which
he has sent to the chairman OF the
committee on arrangements and to per-
sonal friends in Los Angeles he has eX-
pressed the wish that everything be
done to insure the success of the lee
ture and that social affairs be elimi-
mated entirely if found to interfere in
any manner with the benefit for the
Newsboys' home.
1t is the intention of leading Demo-
Gratis to cooperate with the manage
ment of the lecture and the home with
the desire of making the affair as great
a success as possible.
Planning for the Banquet
Inasmuch as the chamber of COM
merce committee named yesterday will
have entire charge of the reception to
be rendered Mr.. Bryan in the chamber
of commerce rooms at the noon hour
or Wednesday, January 80, and which
will be an informal public affair." the
members of the Democratic club are
devoting their energies to making ar
rangements for the banquet which VIII
be rendered Mr.. Bryan on the evening
of January 20.
The banquet will be given under thu
auspices of the Democratic club, o
which Eugene Germain is president
and it is expected that it will prove one
OF the most successful of any similar
events ever held in Los Angeles.
Tickets will be limited to 500, but sc
many applications already have been
received that it is thought the supply
soon will be exhausted. The tickets,
which are S. plate, are in the hands
of Eugene Germain, 1876 South Main;
Anthony Schwamm, 1928 North Main,
and M. J. McCarry, Bryson block.
subcommittee for the banquet, which
will be held at Levy's, will be named
at a meeting to be held tomorrow at
the Democratic club.