Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-14
EXCEED BY FAR
ALL ESTIMATES
PROSPERITY WEEK DETAILS
ARE MULTITUDIN0US
Sherwood Secures Prize for Best
Display Advertisement of Home
Products-WindoW Contest
Decided Next Week

If the committees at work on the
plans and arrangements for Prosperity
Week" had taken every one OF their
original estimates and doubled the fig
ures, and later doubled them again,
they might have come little nearer TO
the measure of the thing.
The button, for instance, Will pc
priced like some rare, ancient coin, ana
the Button committee" instead of or
dering 100000 of the Buy and Boost
Home Products" buttons, should have
ordered 100000.
The parade committee. after figuring
on three miles of exhibits on wheels,
should have doubled this. The list of
entries for the big industrial parade
was closed last Monday, and persons
still are insisting on getting other ex-
hibits in line.
Twenty thousand pennants were
made for the chamber of commerce,
and will be given out Monday at the
chamber; but forty thousand would not
have supplied the demand.
Many fine window displays entirely
of home products are now to be seen,
and by Monday morning there will not
be a business street in Los Angeles
that will not have many home products
displays on each side of it.
Yesterday pledge badges were sent
out by the chamber of commerce to all
but home made products during Pros
perity Week."
Window displays have become one of
the features of prosperity Week" and
many firms are competing for the three
prizes offered by the display committee
of the chamber of commerce commit
tee. Three things will be considered
in selecting winners: The number of
home produced articles of different
nature which are used in making the
display the arrangement of the artl-
Giles, and the general attractiveness of
the display as whole.
The contest will be decided during
the week, but no windows will be con-
sidered which are not ready to be in
spected Monday morning.
sherwood wins the prize offered by
the chamber of commerce committee on
publicity for the best display adVer-
tisement of home products for Prosper
ity Week. A great banner will com
memorate the event and will be carried
in the industrial parade next Wednes-
day, and afterward will be given to
Mr.. SHERWOOD The banner will be
appropriately inscribed, and will be an
elaborate affair.
Nine hundred and twelve copies of the
sherwood advertisement were sent In
to the chamber of commerce, While
Bishop & Co, the nearest competitor,
lad a total of $50.
The Auto Vehicle company ran a
close race with John w. Maxim for
third place, 1O3 advertisements of the
auto company being received, While
Maxim got 102 votes.
The Southern California Wine COM
pany received sixty-one votes, and
there were some scattering.
Yesterday afternoon President George
HI, Stewart of the chamber of commerce
and Miss Frances Holmes addressed the
students of the Woodbury. Business coll
lege on the subject of prosperity
Week" in Southern California, and
later President Stewart visited the Uni
versity of Southern California and
talked to the university students on the
same subject.
Much enthusiasm was aroused over
the idea Oh buying and boosting home
products, and the students also secured
Valuable information regarding South
ern California products, and valuable
hints on how to further the interests
of themselves while they are helping
those around them.