Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-20
ELKS COME BACK
FROM DALLAS IN
HIGH TRIUMPH
Los ANGELES ASSURED OF
HUGE CONVENTION
RAILROADS EXPECT TO BRING
100000 VISITORS
Exhibit Of California Products AS
founded Fasteners and Was Fac
tor in Influencing Decision
of Delegates

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geles in the strenuous campaign for
success, during which it was necessary
to acouaint everybody in every pos
sibIe manner with every one of our
superior attractions and advantages
cannot be overestimated.
Among the features Of our cam
paign In the interest OF Los Angeles
was what might be called miniature
chamber of commerce. Los Angeles
business men and producers contributed
great quantities of wines, fruits, jams,
1ellies, preserves, olives, orange wood
souvenirs, etc. These were exhibited in
a large room at our hotel, and every
afternoon and until IL o'clock at night
the place was fairly stampeded with
people anxious to get q souvenir Of
Los Angeles.
when our stock ran low we were
offered large sums for almost any
trif1ing article suggestive of Southern
California. Officers were necessary 70
prevent the crowds from carrying on
our exhibits bodily. Thousands of ques-
fions were asked-some of them in
credibly a1nusing-but everyone showed
a keen interest in the conditions and
prospects here.
zone man came up to me and said:
I have a brother living on Hill street
in Los Angeles. Do YOU know him?
His names Smith
II told him Los Angeles was too Dig
a city to keep track of all the Smiths
here. He seemed to think we had jack
rabbits and sagebruSh growing on our
thoroughfares, with barley fields in the
suburbs. After 1 explained the matter
a little he said: BY lingo, I'm goin' to
soThe Los Angeles exhibit in Dallas
was conducted by @. G. Johnson, rep
resenting the chamber of commerce
here, assisted by Walter ]. Goldsmith,
and those two men certainly worked
hard and did wonderful amount OF
good for US in the way of advertising.
They deserve good deal OF creolt' too'
Choice Well Received
Immediately after the ballot on the
place of the next convention, when the
announcement was made that Los Ans
geles had won, q number of the cities
were SO rejoiced that special commit
ices were appointed to boost for special
trains from each of the respective
cities and to get as large a delegation
as possible for the Los Angeles event.
railroad officials, high in the order
of the Elks and in the capacities In
r. which they S6IN6 lltlI uliISl CAie Aoc1ea7s
already have assured me there is every
indication that the Los Angeles con-
vention will be one of the largest at
fairs of its kind in many years, owing
TO the widespread and intense interest
in things Californian.
Il have been assured that the Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific roads will run
more special trains here than were run
TO the Shriners conclave, and both
these roads, as well as the Salt Lake,
anticipate not less than 10000 to 100000
visitors.
"The Texas Elks. without exception,
as well as the Elks of great many
other states, assured us repeatedly they
would boost hard and long for the Los
Angeles convention, and said we could
be assured of an extra large attendance
from their respective cities.
1.-THE local Elks, of course, will not be
idle. From now on until the conven-
tion, July ~, 1909 we will work un-
ceasingly to draw as many Elks and
their friends here as possible, and we
will be aided systematically and en-
Enthusiastically by the chamber of COM
merce, Merchants and Manufacturers
association and many other municipal
bodies.
Los Angeles owes It to herself and
to those who worked so diligently to
procure the big convention for this city,
10 help us arrange one of the finest
programs possible, and / am sure our
business men will see the advantages to
be derived from such tremendous af-
fair, which, in point of attendance and
magnitude, will far eclipse the great
Shriner convention"
Mr.. McGarry is not alone in his de-
sire to make the Elks' convention here
a grand success. Among the Elks on
every hand the determination is ex-
pressed to have the affair magnificent
triumph in all respects.
Los Angeles will be a blaze of
glory It will be the first time an Elxs
convention has been held this far west,
and Los Angeles had a hard fight to
get the convention away from the
east" said one Elk yesterday.
dallas was unable to accommodate
the big crowd properly, and 1t is not a
city of sufficient attraction to enter
tain such big body of guests; there
fore great many of the Elks who
went there were sore that the city had
been selected for the convention.
cit increased the opposition that was
raised in the matter of holding the 1909
convention further west, ana we had a.
hard time to convince the eastern Elks
that Los Angeles could not only enter
tain them beyond all past entertain
ments, but that it could provide for
any number of visitors, up to zoo, 900,
without raising prices or discommoding
itself or its guests.
I'm the past all the big Elk conven-
tions have been held in the east, and
many of the eastern delegations
argued that, as the two big Democratic
and Republican conventions, and the
Shriners and last Elks' convention had
been held in the west, the east ought to
come in for the next big thing of this
kind.
1.-THE west is a new country however,
and the fasteners are decidedly inter-
ested in it-especially in Los ANGELES,
which has been widely advertised.
Therefore, aided by this general desire
to see the west, and Los Angeles in
particular, we won our fight, where
otherwise we might have failed.
II am satisfied, too. that the Los An
ge1es exhibit there, which was really a
startling revelation to most OF the
fasteners, had a good deal TO do with
procuring the victory
'tThree cheers for Los Angeles. and
let's all get started right in now ia
make the Elks' gathering here in 1909
the biggest thing ever attempted in the
way Of conventions"