Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-14
PLANS ARE
ANNOUNCED
BANQUET TO EVANS WILL BE
ELABORATE
RECEPTION WILL BREAK ALL
RECORDS
Roses Alone VIII Cost $4,000, and
Decorative Work viii Be on
Scale Equally Mag
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BY Associated Press.


BY Associated Press
ABOARD BATTLESHIP KANSAS, VIA
POINT Iona WIRELESS STATION, SAN
DIEGO, Cal, April 1S.-Tonight the feet Is
steaming steadily at nine knots speed in
squadron formation.
Today was pay day, every man receiving
n months pay. The amount paid out ON u
single ship was $15,7O0, making the total for
the fleet approximately eeBo,OOO.
The fleet Is washing, cleaning and paint
ing preparatory to arriving at San Diego to-
morrow.
Plans just formulated and formally
announced last night for the city's
official reception am banquet to Ad-
miral Evans and officers of the Atlantic
squadron indicate that 1t will be one
of the greatest affairs in the history
Of Los Angeles.
This reception is going to be a
record breaker 1t will far eclipse
anything ever previously attempted by
the city of the Angels, and 1t VIII be
almost impossible for any coast me-
tropolis to outriVal us, If money, hard
work, careful study and lavish enthu-
siasm count anything for, success"
National Bank of California and an
active member of the fleet committee.
An exclusive diagram of the big
banquet room of the Hotel Alexandria,
the arrangement of tables and guests.
etc, was given by Col. ]. B. Neville
to a reporter of The Herald yesterday.
He described the manner in which the
decorations for the banquet room
would be arranged and his description
of this artistic beauty bower of which
it is hoped Admiral Evans may enjoy
at least a glimpse-indicated 1t Will
surpass in cost and gradeur anything
yet attempted in Los Angeles.
Roses Will Cost $4,000
Two thousand dollars is to be ex-
pended, in the purchase of roses and
other flowers and the big hall Is to be
artistically partitioned and draped with
lattice work, interviewer with flowers
and ferns and forming a huge dome
above the center of the room with two
chandeliers on each side in front of
the speakers table, which latter will
be directly ahead of the main en-
trance.
Festoons of ferns, interviewer with
the choicest of California roses and
great designs symbolical of the Amer
lean navy, will be suspended from the
ceiling on all sides of the dome and
also will embellish the four corners
of the hall.
The speakers table is to be a most
impressive sight with two crystal foun-
tains sparkling in the light of chan
deliers-one fountain at each end of
the table, with lilies and goldfish to
add to their attractiveness.
At this table will sit the following
officers and men, as indicated:
Guests at Head Table
Gen. Adna r. Chaffee, u. S. A.,
chairman. center; on Gen. Chaffee's
left, JOSEPH Scott, toastmaster; then In
the following order: Rear Admiral
Charles M. Thomas, U. S. N, com
division, U. S. N, at present com
mander first squadron and first divt-
sion. flagship Minnesota; Governor
James N. Gillett, Rear Admiral Will
liam H. Emery, commander second di-
vision, U. S. N, flagship, Georgia; Rev.
Robert ]. Burdette, humorist; Capt. r.
Wainwright, u. S. A.: Capt. Amos A.
Fries. government engineer. stationed
at San Pedro; Capt G. B. Harber. y.
S. A.; Gen. Robert Wankowski. N. G.
c.. and Capt. j. Hubbard, U. s. A.
On the right of Gen. Chaffee, in the
order indicated: Rear Admiral Robley
d. Evans, commander in chief United
Harper, Rear Admiral Charles S.
Sperry, commander fourth division, U.
S. N, flagship, Alabama; Rt. Rev.
Bishop Thomas ]. Conaty, Capt. 5.
Schroeder, U. S. A; Attorney Henry
w. O'Melveny. Capt w. B. Potter. U.
S. A., Gen. H. G.. Otis and Gen. S. M.
B. Young, U. S. A.
The program in part will be as fol-
lows:
First-"Speech of Welcome" by
Mayor A. C. Harper.
Second-"The President" by Henry
w. O'Melveny.
Thomas j. Conaty.
Fourth-"Our Guests" by Rev. Rob-
ert ]. Burdette.
Fifth-"San Pedro Harbor," by Capt.
Amos Fries.
Invitations Magnificent
The invitations issued to the fleet
reception and banquet at the Alex
andria are declared to be the finest
ever sent out in Los Angeles. On the
top of the invitation is embossed in
colo~s the historic flag of Los Angeles.
three bars of red, yellow and green,
with the letters II. A. in gold over
the colors. The script is shaded pen
work of the highest and most artistic
order and the whole represents much
larger sum of money than generally
expended on invitations, even to the
most exclusive affairs.
In every detail so far the men IN
charge of the fleet reception have done
credit to the city and omitted not
single incident calculated TO make 1t
the greatest reception ever accorded
naval or military assemblage Ma
poleon himself never enjoyed mora
lavish welcome than will be rendered
to the officers and men of Fighting
Bobs" fleet when it arrives off Los
Angeles.
The assembling of the sixteen first
class battleshlps for the voyage to the
Pacific brought together the greatest
power of fighting craft ever known in
the navy and made possible the splen-
did land display which is to be made