The San Francisco call., 1908-04-10
FLEET SOUVENIRS
TO INCREASE fund
Handsome Certificates Will Be
Given Contributors to the
Finance Committee
Promotion Committee Estimates
of $4,000 Visitors Deemed
Too Conservative


petus, it is expected. next Tuesday,
when 1900 souvenir certificates of sub
scription Will be ready for distribu-
ton to all who contribute. The GER
ti1cates are the idea of A. A Watkins.
chairman of the finance committee.
who has directed the efforts toward
raising money.
Handsomely Autographed in colors,
on heavy card paper. the certificates
will be "a by IS inches IN size, and
will be specially designed for framing.
When they are hung on the walls of
stores and places of business the COM
mittee believes that they will be q
splendid advertisement and induce
ment to patronage by the sailors of
the fleet.
The certificates show reproduction
of the battleship Connecticut in the
foreground. anchored in the bay, with
the other vessels Of the fleet gathered
about it. In the background is view
of San Francisco. and In the upper
right hand corner is photograph of
Admiral Evans.
This certifies that. has con-
tributed S.......... for the entertain
ment of the United States battleship
feet" the inscription will read. and
each will be signed by Chairman Wat
kins and other members of the COM
mittee. 1t is expected that the certifi-
Gates Will pe LARGELY Sought TOT as
souvenirs. both by future contributors
and those who have already sub
scribed
PLAN WHIRLwIND CAMPAIGN
The campaign TO raise the required
balance to complete the estimated fund
of $S4 900 required for the scheme of
entertainment before next Wednesday
will be whirlwind effort. AT least
$4,000 is expected from the liquor
dealers and restaurant keepers and
the flying squadron" OF collectors in
10 big automobiles. which will visit
every one of the 1900 saloons and 500
restaurants in the city. was being
drilled for It's work yesterday. Though
1t was originally planned for the auto
mobile men TO start their work carly
in the week, owing to the delay in
printing the certificates postpone
ment was necessary.
A huge stream Of visitors from
points throughout California and sur
rounding states is expected to flow to
San Francisco in the days Immediately
preceding the arrival Of the fleet. Sew
enty-fve thousand people viii visit
the city during the first two days OF
the battleship celebration. the Cali
fornia Promotion committee estimated
yesterday, and that is deemed a con-
servative figure. The committee Is
vide Accommodations for all who are
| expected to arrive.
To facilitate the matter a request
| has been made for all persons in San
Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda
and the cities Immediately tributary
who will have rooms for strangers to
| register Immediately at the headquar-
ters of the committee In the California
| building, Union square. No charge will
4 ha fnr fet a
plete list of all available rooms and ac-
commodations viii pc put in the hands
| of the feet information bureau for the
convenience of all outside people.
SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE
| Not only will excursionists flock here
from California points, but the commit
/ tee has learned that special trains of
! sight seers will come from Salt Lake
City. Ogden. Portland. Seattle and Ia
/ coma, and even from Idaho and British
Columbia In addition. public holidays
| for some time during the fleets stay
! have been proclaimed in every school
district within 100 miles of San Fran
cisco. The vast crowds of spectators. il
| is believed, will even exceed those that
/ hailed the coming of the California
soldiers from the Philippines at the end
of the Spanish-American war. At that
time many had to walk the streets be-
| y.
| The COMMITTEES is making every effort to
obviate such unpleasant occurrence
from this celebration.
One feature of the preparations for
carrying off the parade without hitch
became known yesterday, when 1t was
| learned that six big hospital tents. in
charge of army surgeons and trained
Red Cross nurses, will be placed at va
rious points along the line Of march on
Market street and Van Ness avenue.
They will be IN charge of DR.. G. H.
| Richardson, past army surgeon at the
Presidio. Mrs. John F. Merrill of the
Red Cross society has been active in
securing them. The tents will not only
be fly equipped IS emergency hospi-
tails, bat they viii be operated as pub
lie rest stations for the convenience of
the populace as well.
| Additional subscriptions to the fleet
| fund yesterday amounted to $3.50, as
! follows:
Previously acknowledged frevised) s5I. or. IL
Anheuser Busch brewing compauy 2a0 on
City street improvement company 100 an
Pacific Coast steamship COMPANY 100 N,
Owl drug company .-...-.-. so on
schlitz brewing company. Milwaukee. 1000