Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23
VOTE DOWN
PARADE IDEA
FOR SAILORS
RECEPTION COMMITTEE ARGUE
AGAINST PLAN
REGARDS MARCH AS HARDSHIP
ON CREWS
chutes and Agricultural Park Varied
Western Programs vii APP
peal to Man-of-War's
Men

lnOuSn AQI1lTdi Evans men III L1ctT
trip around the world are receiving en-
tertainment as varied as the peoples
they visit, Los Angeles will have pro-
gram distinctive and different.
Plans reported at yesterdays meet
ing of the reception, entertainment and
other committees of the battleship fleet
workers leave little room in the round
of pleasure and instruction to be af-
forded the men behind and around the
guns who will be the guests of South
ern California when the big ships come.
The parade order was disapproved
by the committee for the stated reason
that the officers and sailors will be
entertained by the city and are not ex-
pected to entertain Southern Califor-
mans.
The subcommittee on entertainment
of the men met at Levy's Saturday
noon upon >call of Chairman Motley
Flint. Important reports relating to
the entertainment to be provided at
Chutes and Agricultural parks were
read and approved.
Free to Sailors
A detailed report of entertainment ia
cilities at Chutes park, which it is pro-
posed by the committee to lease for
the OCCASION was received from James
p. Lehigh. This report enumerated the
various attractions which would be at
forded free to the sailors.
Manager Lehigh's statement shows
that Chutes park will be leased for
four days at Il daily rental of $500 for
The use of the entertainment of the sail
ors of Admiral Evans fleet.
Included in the leasing of the grounds
are the free service of all employees,
cleaning up of the grounds In condi-
ton satisfactory to the committee, a
five-picce orchestra afternoon and
evening for dancing pavilion and the
ft,., ,fAK aatin rides
on the chutes; free rides on the merry
go-round; free rides on the miniature
railway; free vaudeville performance
twice daily; free theater performance;
free outdoor circus attractions; free
dancing; daily balloon ASCENSION and
parachute drop; bicycle high wire act
across Chutes lake; slide for life; re-
volving ladder act; high dive, etc. 1t
is understood in the event of any of the
free acts not being obtainable Substi-
tuition may be made.
Chutes Concessions
A list of the concessions now in oper-
alton, the percentage paid for the priv
ilege of operating, class, etc., Is as fol-
lows
Glass A games-Cane rack, nine
pins, marble game, pick-out game,
knife rack, baby rack, one-third or
gross merchandise prizes; duck ranch,
striker, Japanese ball game, three
headed Janus, plate board, bagatelle,
one-third of gross, merchandise prizes
.tintype gallery, hand striker, novelty
Nboard, ring throwing game, one-third
of gross; ruby iron glass, one-quarter
of gross, name written on red glass
novelties; shooting gallery; monthly
rental.
Committee Percentage
Glass A concessions are entirely UNI
der the control of the committee ex-
cept shooting gallery, which is under
monthly rental lease.
Glass B, amusements are: Overland
limited, one-third of gross, moving
pictures: Dirty Dora, snake show
Midget Loretta, Midway theater one
third of gross; wild west show, 80 per
cent; oriental show, 80 per cent; Kat
zenjammer Kastle, monthly rental;
house of trouble, cave of winds, circle
swing. 25 per cent; roller coaster, 10 per
cent
Glass attractions are distinctively
amusements and all except roller coast
er have agreed to allow the sailors free
access, and we are now working to the
end of arranging for free rides on the
roller coaster.
Glass c, garden-Japanese tea house,
monthly rental, serves tea and crack
ers.
1t is understood that the various
PERCENTAGES paid by the concessions
are to be turned over to the commit
tee. These receipts will materially les
sen the cost of entertainment.
vaquero Club Plans
A lengthy letter from committee of
the Vaquero club was read stating In
detail the features of an elaborate wild
west show which was offered the COM
mittee for four days at actual cost, ap-
proximating $1,000.
This proposal was received with
much enthusiasm by members of the
committee and the belief was unani-
nous that 1t would prove striking and
unusually interesting entertainment for
the men of the feet as well as for the
general public
The written statement OIL the Naquero
club follows;
"The members OF the Vaquero club,
largely business and professional men,
with manifold interests, wish to have
such an entertainment not only to en-
body a local success but desire that
the visitors shall receive an impression
of the earlier days when the horse was
mans only friend, when travel was
slow and difficult, beset with dangers,
when the whole country was run wide
open, when to succeed in life men de-
pended upon each other ana not on
Bradstreet. To this end we cheerfully
give our time and services. only desir-
ing such remuneration as shall enable
TO pay the necessary expenses.
Frontier Days
Understanding that the city conf
mittee has already provided for a spar
ring contest, etc, with old-fashloneu
barbecue at Chutes park during the
forenoon, the Vaquero club, with your
approval, will undertake to open at
Agricultural park each day at l a. m.
an entertainment consisting of grand
parade of the Vaqueros around the
park, ending with mounted quadrille In
front of the grandstand, where there
will be erected an old-time typical
frontier town street with its shacks,
barroom, Wells-Fargo Office, black
smith shop, jail, etc
Here will be hitch rails for the cow
ponies, and during the intervals here
viii congregate the Vaqueros with their
game roosters in baskets, the grease
goose hanging from the signboard.
Here they throw three-card monte and
order their nose paint shootup the
tenderfoot with the 'six-gun' to buck
and wing finish. get going on an In
dian war dance. do roping and fancy
riding. picking up handkerchiefs, etc,
etc, a pony express relay race, sad
ding up and riding to finish bare
back and haclSamored, will be a strong
event Some bronco busting, ring
spearing. steer riding, etc.
Stage Holdup
"The arrival of the stage at the ex-