Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-26
SETS DATE FOR
FACTORY VISITS
HOME PRODUCTS AGITAT0RS
TO GIVE FREE RIDES
SAMPLES AND SOUVENIRS TO BE
DISTRIBUTED
Inventor Has Entered Model of Air
ship to Be Exhibited on Auto
Truck In Industrial
Parade

Seeing the factories by auto" will
be the feature of prosperity Week"
Thursday, November 10, and this day
has been designated in the Chamber
of Commerce "Home Products" cam
paign as "Factory Visiting Day." The
committee in charge of this occasion
yesterday decided to make the day one
of free automobile tours to the fac
tory for the entire public.
At each factory visited the proprie-
tor will greet his guests in person, and
there will be trained guides to show
the visitors "over the works." Tons
of free samples and valuable souve-
Mrs will be dispensed at the various
factories.
All manufacturers who wish to put
their establishments on the factory
Circuit are urged to communicate
with Secretary Virgins sor the Fac
tory Visiting committee at the Cham
ber of Commerce at once.
The pilgrimage to the factories will
take place the day following the great
Industrial Parade" and in this the
wagon or float of each manufacturer
will bear his formal invitation to the
public to visit his establishment, stat
ing the location, hours of visitation
and the attractions offered.
Already over sixty big firms have
entered for the Industrial Parade"
and as early entries are being urged.
it is likely long before the final date,
November 5, the array will be won
derful.
Airship Is Entered
A sample of the novelty and extern
sive character of thS exhibit Is afford
ed by the entry yesterday of an ex-
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vented by Charlemange w. Sirch, pres
ident of the Sirch Electrical and Test
ing laboratories. Mr.. Sirch is build
ing a 200-foot airship at his estab-
lishment.
The model of the airship to be ex-
hibited will be mounted on an auto
truck, which will provide power to
make the propellers revolve and give
semblance of the flight of the craft.
Seated in the pilot house. of the ship
will be the prettiest little girl that
Secretary Virgins can find.
Candidates for the honor of plotting
the airship in the parade should apply
to Mr.. Virgins during this week.
The music committee of Prosperity
Week" met yesterday and assumed the
work also of providing for the enter
tainments of the occasion, "All the
music it is possible to cram into the
hours of Prosperity Week" is the
policy unanimously decided upon, and
therefore 1t is likely every band in
Southern California will be employed.
During the week mounted buglers will
go through the city sounding notes
that will call attention to the duty
of obeying the slogan: BUY and
Boost Home Products"
There will be three free evening
open-air concerts in Central park,
Tuesday, wednesday and Thursday
nights, by local talent. Beside the
bands, there will be vocal and instru-
mental solos, and rousing songs by
glee clubs.
Demands Good Work
Secretary Virgins will start out a
corps of personal agents Monday
morning to interview manufacturers
and learn of their intentions regarding
participation in the exposition.
Secretary Virgins yesterday ad-
dressed the following letter to Weather
Forecaster Wollaber:
LOS Angeles, Cal, Oct. "a, 1908.
"Mr. A. B. Wollaber, United States
Weather Bureau, Trust Building, Los
Angeles.
Dear Weatherman:-In this beau
tiful climate, created by God, and adj
vertised by us, 1t seems superfluous
and almost ungrateful to ask for fine
weather, when 1t has been given us
heretofore in such abundance. But
that there may be no mistake, see that
you deliver at the Chamber of Com
merce at o'clock on the morning of
November 16, bunch of your finest
weather, enough to last for week,
done up in silver paper, and tied with
a gold cord. See that it all be of the
old reliable, tried and true, sunshiny
brand, without a drop of rain for the
week. If you want to send US some
rain beforehand after, you may; but
kindly arrange that from November
16 to q inclusive, we have nothing but
sunny skies and balmy air.
"As one of the principal articles we
manufacture out here is weather, and
as you turn the crank. see that you
get all your friends to Buy and
Boost
Trusting that you may sell large
chunks of climate this winter to east
ern tourists, I am
"Yours for Prosperity.
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