Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-23
WILL PLAY TAG
WHOLE DAY LONG
MUST LEAVE CITY If YOU WISH
TO ESCAPE
SEDUCTIVE RATES OFFERED TO
WHOLESALE DEALERS
High School and Polytechnic Students
and Gayety Girls Expected to
Prove Themselves lrresls-
tlble canvassers

Everybody Is manifesting q remark
able interest in Tag day." Judging
from present indications. there won't
be q man. woman or child in Los An
geles who won't endeavor to be ut.
New ways of utilizing the tag have
been evolved, and whoever isn't tagged
Thursday may certainly consider him
or herself obscure, for those whom
the tag fails to reach undoubtedly will
have to be Theoretically sealed ana
proof against microbes. 1t looks as
though the tag was going to insinuate
itself with startling unexpectedness
into about every nook, crack, corner
and crevice of Los Angeles.
The tags are going so rapidly already
that the issue of 100000 bids fair to be
disposed of before the day arrives; but,
as everybody must be tagged there VIII
be- more Forthcoming, so that no one
will need to feel sighted when the tag
ging begins.
The vacant store at 4a2 South Spring
street has been obtained as tag head
quarters. and flaming signs today will
proclaim the place from which the tags
will issue and where they can be OBJ
tanned for the small sum of 10 cents,
one dime" as the museum spielers say
They will be sold in bundles OF fifty
each, and anyone who buys one bundle
buy another and dispose of that also,
and so ad infinitum. In fact, there will
be no limit on the number of tags
which can be purchased. Rates are
offered to wholesalers as follows: One
tag, 10 cents; five, so cents; ten, 81. etc.
BY buying fifty at time they can be
had for S..
When you wake UP Thursday make
sure you have tag on before you ven
ture downtown, and when you get
downtown make sure every man you
meet has tag on, and IL he hasn't
why tag him. Apply the same rule to
the women ard children also, for every
body has to Weir a tag or be subject
to the annoyance of being tagged.
The rule applies as we'll to dogs. If
they don't show a tendency to fight,
and to children, cats. automobiles,
peanut vendors, preachers, merchants,
poets, pugilists, artists, bartenders'
musicians, hodcarriers, actors, plum
bers, orators, street sweepers. etc.
In fact, no one is immune to the tag,
for the Associated Charities needs the
money, and from the sale of these tags
IL expects to get enough to carry on
the great work Ii is doing in Los An
seles. IL YOU are a subject OF the AS
sociated Charities and can't borrow the
price Of a tag or two steal a tag OF
some dog or cat. But at any rate De
sure you've got tag. or your NE
won't be worth living when the CROWDS
on Broadway, Spring and Main streets
get through with you.
There is going to be naughty gang
of taggers downtown, so don't forget 1t.
Fifteen hundred students of the Los
Angeles high school have enlisted TO
sell them, and you can depend on IL
thew will not be bashful about DONG
so President H w. Frank and Secre-
tary Sewell of the Associated Charities
and Principal Housh and PRESIDENT
Bergman of the student BODY mace
appeals yesterday to the students, ana
the latter readily entered into the soou
cause.
The other school children also have
volunteered in many instances, so that
altogether there will be 5000 or 1000 peo-
ple on the principal downtown streets
Thursday seeing that everybody Is
properly labeled.
THE matter will be officially put up
to, the Poiytechnic high school tomor-
row. and 1t is already understood tnat
body will accept the task to join IN the
crusade against the great untagseo.
President Frank. Rev. William horace
Day and Joseph Scott WIN a1aIess h ea,
Polytechnic students. Mr.. FRANK mas
arranged some fine prizes for the pest
sellers and everyone is anxious to be
"among the six best sellers of the sea-
son." .,,
Great interest attaches to the work
to be done by the pretty chorus girls OF
the Gayety company, which VIII play
at the Grand next week, because these
girls are going upon the street IN pc
Witching costumes to peddle the tags,
and II is promised they will prove about
the most inducive combination that
ever attempted to tag an innocent
pedestrian.
Big crowds are expected to come into
the city from the rural districts. where
| the fame of Tag day already has
| towns want to be 'in" on the game, and
| It is thought they will have good
chance, as nobody is barred, and the
| more the merrier.