Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-12
B.P.O.E. GRAND
OFFICERS FETED
ELKS GUESTS OF ALEXANDRIA
HOTEL COMPANY
TABLES SET AMID GORGEOUS
SURROUNDINGS
Great Head of Antlered Throng Makes
FelIcltous Address in Eulogy
of Los Angeles and
California

In a setting rivaling feast Of Nero,
or one of the revels in the grove OF
Daphne, a complimentary banquet was
rendered last evening to Grand Tx
allied Ruler Rush l.. Holland and other
officers of the grand lodge of the b:
p. o. e. by the Alexandria Hotel
company at the Alexandria hotel.
That is the way the guests spoke of it,
and their characterization of the splen-
doris of the feast seems not to have
been overrated. 1t is certain more
elaborate banquet has not been served,
either in Los Angeles or elsewhere,
The tables were set in the hotel
banquet room and S. j. Whitman and
Joseph Reichel, who represented the
hotel company, made it their endeavor
to provide the most gorgeous setting
for the banquet ever seen at the hotel.
The center space, which was surround
ed by the tables, was built up with
terraces of American Beauty roses,
with tiers of softly shaded incandes-
cent lights, giving an effect of oriental
beauty. The tables were streWn Win
rose petals and the walls were banked
with greenery in which Pan might
have hidden and piped his pastoral
strains Behind q wall of ferns a
dusky quartet chorused in soul-moVing
barber shop harmony and an Austrian
orchestra rendered softly melliauous
music.
The sneakers were as eloquent as
the setting demanded. Douglas White,
who has presided at banquets since the
time when the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary, discoursed upon
the snow-clad hills and the tall pines
pointing heavenward and California
sunsets. and the other speakers came
hack at him with a line of oratory, the
like of which has not been heard since
the wear of the big wind.
ct am from Colorado" said Grand
Exalted Ruler Holland, land 1 always
will he loyal to it as one of the great
est states in the Union, barring none;
but God denied Colorado the one at
traction which would have made IL
nerfect. He gave to California not
only its vine-covered hills and it's rose
cushioned valleys but he gave it the
glory and the Vastness and the wonder
of the sun-kissed Pacific"
There were more delicately shaded
outbursts, but all We're in keeping Win
the gorgeously beautiful color scheiiie
The banquet was rendered TO the
Flks by the hotel company in honoI
of the hosiery having been selecteo
as the headquarters of the grand lodge
officers of the order at the grand lodge
Of the Elks, to convene at Los Angeles
next year.
Among those who spoke were r. L
Holland, Thomas Mills, c; ii. ware
John Brink, DR.. Ralph Hagan, VIII
stevens, Tom Darmody Byron Erken 1
brecher. The full list of the guests
follows A. C. Harper, mayor Of the
city of Los Angeles; r. L. Holland
grand exalted ruler; Fred Robinson
grand secretary; Thomas Mills, CRANE
| trustee; A. T. Holly. grand trustee
G. Fl. Ward, district deputy grand ex.
allied ruler; NJ. ]. McGarry, exalted
ruler Los Angeles lodge No. So; NJ. J
conway, secretary Los Angeles lodge
No. 3d. John Brink, Douglas Whit e
DR.. Ralph Hagan, A. W. Raybould' p
! J. O'Connor. Jack Martin, DR.. w; w
Homan. Robert Atkinson, Charles Ben
brook Jacob Schaeffer, viii Stephens
r A. Wann, Guy L. Yonkin. Tom Oar
mody. Byron Erkenbrecher, Charles
Kits, James F. Smith.