Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
CROWD FLOCkS
BY THOUSANDS
TO FACTORIES
AUTOMOBILES KEPT BUSY ALL
DAY LONG
RESIDENTS AND NoN-RESIDENTS
PROFOUNDLY AsToNIsHE0
Frank Virgins Explains That Con-
tract for prosperity Week"
Buttons Was Awarded
to Local Firm

More than 5000 persons visited the
various local factories yesterday most
of them leaving the Chamber OF com
merce building in automobiles. Wheh
the first started 800 persons were Walt walt
ing to 60 and before 10 O'CLOCK oUo
visiting badges had been given oul '
During the day more than lOU ma
chimes were engaged in handling the
crowds Who wanted to go and see now
the different articles were put up. AT
the factories guides were employed 70
show the visitors through the puld-
ings. ,.,,,o. 4,,o
1argest crowds were Bishops candy
Factory. Hoegee's sporting goods fac
tory and the Cudahy Packing company
The Duro automobile factory, the
Western Gas company works ana the
Tourist automobile factory, all oil WIllcn
firms furnished a number OF machines
to the chamber of commerce dQrlns lne
day, also were visited by immense
lovers of sports, and there are thou
sands of them in Los Angeles, TOOK
special interest in Hoegee's factory
Auto lovers visited the automobile rae
tories. and lovers of sweets were espe-
ciaIIy interested in Bishops factory
where they were treated royalty
on circuit No. one of the trst stops
was made at the Western Gas company
works. North Main street and AlhaIn-
bra avenue. These works cover sew
eral acres, and yesterday the grounus
and buildings were beautifully deco
rated with prosperity banners hdss
and flowers. ...4,.;o-
were visited throughout the day.
Comic Band Feature
The comic band and the band IN
tallyho also were features of yesterday
Another feature that claimed large
crowds of persons was the Iree f ifiiia
ton of paintings by Southern Call1oIIlla
students at Blanchard hall. In the
afternoon. before the Santa Monica
Raw Italian band had arrived in Cen
trail park, hundreds of music lovers
were sitting on the benches around the
pavilion, waiting to eaten the Hrss
strains that, at 2:30 o'clock, hoated
through the grove.
In the residence sections and in the
rooming houses all over the city eV1-
dences of enthusiasm in prosperity
Week are to be seen. Everybody Is
wearing a prosperity button, ana
everywhere are to be seen the white
and yellow prosperity banners, inter-
mingled with the folds of Old Glory.
II am astonished," said James HuXt-
lev. a prominent business man OF
Frankfort, Ky, who is registered at the
Alexandria, Eat the remarkable grown
of Los Angeles I was here hVe years
ago and the progress made is remark
able 1t is very natural, though, see
ing the civic pride of the residents
When 1 was a boy 1 read in dime novels
of the golden west but I tell you, the
people of Southern California are real
izing all, and more than was dreamed
of by the novelist of forty years ago.
The poor and afflicted of the city, too,
are reaping the benefits of Prosperity
Week. Whatever effects a part of
community naturally mas an eHeet on
the entire body. The old woman who
sells violets, the crippled miner who
plays the Arkansas Traveller" on an
old violin, the Salvation Army SEN
tinels, collecting money to give the
poor of the city a good THANKSGIVING
dinner, all come in for share OF the
weeks good things.
Purse Strings Loosened
Yesterday. on the corner of Broadway
and Fifth street, a blind man and his
wife were singing new and popular songs
and songs that brought back to many
listeners memories of bright days of
the past. The woman was not a Media,
the man was not a De Reszke, but their
voices appealed to many passersby, and
often q man or woman and sometimes
a child, would stop and drop small
coin into the hat Whlch the man was
holding. Two men stopped minute To
listen One of them, a well dressed
man with diamond in his shirt, took
out his purse and dropped a quarter in
the hat. Make it a dollar, Sam; this
is Prosperity Week" said his COM
panion, laughing, and the other man
smilingly complied.
Saturday will be "Star day and it is
proposed to sell 100000 stars at 10 cents
cool, fof. "a baTefit Of the Rpt6lpbpm
institute, where Russian, Japanese and
other children daily are being taught
to speak, read and write the English
language, and are learning as well the
primary ethics of good citizenship
Dana Bartlett, manager of the school,
appeals for help to all in Los An
geles who have the welfare Of the chill
dren and of the city at heart.
This certainly has been posterity