Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
MEET AND
TOAST VICTORY
NINE HUNDRED FOREGATH HER
AT BANQUET TABLE
LEVYs RINGS WITH JURiLANT
SHOUTS OF coNoUERoRs
Mayor Harper Gives Graphic Account
of Struggle at Dallas That
Ended In Winning the
Convention

After the first Hello, Bill" you
might as well have given UP and grown
horns.
That is the way you felt when 900
Elks, with the thrill of victory coursing
through their veins, crowded into the
banquet hall of Levy's cafe in celebra-
ton of the battle of Dallas. And each
one got anywhere from twenty to fifty
Hello, Bills!" as soon as he hung up
his hat.
Five minutes inside the hall was am
pie time in which to get the ear ache.
Nothing but a bunch of coyotes on an
Arizona desert could match the noise.
When just ordinary human shrieks did
not seem to fill the bill sufficiently,
cleverly manipulated siren let forth its
cry, like the wall of lost soul. Babel
must have been q quiet and Sunday
school sort of place beside the Elks'
jubilation over their victory at Dallas.
When all the members of the heard,
including representatives from every
little town in Southern California, had
taken their seats, the booster committee
that did the business at Dallas, each
member in cream-colored flannel
suit, marched in and received an oVa-
tion that would have gratified a presi-
Dental candidate. Cheer after cheer
rang out until every one of the COM
mittee felt like hiding his face from
modesty.
Then the committee responded with
the song they sang at Dallas:
Delegate, delegate, look out for the bears
We are the people everywhere,
We are the entertainers, that's where we
shine
Los Angeles for the grand lodge, 1908.
Again pandemonium broke loose, and
even the stuffed elk on the platform
4 hi 70 ppt the sound
out 1t was enough to smash the tym-
panum OF ones ears.
After the concerted yell, "Good morn
ing, boss; Good mornin', boys; Wnere
is Casey this EVENING"" and the an
swer, "On the job" Edmund B. Drake
welcomed the Elks. This was followed
by the society song, which was re-
ceiyed with regular Texas w1ndstorm
of applause-the kind that blew over
the, convention at Dallas and shattered
the opposition.
Mr.. Drake then introduced Motley II.
Flint as toastmaster, who said; =.
"Those who have gone east to Try
to get a. national convention TO this
city know how hard it is. There Is
nothing so good for California as con-
yentions of this sort. 1t helps nightly
to build up the city as nothing else
will do. There will be other Elk con-
ventions after ours, but those who par
ticipate will go away and say 'Pretty
good, but not up to the one we had at
Los Angeles The fight at Dallas was
a hard one and we are indebted to this
committee for the victory.
awe shall need money. The execu-
tive committee met today and ar
ranged the preliminaries. We have
made arrangements for rates on the
railroads. We are going to get up
minstrel show and a baseball game
to start the ball rolling, and when we
have a little bank account we can go
to the merchants of this city and ask
for their support. One of the features
of the convention will be an electrical
parade which will put everything in
that line in the past IN the shade. Then
there will be the Fraterial day parade
which has never been done before. We
expect to have floats representing
every fraternal and secret society in
Southern California. 1t will be the
finest ever given in the United States.
When the Elks come to Los Angeles
they will have the time of their lives,
and it will always be a bright spot In
their memories"
John c. Mott of the boosters emo
nittee spoke of the opposition they
found at Dallas. He said this was
finally overcome by the tactics Of the
Los Angeles delegation.
Mayor Harper Apologies
Mayor Harper apologized for not
wearing his cream -colored suit and
gave as an excuse thta he had lost the
trousers. He said he had never seen
SO many men crowded into the hall
before, though he had been there many
times. The mayor did not seem to
think they had a very hard time in
Dallas, though he admitted they
''worked" overtime. He said: "There
were 1S0 of u.s. and every one could
sing a song. Then we stole a whistle
from some building in Los Angeles and
took it with US and fixed 1t up on Ho-
tel Southland, where it made more
noise than John Brink down below. 1t
Is a mistaken idea If man thinks he
has got to sleep at an 'Elks' conven-
ton.
"It will be the biggest convention
that ever came to this city, and every
merchant who invests a dollar in it
will get ten back"
Exalted Ruler M. J. McGarry spoke
next and was followed by the lunch
con, during which selections by the
Schoneman- Blanchard orchestra were
given. An outlet for the pentup en-
thusiasm was furnished when the or
chestra played selections that every
Elk with horns knows by heart.
After the luncheon Toastmaster Flint
tried in vain to regain order and in
troduce other speakers. Finally, with
the assistance of four members of the
boosters committee, he introduced
Judge Henry Stieglitz of San Pedro,
and after him DR.. w. H. Jones of Long
Beach.
Robert Mitchell, in witty address,
related the story of the trip. His talk
was interrupted by the signal for IL
o'clock. The chimes rang out, the COL
ored electric bulbs on the Elks horns
hared out and everybody drank the
toast to the absent brothers, led by
Rev. Baker p. Lee, D. d.
The jubilation was concluded with a
midnight song by the Angel City dou-
BILE quartet
Among the musical selections were a
tenor solo by Alexander H. Hannum, a
baritone solo by Paul Ptner and a
bass solo by Willard M. Webster and
renditions by the Angel City double
quartet.
The committee of arrangements was
composed of Otto Herbert Schons,
chairman; Franklin r. Pitner, music;
Harry Ziegler, invitations; James Han
lev, reception; Joe Rittigstein, press;
Joseph T. Campbell, treasurer. and c.
p. Kits, program.