Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-19
ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT GIVEN
AT ANNUAL BANQUET
EIGHT FOREIGN AVIATORS ARE
ALREADY ENGAGED
Board of Directors viii Meet Today
to Discuss Plans for Raising
of Necessary Initial
Funds


directors of the association were re-
uuested to take financial charge OF
the management of Aviation week, TO
be held in January and to lay plans
and set the machinery in motion
which will raise $4,000 to finance the
project.
This practically insures the success
of the great festival of the air, for of
the 100000 needed to guarantee the
expenses of Aviation week II. e. Hunt
ington already has subscribed $oO,OOO.
Dick Ferris will be general manager of
the big meeting.
The board of directors of the M. and
M. association will meet today to dis
cuss plans for Aviation week and
probably will announce shortly how
the $4,000 is to be raised. The project
is more or less in embryo, but before
another week all details Will nave Deen
worked out and committees Will be
set to work to carry out the plans.
1t is conceded that an Aviation week
such as is projected will bring half
a million people to Los Angeles and
will be the means of benehting mer-
chants and business men generally TO
the extent of several millions of dol
lars.
Foreign Experts Coming
According to Dick Ferris, who out
lined what has been done so far to-
ward Ile dNldLlOl meet Idulllai' I~O
Blon, Delagrange. Prevot and two wo-
men aeronauts-Dorothy Leviatt and
a. French countess--will fly here.
Flights will be made every day by all
the exhibitors, who will compete for
prizes given for the best records made
in time, length and height Of flying.
The banquet last night was the an
nual Thanksgiving feast OF the N, M ana ana
M association. Get together was
the spirit which prevailed everywhere,
and it was in this spirit that the ban
uueters took so kindly to the plans Tor
Aviation week.
In his remarks, Toastmaster Fred
w Detmers exhorted the 250 merchants
and manufacturers to forget the pet
illnesses of business life and to make
their rivals their friends. He declared
that such dinners as the one last
night brought men closer together and
nut their businesses on a professional
basis and not commercial rivalry. He
called upon all business men to cease
the cutthroat warfare and be gener-
GUS enough to make friends with all.
Big Plans AppIauded
Other speakers on the program were
BENJAMIN +. Pearson of the Edison
Electrical company, the Rev. Baker p.
Lee, Dick Ferris and f. J. Zeehan-
delaar. secretary Of the association.
The last named two spoke on aVia-
ton. H. w. Frank, Max Meyburg and
d. A. Hamburger were called upon to
express their sentiments in regard to
the aviation meeting projected, and
each declared that he thought it was
a good thing and that Los Angeles |
would make a great success Of 1t.
Referring to financing the project, !
Mr.. Hamburger said: when you call
upon the merchants and capitalists of
Los Angeles to foster this meeting you
will find them as always before, not
wanting They will give Of their
sinews to further the progress of Los
Angeles and this certainly will put Los
Angeles before the world in a new
way"
One of the treats of the evening was
the rendition on a Victor phonograph
of a portion of DR.. Cooks lecture on
How l Discovered the North Pole
Immediately after this Ellsworth Sal
yer, one of the entertainment commit
tee entered the room, dressed TO rep
resent Commander Peary. In a humor
ously i'm he refuted the statements Of
the phonograph and declared that he
was the real discoVerer of the pole, /
which he found somewhere out near
Catalina island. His speech brought
forth much applause and laughter. |
Ntncl treats were lllt SbliES bA James !
p. Burns r. l.. Phister and the witty
southern dialect stories of l.. J. Shelby. /
Harbor Statue Suggested
Oratorical and effective was the
speech of the Rev. Mr. Lee. lie spoke
of "The Men of California" In the
course of his remarks ne said that the
age of great things is opening now,
and that it is time for red-blooded men
to take notice. lie declared that some
people might Criticiso him for being
at the banquet but he thought his
place was where it was. among men. /
MY place is here said Mr.. Lee, "I /
am man just as You. ] was a man
before | was parsOn, Religion is a
business and I have no excuses to
offer for being a clergyman, just as
you have no excuses 10 offer for being
business men"
lie paid a glowing tribute to woman
hood and said that he hoped TO see
the time when "a statue to Mother
hood" would be reared i'm san Pedro
harbor. Just as there is now located
i'm New York harbor q statue of lib
erty. lie declared that the three things
business mon need most to avoid are
immortality seifishnoSS and unbeliof !
and that, if these three are avoided
and if men will mako the most of their
opportunities there win % forth from
the PaClnc coast race Of mcl who
will conquer the world commercially
and in every other peaceable way.
Ferris Springs Big Facts
Dick Ferris remarks probably were
fraught with the most Of any words
spoken during the evening. He said
that it was necessary to raise 100000
in order to insure success of aviation
week. He said that of this sum Mr..
Huntington has agreed to subscribe
$50 900. He said he was willing 10
place the management Of the entire
enterprise in the hands Of the ATer-
chants and Manufacturers association
if they would agree to raise the other
$50 900. What profit there is accruing
from the project will go to the associa-
tion, he said. 1t is his plan to char
ter every train which runs to Arcadia.
which probably viii be the aviation
field.
Each person boarding the train will
be compelled to show ticket of an
mission to the aviation grounds HeI
said the attendance from Southern
California alone should be 250,000 and
several times that from other parts OF
the United States. He said the at
tendance at Rheims. France, was 800
600, and the receipts SHE, 600 for one
week. This should be more than
duplicated. said Mr.. Ferris.
He said that il was practically GER