Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-14
Songs, Cheers, Lunch and
Other Things There
ALL SECTIONS MEET ON SANDS
OF THE PACIFIC
PAGoDA DOES RUSH BUSINESS
AT NOON HOUR
Seven Thousand Packages Given
Away and Fifteen Barrels of Punch
Absorbed In Course of the
Festivities

With song, cheer, and rallying cry
thirty thousand Hello Bills poured into
Ocean Park and Venice yesterday, ano
from early morning until late at night
the cars were packed with representa-
tiVes of the Elk clan who greeted each
other with noisy vociferation and cries
OF recognition and greeting as they
made their way to the places of prom
ised entertainment.
From Seattle to Florida, the lodges
were represented and the Hello, Bill
OF recognition popped continuously
throughout the car journeys as long
separated friends met again attel
years of absence and renewed dis
cussion of the home folks.
Badges and news were freely inter
changed when sunny south, cultured
east and progressive west met on thS
mutual pilgrimage OF pleasure and re-
lated the changes which passing years
had wrought upon the old familiar
friends and places, and while the gom-
an folk discussed dress patterns ano
the fortunate marriage of Maria, the
man folk told of Henry's raise In
salary or how Jimmy made his pile.
Grub Call CHEEKY
From noon on. the greater part OF
the travellers dropped off at Ocean
Park, where members of Santa Monica
lodge, NO 906, stopped them with q
CHEEKY call for Grub. BILL and con-
Quoted them to the pagoda where box
lunches were given out At the santa
Monica pagoda, 5000 lunches Were
handed out during the day. and from
IL o'clock in the morning until In
the afternoon the Ocean Park tent
near the Casino gave away 1000 pack
ages of food and served 10 barrels OF
punch.
The rush was so great at Santa
nd arb
/ o'clock in the afternoon was any
lunch available for the hordes who
packed the tent at Venice and clam
ored for ire promised food. At the lat
ter place two thousand lunches were
brought into service up to 6 o'clock at
night and many more were served at d
later hour. The refreshment served con-
sisted of two sandwiches, some olives,
pickles, cake, and orange and claret
punch. In spite of the peculiar COM
bination, no doctors were called into
service, and the denizens of the ant
Tered kingdom seemed to be sworn enc
mics of indigestion.
Pacific Wins Friends
About three thousand Elks and
friends or families took advantage or
the opportunity TO take a swim in the
ocean, and the entire shore from the
northern extremity of Santa Monica to
the southern limits of Venice was
dotted with enthusiastic plungers in
the surf.
The rope from the Ocean Park bath
house was thick with visiting pathers
and from a distance they appeared as
a swarm of bees swarming on a
elothesline. The plunge of the ocean
Park bath house was filled so full OF
swimmers that the water was raised
several feet above it's normal level ana
the gallery seats were filled by spec
tators who watched papa" or "broth-
er Bill'' cavorting in the aqueous arena
of amusement. Many of the woman
folk ventured into the sea and many
amusing incidents occurred to COM
memorate the day.
Big waves tipped over unsuspectlng
maidens and sprawled them IN the
sand, the ebb tide took little future
Elks farther from the shore than pleas
ure permitted and many bold male
was subjected to a taste of salt water
which he little expected One stout gem
tleman from a Texas lodge attempted
to show his five-year-old son the
pleasures of ocean bathing, and when
he yentured from shore with the BOY
in his arms, gigantic wave toppleu
him over and hurled him upon the
child, who set up howl of dismay ana
could not be persuaded that his father
had not attempted to drown him.
Fault Blamed to Wife
One woman accompanied her hus-
hand into the surf, and when they
ioined hands to battle with the SURF
she suddenly set up a Homeric roar
and was nearly strangled by the salty
rnsh of water. Her husband, who was
a dininutive man, made matters worse
hv proclaiming that his wife would
surely get drowned, as she was unable
10 keep her mouth shut even under
water.
Many of the swimmers appeared
sadly changed when in bathing cos
tune. but after all they proved to be
of physically better build than the
average crowd of bathers seen at the
seaside, and many of the muscular de-
yelopments observed were reVela-
tion of strength and proportion
Strange to say, the Texas, Arizona,
Nevada and other western represen-
tatiyes we're conspicuous for their
tailored perfections and sartorial dis
nlavs as we'll as their physiques, and
MANY man from Tombstone, Ariz.,
or Death valley, New. could have made
Barry Wall green with envy.
More than 1000 of the visitors visited
the Ship hotel at Venice and several
who had experienced ocean voyages eX-
pressed delight that for once they were
able to be aboard a boat without being
purveyors of nourishment for the
fishes.
Skipper Worde z. McFadden an
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