The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
HINTS FOR THE
PORTOLA TOAST
Prominent Men of the Day
In Carnival Mood Offer
Some Suggestions
To President
BY ARTHUR L. PRICE


/ & INCE President Taft is so busily
engaged with his manifold official
duties. The Call has decided to
/ help him out in the composition of the
TOAST which he is to deliver in this city
October 10. when he opens the Portola
FESTIVAL SO a symposium has been
conducted into which prominent men
nave contributed their suggestions for
the toast.
! United states Senator Aldrich sent in
the first suggestion His toast is to be
delivered by grand chorus of the FIVE
or six men whom AIdrich had in mind
When ne prepared his other massive
literary work-the senate tarir hill
Inc ultimate Consumer is supposed to
applaud the sentiment with enthu-
siasm
THE ALDRICH TOAST
LIT nigh your cup of precious glass
! tFour hundred per cent adj vaIorem)
And drink this stein-protected wine
With feryor intense and decorum.
Drink to the noble PorteIa>
And give him hardy, heartfelt
Il
rouse
Notable wIght-he found n site
| Ideal for "A needed custom house.
Edward II. Hartman, continuing to
entertain those lofty sentiments of
love and kindliness he has for San
Francisco, took readily to the sugges-
ton of contributing a sentiment to the
Portoia toast competition. He dashed
on the following on the back of a bill
of lading:
HARRIMAN'S TOAST
You crossed the plains, o PortoIa,
With ardor and agility;
You had no use for a Pullman car,
Your feet had prime ability.
But why toast you, sir today,
With envious humility,
Is this-yOu had-in rare degree
A terminal facility.
The mayor of Dayton, o. filed
with pride that he lived in this gener-
alton and thus became a famous being
in the rays of light reflected from the
sails Of an aeroplane. was found in a
ing some medals to be awarded the city
in commemoration of its recent ex-
ploits. At first he did not remember
having ever heard of San Francisco,
but when it was recalled TO his mind
that a captive balloon was once at
tached to our soil he recolected the
place and later placed it on the map.
When asked to inscribe a sentiment
suitable ito the Portola festival the
mayor took pencil made from bit |
of wood taken from the Wright broth
ers bicycle shop and prepared the fol-
lowing:
roAsT OF DAYToN,s MAYOR
You might have made a hero in those
leaden days OF yore,
When the feet of all the races were
fixed firmly onto earth;
But were You living nowadays You
surely could not score
TIL you had proved by flying that
You were man Of worth.
AS you moved San Francisco with
your force of muIeteers
HI Is 10 your creulH that You
found the waiting bay.
Had You gone by aeroplane you'd be
worthy of cheers,
For then you would have won your
glory In the great Wright way.
Dr. Charles w. Eliot late of Har-
ward. was found with five foot tape
line, pair of shears and an assert
'ment of dusty old books, busily COM
pleting his famous shelf of essential
literature.
When asked to write a toast he jot-
ted down a stanza of Latin verse,
which has been freely translated into
the following English ode:
You couldn't have done better had you
mastered each letter
That's contained in my five foot shelf
of tones;
But I really can not say how you could
have found the bay
without n knowledge of John MIL
toms poems.