The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-21
Prices Reduced by Hotels and
All Places of Amusement
Thrown Open to the City's
Guests.

program of entertainment. The visitors
were charmed with this entertainment
ana IN returning to their homes they art
I carrying with them and shouting LOUDLY
the praises Of Salt Lake with those OF
Los Angeles Other western and Goa ST
cities contributed their share, which was
material in adding to the great success
of the reunion.
Across the continent making their pill
grimage TO Los Angeles trainload after
tralnload OF Elks met with series of mis-
fortunes, that only made the welcome
al Los Angeles the more cheerful by the
contrast Washouts, wrecks. disasters
and delays were forgotten in the general
Iieffiment of the gladstone California
treatment
From salt Lake to Los Angeles there
were no misfOrtunes. Special trainloads
OF jolly visitors were whirled across the
desert in remarkably quick time. and
were hailed at every stat by Elks.
Leaving Salt Lake, the visitors were
cheered at every station. and whenever
the opportunity afforded itself every
possible favor was shown the journey
ing Eiks. At Las Vegas ladies distrib-
uted bouquets of desert holly. postal
cards and basket lunches. The men
hurried the male occupants of the trains
OUT OF their coaches, mounted them on
burros and took them to the club house
ana other places where cooling draugbts
were quickly supplied.
At Daggett. Cal, committees from the
Los Angeles lodge boarded each train.
supplied the occupants with mans of
Los Angeles, with all sorts Of infOrma-
ton about the town, and answered all
sorts OF questions. One committee re-
manned with each train from Daggett
to Los Angeles as a formal escort. At
BristoW the Harvey eating house he
lOnged to the EIks. Everything was
theirs. At san Bernardino the ladies'
distributed baskets Of fruits. beautiful
bouquets. and the men gave postal
cards and cigars.
Arrival in Los Angeles.
When the trains reached the Los An
geles depot, 300 uniformed men. mem
bers of the Los Angeles lodge of FIks. es-
corted the ladies Of the train to waiting
automobiles: hurried the men into line
shook hands, said Hello. Bill. every
thlngs yours and escorted the visit
ors through the streets of the city with
bands playing and colors flying. The
uniformed men were the members Of
the famous White Squadron of Los An
geles lodge, the most energetic hosts i'm
the history of Elkdom.
Always the first duty of EIks visiting
a grand lodge reunion is to register. AT
Los Angeles every Elk who registered
was given an official reunion badge
with guest badges for the ladies i'm his
party, street car passes, passes to auto
mobile sightseeing trips. passes 10 pa
sadena, TO Tournament park. to Ascot
park, to the chariot races. to the atb-
letlc tournament, to Ocean Park. 10
Venice, to Santa Monica, to Naples. tn
Arcadia, to Lucky Baldwin's ranch. 10
theatres, to beach attractions. to surf
to every attraction. and there
were hundreds of them that Los An
geles boasts. The reunion was a hun
1red-ringed circus. with q thousand
nenagerie tents and a million sideshoWs
You didn't have the time, even bI
utilizing day and night, TO see 1.-THE of
what was to be seen, but every Elk. no
matter what he chose to see. was SURF
that he saw the best. which argues that
Every part of the entertainment must
nave approached very close to the per
'ect.
As an example of the liberality of the
concerns adjoining Los An
seles, these are a few of the passes con
aimed in a booklet given the Elks bv
he management of the Long Beach re-
sort through Long Beach lodge.
Long Beach ostrich farm.
A dip in the Pacific ocean. Free bath