The San Francisco call., 1909-09-15
BUTTON DAY FOR
PORTOLA BOOSTERS
Native Sons and Daughters to
Raise Funds for Their
Share in Festival

Today will be button day for the
Native Daughters of the Golden West
and, in fact, for every one else on
whom they can get their hands and
who has as much as dime. Through
out all of the bay cities pretty girls
will dispose of the button and gather in
the dimes.
The money raised is to be turned in
to the treasury of the Portola festi-
val committee of the Native Sons and
Native Daughters. 1t will be used to
insure an elaborate display in the big
Portola civic parade. All of the ex-
penses for this display will be paid
by the Native Soz,s and Daughters
themselves. and the Portola treasury
will not be asked for a cent.
All of the parlors throughout the
state are being urged to aid the Por-
tola. Buttons and circulars are be-
Ing sent out by the committee, and it
IS expected that the display made in
the big parade will be one of the spec
tacuiar features of the festival.
The headquarters today will be, in
the offices of Edward f. Moran in the
Monadnock building. All day yester-
day committees labored arranging the
details for button day Miss Anna f.
Lacy OF Las Lomas parlor is the chair
man or the Native Daughters booster
committee, which will have charge of
the disposal of the buttons.
The buttons are of red and yellow.
the festival colors, and are very at
tract1ve. 1t is expected that an i'm
mense number of them will be sold
today.
The various stations arranged for
the sale of the buttons and the par
lors that will have charge of them are
as follows:
Southern Pacific ferry, Orc Fino parIor
Santa Fe ferry, Ell Vespero parlor.
Northwestern ferry, Ell vespero parlor.
California, Market to Montgomery and Kearny
Alta parlor.
Lotta's fountain. Las Lomass parlor.
Sutter and Grant avenue, Darlna parlor.
From Emporium to Seventh and Market,
Buena Vista parlor.
st. Francis hotel. Portoa parlor.
kearny and Montgomery avenue, Alta parlor.
Newman Levinson's, Bnena Vista parlor.
Sutter and Fillmore. Keith parlor.
The Chutes, Golden Gate parlor.
Sixteenth and Mission streets, Fremont parlor
Twenty second and Mission streets, Fremont
parlor.
Twenty ninth and Mission streets. Guadalupe
parlor.
Potrero avenue and Sixteenth and Bryant
Fourteenth and Market streets, Presidio par
icr-
WASHINGTON and Battery, San SOucl pari0r.
Richmond district, Linda Rosa parlor.
Third and Townsend Calaveras parlor.
0rpheum, Gabrielle rarlor.
Valencia theater, Yosemite parlor.
From First and Mission streets to Sixth and
Mission Orinda parlo-.
The Fairmont, Dolores parior-
Third and Market streets to the ferry, Minerva
Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, Oakland par
From sixth street to sixteenth and Mission to
Bryant, La Estrella parlor
Ha ght and Stanyan streets, Los Frosls parior'
POST CARDS READY
The official Portola post cards
which are to be placed on sale within
a few days will give every loyal Call
fornfaf a chance to boost for the big
October festival and to contribute. to
the festival fund in small way. 1t
is believed that from 100000 to TO-
600 900 of these cards will be sent
throughout the world.
The cards will be retailed for one
cent each. Their sale will help swell
the Portola treasury.
The fund for the festival continues
to grow slowly. While the demand
for money has stimulated the SUBJ
scriptfon many apparently fail to
realize the urgency of the need. The
big fete is hardly more than month
away and many contracts are hang
ing fire because of the lack of funds.
3 3.
the call for funds came yesterday,
when Prof. A. E. Kellogg, principal
of the Hamilton school. notified the
finance committee of a voluntary con-
tribution to the festival of $50 raised
among the teachers of the school.
Many weeks of work are necessary
to prepare for a festival of the magni-
tude mapped ut for the Portola. The
decorations and illuminations will be
on such lavish scale that work on
them has started already, and it will
require the hardest kind of labor to
have them completed in time.
Send in your subscriptions to the
Portola fund Immediately.
Prize for Portola Float
OAKLAND. Sept. 14.-A prize of
SO will be given by the Oakland
chamber of commerce to the person
presenting the best suggestion for
float to represent Oakland at the great
Portola parade to be held in San Fran
cisco. The directors of the chamber
of commerce met this afternoon and
took action to this effect at the sug-
gestion of H. c. Capwell. The float
is to be placed in that section of the
parade that will be known as Cali
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