The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-21

ing costume and entrance to the warm
sea water plunge
Grand Bentley theatre
/ Byde-a- Wyle theatre.
The TheatOTium.
/ Art theatre.
! Wonderland.
! Sixteen shots at the shooting gallery.
/ Brunswick bowling alleys free to Elks
/ all day.
Brunswick billiard parlors free to EIks
| all day.
Ocean ride from Long Beach pleasure
pier into Long Beach harbor and re-
turn.
| Roller coaster.
MeTry-gO-rOund all day.
| Dancing all day and evening.
Grand ball at Hotel Virginia.
On Sunday the Elks held open house
at their club house. All visiting Elks
were received royalty and Hospitality all
day. One thousand automobiles took
the Elks on free sightseeing tours of
the city.
Monday was Pasadena day. The Elks
were taken free to Pasadena. They Wis
tied the Cawston ostrich farm and at
tended the chariot races at Tournament
park. The Pasadena Elks served a
great barbecue. In the afternoon they
witnessed the Marathon and other ath-
letic sports az Ascot park. In the even
ing they were formally received by the
governor and the mayor at the AuditO-
rum.
On Tuesday morning they attended
the grand lodge session and elected J.
L. Sammis of la Mar, Ia. grand eX-
allied ruler. In the afternoon they went
to Santa Monica, saw the yacht races,
ate pagoda lunches with the Santa Mon
lea Elks. and in the evening danced at
Venice and Ocean Park. Other visitors
listened to the band competition and
witnessed the competitive drills at As
cot park and attended the theatres In
the evening.
Wednesday was Long Beach day, and
a thousand different amusements were
planned and executed by the mana ge-
ment of this resort. Those who didn't
go to the beach attended the athletic
carnival at Ascot park
The Parade Of Elks.
The big Elks parade was held on
Thursday. In this parade 5000 Elks
from every place where floats the Amer
lean flag were gathered. from California.
from New York, from the Philippines,
from Porto Rico, from Yuma. from Pa
ducah. from Steubenville, from Provo.
Three eight-horse tallyhos carried the
Salt Lake representatives. All of the
horses were white. with purple harness
and purple ostrich plumes. The tally
hos were trimmed in purple and bore
Salt Lake pennants. The occupants
wore purple and white uniforms.
In the parade the lodges Of EIks were
arranged numerically which brought
salt Lake lodge No. So well to the front.
The grand lodge officers, past and elect.
occupied the van Of the procession. As
No e
drill corps and the members of the Los
Angeles lodge accompanied the grand
lodge officers.
New York lodge No. I was followed
by Philadelphia lodge No. 2 in green
and white. then san Francisco No. i'm
red, and then Chicago No 4 and Gin
cinnati No. 3. The gamest loser of them
alLGarry Hermann, defeated candidate
for grand exalter ruler. led the Cincin-
natl millionaires. They were attired in
golf uniforms red coats. green caps.
tan trousers, green stockings and tan
shoes, and carried golf stick for canes.
With the Cincinnati marchers were
tWenty-three millionaires. The Cincin-
natl ladies we're borne in huge automo-
bile tallyhOs. decked with thousands of
roses. The ladies were in white, with
large hats made Of red roses.
Boston No. 10 was I'm colonial costume
Denver No. II carried white umbrellas
connected with great white ribbons.
Santa Anna had $50 human oranges in
line.
In the evening the great electrical cir
Gus parade was given Hundreds of
electrical floats, picturesque and beauti
tul, was a feature of the thrilling pa
geant- Each one excited laughter and
admiration. One of these floats cost
$4,000 to build. Pretty girls i'm fan
tastic costume rode on the backs Of pic
turesque monsters in the parade.
Midsummer Festival.
The feature event Of the week was
the midsummer festival on Friday. the
parade Of which was more than nine
miles in length. First came the great
and wonderfully beautiful fiOwer-decked
then hundreds Of Spanish
and American euuestTians, both men and
mounted on prancing horses
loaded with beautiful blossoms. Then
there were floats of the different sec
tons Of the city, of different cities of
the state and of different states in the
Union. Then there was the parade Of
all nations. in which representatives Of |
every civilized and semi-civiHzed ma
ton participated. Representative of |
iraternal orders other than the Elks fol- |
lowed for miles. Then came the floats |
tive Of the different indus |
tries, ending the parade A feature of |
Friday, too. was the massed band pa
rade, in which $50 musicians played a g
1ne band. The electrical circus parade /
was repeated in the evening, after /
which the official grand lodge ball was |
held in the Al Malaikah Shrine coli |
scum.
Getaway day was celebrated at !
Lucky Baldwin's world-famous ranch |
where a barbecue and a wild west show /
were the features. In the evening the /
electrical circus parade closed the /
weeks pageant At Venice the closing /
ball was given.
In the week of entertainment Los An. 1
geles has established a new mark in /
entertainment. The transit /
ton from the old system Of holding up 1
2 convention crowd to the Los Angeles 4
plan Of genuine hospitality is a sudden 4
Dne, but one that suggests a great op- /
portunity for Salt Lake. which has the 1
honor OF entertaining the veterans of /
the civil war next month.