Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-12
SANTA MONICA READY
FOR ANTLERED HERD
PREPARATIONS FOR ELKS' DAY
COMPLETED
Yacht Regatta, old Spanish Sports
and Luncheon for Ten Thousand
Will Be Feature of
Program
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/ Especial to The Herald
/ SANTA MONICA, July 1.-THE prep
arations which are being made for the
celebration of Santa Monica day Tues
| day, July 13, are of an extensive CHAR
acter and embrace many noVel ana
! interesting features. The booster
committee of Santa Monica lodge NO
9O6 has spared no pains to make this
date one that will linger long in the
memory of visiting Elks. With the
sum of $4,000 at its disposal it has pre-
pared days entertainment that Isl
varied and novel.
All members of the lodge and those
who reside in the vicinity of the
Crescent bay with membership in other
/ lodges will compose a monster recep- |
| tion committee and will assemble at the |
Elks' clubhouse early in the day for
! the purpose of being assigned their
posts In the entertainment of their
/ guests they will be assisted by the
! merchants of the bay who have already
done much toward making the celebra-
tion a success.
Aside from the clubhouse headquar-
| ters have been established at the va
| rious centers on the bay and commit
tees detailed to take charge AT Pier
avenue and Trolley Way the large
double store has been decorated hand
somey and chairs and tables put in
for the convenience of visiting breth-
rem. In Venice the upper deck of the
Ship hotel has been made ready for
the reception of all who come and will
be maintained as headquarters during
the entire week.
Sports to Be Feature
One of the special features Of the
Santa Monica day entertainment will
be the program of old Spanish sports
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I large grandstand on Ocean avenue.
The program will be under the direc-
tion of Don Juan J. Carrillo, one of
the pioneer residents of the city and a
member of one of the Oldest Spanish
families in the state. The entertain
ment will last from 10 until IL o'clock.
There will be broncho busting, ring
racing, the lassoing of wild horses
while running at full speed, picking
up of coins from the ground from the
backs of racing mounts and many other
feats of daring peculiar to the reckless
tastes of the original native sons of
California.
A number of wild horses have been
brought from the Manibu country and
will furnish plenty of excitement be-
fore they are subdued by the expert
| Spanish riders who will take part In
the horse wrangling exhibition. Those
who will take part are scions of some
in this vicinity.
Luncheon on Beach
At noon a "Pagoda" luncheon will
be served, the main points of distribu-
ton being the Elks club, the ocean
front at the foot of Pier avenue and
at Venice. Ten thousand lunches will
be given out at these points and there
will be a number of other places where
4 individual citizens will take care of
their share of the visitors.
/ The magnificent eXpanse of clean,
sandy beach which stretches for six
/ miles along the ocean front will afford
1 an ideal picnic ground for the crowds
/ which are expected to be present. Many
4 members Of the lodge who reside on
| Ocean Front have signihed their in
tention of throwing their houses open
to the visitors, and many porch parties
will be in evidence.
i Promptly at 1 o'clock the regatta of
4 the South Coast Yacht club will begin,
the start of the races being made from
the new concrete pier at Colorado ave-
nue.. The course is laid in a triangle.
running we'll out to sea and finishing at
a point near the starting place. Three
classes of yachts have been entered and
will be designated as classes "A" "B"
: and &C"
Silver Cups Offered
Silver cups have been donated as
trophies by n. c. Goodwin, T. H. Dud-
ley and the Santa Monica lodge of
Elks and will be known in the future
as the Nat Goodwin, Dudley and Elks
( trophies Among the vessels that have
already been entered are the Wasp,
Mischief I, Mischief II, Columbine,
Nah Pc, Skidoo. Aeolus, Trilby Mackey,
Estrella and Gretchen.
In the evening the members of the
yacht club will be the guests of honor
at a nautical ball at the Horseshoe
! Pier pavilion.
Il simultaneously with the regatta will
be a program of athletic sports at
Venice, such as boxing, swimming and
diving, ending up with baseball game
at the Venice athletic park The
ice bathhouses will be extended to the
Elks from the hours of l to in the
afternoon
The visitors will be taken for trips
- to the various parts of the bay, trolley
y cars, automobiles. buggies and even
boats on the Venice canals being
brought into service.
There will be band concerts both aft
ernoon and evening at St. Marks plaza,
Venice; THE Front" Ocean Park, and
Linda Vista park, Santa Monica.
Decorations Beautiful
The various parts of the bay have
been decorated elaborately in both the
national and Elks colors. At Venice
the plaza has been changed into gay
bower, proflig1te in color and tasteful
in design. WindWard avenue, from the
trolley to the pier. is one mass of Elk
colors with lights to match. The
Ocean Front walk from WindWard ave-
nue. to Marine street has been decora ted
with purple and white with many Elk
heads and notices while at short in
tervals legends with a word of greet
ing to Bill" are to be seen. Purple
and white lights add to the illumina-
tion at night.
I A heroic Elk head, the work of
Monsieur Z. Foucher, artist for the Alb
bot Kinney company, has been painted
in the natural colors and outlined with
! tiny incandescent globes. The Ship ho-
| tel, the headquarters for the Elks at
! Venice, is superbly decorated, both in
bunting and lights, while the interior
! is a revelation of the decorators art
Pier avenue has been transformed
into a thoroughfare of purple and
white with a large welcome" at the
! entrance.
The business houses of Santa Monica
| have decorated on an extensive scale
and many beautiful designs are to be
seen. Arrangements have been made
| by most of them to close their doors
on the thirteenth, and many business
men will join the lodge in entertaining