Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-06
LOS ANGELES Is
IN GALA ATTIRE
CITY BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED
FOR ELKS' REUNION
PURPLE AND WHITE BLEND WITH
RED, WHITE AND BLUE
Hotels, Department Stores and Office
Buildings Festooned with Flags
and Bunting-EVergreen Used
at the Alexandra

COmDlne0 10 make Los AuBcleS ihuSSu
a city of the angels. Every street and
thoroughfare presents a dazzling dis
play of bunting, red white and blue
interviewer with the purple and white
From every flagpole and from every
building fly the stars and stripes. No
fiesta de las flores, nor celebration OF
any kind has equaled in elGborateness
of display and quality of design the
present decorations of the Angel city.
Every downtown building is be-
decked with American flags, purple and
white bunting, and elk heads, grouped
into novel and artistic designs, no
labor nor expense having been spared
to attire suitably Los Angeles as
hostess for the great occasion. The
spotless white costumes, designed
specially for the reunion of the Elks,
are already conspicuous on the streets.
To a person standing at Third and
Main streets and looking west toward
the tunnel a perfect maze of way
ing flags and fluttering pennants meets
the eye over the entrance to nearly
every store and building are the colors
of the B. P. o. e. draped about the
Evergreen on Hotel
At the Hotel Alexandria the decora-
tions are not yet completed, but already
the hostelry presents a remarkably at
tractive exterior. The entire balcony is
trimmed with evergreen bOughs, inter-
spersed with myriads of purple and
white electric lights. over the Spring
street entrance is a large hand-painted
elk head, while purple and white ribbon
has been ordered from Chicago to trim
the entire building.
Probably the most novel feature in
decorating throughout the entire city
Is a massive iron cage over the Fifth
street entrance of the Alexandria In
this compartment will Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexandria establish their headquar-
ters. No, not the proprietors of the
hotel, but two handsome, live elks,
which have been brought from San
making Elks week in Los Angeles
realistic in every sense of the word.
On the departure of their fraternal
brethren the elks will be donated TO
the city of Los Angeles and placed on
exhibition. They will arrive Friday
from San Francisco.
Samuel j. Whitmore, general man.
ager of the Hotel Alexandria, and
under whose supervision preparations
are fast nearing completion is con-
structing in the hotel basement
forest buffet. The buffet will be fitted
with pine trees and the walls will show
typical forest scenes. over the bar will
be placed three real elk heads, and
everything possible will be done to
give this novel feature an attractive
appearance. The buffet was installed
at the suggestion of Rush L. Holland,
grand exalted ruler.
Elk, Bear and Eagle
The Herald company's Offices on
Broadway are adorned with the stars
and stripes and the purple and white.
over the entrance is a large elk head,
while above the large window appears
a red. white and blue shield, sup
ported on either side by a bear and an
elk, typifying the state of California
and the famous fraternal order, while
above hovers the national bird, an
eagle.
The entrance to the chamber of COM
merce is likewise hung with American
flags, an immense banner being sus-
pended directly above them.
One Of the most elaborately deco
rated buildings is the old Hamburger
building, the headquarters of the Elks,
on North Spring street. large paint
ing of the Monarch of the Glen is
hung at the top Of the building, while
above it fly the stars ant stripes, sur
mounted by the American eagle. Six
large elk heads grace the front eX-
terror of the headquarters, in addition
to half a dozen large golden shields, a
clock with the hands indicating the
eleventh hour in the center and sup
ported by the bear and the elk. The
main entrance is hung with large pur-
pie and white curtains, fringed and
tasseled with gold.
The county tax collectors Office is
another example Of the decorators art.
Flags fly from every window, many of
the banners bearing an elk's head on
the purple and white.
Three Hundred Flags on Building
More than 300 small flags have been
used in trimming the Lankershim
building at Third and Spring streets,
while the Santa Fe offices are equally
resplendent At the latter place
streamers have been extensively en-
ployed, a large star being at the top
of long red and white stripes of bunt-
ing. At many street corners Japanese
lanterns are being used, while others
are hung with purple and white electric
lights.
The Hotel Augelus IS also we'll be-
decked. The main entrance is hung
with large American flag surmounted
by a magnificent antlereG head. The
entire building presents q handsome
appearance, the red, white and blue
again combining with the colors of the
E. p. 0. e. to dress the hotel in gala
style.
The Southern Pacific offices vie with
those of the Santa Fe in attractive
decorations. In the window of the Sing
Fat company, on South Broadway, is
the largest bronze eagle in the world,
holding in its beak silk emblem OF
the United States. Brock e Feagan's s
iewelry store on South Broadway, is
hung with twelve silk flags, the en-
trarce being draped in purple and
white and trimmed with orange.
At the Broadway entrance to the Oc-
Cidental hotel is sign proclaiming
the hostelry to be the headquarters of
Pittsburg lodge, No. II, surmounted by
a painting of the Monarch of the
Glen" All of the large Broadway
stores are suitably decorated, the Bos-
ton Dry Goods company the B. f.
Coulter company, JacOby Bros, the j.
r. Lane company and many others
being handsomely festooned
City Hall Decorated
At the city hall an immense Alneri-
can flag is hung, while at the Fred
J. Byrne building, at Third and Broad
way the stars and stripes and the
purple and white alternate with each
other in a charming fanlikc design
Prominent Elks who are already in
Los Angeles unite in declaring that
the decorations are the finest which
tbev have ever seen at any OF their
reunions, and unstintingly praise Los
Angeles merchants and Elks for their
enterprise.
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