Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23
ELkS WILL RUN
RACES ONE DAY
GET ENTIRE RECEIPTS FOR
FEBRUARY 3
NO PASSES WILL BE HoNoRED
AT TURNSTILES
Even the Judges, Arcadia Police,
Deputy Sheriffs and All Employees
Must Pay Their Dollar to Get
Inside the Grounds
BY JAY DAVIDSON

The directors of the Los Angeles
Racing association have offered to aid
the Elks in the general campaign for
funds with which to show the visiting
Elks good time next July, when the
annual reunion will be held in Los An
geles, by giving the antlered tribe full
control of the gate for one day, Feb
ruary 8, and the executive committee
of the grand lodge reunion has accept
ed the offer. Official announcement
from the racing association and the
Blks was forthcoming yesterday to
the effect that Wednesday, February 3,
will be Elks' day at Santa Anita and
upon that occasion everybody-which
includes even the press boys, jockeys,
employees, judges, clerks and bookmak-
ers-will have to kick in with one big
iron dollar to get inside. Passes will
not be honored that day, even the
Arcadia police and all the great army
of deputy sheriffs being barred the
privileges of free transportation beyond
the turnStiles.
The racing association will turn over
to the executive committee of the
grand lodge every dime taken in at the
gates that day and the Elks are going
ahead with their publicity business in
boosting the sport for that day so as
to influence as big an attendance as
possible. 1t is estimated that the re-
ceipts at the. gates will reach fully
$4,000 and every effort will be made
to force it beyond those figures. The
fact that the majority of the racing Of
ficials and the leading bookmakers and
prominent horSemen are ElkS makes II
a pleasure for them to participate in
the campaign for the fund to entertain
the visitors. The programs will be
printed in purple and Handicapped
Secretary Smith promises to arrange an
appropriate card for the occasion that
will be as classy as it will be attrac-
tive
Otto H. Schons of the Elks' executive
committee and John Brink were busy
in making known the plans for Elks'
day yesterday afternoon, and they
talked with rare eloquence. They say
that there will be no less than 100000
members of the order in attendance,
and cited the fact that bank cIearings
in all cities where reunions have been
held in the last few years have shown
the remarkable increase of an average
of $5,000,000 for the period of the re-
union in those cities. 1t is expected
that the reunion will attract the great
est crowd of Elks to Los Angeles that
ever attended a reunion anywhere, and,
in fact, it is expected to be the biggest
thing in its line that ever came off in
view of the event makes 1t worth while
to encourage, as 100000 good Elks could
not come to Los Angeles without spend
ing from $100 to $500 each. and the
$5,000,000 that they have left in other
cities, when no such crowd was in at
tendance, will be broken beyond all
doubt.
The program for the reunion already
has ben arranged in FULL and it extends
over an entire week. Dallas gave $780,
900 as its entertainment fund guaran-
tee, Denver promises 100000 for any
big convention, and Los Angeles, the
peer of them all, will set a pace at the
reunion in July that will be hard to
follow in the future. All local Elks are
working like their lives depended upon
their success, and as the membership
of the local lodge includes many of the
leading business and professional men
of the city, there is no doubt regarding
the crowning success of the reunion in
the degree that all other reunions must
be compared with that held in Los
Angeles.