Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
PRESIDENT TO MEET
MANY AT BANQUET
Final Details for Reception OF Chlef
Executive Here Settled by Com
mIttee on Arrangements
Yesterday

Twenty-Five dollars a plate Will be
the price attached to hobnobbing with
President Taft on the occasion of his
visit here early in October. There VIII
be covers for 800 guests and each guest
will be allowed the privilege of three
tickets to the balcony for friends. Thls
will insure gathering of 1900 in Shrine
auditorium, as it Is now practically
certain every plate will be spoken LOT
several days before the dinner.
Members OF this particular branch or
the executive committee that has the
arrangements for President Taft's en-
tertainment in hand have been work
ing hard this week at details and full
outline of the program was talked over
Yesterday. Chairman Perry Weidner
visited the auditorium in the morning
and met there number OF florists, VINO
gave him their ideas for the decora-
ton of the place. Bids will be SUD
mitted by these men for the task OF
beautifying the hall and tables.
Hamilton May Be Leader
Music from q sixty -five-piece or
chestra Is promised as another feature.
There will be an important announce
ment as to the personnel of this Or
chestra and the name of the leauer
within a few days. 1t Is rumored that
Harley Hamilton is to have the honor
of lingering the baton on this auspl-
cious occasion. The program OF
speeches has not yet been announced,
but it is certain the president will have
the principal place. This, 1t is said,
is the only occasion on which he will
make a set speech while In Southern
California.
Yesterday dispatches were sent TO
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
and to Captain Commandant Worth G..
Ross, head of the revenue cutter serv-
ice, asking that the revenue cutter Nc"
Cullouch, now at San Francisco, pe
sent to San Pedro Oct. 8, to remain
there until the president leaves. 1t
is designed to have the officers of this
vessel act as personal escorts to the
chief executive and to secure the at
tendance of some of its middies ana
sailors as guards of honor and decor
atiye pieces at the functions arranged
here.
The secretary of the executive COM
mittee is anxious to hear at once from
all who desire to dine at S25 on the
night of Oct. II with President Tart.
1t will be impossible to expand the
banquet for the accommodation of
those who put off until too late the
announcement of their intentions. Sept.
25 has been fixed as the date on which
all applications for covers must be In.
Auto Trip Plans Complete
Plans for the automobile trip about
the orange groves have been com
pleted. President Willis Booth of the
chamber of commerce went over the
ground Tuesday in motor car and
reported yesterday it will be necessary
to cut the time given Pasadena tif-
teen minutes so the president will have
time to make the excursion as sched-
uled.
He will leave Pasadena at 1:15 o'clock
in his private car, will reach San Ber-
nardino at S:05 o'clock and will there
enter an automobile. Redlands and
San Bernardino will be seen, the re-
turn trip will be made through Cotton
and thence the party will be driven
to Riverside, where, at 4;30 o'clock, the
trip up RubidouX mountain will be
made.
Sherman institute, the Indian school.
will be visited, then the president and
his hosts will return to the Glenwood
Inn for supper. In the meantime the
presidential private car will have been
shunted onto a spur track and sent
down to Riverside, so that night he
can board it and start on to see the
Grand canyon and shake hands with
President Diaz on the footbridge be-
tween the United States and Mexico.