Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-20
THREE VALUABLE
CITIZENS

T would not. be just to permit the
very successful Ellxs' convention
n recently held in our city to become
a matter of history without expressing
the great obligation that three of oul
citizens, with their associates, have
placed the city under in connection
with an event that has added enor-
mously to the reputation Of the fair
city of Los Angeles as an entertainer.
! We refer, Of course, to Mr.. Motley H.
Flint and his committee on arrange
ments; Mr.. William NJ. Humphreys
and the street department Of which he
is the head, and Chief of Police Dish
man and the officers and men of his
force
One who has had no experience in ar
ranging all the muitifarious and i'm
portant details involved in caring for
| the comfort and pleasure of forty thou
sand visitors to the city, can have no
conception of the tremendous task
which faced Chairman Flint and the
committee on arrangements. From the
raising of the tens of thousands Of
dollars required to properly carry out
the schemes for entertaining and car
ing for our visitors TO the originating
and developing of these schemes and
seeing that they were carried to a
triumphant conclusion, was a work
which few men would care to under
take, and still fewer would be capable
of discharging properly.
Mr., Flint in the work which he did
for the Shriners' convention demon
strated that he was most especially
the right man in the right place in
work of this kind, and he has added
greatly to his laurels and put the
whole city of Los Angeles under obli-
cation to him on account of the mas
terly way in which he and his commit
tee made and carried out plans for
that which all of our forty thousand
Elk visitors unanimously characterized
as the most successful gathering and
the finest entertainment that the men,
bers of the order had ever known.
1t was most essential, to both the
comfort of our visitors and the repu-
tation of our city that the streets
should be kept in first-class order and
condition while our visitors were here.
Notwithstanding the fact that six large
professions passed over the streets
and that during the week they were
used by more people than ever used
them before, the streets of the city of
Los Angeles were never kept in such
perfect condition of cleanliness and
freedom from obstruction as character
lied them during the week just
closed.
II would be impossible to overpraise |
Mr. Humphreys and his street depart !
ment for the work which they did in
this matter, and their work will have
and lasting value, because
it has been a demonstration to our
people of how perfectly the streets Of
our city can be kept, and Mr. Humph- |
reys will no doubt see to it that his de-
partment will maintain in the future
the high standard of efficiency which |
it reached under the most trying con-
ditions,
The Herald has already more than
once taken occasion to express It's ap-
probation of THE splendid way in
which Chief of Police Dishman and
ais force handled the many serious
problems that confronted them.
During a week of uneXampled
crowds of visitors and multtudes upon
he streets, nothing but a force COM
)letely organized and dominated, not
,nly by a chief who knows his busi-
less, and knowing does it, but also
~ the highest esprit de corps, could
ave accomplished, in managing the
rowds and in protecting both our vis-
tors and citizens from the criminal
lement that always congregates where
reat crowds gather the wonderful re-
uts obtained.
Gentlemen, our hats are off to you.
lie city is proud of you as three of
Is most valuable and valued citizens.
Who W uld be a king ?-The new shah