Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
BOOSTERS WILL
TRAIL TAFT ON
SOUTHERN TRIP
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEN
PLAN NOISY TIME
EVERY ONE WILL BE REMINDED
OF LOS ANGELES
Committee Will Follow President
Through Orange Belt, Yelling for
Angel clty-Joe Scott to
Lead Bunch

forget he was president of the United
states, but he will never forget the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce.
I his fact was assured yesterday wheu |
Jus / h Scott, memDrr of the eXecuti ~
committee in charge OF arrangements
for the entertainment of the president |
had brilliant idea and consummated
it. His idea is to have a boosters COM
mittee of 100 representative men, mem |
bers of the chamber of commerce, who
will act as a sort of overflow reception |
committee in most informal way AMI
will follow the president on Tuesday, !
cheering him on and reminding him
the only place on the map is Los An
geles.
A nucleus for this committee was APP
pointed at once. Joseph Scott will be
chairman, and the first four members
will be Walter Raymond of Pasadena,
Carl E. McStay, Arthur w. Kinney and
James a Foshay. The ninety-five
other members will be chosen by the
first five. A careful selection will be
made, the essential requisites being, as
Mr. Scott puts it-"good lungs and red
blood"
The boosters committee will have
two special cars leaving La Grande
station of the Santa Fe system at IL 80
o'clock Tuesday morning and going to
PASADENA. Inc DOOSleIS Will DC III CSSSh
in negligee costume, will wear special
badges and will have for a motto:
Boost: If You Don't, Who VIII
Noise Their Only Object
Alighting on arrival, the committee
will make itself numerous about the
streets and at the depot, or wherever
President Taft will be most likely to
be found. The committeeman will not
interfere in any way with the plans
already perfected, merely acting in
their official capacities as private cit
izens bent on making as much Los
Angeles noise as possible.
Their cars will be attached to the
presidents special train and taken 10
San Bernardino. En- route the COM
mitteemen will distribute chamber or
commerce literature and make thelr
| presence felt as far as possible WIFI
out interfering with the plans now
| standing. At San Bernardino they
will line up on the streets and cheer
for Los Angeles and Taft indiscrlm-
| inately. When the Taft special car IS
taken down to Riverside the speclal
cars of the boosters will be taken, too'
and most of the members of the com
mittee will go with them A few may
hire automobiles and join the concourse
of foothill citizens who are cheering
the presidential party at Cotton ana
Redlands. II, g.,
At Riverside the boosters will fol-
low the same program, never TOT
moment interfering with the plans Oh
the committees in the several cltles'
The boosters will provide their own en-
tertainment, which will consist many
of Yelling for Los Angeles and TART
win provide their own meat and drink
VERY little of the latter, and Will pay
az they go. When Taft and his party
| return to Cotton to take the train east
| the boosters will go there to bid hlm
! Cod-speed (and don't forget Los An
geles).
Arrange Pasadena Visit
John Willis Baer, president of Occl-
dental college, who is at the head ol
the committee which will have charge
! of the presidents entertainment III fas-
| adena, accompanied President Wills
! Booth of the Los Angeles chamber OIL
) commerce. James Slauson of the eX-
ecutive committee and Secretary Phil
/ lin Wilson on an automoblle trip TO
| pasadena yesterday morning over the
route 1t is proposed to follow In con-
| Quoting President Taft to the crown
! Citv on his return from the Solulers
home Tuesday morning.
The primary object of the trip was
to see how long it will take. with
| two stops, one of few seconds at Oc-
cidental college and another of two
minutes at the Annandale club house,
( the total time consumed was twenty
| Ave minutes. This trip will be begun
| at Sunset boulevard and Hill street.
where the presidential party Will leave
| the special car provided by the Los
| Angeles Pacific company, and Will be
made by automobile, at least dozen
machines being necessary to carry the
party. .. 90,
pasadena avenue the machines will be
driven to Occidental college, where
Ierv brief stop will be made. The
nresident viii make no speech at TINS
noint. but will be greeted by students
assembled to see him. The parade VIII
| continue out Pasadena avenue TO NoIth
Avenue Sixty-four, thence north TO the
Annandale club house, where President
Booth will leave the presidents car;
giving place to Mayor Farley, ana Wll'
himself enter the pilot car.
The tour will then be recon-
menced and will run through the
6ast end of Eagle Rock, pass out
nv way of the old toll prluge
mast the Busch gardens to Colunpia
street and thence to Orange Grove ave
nue.. From this point the Pasadena
committees will have charge CT me
| nrpgidentlal party uHAil iS' ~ -
WIEN the train will leave, bearing the
president and party eastward to San
I3erna"d'no
Tuesday is Boosters Day
But the boosters will not get in thelr
work until Tuesday. The reception to
the president and his party-the WISH
10 San Pedro and environs, the stop
at Compton on the way back, the Off
cial mayors reception at Arcade de-
pot at / o'clock in the afternoon the
parade. the rest at the home Of Mrs.
W A. Edwards President Taft's Sis
ter and the great banquet in Shrine
auditorium come Monday. AS far as
fine general public is concernedi Mon
dav is the great day.
Chief of Police Dishman finally has
put his foot down on a popular re-
lidential train returns from San Pedro.
There will be no such reception per-
mitted. The depot itself is to be closed