Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-17
Y.M.C.A. OPENS
BIG CAMPAIGN
PROMINENT CITIZENS APPEAR
IN AUTO PARADE
NOVEL PAGEANT is cHEERED ON
LINE OF MARCH
of Witnesses Testimony
of Regard in Which Los Angeles
Residents Hold This Great
Associations Work

The "'memb-air-ship'' campaign of
the Y. NJ. c. A. Aviation week was
successfully launched yesterday noon
by big automobile parade through
the business section of the city. Tine
participants, who numbered about 4UO,
included Mayor Alexander, Chief of
Police Galloway, several of the city
councilmen and a large number OF
prominent business and professional
men, many of whom were accompanied
in autos by their wives or daughters,
who thus took occasion to publicly eX-
press their appreciation of the work
of the Y. M. c. A.
The parade formed at the associa-
tions building in Hope street and
promptly at 1910 o'clock moved
through Eighth street to Hill, up Hill
to First, to Broadway, down which
it passed to Eighth street, and thence
to the starting point, where it dis
banded. A feature of the parade was
the mounting on each side of each au-
tomobile of a uniformed Triangle cadet
as escort.
The order of the parade was as fol-
lows:
Sergeant Butler, Los Angeles police
department: mounted herald in cos
tune; band; Triangle cadet escort,
after which came parties in automo-
biles as follows: Mayor George Alex
ander, Chief Galloway, Councilmen
Richmond Plant and r, M. Lusk;
Councilmen ]. ]. Andrews, 7. L.
O'Brien; George L. Williams; Arthur
Let's, president of the Los Angeles
Y. M. C. A, Mrs. Let's, Miss Let's
and Miss Edna Let's; o. 7. Johnson
A. P. Watts and members: A. B. Cass
and friends; ]. e. Carr, wife and
friends: Charles L. Hubbard and wife,
with D. E. Luther and wife; Robert
Watchorn, Walter H. Fisher, wife and
daughter; James G. Warren and
friends; w. E. MeVey. Julius A. Brown
and friends: A. J. Wallace and friends;
E. A. Forester and friends; Mattison
B. Jones and friends; Y. NJ. G. A. Glee
chine singing Y. M. c. A. songs, led
by Prof ]. P. Dupuy; f. "A. K. Hack
ett, family and friends; Harry G. Philip
and friends; w. H. Bekins and wife,
with Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher;
twenty-five students of the Y. NJ. c.
A. school of commerce and finance in
a sightseeing car decorated with school
pennants; J. H. Spires and friends;
Assistant Postmaster w. H. Harrison
and friends; Dr. Warren F. Day, DR..
William Horace Day and families; ].
D. Radford and family; Joseph Lytle
and family; Walter E. Brown, family
and friends; Arthur c. Cardwell and
friends: C. A. Sellman and friends;
DR.. Hayward; Rev. Mr.. Hagar and
daughter; A P. Watts; A. H. Wescott
and friends.
Other automobiles contained secre-
taries, members and other workers, in
cluding teams which are competing In
the membership campaign. Members
of the Out West club acted as aides.
The progress of the mayor was
marked by hearty applause from the
crowds gathered along the line of
march, and Chief Galloway, who rode
with him, was also singled out for en-
thusiastic greetings as he was rec
ognized.
The success of the parade was due
not only to General Secretary Luther.
but to the committee on automobile
parade, Frank H. Cole, chairman, and
the reception accorded by the public
no less than the prominence of the
participants showed the regard with
which the organization is held by all
Los Angelans.