Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
AVIATION HEADS
DULY HON0RED
FITTING TRIBUTE IS PAID TO
COMMITTEE
MEN WHO MADE EVENT SUCCESS
ARE CONGRATULATED
Banquet at Alexandria Hotel and a
Theater Party at Orpheum Ten
dered Them-Many COM
pIiments Offered

As a fitting tribute to the work of
Dick Ferris and members of the avia-
ton committee of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association who worked
SO diligently and well to make Los An
geles aviation meet a success, pan
quet was given last night at Hotel Al
exandria, followed by a theater party
at the Orpheum, For good fellowship
and good will there never has been any
thing given in Los Angeles like last
nights affair 1t rang true from the
moment the 250 guests sat down at the
banquet table until they rose again
from their seats in the theater.
The guests of honor were members of
the committee: d. A. Hamburger,
chairman; Perry Weidener, Fred l..
Baker, VIM. F. Garland M. c. Neuner,
Dick Ferris and +. J. zeehandelaar,
Rev. Baker 2. Lee and Mayor Alex
ander. The banquet was given under
the direction cf Max Myherg, CHAIR
man; DR.. Carl Kurtz, M. H. Newmark'
F. w. Blanchard, Adolph K. Brauer, X.
w. Pridham, j. c. Koephi and j. LUCK
enback.
Unique Decorations
Unique in all its appointments were
the banquet and the features which
followed. The decorations alone were
worth more than passing glance
for the spirit of the occasion had been
carried out literally by the use OF
aeroplanes and balloons. Candy fly
ing machines were used as serving
trays. Then the parade down Broad
way to the Orpheum theater was
unique. 1t is not often that $50 men
in evening dress and high hats, carry
ing baskets of flowers and hundreds
of toy balloons are seen walking along
a city thoroughfare to the accompani-
ment of band music. Such scenes as
We're enacted by the audience at the
Orpheum have rarely if ever before
been duplicated in the historic old
playhouse, although it is a variety"
theater and it's walls are used to
frowning down upon some strange
sights and hearing some strange
sounds.
In the Alexandria banquet hall on
the second floor of the hostelry the
first event of the evening took place.
The room resembled the workshop of
Liliputian aeronauts, just ready to sit
down to a feast of the gods, as the
guests entered.
Balloons and BiPianes
From every conceivable place toy
balloons floated. There must have
been thousand of them. over the
head table, where sat the honor guests,
Mayor Alexander and others, minia-
ture Curtiss and Farman biplanes,
Bleriot monoplanes, duplicate,
though smaller, of the famous balloon
New York, two dirigibles and hun
dreds of toy balloons whirred and
floated as they had cavorted on Do
minguez aviation field. One side of
the table was made a bank of red
roses, from the center Of which spurt-
ed tiny electric fountain. AT the
base of the fountain tiny lake was
formed.
A banquet without speeches is sup
posed to be like a ship without a rud-
der In order to preserve the unity of
things festal, there were speeches. i'm
promptu and of one minutes duration.
Max Myberg, chairman of the banquet
committee and postmaster, stated that
he had promised to deliver the guests
to the Orpheum management prompt
ly at s o'clock. Therefore, he said, he
would allow no speech-making. But he
did not reckon with his guests, for they
demanded that the aviation committee
men and Mayor Alexander say just a
few words. Each did so gracefully. F.
w. Blanchard proposed the toast to the
berg proposed one to the president of
the United States. Three rousing
cheers and a deeply-drunk toast was
the tribute paid Henry E. Hunting
ton, "the man who put up the
dough-" as he was called when the
toast was drunk.
Guests March to Theater
Immediately after the banquet the
guests formed in line in the lobby of
the hotel and marched two by two,
west on Fifth street, and north on
Broadway to Second, then east on Sec
ond, and south on Spring into the Or
pheum theater. Every man had toy
balloon or, rather a dozen of them,
floating from his hand or coat lapel,
The table decorations, dainty baskets
of flowers, had been appropriated and
were carried by the marchers later to
be handed over, the footlights to the
women performers at the theater. The
line of march was through avenues of
spectators who cheered and clapped
with delight at the strange pageant.
AS the banqueters passed into the
theater they nearly raised the roof off
the place with cheers and songs. On
the stage the Elks' club drill team
was going through evolutions. The pa
rade had been headed by the white
ting to the black dress clothes of the
others. Later the Elks took places in
the theater.
At signal from Mr.. Myberg nearly
every balloon was released and shot
up to the ceiling a hundred feet.
Medals for Committeeman
During the intermission Rev. Baker
p. Lee presented each of the commit
teemen with medals as a token for
their services. d. A. Hamburger re-.
sponded
Every person on the program added
something to the delight of the even
ing. Mayor Alexander and the com
mitteemen who occupied the front
lower boxes were the butt of number
less jokes, all of which We're taken in
good humor. AS the acts proceeded
each woman performer was the recip-
lent of a basket of flowers. Alice Lloyd
was fairly loaded down with gifts
When the last curtain came down it
was to the music of cheers, ending one
of the most unusual affairs ever held
in Los Angeles.
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