Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
CAS- MEN COMING
FOR ANNUAL TALK
Convention Promises Unusually
Large Attendance from All
Parts of the West

From the number of reservations that
are pouring into the hotels of Los An
geles from the Pacific coast states and
Arizona and New Mexico, the Pacific
Coast Gas associations convention,
which opens in Los Angeles this even
ing. will be one of the most largely at
tended meetings in the history of that
organization. The delegates will begin
to arrive this morning from all sections
of the west, and 1t is expected that be-
fore night fully $50 delegates and their
wives will have registered at local
hotels.
There will be no official hotel head
quarters, the secretary's office being
located in the Central Park skating
rink building at Sixth and Hill streets,
where the gas appliance exhibit will be
held, but from the number OF reserVa-
tlons on hand the Alexandria hotel will
be unofficial headquarters. The Lam
kershim and Angelus also nave large
reservation lists on hand.
The appliance show will open this
evening in the rink building, workmen
having been employed all day to have
everything in readiness for the open
ing, which takes place at o'clock
This exhibit will be free and open to the
general public, and the eastern firms
are very anxious that all who are in
terested in gas stoves or other ap-
pliances attend, as 1t is their intention
to award a number of first class cook
ing stoves to different residents Of Los
Angeles for advertising purposes.
DELEGATES ARRIVE TODAY
AS yet no slate of officers to be elected
at this convention has been prepared.
This will probably be done today as the
delegates arrive. The first days ses-
sion of the convention, convening to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock in Choral
hall, Auditorium theater building, will
be devoted to speeches and papers by
the different members of the associa-
tion, and a general discussion OF new
methods and ideas in gas manufactur-
ing and distributing. The session will
probably be carried over until even
ing.
Wednesday morning the session will
be devoted to the election of officers.
On Wednesday evening the delegates
will be rendered a banquet at the Alex
andria hotel, which will be in the
nature of an installation of the newly
elected officers and which promises
to be one of the most novel and up-to-
date affairs in the history of the or
ganization.
An informal program of speeches
and dancing will be included in the
trip the delegates will make Thursday
as the guests of the Southern Cali
fornia Edison company. They will stop
at Venice for dinner following which
the delegates and their friends and
relatives will be entertained for short
time at that resort.
A similar program is planned for
their entertainment at Mount Lowe on
Friday, where the members of the as
socation go as guests of the Domestic
Gas company of Los Angeles. Burros
will be furnished all who desire to
make the trip to the top of Mount
Lowe from Alpine tavern, and speeches
and dancing will serve to beguile the
time during Friday afternoon at the
tavern.
Saturday the big excursion to Cata-
lima, with the Los Angeles Gas and
Electric corporation as hosts, will
bring the convention to a close and
the delegates will leave for their homes
Sunday.
The exhibit will. be open every day
and evening during the week. The ex-
hibitors have gone to no little expense
to decorate the building and install the
exhibits and are promising a first-class
gas fixture show.