Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-29
HONORED
BY ROTARY CLUB
CLUB MEMBERS CALL HIM
"AvIATION WEEK FATHER"
Huge Medal Also Handed to Flying
Machine Friend at One of Most
Unique Luncheons in
This City

Dick Ferris, father of Aviation
week." was the guest of honor at q
dinner given yesterday noon in the
Westminster hotel by the Rotary club
of Los Angeles, at which he was pre-
sented with handsome smoking set.
One hundred and twenty-five members
of the club, each representing a sepa-
rate line of business, met to pay nom
age to their fellow member.
The decorations were unique and MT
ting for the occasion. From each plate
was poised a small toy balloon. Sus-
pended from the ceilings were all kinds
of aerial crafts, biplanes, monoplanes
and dirigibles, the propellers OF each
being driven by small motor.
Each member present wore a badge
with his name and the question,
Whats your?" emblazoned upon 1t.
After dinner was served irwin j.
Muma, president of the club and toast
master, made a short address. Mr..
Ferris, after being presented with
gigantic celluloid medal, made brief
reply.
''The Rotary club is the first organ
ization before which the Aviation week
was discussed" said Mr.. Ferris. 1t
was this club which started a sub
scription to raise the money necessary
to carry it on. 1t was then found
necessary for the undertaking to be
handled by a civic organization ana
made civic affair.
with all due respect to the Mef-
chants and Manufacturers association
and chamber of commerce and not IN
any way casting reflections upon those
organizations, a progressive city needs
a progressive civic body. That body is
the Rotary club. Every member is
live WIRE" said Mr.. Ferris.
The real presentation speech was
given by G. r. Nagle. In behalf Of all
the members of the club, Mr.. Nable
presented Mr.. Ferris, the man of the
hour" as he addressed him. with a
handsome leather upholstered table ana
antique hammered copper smoking SET.
The committee of arrangements for
the dinner consisted of ]. j. Jenkins,
c. w. Hill, l. S. Hurst and DR.. Charles
B. Nichols. -,
Those jresent were C. G. Titcomb,
Lincoln Holland, Walton j. Wood, M.
d. Hopkins, James F. Bierend, p. A.
Woodruff, Frank A. MeElwain, j. Z.
Metcalf, j. Newman, j. r. Waller.
Charles V. Peckham. e. F. Archer, Dex-
ter Samson, b. r. Brown, A. w. jack
son, Frank j. Baum, w. ]. Conner,
Henry Klein, Ed Gerson, c. II. Wood
ruff, Max Proelss, Garner Curran. A.
f. Boeden, j. II. WOOD, "A. II. Llltle, l.
j. Muma, A. e. Nagle, F. V. Owen,
Carl Salbarth, H. w. Hellyor, Carl G.
Packard, A. 1. Burger George H. Buck
walter, F. w. Rea, E. H. Burger, jr.,
Charles E. Carver, L. L. Olney, Arthur
]. Hill, C. d. Young C. w. List, Charles
o. Haskell, A. p. Welcome, Lucien
Haas, Edward German, Frank o.
Lindquist, Adelmo Schroeder, H. H.
Harris, Sidney Norman, l.. r. Mellus,
John H. Nightingale, e. E. Smith, P.
H. Lyon, S. Fl. Schwaek, Arthur Boyce,
George w. Condor, M. L. Baily, r. d.
Dake, William j. Brandenburg. Fred
N. Arnotdy, Charles II. Coffey, j. A.
Mottoshed, e. F.. Staples, f. e. Pierce,
Harry c. Newman, James Sheehan, Ed
ward NJ Grail, Gus Harris, Arthur G.
Wilson, W. S. Morse, F. d. Hudson,
Bernard Italie, w. t. Jacobson, j. Joe
Joos, William Wier, William III. Damon,
A. S. Barnes, w. f. Taylor, G. d.
Westphal, Thomas p. Jones. w. Her
lihy, FlaVel Shurtleff, Andrew Beysle,
w. Paris, l. S. Richards. w. Sweet
land, d. II. Schuhman, George r. Mead,
r. b. Shaw, A. K. Rebard, Bryant
Mathews, Bernal Dyas and DR.. e. S.
Merrill.