Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-06
WHITE SQUADRON
READY FOR TRIP
Famous EIkS Drill Corps to Leave
for Convention on Spe-
cial Tonight
PREPARED TO BOOST CITY
Are Carrying World of Printed
Material to Advertise
Southern California

Headed by Deputy Grand Exalted
Ruler A. N. Wheelock and under the
command of Capt. Robert T. Atkinson
the White Squadron Drill corps, the
pride of Los Angeles Elkdom, VIII
leave this city this evening for De-
troit on board the Southern California
Elks' Special"
The train will pull out from Los
Angeles over the Santa Fe route at
o'clock, and will arrive in Detrolt
Sunday morning at 1850 o'clock. IL
will make short stops along the llne'
and will lay over an hour and thlrty
minutes at Chicago. to let the Eiks
get out and stretch themselves and IN
cidentally advertise and boost Los An
geles and Southern California.
1t is probable that the Elks' speclal
across the continent will prove as good
an advertising medium for this city
and section of the country as any
ever devised. Not only will the famous
White Squadron, which made such an
impression on the Elks who were mere
last year, be in evidence all along the
line but all of them will be stacked
with literature and information about
this city which they are going to hand
out to everyone whenever the occasion
presents itself.
Through the efforts of number or
local boosters n great amount or data
has been gathered concerning Los
Angeles to be sent to Detroit with the
special This data includes postofhee
receipts, bank clearings, amount OF
building permits, assessed valuation,
information concerning local Schools
churches, public parks, commerce, IN
dustries and manufacturing. There Is
also much information regarding the
mining industry in Southern Califor-
and tha AdVAn-
tages of living here.
There is complete information about
the Los Angeles aqueduct and harpor,
giving the amounts which. are being
spent on the various enterprises and
what they will mean to this city.
Besides this quantity of regular ad-
vertising each Elk is going east with
the avowed intention of boosting Los
Angeles during every minute of the
time they are away, and all promise
that their trip will begin to show re-
suits before they return.
The train on which the trip Will be
made is first class throughout and con-
sists of a baggage car, a club car, a
dining car, compartment sleeping
car three standard sleepers and an
observation Pullman.
Officers-Robert Atkinson. captain;
Leo v. Youngworth, first lieutenant;
DIR. w. r. Maiden, second lieutenant;
EDWARD Is. LONle, duJuIslhlI " L E
Stamps, jr., first sergeant; w. W.aHat-
ton, second sergeant; H. ]. Brown,
third sergeant; Tom II. Fox, color
sergeant; George Cling, color scar
geant.
Members-C. H. Burkhardt, d. L.
Burke, Joe Goldstein, w. II. Halliwell,
jr., Louis Joseph. II. l. Null, James
w. Routzahn, Clarence F.. Smith, Q.
w. Bahrenburg, T.. NJ. Finehout, c. e.
Halliwell, James L. Irwin, Rev w.
Laws, L. r. Mellus, Joe w. Sharp, Guy
M West, Guy w. Yonkin, Leland S.
, Bower, James J. Gee, jr., Les A. Henry,
Lee Johnson, J. T. Moultrup, A. ].
McGill, Fred A. Steele, George w. Yar-
row.
Ed Bodiker, r. S. Bodman, A. N.
Wheelock, Ben White, Frank Walker,
Jake Goldsmith, C. H. Bushnell, C. A.
Bennett, Henry Sloan. r. G. Baly, =.
B. VanHorne, E. G. Arment, John Lar
ronde, Charles McCreary.
Reservations-Car 2: Leo V. Young
worth, E. B. LOWE, Capt. Robert At
kinson, George Burkhardt, Harry
Brown, Rex Laws, I. s. Bower, DR.. W.
r. Maiden, James J. Gee, A. ]. Nc
Gill, C. #. Smith, C. e. Halliwell, w.
H. Halliwell, Guy Yonkin, Guy West,
William Hatton, Lee Johnson, E. r.
Maier, Otto B. Schantz, William CAL
derwood, William r. Reuss, Len Be-
hymer, Joe Goldstein, Joseph Irwin, j.
T. Moultrup, G. N. Bahrenburg, e. M.
Finehout, j. w. Routzahn, H. j. Null,
L. B. Mellus, George Cline, Les Henry
Reservations-Car 3: Charles w.
Oesting, 3. b. Gould and son, George
w. Yarrow and wife, ]. A. Smart and
wife, Robert Green and wife, Isadore
Green and wife, John DAWN and wife,
Mrs. Margaret Cordary, Mrs. George
Walker and son, Mrs. Thomas B. Bam-
ford Miss Sylvia Behymer, Frank S.
Banks, Ales. Reynolds, Jr.
Reservations-Car a: Harold A.
Blumenthal, Stanley Blumenthal, Mrs.
Flora Meyer (off at Chicaigo), H. e.
Dillon and wife, John A. Murphy and
wife, DIR. ]. w. Pollard, l.. Josephs and
mother, J. 2. Hotter and wife, F. A.
Steele and wife, Tom Il. Fox and wife,
Mrs. H. G.. Zell and daughters, p. ].
Mccormick and wife, Miss Mary
OBrien, d. A. Cashin (Chicago to De-
troit.-
Reservations-Car 8: Dory Hickox,
wife and child, Messrs. Turner and
Collins (on at Ludlow, Thomas J..
Stephens, wife and son, John Hayes
and daughters, d. F. Burke and wife,
Harold H. Moore and wife, Miss Con-
stance Byrne, Thomas ]. Darmody and