Imperial Valley press., 1921-07-09
Los ANGELES
EXCELS IN
WELCOME
7 D ELKS
Best People Are Received
With Open Arms for Week
Full of Varied and De-
lightful Entertainment
(Bv. Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES, July Six days
filled with pageants, parades, eXcur-
sions, banquets, barbecues, balls ard
business sessions lie ahead of dele
gates and other members of the Bene-
VIOLENT Protective Order of Elks when
they arrive here tomorrow for the an
nual sessions Of the Grand Lodge of
the order.
While the Grand Lodge will not be
officially opened until Monday night,
the program arranged by Los Ang eles
Lodge No. 80, provides for something
to interest the visitors from the time
their special trains pull in tomorrow
morning until the following Friday,
when the gathering closes with ball
at one of Los Angeles new hotels.
Business sessions of the grand lodge
open Tuesday. One of its first actions
it is expected, will be to send frater-
nal message to Brother Warren G.
Harding, president of the United
States.
Election of officers is scheduled for
Wednesday. According to local Elks
the only person talked Of for the Of
fee of Grand Exalted Ruler is William
w. Mountain, of Flint, Mich. Selec-
ton Of a place for the 1922 Grand
Lodge meeting is expected to follow.
Business sessions will be held on
Thursday and Friday. Interspersed
will be trips to Catalina Island, Santa
Monica, Long Beach, Redondo Beach,
Pasadena, and other nearby resorts.
The annual parade, in which the dele
gates and their companions will march
grouped according to states, VIII be
held Thursday morning.
There are 1415 lodges Of the order,
each of which is entitled to send one
delegate. Past exalted rulers of the
lodges are also members of the Grand
Lodge. ard the local committee anti
clpates they will swell the number of
official representatives to at least
1000.
Committee chairmen of Los Angeles
are vieing with each other to excel
in the entertainment of the thousands
Of visitors who are pouring into the
city. Michael +. Shannon is tingling
with enthusiasm over the bi gelectric
parade to be held next Thursday eve-
ming. He is talking of unusual fea
lures for this event that will set a
precedent for spectacles Of this kind.
thusiastc over the parade of bands
that will precede the floral display
next Friday morning that bystandar
gets the impression that half of Los
Angeles will be footing horns in the
line of march. Mr.. Goldsmith says
he has more than 1900 musicians OF
various bands already promised and
there may be more.
Another feature of entertainment
for the distinguished visitors who at
tend the convention, according to Mr..
Goldsmith, will be the hospitality ex-
tended in their homes by many of the
wealthiest of Southern California
families. Owners of palatial resi-
dences in Altadena, Pasadena, Brent
wood, Beverly Hills and other ex-
elusive suburbs will keep open house
during the convention and the high
Elk officials and noted guests attend
ing the convention will be invited to
these for short visits when they have
few hours to spare.
Hotels are rapidly filling up, as
every train reaching Los Angeles un-
loads a delegation of convention Wis
itors. Registration headquarters were
to be opened this afternoon in the
waiting room of the Pacific Electric
station, with Frank Akers in charge
The names of visitors will be cross
indexed so that the hotel of any one
of the thousands of visitors can be To-
Gated Immediately.
The work, of street decoration in
Los Angeles is going rapidly forward
Workmen today had nearly completed
their task of lining the principal thor
oughfares with silvered palms, while
the downtown section is smiling under
mass of purple and white bunting
A reviewir$ stand is being erected il
front of the city hall where decorator
were busily engaged all day in bedeck
ing the municipal structure appro
priately.