San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 138, 17 April 1899 — TREATS IN STORE FOR THE NATIVES [ARTICLE]

TREATS IN STORE FOR THE NATIVES

Salinas' Plans for Their Entertainment. PROGRAMME IS COMPLETED CONCERTS, EXCEPTIONS, DANCES AND EXCURSIONS. For an Entire Week the Visiting Parlors Will Be Accorded a Succession of Pleasures.

Special Dispatch to The Call.

SALINAS, April 16.— That the delegates to the Grand Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, will receive a royal reception at the hands of the Sallnasites. and that they will be appropriately entertained while here, is certain. The finance committee has met with excellent success in getting citizens to donate to the fund, and now that it is collecting the subscriptions no difficulty is experienced at all. It reports that over $2000 has thus far been collected out of $4500 subscribed. This amount assures a successful celebration, as well as a satisfactory entertainment, not only of delegates to the Grand Parlor but of the large gathering of others who will visit Salinas during Native Sons' week.

On the parade day an excursion will be run from Monterey, Del Monte and

Pacific Grove, and one from Santa Cruz and Watsonville, the former over the

Southern Pacific and the latter over the Spreckels narrow gauge road. On Wednesday, the 26th, the Foresters of America will have a fete day in Salinas.

Visiting lodges from Monterey. Castroville, Soledad, Watsonville, Santa Cruz and other places will be here, and a reception, ball and banquet will be given in their honor by the local court. The decoration committee has about completed plans for the beautifying of the city. Mr. Pratt, the official decorator, arrived to-day and will commence work to-morrow. The first idea of an arch at the junction of Gabilan and Main streets has been abandoned, and in its stead a plan for a more elaborately decorated area has been adopted. A line of flags and lanterns will be put up the full length of Main street, and also for a block each way on Gabilan and Alisal streets and Central avenue. Besides this, banners will be stretched across these streets at short intervals. There will be other artistic and appropriate decorations. The programme committee has arranged its part of the work, and has a list of events that will attract and entertain the multitude. The programme in detail is as follows: The delegates will arrive here from the north on the 1:39 o'clock train on Sunday. Conterno's band of San Jose will accompany them. The visitors will be met at the train by Santa Lucia Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, headed by the Salinas City band, and escorted to the headquarters in the Native Sons' Hall, where they will register and be assigned to rooms. In the evening Conterno's band will give an open-air concert. On Monday morning the opening session of the Grand Parlor will be held. after which there will be an excursion to Spreckels and a trip througn the sugar factory. In the evening a public reception will be tendered the Natives at Armory Hall, at which time the keys of the city will be turned over to them. The Native Daughters will assist in this reception. On Tuesday, the 25th, there will be an early session of the Grand Parlor in the Opera House, after which all delegates, as well as visiting and local civic societies, will parade. The following organizations will be in line: Steadman Post, Grand Army of the Republic, thirty veterans; Troop C, seventy-rive men; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 200 strong; Foresters from Salinas, Monterey, Castroville, Soledad, Watsonville and Santa Cruz, 300 strong, with three floats; Knights of Pythias, seventy-five members; Dania No. 1, sixty men; 1100 school children; Woodmen of the World, fifty in number; Santa Cruz and Watsonville league baseball teams; Salinas Fire Department; Aleli Parlor. Native Daughters, 100; Santa Lucia Parlor, Native Sons, and all visiting delegates, 600. In the afternoon there will be a baseball game between the Santa Cruz and Watsonville league teams. At night the ball will be given in the armory. The local Foresters will entertain all visiting brethren at the pavilion with a ball and banquet. On Wednesday there will be an excursion to Monterey, Del Monte and Pacific Grove over the Southern Pacific Railroad, one fare for the round trip. At Monterey the delegates will be given a reception at Bagby's Opera House, taken around the famous seventeenmile drive and back again to old Colton Hall, California's first Capitol building, where luncheon will be served by the citizens. In the evening there will be a night session of the Grand Parlor, after which the California Argonauts, Camp No. 4, will confer their degree (an all-night affair). A twenty-round glove contest between Young Peter Jackson and Mose Lefontls, both of San Francisco, will be a feature at the pavilion. Thursday there will be an all-day session of the delegates and election of grand officers. In the evening a banquet will be given to the delegates in the armory.

Besides the foregoing features concerts and various other amusements will be forthcoming every day.