Identifier: 1910tripofhmmbat00jame (find matches)
Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, lu.xuriant foliage, with branches bearing clusters offruit resembling olives. Leaning over the transparencies in the Ijottom ofthe boats, people go into ecstasies. Well, I surely will have things to tell the people at home when ) getthere, remarked one Ohio boniface, and Ill wager that when the peoplehear about these marine gardens, with trees as big as our own buckeyes,and gold fish, and silver ones, and ocean tomatoes and encumbers, theyllcall me a liar, and tell me the California air must have gone to my head.Well, Im most willing to believe anything I ever hear about SouthernCalifornia after to-day, and it certainly will not be my last trip to this partof the world. The glass-bottom boat rides were not the only features on the program.The management of the Metropole Hotel was on hand with greetings andsomething more substantial, a dainty fish luncheon, Catalina sand dabs,famous the world over for their delicacy, white fish, and other dishesessential to a good menu were provided.
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TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 197 Many walked up to see the open-air tlieater, where concerts by theworld-famous Santa Catalina Band are given every evening, and where,unique in the history of America, no whispering or talking is allowedduring the performances. Attendants are stationed all over the theater.Over the stand an electric transparency flashes forth a request for silence.The concert begins. Someone whispers. The attendant hears andapproaches the offender, and pointing to the sign, it is so arranged as toflash out its warning as he points. If this warning does not answer an<lhe has to speak to the same offender again, he hands him (or her, for,strange to say, it is sometimes a her) a card, on which the following isprinted in large letters:

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