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for Spring 1914
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styles now so popular.
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“ON TO FRISCO’
TRIP ASSURED
with, say, a thirty day limit, and there
is some hope that we will get what
we want. At any rate, we want cheap
er transportation than $50, and we are
$21. Then what about meals en route?
Not one cent less than $2.50 per day.
Hotel bill and meals at San Francisco;
daily entrance into the exposition
MANAGER JAMES’ SCHEME WORK
ED AGAIN — WILL SENR THE
A. & M. TRACK TEAM TO
THE STATE MEET.
(Continued from Page 1)
feet organization. Ike Ashburn, pub
licity agent, was placed in charge of
the trip, and called upon to draft on
the committee for any assistance he
needed. The first step was to take
a straw vote by companies to find how
many men favored the trip and
thought it possible that they woold go.
More than 600 names were placed on
the petitions. Then a circular letter
■outlining the trip and announcing that
the expenses would probably be in the
neighborhood of $65 per student, was
sent out to the parents of each boy
that signed the petition. Cards ad
dressed to the management of the rip
were enclosed and to date about 400
of these cards have been received.
With the exception of about ten cases
the parents have expressed the hope
that their son may be a member of
the party and have signified their in
tention of sending him unless provi
dentially hindered. Sounds like the
trip is possible, doesn’t it?
It’s a safe bet that at least 50 per
cent of the Freshmen next year will
go with the party, and that gives you
an assured attendance of not less than
500 boys.
As yet the plans for the trip are
pretty much in the rough. The Pas
senger Agents’ Association of Colo
rado, which names the rates to and
from the exposition, has set a $50 rate
from this part of the State. This rate
allows a three months’ stop in San
Francisco. Just at the present we are
interested in obtaining a lower rate
expecting some relief in that regard.
The trip will be made in a special
train, maybe two trains if the attend
ance justifies. Tourist sleepers will
be used, and these entail an additional
expense of $25 per day each. In talk
ing the trip over most of the commit
tee have expressed a desire to route
the trip out there through Colorado
in order that the boys might have the
opportunity of enjoying the great
scenery of the West. The trip back
to Texas would be made straight
through. In that event four days and
four nights would probably be spent
in going, allowing a stopover at Pike’s
Peak, and three days would be re
quired to reach Texas after leaving
San Francisco.
The United States War Department
will maintain a military reserve and
cadets who go with the corps will not
be forced to tramp for hours search
ing for hotel accommodations or else
sleep in a wagon yard. There will be
tents and blankets for all and the
mess conducted by the United States
department will be open to our boys
for a price of about forty cents a day.
Those who are more choice with ref
erence to eats will find plenty of
restaurant accommodations. On the
train a kitchen probably will be in
stalled in the baggage cars and meals
served there, company at a time. That
takes care of the eating and sleeping
on the way there and while present
at the exposition.
Just a word about the benefits of
making the trip as a corps and as
individuals. Look here—railroad fare,
$50; sleeper fare for the round trip,
grounds, whereas the cadet pays but
once and then is given a season pass.
That for the money side. And then
how about a companion and how about
trips into the great orchards, the
chemical factories, trips of inspection
to points of interest to civil, mechani
cal and electrical engineers. San
Francisco is noted for holding an un
usual interest for every sort of a
student, and the trip out there, were
there to be no exposition, would be
well worth while for the boys.
Now the chief thing that faces us
is to raise funds in order to cut down
the expense per individual as much
as possible. This is the only oppor
tunity we will ever have to attend the
San Francisco exposition and the cele
bration of the completion of the great
canal. Heroic steps are going to be
made to raise enough money to take
care of some one feature of the ex
pense, say the, purchase of supplies
for the mess en route there and back,
or for payment of the sleeper charges.
To that end the co-operation of every
boy who wants to make the trip is
urged. We need your help and your
assistance.
Provision will be made for campus
people, and it looks like the attend
ance of instructors and other employes
of the college will be heavy according
to expressions heard in talks with
them.
It is going to take lots of work to
make the trip possible for anything
like the figure named, and it’s up to
us boys to hit the grit for we are the
chief beneficiaries.
The A. & M. College is indebted to
Cadet Captain O. J. James for most
of the possibilities for an A. & M.
track team this year. Through this
active young track manager’s ingenui
ty a picture show was staged last
Thursday night. The proceeds from
this enterprise will go to a fund to
finance the team in the intercollegiate
meet.
That the pictures, consisting of a
three-reel drama and comedy, were
greatly enjoyed was evinced by the
enormous crowd present. Pictures of
this kind, strictly noneducational, will
always attract a crowd. If the M. E.
department will again kindly lend a
helping hand to make possible two
more such shows, there will be enough
finances on hand to enable our team
to be represented in the State meet.
It is deplorable that our Athletic
Association cannot supply hll the
funds needed to carry on our athletic
functions in a first class manner. But
it is gratifying to know that even with
such obstacles in the way A. & M.
has and will continue to come out on
or near the top in athletics—if we re
tain that co-operative spirit of the de
partments of the college and the lib
eral patronage and support in every
respect of the student body.
Prof. Chastain: “Did I not tell you
to be prepared with your history les
son? And here you are unable to re
peat a word of it.”
Singletary ( H. H.: “I didn’t think
it was necssary, sir. You’ve always
said that history repeats itself.”