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At that meeting it was also decided to hold a great mass meeting in the Flower
Auditorium in Los Angeles. At this mass meeting our present officers and
committee members were elected, in accordance with recommendations made
by the Nominating Committee. Something good had been achieved. The
people in the churches and outside of the churches worked together
harmoniously and in a friendly manner, with but a single thought in mind—the
common interests of the Swedish population of California and other states of the
Union.
As the time drew near the various committees in both Los Angeles and
San Diego met and organized. Our friends in San Diego had already gotten a
promise from the Exposition Officials to set aside June 24th and 25th as
Official days for a Swedish Day Festival at San Diego.
The Committee, as a whole, hereby
desires to thank the Exposition Officials
one and all, and especially do we
extend our sincere thanks to our true
friend, the Vice-President of the
Exposition, Carl H. Heilbron.
The work continued with great
haste in both Los Angeles and San
Diego and all through Southern
California. It was decided to send a
delegation of three from the Los Angeles
Committee to represent it at the San
Diego Executive Committee’s meeting
to work out the plans for the coming
celebration. This committee was
composed of Vice Counsul G. Eckdahl,
Alfred Haij and Herman Bostrom. The
meeting was held in San Diego and
lasted for two days. The others
present at the meeting were the following
members from the San Diego
Executive Committee: Vice Counsul N.
Malmberg, Rev. John Carlson,
Gott-fred Anderson Jonas Hanson, O. W. vi„ Prc Inter-
Johnson, Carl Johnson, Hjalmar Swen- national Exposition
son, R. Malmberg, Gustav Carlson, A.
Landeen and Alfred Anderson. A great deal of work was accomplished at
the meeting. After the meeting, a dinner was given by Vice President
Heilbron at the Christobal Cafe for the delegates from Los Angeles and members
of the Committee from San Diego. From that time on there was but one
thought in the minds of the Special Committees and the Executive
Committees and that was to make the festival a grand success. Meetings were held
almost every week, both in Los Angeles and San Diego, and on May 1 3th we
had a meeting in Los Angeles together with the San Diego Executive
Committee, at which meeting a decision was made as to how to arrange the
programs, etc., for the festival.
Saturday, June 10th, the Los Angeles Committee gave an automobile
parade through the streets of the city of Los Angeles. There was a large
number of machines in this parade, making quite a demonstration and announcing
the day and date of the Festival in every way possible. Pennants with the
inscription ”SVENSKA DAGEN 1916” in yellow and blue colors were made
specially for this occasion and American and Swedish colors were displayed
on every hand.
At the coming Swedish Day everybody will wear a beautiful souvenir
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