Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-21
AROUND ANAHEIM.
The G. A. R. Encampment
At the Landing.
LINE OF IMPROVEMENT.

The Grand Old Colony Forging To
the Front In the Most
Splendid Style.
Think of 5000 people being encamped
at Anaheim Landing! Old timers know
we'll what and where the place is. In
days of yore it was quite commercial
point. The tides of the ocean threw up
a small island in an indentation of the
coast, and behind this was long stretch
of deep water, where no wind ever made
a ripple. The founders of the old colony
in the late fifties, when railroads were
unknown hereabouts, took advantage of
this to build wharf and warehouse,
and here all the lumber that went into the
building of Anaheim was disembarked.
All the produce of the first settlement
made in the county outside of this city
was shipped from there for years. After
the railroad was built from San Pedro,
and before the branch was built
to the soutern end of the coun-
ty, the Landing was place
of much Importance. With the ad.
vent of the railroads it has been much
cheaper to haul stuff from San Pedro to
this city and thence to Anaheim, total
| distance of forty-six miles, than to haul
by team twelve miles from the Landing.
The wharf, therefore, fell to decay; the
warehouse stands to this day, but is ten
antless excepting for few weeks in the
summer.
A SEASIDE RESORT.
Thus Anaheim Landing has come to
be unknown even by name to hundreds
who dwell there-within close proximity
to the place. 1t lies directly south Of
Anaheim, and is the nearest point on the
Coast to that part of the country. For
this reason it has always been favorite
resort for the community dwelling in
and about Anaheim. From Fulton Wells,
from Downey City, Los Nietos, Centralia,
Garden Grove, Anaheim, Westminster,
Yorba, and even from Santa Ana, the
people flock to old Anaheim Landing on
Sundays in Summer, and many of them
erect tents and remain on the beach for
d week or more during the hot weeks OF
midsummer.
The California farmer is not the store
his brother granger is in other parts of
the Union. His profits are much larger,
and his work is not 80 exacting in July
and August. Fruit and vine growers
have breathing spell then akin to the
enforced idleness the Eastern farmer
experiences in the days when mid-winter
when the fetters of the the ice king bind
all the land. The California granger
has big advantage in this. He HES
him away to the sea shore, and at some
point like the old Landing. laughs at the
superheated weather. He is famed by
cool and invigorating ocean breezes. He
laves his tired limbs in the briny waves
of the Pacific, and fishes delicious re-
pasts from the depths OF the sea.
THE G. A. r.
This year some one who wears ~
hat thought Anaheim Landing would be
such good place for the old soldiers to
meet and enjoy themselves. The sug-
gestion took amazingly and the result
has been that for the past week or ten
days the boys in blue have been resting
themselves most delightfully."- here.
The encampment is in command of
Colonel John Brooker, with Fl, w.
Cowles acting as Adjutant. The posts, of
which there are more or fewer represen-
tatives, are as follows:
Frank Bartlett Post No. 6, Los An
geles; Gushing Post No. A, Ventura
Sedgwick Post No. II, Santa Ana
Heintzelman Post No. 33, San Diego
Starr King Post No. So, Santa Barbara
Stanton Post No. 55, Los Angeles; -
- Post No. 81, San Bernardino; Shiloh
Post No. go, Compton; Vicksburg
Post No. 81, Pomona: Robert Ander-
son Post No. 66, Lompoc; Major E.
w. Eddy Post No. 68, Santa Paula
Foote Post No. 80. Santa Maria; John
f. Godfrey Post No. SO, Pasadena; T.
B. Stevens Post No. 1O3, Elsinore; Gel
cich Post No. l06 East Los Angeles !;
Riverside Post No. 11S; Addison Post
No. 121 San Jacinto; Ontalio Post
No. 1874; Cotton Post No. 100; Malvern
Hill Post No. 131, Anaheim; Gordon
Granger Post No. 1888, Orange; John A.
Logan Post No. 139, Los Angeles; Dan
Bidwell Post No. 140, Norwalk; Escon-
dido Post No. 143 Dan Bidwell Relief
Corps No. 46, Norwalk.
The officers, in addition to the COM
mander, are: Senior ce-Commander
Charles E. Berry, Gordon Granger Post
1888, Orange; Quartermaster Robert
Cummings, Sedgwick Post II, Santa
Ana; Adjutant Harvey w. Cowles,
Frank Bartlett Post s, Los Angeles
Chaplain George A. Irwin, Malvern Hill
Post l31, Anaheim.
The following are nearly all the names
registered:
From Dan Bidwell Post 14O OF Nor
walk: j. G. Leeper, Go. @, 5th Regt.,
Mich; Eli Cranston, Sth Regt., Mich.
L. G. Mason, Co. E, 10th Regt. Ind. Inf
Vols; John Dolland, 7th Cal. Vols.
Anson Woodin, Co. 1, 4th Mo-; H. T
Sanford, Co. F, 9th Kansas Cav; J. K
Brenzier, Co. B, 46th ILL.,; George Sebas'
tian, Co. G, 11th o.; G. w. Amy, Co. c.
18th Pa John Brooker, SD N. Y. Inf.
From Sedgwick Post II of Santa Ana
Edwin H. Eddy, Co. F, 147th Ill. Vol
Inf; @. J. Hough, 146 Ill. Vols; S
Huntington, Co. D, goth Iowa; O. J.
Buck, Co. A, 96th Ill. !; Robert Cumming
Co. @, 9TH Pa. Cav; F. D. Shaffer, Co
B, 10th Ind. Inf.; L. d. Rockwell, Co
G, 74th ILL.,. B. D. Van Allen and 8. J
Colby, Go. E, Oath Wis. Vol. Inf; H. A
Young, 81st Ill.
From Gordon Granger Post 1873 o
Orange: John A. Woolsey, Quarter
Master 9TH Illinois Cavalry Infantry Iri
A. Merrill, Company B, 25th Wisconsin
w. II. Clayton, Company H, 10th Iowa
S. B. McTarnehan, I'd California Cavalry
III.