Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-16
AT THE PARK.
The Secular Los Angeles
Sunday Picnic.
Features of the Day at West
lake Park.
Everybody and His Girl Enjoy the
Music.
An Autumn Sunday in Semi-Tropicdom.
Rich and Poor Enjoy the Occa-
sion--Some Pencil
Pictures.

liz Yesterday be taken as fair ex-
ample, it seems that all of secular Los
Angeles on Sundays religiously performs
pilgrimage to Westlake park to with
in hearing distance of the band stand.
1t may not be a pure, unadulterated
love OF music which attracts these thou
sands to the sun-kissed shores of the
dainty artificial lake, but in all charity
let us assume that least great proper
ton OF the motiye was adulation OF the
muses..
1t is true that many extremely frivo-
lous-looking individuals meandered
about the graveled paths with an eye to
the beauty OF the opposite sex, but that
is neither here nor there. Such traits
are not necessarily signs OF viciousness,
and even purely animal spirit results
occasionally from all the overwhelming
display OF charms scattered broadcast
by bountiful nature in this ideal cline.
The telegraphic dispatches state that
the first snow of the season is clothing
the broad acres of the bucolic city OF
Chicago with robe of white. Today
that pure and delicate robe of innocence
will be defiled and bear the mark of the
windy city's unhallowed touch. Ankle
deep will the miserable denizens of an
effete east wade in slush and mud,
while the happy Los Angelefo will
take sun-bath in the open air, and
will breathe into his ecstatic lungs the
balmy air of an eternal spring.
Yesterday, too, while the eastern
stroller was huddling himself into his
fur-lined great-coat and the unfortunate
Maggie Murphy was dismally warbling
Each Sunday Night before a measly
coal-fire on the CRATE, the gay young
people of the City of the Angels, as
well as dignified age and frivolous child
hood, disported themselves on the green
in the shadow of the magnolia and
pepper tree. the date palm and the pro-
verbal vine and fig tree.
Thus we were, and with the glare OF
glorious sunlight, mingled with the
blare OF brass, the tinkle OF cymbals
and the mellow melodies OF classical
creation. And in the midst of all this
poesy and song gay young chit of a
thing remarked to her equally gay COM
panion: "I'm done with him now.
amt going to chase him any more.
See ?"
The most remarkable feature of a
Westlake concert is the number OF fash
ionabe and questionable vehicles
which congregate in the neighborhoud.
There were asthousand rigs at, the lake
yesterday, if there was one, and they
represented every known variety of car
riage architecture and equine anatomy.
In fact, without any reflections, it may
be truly said that some of the locomotive
specimens were asinine, for the fes-
tive and self-esteeming burro him
self was represented by fine
and able-heeled contingent. The blooded
steeds of paneled drag trod the same
earth with shaggy Shetlands and monde
script nags, and the differences in birth
and education displayed by the attached
specimens of humanity were equally
men and women enjoyed, and all the
steeds and melancholy hacks SHE'D at
the same music.
The concert performed by Douglass s
military band was most excellent, the
programme being fully equal if not
superior to that rendered last Sunday.
1t was as follows:
Wedding march h..................M Mendelssohn
Airs from light opera. ................ Boyer
Waltz-My Charmer.. .-..,..........W Waldteufei
Gayotte-Kajanka ........... Zimmerman
Overture harmonic. e..-............M ..Mendelssohn
Selection-Freichutz, z,...............,... Weber
Intermezzo-Flirtation (by request -. Steck
oversureNLght Cavalry .suppe
Idylle-Approach of Spring ...... Eilenberg
Galop-Sleighride. .....,.........Str Strauss
Some OF the unfortunate inhabitants
OF the east, who at present are fortunate
enough to be visiting us, to our mutual
advantage, had the pleasure to join in
the general enjoyment. Among those
who strolled among the palms were Miss
Fanny Davenport and Melbourne Nc
Dowell, and Mr.. and Mrs. Krausse, Mrs.
Hill, Miss Sanger, Miss Kuehne, Miss
Lippet and Mr.. Harris of their company.
Also Nine. Garso-Dely, Mile. Nina
Bertini, Nine. Olga Essley, Herr Joseph
Rubo, Herr William Faran, Joe Hirsch-
bach and Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Ogden Of
the Columbia Opera company. Messrs.
Krausse and Hirschback, respectively
musical conductors of Davenport and
the Columbia, expressed themselves
as surprised at the excellence OF the
local public-park music. The new first
cornet, William Deeble, made a great
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