Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-28
FLYING AROUND THE KITE,
The Native Sons Take a View
of the Country.
They Travel Over the Santa Fe's
Famous Track.
Twelve Hours of Fun and Sight-See
Lively Incidents of the Trir-Tra
RI ra boom de rL "a Feature
of the Day.

left Los Angeles than did the 500 dele
gates to the grand parlor of the N. s. q.
w. and their invited guests yesterday
morning on their trip over the kite.
shaped track. They LETT the Santa Fe
depot in two sections Of cars each 1T 8
q. M, but when Pasadena was reached,
two cars were removed and the sections
consolidated. There were in the 'excur-
sion probably 150 ladies, many Of them
being Native Daughters, mostly OF Los
Angeles and its environs.
When the train reentered Los An
;geles, no happier crowd could have been
met anywhere, and the delegates from
northern and other parIors declared that
they had never been to picnic of any de-
scription that they 30 fully enjoyed as
this trip. Nothing came in to mar the
pleasures Of theday, from the start at s
in the morging until the return at 8 in
the evening. The weather was ideal
arrangements made by General Mana
ger X: II. Wade of the Santa Fe perfect,
and the cordiality of those aboard the
ant as the lovelest May day in the ia
Mr.. j.. Adlof, agent of the irm of
Wieland Bros, of San francisco, and
Meesrs. Maier e. Zobeleia, of the Phila-
delphia brewery, had taken care that the
excursionists, in the csse that they
should strike prohibition town and
a prchibitpry license one in their
travels, should have on hand come OF
that good beer which cheereth when
taken in reason, while for the ladies
pink lemonade had been provided.
AT Pasadena a stop of a quarter of an
hour gave but little chance to the visit
ors to admire the beauties Of that city.
At South Pasadena some of the Native
Sons sent committee to Investigate
why COW staked near the track had
only one horn, but she chased the dele
cation back to the cars, and the absence
of one of her borns is not yet explained.
When Lamanda Park WAS reached,
during stop of several minutes some of
the Ramona parlor hunters captured
a horned toad, and it was pre-
sented to Eugene Maxwell with proper
ceremonies. "Gene," who was acting
as assistant ticket collector, placed the
toad upon his breast as an insignia OF
his Office, but as it persisted in falling in
the lap of every lady whose ticket he
collected, it became necessary to remove
the badge and Maxwell placed it in it's
vest pocket, where it will remain forever,
unless he can remember it this morning
as he resds the HERALD.
Douglass band was in the second car
behind the engine and provided the
music-or was it Ia ra ra boom de ra?
Whether Douglass band was goaded
into TIA ra ra boom by the delegates
whistling it or whether the delegatec
were goaded into whistling Ia re- ra be-
cause.-the band played it so much is e
question. Sufficient be it to cay that
Ia rara boom de IA boomdereed with
out rest or cessation during the en-
tire twelve hours occupied by the
trip. The music would start up with
something melodious, euch as Johnny
Get Xour Gun. Down Went McGnty,
or Wagnerian effort, when, before you
Couldwag your ear with delight, tara
ra boom came flowing out OF trumpet,
trombone and flute as if Douglass band
had contract on the air and must pro-
duce it 80 many times an hour.
Ia ra ra boom got in it's deadly work
early in the day, and by night time it
was indelibly suppressed upon the minds
of enswho heard it. One delegate alter
he had heard Ia ra ra for the 'steen
hundredth time said that he would not
be bit astonished if his rooster woke
him up in the morning with good,
square ia ra ra boom de ra instead of
the old, honest cockadoodled0s. A
very deaf delegate assured his hearers
that a mixture of ia ra ra with a few
other tunes, when the different per-
formers became uncertain as to what
was on the tapis, reminded him very
much of Die Walkure of Herr Wagner,
but yet it WAS little more lively, he
believed. This, however, was simply
because the flute always got in his
"ta-rs ra- boom" when the old gentle
man cooked his ear. Just after leaving
roller degree was conferred ON Bro.
Frank Ryan of Sacramento. The degree
is not in the ritual, unless it be per-
performed on rolling train. His shoes
were removed that all might admire his
Cinderella shaped pedals. Due homage
having been done to these he was de-
clared high roller. Bro. Mnrtiu
presided over the ceremonies and Bro.
Thos. II. Vivian acted as grand sem
tinel. Several victims were forcibly
dragged in to have the degree con
ferred and had hard time after
wards bunting up their valuables
which had mysteriously disappeared.
Bro. Ed. Gibson, being sheriff, and as
such acquainted with the kangaroo
court, kept his hands in his pockets
while being initiated, and the commit
tee on high rolling didn't get at his
watch or his pockstbook.
When Redlands was reached large
number OF people were at the depot to
meet the delegates, who formed inrpro.
cession and marched through the ptin-
cipal streets of the pretty town. Drum
Major Rudolph, with his red coat and
blue pants, one hand armed with
wooden snuff box and the other with
huge stick, considerably astonished the
aedate residents, but when just behind
the band came, arm in arm, Bros.
Henry 5. Martin and jimmy Rowan,
weighing $50 pounds between the two,
Redlands thought that a circus had
struck the town.
Brother Martin ascribes his adipose to
doughnuts, and Jimmy says it's oranges;
this makes the difference of fif,v pounds
fin favor of the former. "Ta ra ra boom,
again did its little insidious business.
and the Redlanders were not relieved of
the excursion until the W hole town knew
the tune. A young squaw with a red
shawl over her head was ealuted .by the
entire procession as an honorary native
daughter. BY some accident barrel of
beer had been left here on the platform
of one of the cars, together with some
glasses. As a thirsty Son of the Golden