The record-union., 1893-06-14
new EEGLAED'S FORTY-NINERO.
They VIII Hold Their Annual Election
This Month.
California Pioneers to Assemble in
Boston on the 17th-Address Is
sued by Secretary Spur.

Memories of California's pioneer gold
digging days are not to be allowed to die
out even IN old New England, where
there is quite an organization known as
the Associated California Pioneers of
49," who hold annual reunions at the
Revere House in Boston. The Secretary
is George q. Spur, who buried his father
at Suffers Fort in this city in 1919, and
who has favored the readers Of the REC
oRD-UNIoN with many interesting remi-
niscences OF that memorable year. In his
call for the annual meeting he thus adj
dresses the New England Pioneers of
California:
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FAIL"
Nm Dear associate: On June 11th, pres
ent, and at sunrise, the grizzly bear flag,
the emblem of our association, may be
seen floating over the Revere House in
the metropolis Of New England. The
grizzly bear, the product of California
and the King of the Sierras, can be seen
there, emblazoned upon it's folds, smiling
the soft morning air and looking down
serenely upon cultured Boston. The men
who found him in his native Businesses
1Orty-four years ago and gave him both a
name and place in history will assem-
Die under their standard and break bread
anu cat SAIL III Inc u l1dI
famous old tavern.
1t should be borne in mind that June
is the month of roses, the month when
nature caresses the earth with lavish
fondness. Let me remind you that the
l7th Of June is a historic day, day
full Of sacred memories, 1t is a day set
apart for public rejoicing, and all day
long the heart of Massachusetts swells
with patriotic pride. Our society makes
use of this memorable day for closing up
its business affairs for the year that has
past, and prepare it for the one that is to
follow. 1t is the end of the voyage, as it
were, when the ship is over-hauled and
rehttod for another. Officers are chosen,
watches are set, and the stately ship
again sails away upon the ocean of time.
Let me remind you, therefore, that AT
y o'clock on the 18th of June the
parlors of the Revere House will be
thrown open for the use of this .brother-
hood. You are expected, of course, to be
present on this occasion and help trim
ship and light up the pinnacle" 1t is
TO be a veritable miners meeting, to
which every forty-niner throughout the
land is invited to join and share in an
old-tashioned hand-shake. And while
the people are celebrating the Battle of
Bunker Hill and listaning to the deeds Of
rs, let the founders of the great State of
California, with all of her future grand
OF old, when they dug for gold way back
in 40.
1t is to be hoped that the present year
may be devoted to one grand and en-
nobllng purpose, namely, invite, aye,
urge every man who started for our land of
gold in lS49, and arrived there during its
Territorial days, to join this society and
become one of us. Let the men that
opened up that vast wilderness and en-
dured all the hardships born OF their
times unite in a common interest, and
build up one grand and magnificent
brotherhood, having but one flag, one
constitution and one destiny.
This association is founded upon true
pioneer principles, its cornerstone being
pure gold. There is nothing that good
forty-nlner could wish that is not found
in this organization. 1t has a member
ship OF l26, every one of whom has a
right to wear the forty-niner's badge To
such OF our old associates who saw moth
ing in the new diggin's we struck four
years ago, we say come and prospect the
now claim to-day. The cabin door will
be found wide open, and men all the way
from Shasta Butte to Buncho Flats, on
the San joaquin, will be found waiting to
give you miners greeting. Upon this
claim let us rest and stand united Let
us have but one society of forty-niners in
the city of Boston. Let that society be
grand and imposing, worthy of our
achievements and deserving the high
esteem the people of this old common
wealth has long borne toward US.
Once more we say come and join US in
working out this claim. The mine is
simply inexhaustible ard its sluice-box
never dry. Our cabin is a stately struct-
ure. 1t is founded upon a rock. Beneath
its massive roof there is room enough for
all. Come, therefore, and break bread
and eat salt, and be with US and of US
unto the end.