The herald., 1893-05-14
FOUR NorABLEs.
An Interesting and Instructive Reunion
Chronfoled.

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An Interesting and Instructive Reunion
Chronicled.
The following item Is clipped from
recent Issue Of q Southern California
journal: "S. M. White, United State
senator from California; Z. NJ. Ross
Judge OF the United States Distrie
court, and E. L. Mcneil, capitalist, o
Los Angeles, recently visited Colone
Burton, U. s. A., at his ranch in Red
lands, Gal. We understand the party
OF distinguished Los Angelefos mar
veled at the natural beauties and high
atate OF development possessed by this
favored region" This item induces a
reflective mood. III the writer was
plutarchian in mold rather than utili-
tartan in spirit he should incline TO di-
rect his thoughts in parallels. For three
Of these gentlemen's lives practically
initiated in Los Angeles and are not
dissimlar in development in many
respects, especially 30 far az each in his
particular sphere has lived to attain, at
q comparatively young age, the highest
worldly state his fairest hopes could
have pictured, when many of the homes
of our present cultured and millionaire
owners were "antres vast and deserts
Wild"
Hon. e. M. Ross came to Los Angeles
as a young attorney from Virginia to
seek fortune and distinction. How we'll
his early dav dreams have fructified bis
present high position in the United
States courts amply attest. That his
share OF mortaPs worldly goods is in
another sense as pleasing, his yearly
tolls from his extensive citrus orchards
give satisfactory proof.
Following close upon Judge Rose ar
rival, away back in the sixties, came
Lieutenant Burton as Acknowledgement
to General Stoneman. He, too, surveyed
the mystic future OF this many eided
and infinitely variegsted country, and
whilst contending with the noble red
man from the wooded land OF Idaho on
the northern border, to the arid wastes
of Arizona on the south, he never lost
sight OF the attractions OF this country
for home, and hence whilst laying the
foundation for his present ranA in the
army by long and severe frontier service
in the Indian country, and when Red
lands was yet barren slope, either
through good luck or fair judgment he
purchased and planted 40 acres to orange
and lemon groves in what is now one OF
the far famed valleys of this ever envied
state, and besides having O charming
home, he will be getting with it yearly
income BETTING that derived from a
fortune considerably rising 100000
About the time when beautiful Pasa-
dena was not, and the vast stretch from
Los Angeles to San Bernardino was
tramped only by wild herds, these young |
gentlemen started their professional |
careers here; they found in their midst |
our honored United States senator, a |
mere boy, playing on the streets of
Mexican town. He, too, had his ambi- |
tions and hopes, and notwithstanding |
he 10 junior in years by half q score to
them, he has by hisi own indomitable
will and intellect reached the highest
rank attainable by the few, for he has
not only reached the high estate OF be-
ing in name and essence the ranking
legal light OF our bar, but he has gained
the pleasing distinction OF having re-
ceived the loyal outrage Of majority of
his people fer the high Office of United
States senator OF the golden state.
Mr.. Mcneil is later product here
abouts, but he, too, started as did the
Others with his future to make; he ia
now one of the esteemed young men Of
means In this section Of the state. Ii
this ID somewhat long drawn portrait
OF this chance meeting of four friends. il
ia rather TO trace with pleasure as we'll
as interest The happy mood Of fortune in
this instance, and to suggest by infer
snee whether it is natures reward Of
manly perseverance, or the bounding fe-
this modern Italy that has
at once, and 80 briefly,
his picture, which the HERALD is
pleased to link with the matches
OF the two great Los Angeles
and San Bernardino valleys.