The herald., 1895-02-26
MOUNT LOWE
DaIights Of fountain TraveI-Star Gazing.
Touching Songs


Touching Songs
Echo Mountain, Feb. 25 interest
ing incident occurred at the musicale in
the hotel parlors on Saturday evening.
Mr. Pettibone of Chicago, responding to
an encore sang the simple descriptive
melody Meditation, by Fosdyck. The first
line, when we we're very poor" is fol-
lowed by an account of the gradual ad-
vance to wealth OF genial old couple, but
in all their splendor, the old, homely
scenes of early life are treasured mem
ories. Mrs. Leland Stanford was present
and listened with absorbed interest and
was visibly affected. Then A. C. Taylor
OF New York, sang the touching
song Where is My Wandering Boy To-
night, and then again Mrs. Stanford took
the sentiment home to herself and said
her boy was in that happy land where all
were blest 1t is familiar to all that the
Leland Stanford Junior University was
established in memory of her only son,
who died at the age of fifteen years.
Miss Gertrude Stanford compared the
present wonderful development OF South
ern California with her first visit to this
region eighteen years ago when the
Southern Pacific Railroad had only
just reached the Colorado River. Her visit
was in July of an unusually rainess year,
when Los Angeles was little more than
a sleepy Mexican village with single ho-
tel-the Pico House. Pasadena had very
few scattering houses and contained no
promise of the present beautiful and flour
ishing city. And the mountains-who
would have dreamed that in less than a
score of years group of magnificent
buildings would crown their heights and
they would be made accessible by such
brilliant engineering? 1t is like a fairy
story.
Peter Bodine and his sister, Miss Jennie
Bodine, are from New York City. He mar
veled at the wonderful prosperity of
Southern California and the splendid en-
terprise of her citizens. He looked out
from Echo mountain upon that gorgeous
landscape of green and brown fields, long
vistas of orange groves and other fruit
orchards and the populous towns stretch
ing out in every direction, and pro-
nounced it wonderful It is Mr. Bodines
first visit, but it will not be his last
Mr. and Mrs. John s. Woolson, of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, were accompanied by Mrs.
L. f. Twinting, of Pasadena.
Among the mountain climbers today
were Miss Evalyn Corey Albrecht, G. u.
McLain, Miss H. McLain and Miss J.
ian Hooker and Miss Blanche Bancroft,
of Waupun Wis. G. D. Van Vie and Miss
M. V. Van Vie, Los Angeles. When they
reached the mountain side beyond Echo
canyon they called back across the chasm
in merry ''yodels'' tothe companions
they had left behind.
1t was regarded as significant that Ed
win Burritt Smith, of Chicago; John
Brown, of the Bank of California, and
some others interested in the bonds of the
Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Rail
way, should be hobnobbing together in
the rotunda of the Echo Mountain House.
W. E. Roberts and Miss Marge Flanagan
of Chicago and l.. Nieder- Hoffman of
Frankfort Germany were among those
who arrived by the tallyho route.
Miss Mary Miller of Gay City, Mich,
was escorted by Ii. Clifford Rogers of
Pasadena.
Among those who made a 10 O'Clock
visit to the observatory Saturday night
were w. G. Patterson, president of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. S. c
Chevailler and Miss H. A. Chevailler of
La Crescenta, Mrs. Arthur C. Taylor of
New York, Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Haw-
ley of San Francisco r. r. Brown of
Omaha.