The herald., 1895-05-20
THE Los ANGELES KICKER
HutchisOn Comes Forward With
Plants and Protests
PIANO STRUMMERS BANNED
A Church or No Church Controversy
With Editor Bell
lie Wants Too Obtrusive Trees Cut Down.
His Reasons for Taking Gloomy
View of Life

AS II SCnOOlTaSbeI WIN Has nav on ~
| celent opportunity to see something OF
the workings of the present antediluvlan
methods of many music teachers. or al
legged music teachers | must enter mild
complaint against such time-consumlng
money wasting, antiquated methods OF
making inharmonious instrument ham
merers out of the innocent boys and girls
of this city at an annual expenditure lor
lessons and instruments OF about SboO.
600. or three times the cost OF the whole
public school system-and our music;
alas, our own music!
a reasonable amount of calculating
will satisfy a reasonable man that small
traction of our present random outlav
for inharmony would establish and main
tain in this city a real musical conselVa-
| tory. which would afford opportunity for
| a thorough musical education Tor all the
muscally inclined children III the city,
who now follow such an irregular anu
un satisfactory course OF study, with such
odd hours and such frequent change OF
teachers that we could expect no better
results than we get, and might even be
thankful that we as listeners and the
children as learners, fare no worse.
The average thoughtful, and conse-
quently liberal minded citizen who tar
ries on the street for Il few minutes to
consult with others who are abroad Tor
consultation and communion and the en-
largement of tho understanding is
promptly advised by the of1icious official
yclept the police that he should move on,
unless he happens to hold discourse win
the Salvation Army or the Southern "a
cific army, in which latter case he is
ranked with those armies and is permit
ted to deport himself as he lists; while
passers-by are com peled tn submit to any
discomfort or chagrin- breeding clrcum-
stance chargeable to him ana his coadJu,
tors, and wouldbe passers-by who ma
the obstacles insurmountable are com
PEELED to grin and bear it, or trown ana
forbear righteous Iiotous speech and JUS
tiiiable forcible condemnation.
Various teamstcrs, milkmen newsboys,
bakers, cab drivers tall pedestrians and
other good friends of the human eye, as
well as of the whole human body and
soul, have entered complaint at this court
against the prevailing big. sleeve-like
habit or fashion among the trees on many
of the streets and sidewalks OF this city;
such complainants pray that the offend
ing trees may be cut down and cut up
root and branch, In order that business
expeditions may be eXpedlted TO the 1uil H
extent of the law and order OF the
grumblers on said streets-all OF which Is
hereby ordered done as prayed Tor, under
penalty of the severest umbrage known to
| this most equitable and unwomanly cour-
| tier.
Our good friend Bell of the Porcupine
| and Phoenix is becoming quite fractous
| over the omission of a cipher from the
| statement of the population OF Los Ange-
les in 1881, making it appear that the
holy city had but 400 people instead OF
1000, which latter figure is probably much
| nearer the truth than the 1000 estimate
with which we are kindly supplied by the
open handed knight of the quill-the
Porcupine knight who was once so faml-
| iarly known among those who fought
against the abuses of the local govern
ment, but whose qills we have missed
sadly when we have inspected the politi-
cal corpses of any malefactors slain
within many and many Il moon.
Colonel Warner told me and | told the
Bell and other readers of the Herald that
| there was no church of any denomination
whatever in Los Angeles i'll the year
! 1881; all of which has been proved by the
numerous Investigations which confirm
the Herald chronicler by showing tnat
the 'church' for this section was at
San Gabriel where all the priests OF this
quarter lived that a small station or
chapel was located near the plaza in Los
| Angeles; that the services III tne plaza
chanel were conducted by the priests
from San Gabriel, who came here at
stated intervals for that purpose; and
| that the first Protestant church in this
city was the building on Broadway, now
known as the Jewish synagogue. which
was erected by IL com posite Protestant
congregation about the year 1888. and
which soon after fell into the hands OF
the Jews, as Mrs. Winfield Scott Hancock
relates in her Life of Major Gen eral W.
S. Hancock, and in the chapter thereof
relating to their residence in Los An
geles, Cal, for several years prior to the
year 1861. of unpleasant memory because
of the late unpleasantness now deceased,
but not buried.