The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
State Canine Real Association Growing
Steadily, the South Leading
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

sented being the Board OF Trade. Farmers
Club, Merchants Association, East Side I'm
provement Club. West Side improvement Club
and the Shakespeare Club Senator b. w.
Hahn was elected president, Captain Water
house vice president. Mrs. Bandini secretary,
ID. W Coolidge treasurer report received
on July places the membership OF this club az
l3V- D. w Coolidge. who you will notice is
the secretary OF the Pasadena section and also
OF the Pasadena Board Of Trade said in his
paper read at Sacramento at the recent meet
ing OF the different organizations there: ''El
vancement OF the State. When an our cities
are connected by this great system FL GAMING
, hea. wiz De; next to climate, the greatest at
traction IN lhe state. Let unite in cur ef-
forts 20 secure this road AT an early date
In reference to beautifying the cities which
should be a part OF the work OF the associa =
tion, he said: Make your cities towns and
country homes more beautiful; clean out the
weeds. grade and oil your country roads and
paNe your city streets; plant trees kill the
knockers: suppress the ''gra fters'' and talk
california. This is the way TO bring tourists
70 Salitornia and TO keep them here as citizens
In Alhambra we have organized the second
section. with Gail Borden as president and Mr..
corey secretary.
san Diego. Section No. 3. elected DR.. Ed
ward Grove as president, he also being chair
man Of the good roads committees of the
Champer OF Commerce there. George W Mar
ston. one OF the Park Commissioners. was
elected vice president, Baker Thomas secretary
ana Mr Wagenhem treasurer.
Section No. organized in Santa Ana,
Win george Minter as president, Mr.. Black
vice president. T c Gould secretary. In this
section they are doing excellent work. intend
ing TO beautify their city with ornamental
trees, TO clean up the streets and 10 further
the improvement Of roads leading TO the city.
Section No was organized in Los Angeles.
Dr. Q. Shepard Barnum, who is the repre-
sentative for the League Of American Wheel
men Tor the coast and a member of the good
roads committee Of the Chamber OF Commerce
OF Los Angeles. is the president Colonel J. B.
I-ankershim is vice president. Mrs. A. :. c.
Forbes secretary and General Robert Wankow-
ski treasurer At the next meeting they will
discuss plans for work After the meeting
proper lhere VIII be an interesting programme
OF Spanish songs, followed by tanFale lunch
con- Each one Of these sections is governed
by an executive committee of fifteen members.
tsry.
As to plans for the future work of EI Ca
in Ventura on the 18th OF this month before
which time sections Will be formed in Whit
tier and in Tropco. Early in August there
VIII De meeting in Santa Cruz. one in Pale
Alto. another in Sonoma, and we hope some
good work viii be done in san Francisco in
September.
The latter hope is voiced by most OF
us who are interested in the preserva-
ton of historic buildings, relics, and
the traditions that cling about them
But there seems TO be a divergence
of opinion about the Canine Real
among some excellent people, who are
likewise good Californians, and who
| labor under the belief that a terrible
burden Of debt is about to be unloaded
upon a guileless public-some millions
of dollars with which to hunt for and
identify the real truly trail Of the
honored padres, which, by the way
cannot possibly be found nor identi-
fed. since there were dozens and dozens
of trails and carreta roads used in
| the pastoral days. and then whole
new system of roads builded upon this
visionary highway. Now. in the
minds Of the most practical leaders OF
l this moVement-whO at the same time
entertain large need of sentiment for
/ 1.-THE Canine Real exists to-day II
/ exists in the prosaic guise of county
roads, winding from San Diego Mis-
! sion to San Juan Capistrano, TO San
| Luis Rey, to San Fernando and on
northward TO the Mission de los Do
lores in our own city. What if the
eXisencies Of time and conditions COM
PEELED swerving of the road to the
east or west. a lowering or raising
Of the grade2 What if the building OF
a fence threw the old beaten road
way ten or twenty or a hundred feet
out Of the best remembered course
/ What of it, so long as a good road
/ lies in the immediate neighborhood OF
! the paths trodden by the sandaled
/ monks in the long ago? Shall we
/ abandon these good rOadways and
! spend years in quibbling over routes
/ of which no living man hath knowl-
edge or shall we unite to improve the
roads we already have-the county
roads that to-day link Mission with
1 Mission? While the sentimentalists-
and heaven bless him who hath senti-
ment-will balk at the alleged fax
/ ing" and Misrepresentation" of this
project, it must be conceded to be the
only sensible and tenable proposition