Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-25
Society,"

II over the snow-capped Sierras
- yesterday morning there was
faint, clear peal of golden wedding
bells. and the sun ushered in a day
that was notable in the lives of one
of the pioneer families of Los Angeles,
bringing with it the fiftieth anniver-
sary Of the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harris Newmark of Westlake avenue.
The handsome home was decked for
the occasion with a profusion of rare
blossoms and potted plants, the num-
ber being increased from time to time
as baskets and bouquets of golden daft
fodils, long-stemmed violets or choice
orchids were delivered with cards
bearing messages of love and the con-
gratulations of friends.
No cards had been issued, but the
date and it's significance was known
through the press, and from 3 o'clock
to $50 In the afternoon and from un-
til long after 10 in the evening the
pleasant rooms were thronged with
friends and acquaintances. Many who
came were old-time friends and large
part of the days pleasure lay in the
exchange of "reminiscences concerning
the time when our city of the Lady Of
the Angels was pueblo town.
Bride Still Girl
The bride, who was the center of at
traction yesterday, is handsome
woman who-s dark brown hair shows
not a single. silver thread, and who
wears her crown of years with the
same matronly ease and grace as her
daughters do theirs.
She was beautifully gowned in vel
vet of dark plum color, with rare lace,
and wore a few beautiful diamond or
naments. BY her side, to aid in re-
ceiving the guests, was the husband
of her youth, whose silvered hair
spoke of strenuous years of business
life and the cares that pertained to
the establishment and successful con-
duct of one of the largest wholesale
enterprises in the city. Surrounded by
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren, Mr.. and Mrs. Newmark
dispensed informal but delightful hos
pitaly, receiving during the day many
hundred friends.
'It has been such a happy day."
said Mrs. Newmark at the close. "Our
life, too, has been a happy one, though
sh. owed by the loss of six OF o. =
children
Mrs. Newmark is one of the fortu-
nate persons who can recall the ex-
perience of sailing from New York,
her native state, for California via the
trip around the Horn, and arriving in
San FRANCISCO after a voyage of four
months, in April of 1853. soon after the
discovery of gold. After residence
of fifteen months in the city by the
Golden Gate her parents came to Los
Angeles.
Came from Old World
Mr.. Newmark was born in Loebau
West Prussia, and while still in his
teens came to Los Angeles to join his
elder brother, J. p. Newmark, who was
the first member of the family to come
to California. Harris Newmark was
youth [ 10 years at this time, just the
age to appreciate the beauty of pair
of dancing brown eyes. and when he
was "a and she only II he had wooed and
won the heart and the promise of his
cousin Sarah, and they were wed in the
home he had provided for her, where
the F. w. Braun Wholesale Drug COM
pany now is, Rabbi Newmark, her
father reading the marriage covenant.
Someone who remembers the bride of
Yesterday when she was a young girl
of is and just affianced says that she
was one of a trio of brides-to-be who
were all about the same age, and that
one day the three girls were caught
indulging in a most undignified game of
iackstones by one of the expectant
brideerooms Among the callers yes
terday were Mrs. S. c. Foy, Mrs. w. ii.
Perry. Mrs. Buffum and Mrs. b. G.
Truman, who We're girls with Sarah
Newmark and went to school with her
in the little schoolhouse that stood on
what is now the corner of Second street
and Broadway.
This all took place, in small town
bearing the name of the Los Angeles
OF today with its proud record of a
population of 100000, but the resem-
blance ends there. Every man of the
5000 Inhabitants went armed, the grass
grew in the streets, San Pedro was four
hours away and San Francisco three
weeks.
Many Changes in City
Blanchard hall occupies ground that
then was acreage, and Mr.. Newmark is
authority for the statement that one
could shoot up the center of Broadway
or Spring streets without disturbing
anyone.
| At that time land was measured by
| leagues. a few owners of the large
| tracts having only just begun to con-
| slider the feasibility of cutting their
grants into small farming tracts.
They remember the laying of the first
telegraph line to San Francisco, the
thrill of the shrill whistle that an
nounced the coming of the first railroad
train; they remember the first manu-