Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
DAY CELEBRATED
BY NATIVE SONS
CROWDS THRONG TO SANTA
MONICA CANYON
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED TAKE
PART IN BARBECUE
Theodore A. Bell and Other Leading
Citizens Born In the State Deliver
Addresses on callfornIa's
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Monica canyon yesterday, the Native
Sons and Daughters of the Golden West
| celebrated California's own Fourth of
July, the fifty-eighth anniversary of
the admission of the state to the Union.
From o'clock yesterday morning
until noon car followed car to Santa
Monica canyon filled to the very steps
with yellow badged sons and daughters
| of the pioneers of 40 and their friends.
At the canyon everything had been ar
| ranged for their pleasure. The shady
walks under the majestic sycamores and
| live oaks In themselves were well worth
| the trip, but arranged on all these
| walks was one feature or another of
entertainment. Some of these were
concessions granted for the day, but
several were free exhibitions for the
guests. OF these exhibitions the Mid
way was the most popular. Here freaks
| of all kinds, who in their native haunts
| In the wilds of Los Angeles are known
as highly successful and respectable
business men, were transformed into
Siamese twins, wild men, snake eaters,
gians, dwarfs, and, in fact, everything
that draws the curious to the museums.
But by far the best feature of the
day was the barbecue served at 1890.
A famous Spanish chef was brought up
from Tia Juana for the day, and he
presided over immense pits in which
steamed 5000 pounds of beef, hundreds
of pounds OF fish, potatoes, corn and
Spanish beans. prepared as only a
Spanish barbecue chef knows how to
cook them. Added to these were i'm
mense cauldrons of coffee. and the tin
cups were constantly being filled and
emptied.
Following the barbecue was a we'll
selected program of speeches.
H. G. Lightenberger, grand third vice
president, was chairman of the day.
In his opening remarks he told how
sixty-two years ago a little band OF
pioneers unfurled the bear flag in the
public square at Sonoma and declared
California, free from Mexican dominion.
-Four years afterward California was
admitted into the sisterhood of states.
He paid glowing tribute to the early
pioneers who had taken the step that
gave this state the right to be admitted
into the Union, and pointed out how
the Native Sons and Daughters had
done SO much to maintain the glory of
the commonwealth they have created.
Mayor Harper was to have made an
address of welcome to the parlors Of
the Native Sons and Daughters which
joined with Los Angeles parlors in the
days celebration, but just as he was
ready to take car to the canyon came
news of the shooting of Capt. Auble,
and he sent Fire Commissioner Anthony
Schwamm, candidate for supervisor in
the Fifth district, to take his place.
AS Mr.. Schwamm is a Native Son he
was welcomed cordially by the crowd
when he arose to welcome them. His
address was short and to the point. He
declared that those who had the good
fortune to be born in the state needed
no welcome. 1t was their privilege to
welcome others less fortunate in the
matter of birth. Even less did the
pioneers who had launched California
on her great and glorious course need a
welcome from him, as they were the
ones to welcome him, even though he
was native born. His address of well
come took the form of a eulogy of the
order and a prayer for the continued
prosperity of those who formed it.
In the "Day We Celebrate" r. M.
Clark Of Ventura went beyond even the
pioneers, and paid his tribute to the
old Spanish dons who taught the
pioneers the hospitality that has be-
come nation wide.
Theodore Bell Speaks
Theodore A. Bell was not on the
official program, but he was recognized
in the crowd early in the day and set
down for a speech on Our State" AS
a member of Napa parlor, and with one
of the brightest political futures of any
of the Native Sons before him, Bell was
welcomed with a rousing ovation when
he stepped on the platform to respond
to his toast.
His speech was not long. but every
word he uttered breathed patriotism,
and he instilled into his hearers pride
of state that brought each Native Son
and Daughter to the verge of emotion.
California is the most favored of all
spots of all commemorative" he said.
ION the golden shores of the Pacific
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the world has ever known. Westward
the coarse of empire takes its way, and
when 1t has reached farthest west it
must stop. The bounding pillows of the
Pacific are the boundary line of the
coming civilization, and therefore Cali
fornia must become the greatest state
in all the world.
"And in the building up of this civil
ization the Native Sons and Daughters
must take prominent part. The MEM
bers of the parlors of Southern Cali
fornia have contributed even more than
their share to making this great state
what it is today. The abundance Of
this section of the state, and In fact of
all California, has reached the four
corners of the earth and started a tide
of population this way that will never
stop. No quarter of the earth has
grown as has Southern California, and
this rapid and steady growth would not
be possible If this fair land did not
have all the advantages 1t is believed
to have And half the tale has not yet
been told"
l.. H. Roseberry of Santa Barbara
followed Mr.. Bell and extended to all
a cordial invitation to attend the next
Admission day celebration at Santa
Barbara, which Is the place chosen for
1909.
Land Of Freedom
Frank G. Tyrell spoke of the Free
dom of California" He found there
were three particularly noteworthy
cases of freedom in this state-freedom
from want, freedom from oppression
and freedom from disease.
In pointing out his first moral he
compared California to eastern states,
where thousands of unemployed march
the streets of great cities under ban
ners demanding work and food and
where hunger has reached such an
acute stage that it has caused riots
which the police have had difficulty in
uuelling. Nothing of the kind had ever
occurred in California, he declared, and
never would, for this was the land
where the mountains were filled with
gold, the valleys with fertility and
where each man could create his own
wealth by grit and labor. Mr.. Tyrrell
paid a glowing tribute to Capt. Aubie,
declaring him to be the squarest man
that ever swung policeman'S billy or
sat at a captains desk.
Criticism" was the theme of Calvert
Wilson. He mildly criticised some
faults he found in the Native Sons,
and commended highly the many vir-