Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-21
KINGS MEMORIAL
. DRAWS THOUSANDS
Los Angeles Citizens Crowd Audi
torium to Pay Tribute to
the Late Monarch
WORK FOR PEACE is THEME
Speaker Declares Edward VII the
Greatest Apostle for DiSarm-
ament World Has Known
WORK FOR PEACE is THEME

Citizens of Los Angeles last night
paid a remarkable tribute to the mem
ory of King Edward VII, of England,
the memorial services in Temple au-
ditorium attracting an audience which
filled every seat while several hundred
persons stood and other hundreds were
refused admission.
A majority of those in attendance
We're of course, British born; but in
the audience, also, were hundreds who
owed no allegiance TO the dead king,
save the allegiance he won from the
world at large mainly through his
championship of peace, policy which
made him, as one speaker declared,
the most successful apostle of peace
the world ever has known"
Last nights services were held under
the auspices of a committee of former
British subjects of which c. White
Mortimer, British vice consul, acted
as chairman. The auditorium stage
was banked with English daises and
ivy. the daisy having been King Ed
wards favorite flower. Other flowers,
together with American and British
flags, were used in decorating.
BRIEF ADDRESSES
The program consisted of brief ad-
dresses and music, the speakers be-
ing Rev DR. J. S. Thomson, Judge
Curtis d. Wilbur, Rev. DR.. E. A. Hea-
ley, Robert Watchborn and Rabbi S.
Hecht Bishop Johnson was unable to
be present; and from Bishop Conaty
came a letter of regret because of an
engagement in San Bernardino.
An unusual feature of the service
was the reading by John Alton of a
poem written by Mrs. j. d. H. Brown
of Santa Monica, author of similar
poem on Queen Victoria, which was
read at the memorial meeting held in
Los Angeles soon after Victoria s
death, nine years ago.
Two main themes were, first, King
Edward successful efforts to promote
worldwide peace; and second, the
amity, the "Blood-is- thicker -that-wat-
err sentiment. existing between the
United States and Great Britain.
Midway in the meeting a collection
was taken up a little less than $4OO
being realized towards the establish
ment of a King Edward Memorial free
bed in the hospital of the Good Sam
aritan.
THE ADDRESSES
The Rev. DR.. ]. S. Thomson. first
speaker of the evening, took as his
subject, The Peacemaker."
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, whose topic
was THE King From an American
Point of View" spoke in similar vein.
DIR. Healey told of attending a mem
orial meething for Queen Victoria, held
in Los Angeles o-cathedral, nine
years ago. ION that OCCASION he said,
"a native-b born and patriotic Ameri-
can began his address with the words:
Our queen is dead So tonight l say
to you Our king is dead " Continuing
Dr. Healey spoke in sympathetic words
of Queen Alexandra and said that he,
as a boy, remembered the day of the
Danish princess wedding to the then
prince of Wales. I'VE were to have had
with us tonight" he continued, "a dis
tinguished woman of Los Angeles who
was present at that wedding, Mrs.
Let's, mother of Arthur Let's, but
unfortunately she has been kept at
home by an indispOstion."
Robert Washburn said that he, too,
could remember that wedding. LAS
an English school boy" he said, II
marched in a procession in honor of
the marriage.
Rabbi Hecht spoke of the king as
a humanitarian, saying that he was
kind of thought, kind of word and
kind of deed; one of the most popular
and beloved sovereign of whom his
tory has any record.
LAS a Jew, speaking for Jews" con-
tinued the rabbi, 'let me tell you that
there are today in the British isles
about 10000 of my co-religionists to
whom Edward was friend as well as
king"
Music was provided by Archibald w.
Sessions at the big pipe organ, the
Philharmonic quartet, Miss Alice
Lohr and Miss Carolyn Won Benzon,
the great audience singing Nearer My
God to Thee" at the opening and
America" at the closing of the ser
vices.