Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18

MAYOR McNABB'S WELCOME
zone hundred years ago the
twentieth of this month that brave old
Spanish padre, Father Dumetz, estah-
lished the first white settlement in this
beautiful valley. AS he came from the
westward he cast his eyes about in
search of the most slightly spot on
which to erect the cross and build an
altar. The site finally selected was
on the brow of a hill which today lies
almost within the corporate limits of
the city of San Bernardino, and from
which can be seen the most beautiful
and fertile valley in all California,
spreading as it does from the snow
capped peaks on the east almost to the
sea on the south and west. Standing
as this city does on practically the
exact spot selected by this pious father,
it is but fitting and appropriate that
San Bernardino should be selected as
the point at which to hold a celebra-
tion of this character, and now that
your committees have finished their
work; now that the curtain is about
to be raised and our people carried
back to the scenes of one hundred
years ago, as mayor of the city of
San Bernardino it does me great honor
and affords me extreme pleasure to at
this time extend to you and the CEN
tennial committee and to our loyal cit
izens, and to the strangers within our
gates the freedom of the city.
"At the same time wish to express
to you the sincere hope and belief
that this will prove the most success
full event of the kind ever held in
Southern California, and that while
furnishing entertainment, amusement
and instruction to thousands 1t may
also result in closer friendship,
deeper feeling of neighborly love and
greater interest in each others welfare
between San Bernardino and her sis
ter cities of this great valley. Ladies
and gentlemen, for the remainder of
the week the city Is yours"
PIONEERS HOLD RECEPTION
The pioneers during the afternoon
held public reception at their log
cabin headquarters. Here settlers who
first came to the valley as far back
as the early fifties have reproduced the
old fort established in 1851 for protec-
ton against the hostile Indians Relics
of the days of '49 have been gathered
from among the old settlers and are
on exhibition at the log cabin.
In the form of a mammoth century
plant the pioneers have constructed the
centennial register booth, where the
names of visitors and residents of the
valley are to be registered. The book,
after the end of the celebration, is to
be sealed in an iron box and stored
AWdV TO De OD6uGu d lluiOlCO SSe'iS
hence at the second centennial of the
valley.
The log cabin is constructed the
same as were the first homes of the
early settlers. Not nail was used by
the old pioneers, who themselves
brought the logs from the mountains
and built the cabin, which stands com
plete in every detail and a thorough
reproduction of the original homes
erected by them three-score years ago.
At the old Fort San Bernardino and
the log cabin an old Indian, warrior
of the days gone by, today Inspected
the reproduction of the garrison upon
which he participated in attacks dur
ing the first year of it's erection in 1881.
old Chief Mike, as the ancient brave
IS known. is said to be 104 years old.
AS a child he saw the coming of Padre
Dumetz and his fellow missionaries,
the first white men to encroach on the
lands that his forefathers had ruled
for untold generations. AS he grew to
manhood he saw his tribe gradually
forced back from the fertile land over
which they once held undisputed sway,
and with the coming of the American
gold-seekers he joined in open revolt
against the advance of the white men.
With his tribesmen he forced the
American settlers, hundred in num-
ber, to fortify themselves in the fort,
which was built on what is now Ar
rowhead avenue between Third and
Fourth, now in the heart Of the city.
Many of the inhabitants of the old
fort have long since passed on to an
other world, but there are still those
who fought against the attacks of the
redskins, and with whom are living
the hundreds of descendants Of the
brave men and women who braved
the perils of the frontier life to estab
lish the settlement.
STURDY SETTLERS REMEMBERED
At the miniature fort, standing in
the rear of the log cabin, quarters are
set aside in the name Of every man
who was an inhabitant of the garrison
during those stirring days Above the
doorways are placed the names Of
those men.
old Chief Mike, enfeebled by old age,
hobbled about the fort and the log
cabin, but it was not the objects of
today that the dimmed eyes of the old
warrior saw, for he was living in the
days of long ago.
PHOTOGRAPHERS and all persons car
rying cameras were today warned OF