Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

votion i'm spelling out that inscription
as her first reading lesson! That little
girl is now the wife Of the Hon. VIII
liam II. Workman, and she recalls the
time when their home on Boyle Heights
was away out in the country. Whefe
the bakers wagon made trip every
other day, and it was the baker who
brought them the news of the assassin
alton OF President Lincoln. The news
had travelled by stage and pony eX-
press clear across the continent even
before the baker heard it, as there
We're no telegraphs nor railroads con-
Meeting the west with the east i'm those
day, and to the residents of the east,
Los Angeles was as far away as
Darkest Africa. is to us today, but II
wasn't too far away for tho blessed
Sisters Of Charity to come, Ike minis
tering angels, when the call for their
services reached them in their far
away homo at Emmettsburg, Nd.
SISTERS OF CHARITY
After n long voyage from New
York 10 Panama, across the lsthmus
and thence by sea to san Francisco,
and from there 10 san Pedro by coast
steamer. a. band of six sisters finally
arrived i'm Los Angeles Iu General
Bauuiug's old stage coach on january
>, 1896.
zone Of the dear old sisters, not Of
the original band but a later arrival.
who celebrated her s1st birthday only
a short time ago. ANA whose eyes are
as bright and mind AS active a7 a
womau's of g0 has kept scrap book
Of events pertaining to their work in
this city and while that scrap book Is
Invaluable for reference ana dates,
there are some things that never Went
into print. and only in reminiscent
talk with the pioneer sisters theil-
selves can one CLEAN clear insight
into the actual hardships and pflFa-
tions of those days although they
never complain Of their hard expert
ences. Sister Mary Scholastiea LOGS
don was the first superior of the order
in this city. They were temporarily
domiciled In a house belonging TO Don
Ignacio del Vale. who hospltably
placed It at their disposal. It l5 the
two-story building still standing oppo-
site the Plaza and now occupied by
Chinese store. From there they
moved to a permanent abode at Macy
and Alameda streets, purchasing the
old home Of Senator Wilson, the father
Of Mrs ]. de Barth Shorb, whose old
home in San Gabriel valley Is no"
owned by Henry T. Huntington on
which he is building one OF the hnest
residences in the world. Mr.. Hunting
ton NAV not know it, but somewhere
in his spacious gardens is an old-fash-
toned summer house which used 70
adorn the grounds OF the Wilson nome
at Macy and Alameda, where Mrs.
Shorh's childhood was spent, ana
which she asked as a special favor
might be given to her for the grounds
of her elegant home in the san Ca
briel valley There were two of those
summer houses. and the other one IS
in the rear garden of the Boyle
Heights orphanage, a cherished relic
oP the old days. The house that was
on the place when they bought 1t from
Senator Wilson was one of the klnd
that was shipped in sections around
The horn and set up according to rule
q fter its arrival here. It leaked
badly. and the floors were warped and
riclety. and many a time the good
sisters were obliged to cook meals
With an umbrella to protect them from
the rain pouring through the Kitchen
roof, and extra planks on the floor to
keep above high water marx!
FLOUR $50 A BARREL
Flour was $50 barrel, and no pota-
toes to be had except on Steamer day
the one great event of those times
was steamer day When the old
stage coach would heave in sight down
toward Wilmington some one would
! fire off the old cannon which used to
! stand down at the junction of Main,
| Spring and Temple streets, in front OF
| the Temple block. Then everybody
knew that the steamer was in port
and the stage in sight. and rejoiced