The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
BY the Editor.
CHAPTER 4.
THE FLOWER CITY.

lHE FEOWEH CITY.
We reached Los Angeles, the city
beautiful at s o'clock Saturday morn
ing and for a few moments it seemed
we were back in old X. c., for there
at the station was Grand Commander
w. G. Mosely just leaving for Frisco,
Mrs. Anne e. Walker, formerly of
this city; DR.. ]. Frank Mcdonald of
the Western Christian Recorder, Rev.
F. F. Moten, pastor of Ward chapel,
and in a moment along came Bishop
Parks and wife and Rev. F. Jesse
Peck and wife, just from Oakland,
and several old California friends, as
Lawyer Tyler, James Alexander, G..
M. Harris, James A. Shaffer and sew
eral others whose names we do not
recall at this time.
We were escorted to the Waldorf
hotel where we were to stop during
our stay, and after removing the
stains of travel met quite a few noted
citizens, among whom were G.. M. Har-
ris of the California jurisdiction, Mr..
John Russell, an old Kansas City boy
and member of No. 149h; Lawyer ].
H. Kelley, formerly of st. Joseph. We
met Sister Ousley, widow of Rev. w.
B. Ousley, still working for God and
the church, also Mrs. Hooker and Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson, formerly of West
port; Mrs. Miley Wallace, former
Kansas Cityan; Charley Washington
and Dunk Trusty, just in from Salt
Lake City; Mrs. Capitola Marshall,
formerly Scott, who conducts an ex-
cellent cafe, and many others.
We found our nephew, VIM. Crews,
whose wife was quite i'll at that time,
also our niece, Alma Crews, who is
living in Phoenix, but was visiting
Los Angeles. They are very much
in love with California and say they
expect to remain permanently in that
section of the country. On Sunday
we went to the First A. NJ. E. church,
which was stirred with much excite
ment over the reappointment of Rev.
F. J. Peck, to see how they would
receive him. The church was packed,
but DR.. Peck did not come, going in
stead to the Baptist church of an old
friend and co-worker, the Rev. DIR.
Hill. Here we met Mrs. Viola Hub
bard, who was one of Kansas City's
dearest girls, and who before her mar
riage was Viola Hodges; also Thomas
Bolts, who clerked in DR.. Theodore
Smiths drug store on 18th street; Ed
ward Darlington, member of Pritch-
ard lodge in this city; our old friend
and relative, Joe Bass, formerly of
Topeka, and his cultured wife, who
is the editor of the California Eagle,
Los Angeles foremost Negro journal;
also DR.. ]. Gordon Mcpherson, Bap-
tist minister of wide reputation who
is familiarity known as "Parson"
Mack, and Oliver Jackman, who is a
hustler on the California Post and
making good, as we'll as a number
of others whose names that we do not
now recall.
In the afternoon the grand secre-
tary and l were taken for an auto ride
by Grandmaster Harris, his wife and
Brother Brown, and were shown va
rious points of interest along the
beach and the orange groves of this
beautiful country.
; At 4:30 we delivered brief address
before the Sunday forum and had the
pleasure of listening to very intel
lectual and entertaining program, and
after a very strenuous day and an
evening luncheon with our relatives,
we retired early to dream of our next
: point of interest, which was to be
San Diego, where we expected to
spend a short while visiting the first
of the great Pacific exposition now
going on.