Year: 1878

The largest public meeting of the
season was held at Union Hall
yesterday, on the occasion of the
regular monthly meeting of the
Southern California Horticultural
Society. 1t was known that the
question of locating the pavilion
would come up as the main topic
for discussion and action; and, as
the friends of the various sites Of
fered had worked up O good degree
of enthusiasm, lively times were
anticipated. During the past week
new members were enrolled by
Secretary Holt and dues were paid
by delinquent members in order to
give them chance to express
their preference when the final
vote was taken. Early yesterday
morning the Secretary's office was
visited by anxious horticulturists
and others, and any one would nat
urally infer, to see the cash come
in and the certificates of memb ber-
ship 60 out, that hard times had
permanently taken leave of this
section of the State, and that the
flush times of '73 had again come.
Up to the hour of meeting the
throng increased, and at eleven
o'clock Union Hall was so densely
packed that standing room was at
premium. The friends of the
Rivara & Vignola property, on
Main and Fifth streets, felt conf.
dent of success; M. ]. Newmark,
on behalf Of the business men, of
fered to build fine pavilion on
Commercial street, giving the Hor-
ticultural Society permanent free
lease of the same, and w. l.. ].
Moulton, of the Los Angeles and
Independence Railroad Company,
proposed to sell the fine San Pedro
street depot property for $500, on
easy terms; but the munificent
gift of ex Mayor Beaudry of a
block of land on the north side of
Temple street, 1900 feet from
Temple Block, with frontage
OF 200 feet and depth of
nearly 300 feet, had taken the eye
of the outsider as we'll as city
members and the meeting let no
opportunity pass to show its hearty
approval of this site whenever the
subject was mentioned. Parlia.
mentary tactics were skillfully
used by both friends and opponents
of the Beaudry proposition until a
vote was finally reached, at 2
o'clock P. NJ, upon resolution Of
fered by Mr.. Trantum, to accept Mr..
Beaudry's liberal gift. A roll call
was demanded aud the Secretary
waded through the large member.
ship list of some five hundred
names in order to give the two
hundred present chance to vote.
Prior to the roll call the three
hours session had tired out many
and at least one hundred members
had left to attend to urgent Satur-
day work. The roll call finished,
the President announced the result
as 1874 for the Beaudry proposition
to 81 against it, which result was
received with deafening applause.
We learn that the utmost good
feeling prevails among the mem.
bership and the public generally,
and that whatever of feeling might
have been engendered during the
two weeks contest, has pretty
much disappeared in the general
feeling that the Society has secured
an invaluable property. All will
now take hold and give the Society
a general lift in raising funds with
which to erect the building.


We cannot let this opportunity
pass without re-echoing the senti-
ment 80 universally expressed that
Mr.. Bent, as Vice. President of the
Society and Chairman of the meet
ing, in the absence of President
ShOrb, covered himself with glory
by the able manner in which he
presided over the assemblage. Ga
future occasions the public will
know who to call upon when they
have heavy work for a chairman
to perform.


We learn that the Board of Di.
rectors of the Society will hold
meeting next Tuesday for the pur-
pose of completing the work of re-
ceiving the property from Mr..
Beaudry and also for putting q SUBJ
scription before the public to raise
funds with which to build. Some
six thousand dollars will be needed,
and, judging from the present in
terest manifested, we think the
task of raising it will not be
heavy one.