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Hayes about lier brother's affairs, he having been Mr. Matthews's agent in 

 the original selection of the place, lived with him there, and finally took it 

 off his hands when he was determined to go back east during Hayes' can- 

 didacy. Meanwhile Gen. Sherman suddenly missed the president's car- 

 riage — it was nowhere in sight, and he showed considerable excitement, 

 almost alarm, for a few moments, about the president's sudden and mys- 

 terious disappearance, for he knew nothing of Mrs. Hayes' special interest 

 in persons and places here, and supposed their carriage was close by. The 

 General, however, soon learned where they had gone, and drove up the 

 avenue to join them. Mr. Cambell's home was then on the south part of 

 the same hill, or what is now the McGregory place, next south of Prof. 

 T. S. C. lyowe's magnificent dwelling, and he hastened home to tell his wife 

 about the visiting party, as she had not been able to go to the reception ; so 

 they stood out on their veranda fronting Orange Grove Avenue and saluted 

 the whole party as they returned down the avenue under Gen. Stoneman's 

 lead, making haste to that waiting dinner at his ranch house. 



The reason why so few of the colony people were at this historic re- 

 ception was, that many of them were in Los Angeles at the time, attending 

 the Agricultural Fair. Miss Jennie Clapp (now Mrs. Culver) was there, 

 and assisted in waiting on the tables at the banquet given to the presidential 

 party. And others of the colonists resided so far from Mr. Porter's place 

 that word could not be sent to them in time, hence they did not know of the 

 notable visitation until it was all past. 



On the same day Gen. Sherman had called upon and paid his respects 

 to Dona Refugio Bandini, who then resided in Los Angeles ; for he had 

 been a favored guest at her house in San Diego in the days when he was 

 only a young lieutenant (1847) and she was the queen of society in San 

 Diego city and all that part of the state. 



The work of collecting data and writing a history sometimes becomes 

 itself a part of the history, and I have here a case in point, sufficiently curi- 

 ous and interesting to be worthy of mention. During a period of five 

 weeks I made diligent inquiry for facts about the visit of President Hayes to 

 Pasadena, having during those weeks consulted 33 different persons who re- 

 sided here at the time ; but not one of them could give me the day of the 

 month, nor even the year, nor could they be certain whether it was in Sep- 

 tember or October. However, a clue was given me in regard to the Horti- 

 cultural Fair and its new building on Temple street, and by following this 

 clue through some old records I settled on October, 1878, [?] as the time of 

 the visit. No one of the 33 persons I had seen remembered that Gov. Per- 

 kins was one of the visiting party ; and the great bulky ' ' History of Los 

 Angeles County," pretending to give a table of notable events year by year, 

 utterly fails to mention this visit of President Hayes and Gen. Sherman to 

 Los Angeles, notwithstanding they had a great public reception and banquet 



