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of march. Gov. Waterman and wife were in the procession ; also Mayor 

 Hazard" of lyos Angeles, Judges Van Dyke and McKinley of the superior 

 court, and about twenty-five other prominent men of the county. Free 

 lunch, races and games were given at sportsman's park. 



An historic episode of this historic day was a public protest by Rev. 

 K. Iv. Conger, D. D., pastor of the Universalist church, which he published 

 in the Daily Star, and from which I quote : 



Editor Star : — Is it fair for the committee on reception to compel the 

 majority of our citizens to stay away from the Cross banquet, or else seem 

 to put at defiance ordinance 125, which they have helped to make a law? 

 We do not want to do either. We are deeply interested in the effort to 

 honor Mr. Cross for what he has done, and we want to do our part ; but if 

 we help to buy the wine for the banquet (which we do when we pay $3 for a 

 ticket) do we not defy the law of our city, at least by implication ? The 

 majority have sanctioned ordinance 125. Is it "square " to put so many of 

 our public-spirited citizens in such an attitude as to compel them to stay 

 away, simply to please some who want wine served at the banquet? If it 

 were a question of ' ' turning down the glasses ' ' by those who did not want 

 wine, that would be easy enough; but when a citizen pays $3, knowing that 

 the money goes to help buy wine for the banquet, is he not ' ' particeps 

 criminis " if the question is ever raised? Will my neighbor, just for a 

 glass of wine, force me into this attitude or compel me to stay at home ? 



E. E. Conger. 



Dr. Conger represented a large proportion of the citizens of Pasadena, 

 (doubtless a vast majority of them, if women were counted) — but the 

 liquor folks had their way, all the same. 



PRESIDENT HARRISON DAY. 



April 23-24, 1 89 1, were made memorable by the visit of Presi- 

 dent Benjamin Harrison and some members of his cabinet to Pasa. 

 dena. A reception committee of about 200 persons had been appointed ; 

 and the city turned out en viasse to do honor to the distinguished 

 visitors. Besides the president and his wife, and Mr. Halford, his secretar}^ 

 the party consisted of Postmaster- General John Wanamaker ; Gen. Rusk, 

 secretary of agriculture; Major Sanger, U. S. A., aid decamp to the presi- 

 dent ; Mr. Russell Harrison and wife ; United States Marshal, D. M. Rans- 

 dell ; Mr. Geo. W. Boyd, excursion manager, and wife ; Messrs. Tibbetts 

 and DeEong, stenographers ; Mrs. McKee, the president's daughter ; Mrs. 

 Dimmick, Carter B. Harrison, Eieut. Baker, James Horsburg ; and the offi- 

 cial agents of the United Press, the Associated Press, and the Press News, 

 three great news-gathering associations for the daily papers. 



A grand arch of calla lilies spanned Marengo Avenue a little below 

 Kansas street ; and a gate of flowers was erected down near California 

 street to be swung open by the children as the president's carriage ap- 

 proached. From Colorado to California street the avenue was filled two 

 lines deep on each side with school children, besides thousands of people 



