From the Los Angeles Daily Times
July 18, 1903
NEW CHURCH IS “TEMPLE.”
Rev. Robert J. Burdette is Flock’s Leader.
 . . . Temple Baptist Church came into existence last night with 258 members, named the famous Robert J. Burdette [shown] as its pastor, elected a full board of officers, subscribed its funds to run the business, and will execute its papers of incorporation today.
The membership . . . comes from nearly all the Baptist churches in the city, but the First Baptist Church, over which Rev. Joseph Smale still presides, furnished more than 100 of the total.
. . . almost a year ago . . . a Baptist banquet was given at a leading hotel, with Robert J. Burdette as the guest of honor. That was the conception of the birth that took place last night, under the most auspicious circumstances.
All was unanimity, except in the choice of a name. Several were proposed, but only two had any following the vote being almost evenly divided between “Metropolitan” and “Temple.” The latter won on the second ballot by thirteen votes, and it was then made unanimous.
But one name was presented for the position of pastor of the church — that of Mr. Burdette. His salary will be $3,500 a year, to accept which the popular lecturer is said to have sacrificed an annual sum fully equal to his salary, as the proceeds of his lectures.
The preliminary meeting was presided over by C.H. Barker, and on the platform were Dr. C.A. Woody of Portland, superintendent of Home Missions, and Dr. C.T. Douglass, superintendent of missions for Southern California.
The various sub-committees reported and had their action ratified by the meeting, but these were only routine matters. The principal thing was the securing of the old First Congregational Church for their services, until other arrangements can be effected. They have the old structure from month to month at a rental of $100 a month and have put in an application for Simpson Auditorium as soon as it is vacated by Christ Episcopal Church. . . .
From the Los Angeles Daily Times,
July 18, 1903
REALTY DEALS
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From the Los Angeles Daily Times,
July 12, 1903
From the Los Angeles Daily Times,
July 10, 1903
MORLEY SAYS HE IS READY.
Will Join Associated Minors Under Right Conditions.
When [Los Angeles Angels] Manager [James] Morley speaks for the Coast League in the coming meeting with James A. Hart [president of the Chicago Cubs], Pat Powers [president of the International League] and other leaders of the National Association of Minor Baseball Leagues, he will demand a series of concessions that will be rather bitter medicine for the affiliated minors to swallow, but a dose which they will in all probability eventually take.
Morley will demand nothing less than the admission of the Pacific Coast League as it now stands, and as a Class A minor league; in other words, he will demand that the [PCL] . . . be authorized to draft players . . . in much the same manner as the National League used to do.
A further part of the compact will be the allowing of a high salary limit on the Coast, as the public in the West has been educated to a class of baseball that costs big money even in peace times.
There are other details that will have to be arranged favorably to the Pacific Coast League before it will enter the association. . . . with matters as they are now in Eastern baseball, the minors will be prepared to make almost any kind of a concession in reason, as their association is almost a dead letter without the organization of Morley, Harris & Co.
. . . Morley has been very favorably disposed toward the affiliation project ever since he and [Henry] Harris[, owner of the San Francisco franchise,] conferred with T.J. [Thomas J.] Hickey[, president of the American Association minor league].
Mr. Harris has been the lukewarm one from the start of the peace negotiations last winter. He maintains the league has done well as an “outlaw” and has no reason to change its status.
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Robert J. Burdette has a fascinating history.
CADILLAC