Los Angeles Express, October 7, 1907
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 Again today Chutes Park was a scene of merriment and celebration, it being the second day of the commemoration of the 224th anniversary of the establishing of the first German colony in North America, near Germantown, Pa., which is held under the auspices of the German-American Alliance of Los Angeles. . . .
Tonight . . . the feature will be the display of fireworks. This will be begun by a set piece called “Columbia and Germany.”
The final pyrotechnic display will be a representation of one of the minor engagements during the battle of Leipzig.
The music which will accompany this was imported from Berlin to be used especially tonight. . . .
As the jollification had been planned for several weeks and every person in Los Angeles County knew about it, Sunday’s opening was well attended.
To be exact, 40,129 persons were participants in the affair yesterday.
Each one paid 25 cents to secure admission to the grounds . . . .
In the parade which formed at about 10:30 yesterday morning, about 3,500 persons participated, and many floats of great beauty were seen. Thousands watched it with great delight.
When the Chutes was reached and the outer gates were passed, the course of the Germans took its way to a sign which read Nach alt Deutschland, or To Old Germany. . . .
To understand and appreciate fully what was on the other side, one really should be German. Many things dear to the German hearts were there in great profusion.
German streets, German houses and German gardens were there. The red, white and black of Germany mingled with the red, white and blue of America.
Bunting displaying the color of both countries was found everywhere, with palm leaves and German lettering, which pointed the way to the different pleasures which had been provided. . . .
Mayor Harper made a speech in which he said that if he were not an Irishman, he would like to be a German, and he congratulated the erstwhile
citizens of Kaiser Wilhelm’s domain upon what they have done in and for America.
Dr. F.W. Graeff responded in German . . . .
Feasting and flowers, dancing and music . . . were indulged in until a late hour, and the same will form minor parts of the program tonight.
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Order of the Parade
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First Division
Second Division
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Third Division
Fourth Division
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Los Angeles Express, October 1, 1907
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Los Angeles Express, October 7, 1907
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GOLD COIN FOR CITY’S EMPLOYES
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AGRICULTURAL PARK NEEDS
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More than $100,000 in gold coin was pushed out through the cashier’s window in the City Treasurer’s office in two hours this morning by N.T. Powell, chief deputy treasurer.
For the first time in three months there was plenty of money in the treasury to pay all demands.
City employes, with their demands in their hands, formed a line that wouned round and round the lobby . . . . more than 500 persons had been thus satisfied. . . .
There is now about $350,000 in cash in the office. . . . The personal-property taxes alone amounted to a quarter of a million of dollars. The auditor has been unable to apportion it because the budget was delayed by the [City] Council.
“I think we will be able to pay off all the demands and clean up everything,” City Treasurer Hance said.
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To devise ways and means for raising $10,000 or $15,000 to improve Agricultural Park when it becomes a city park, the members of the Sixth District Agricultural Association will [meet] . . . Thursday afternoon. . . .
H.H. Dwight, the landscape architect who is working upon a scheme for the . . . beautification of the park, will present his plans. . . .
The association has voted unanimously to open Agricultural Park to the people of Los Angeles . . ., and it is in hopes that the . . . Supreme Court . . . will decide in its favor.
The persons who are interested in this project are so certain of winning the case that they already are making plans.
They hope that the matter will receive immediate attention, as the terms of two members of the board soon will expire, and it is feared that Governor Gillett might appoint others who would not favor the park plan.
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Los Angeles Express, October 1, 1907
Falls From a Trapeze and Fractures His Arm
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Los Angeles Express, October 7, 1907
His Horse Is a Pacer and Didn’t Trot
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Emmet Doyle, 11, who attends the [St. Vibiana’s] Cathedral school at Second and Los Angeles streets, fell from a trapeze about 9 o’clock this morning and sustained a fracture of the left arm at the elbow. He was treated at the Receiving Hospital.
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Los Angeles Express, October 7, 1907
Carl Schmidt, Aged Odd Fellow, Is Dead
. . . Carl Schmidt, said to be the oldest Odd Fellow in years of membership in the United States, . . . died at the home of this daughter, Mrs. Gus Kleaman, 2729 W. Pico St., Saturday night.
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“I plead not guilty to that charge,” said C. Dunlap, an expressman, when arraigned in Police Court today on a charge of driving his horse on a trot over the intersection of First and Spring streets.
Then he smiled. “My horse is a pacer,” he continued.
“Did you go faster than four miles an hour?” chuckled the court.
“I did,” the expressman replied, with a smile that bordered on a grin.
He was fined $5.
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