v~~I~ ~aders~ r t~l~lr SUCCESSOR TO TIDE -1 Pacific Glove, California, IVZarch, 31, 1944', s~~~ .~. Dula fights ~~ the last day 'unary election have not reg- , do so• now. G. McMena- uesday, April R-day to re- s .to sign up e. ff-season ear- ) ton delivery del Mar Can- accor•ding to fish were too courage more names were ~s of prospec- are to appear Then the final ill be. dranvn. rey names on. rmelites, with hher parts 'of r station ap- nnounced ap- oP the Navy nd other im- iterey airport laws have se men fined n Pt. Lobos unlawful to nimal~ life of same ruling 3rove shore game of the t this week uilding for- e Monterey is the man- aside, who radio pro- from Fort or of being year on the h~ursday by :pot. Miss :r of popu- •ed in the he: Central r Victory" ,ployees at d, by cash n by Brig. lain. Win- fsen, Neal nmons, T. Cordelia Koomen. Loops1~.ike The~Ierald Got"Took" Monterey Daily Gets •"In Diitch" With A Pasadena Newspaper The truth will out, somebody once said. f3ut apparently the. truth was not in the "Monterey Peninsu-, ]a Herald" on that 25th day of Januaa•y, 1944, when it wrote that Robert Louis `Stevenson had been discovered, as. the writel• who signed himself "The' Barbarian" in a story of .what , he saw at a Carmelo mass in the late seventies, printed in The Monterey Californian of November 11, 1897. But, gentle reader, be not -too hard on the "Herald.'' It merely was led astray when the ]earned History and Art Association w'as apparently enjoying a siesta. At least, so says the Pasadena Star-News of Februat•y 26, in an article by Perry Worden, writer of "Gleanings from' History." To some of us it might not seem important whether Stevenson did or did not call himself "The Bar- bat•ion." In fact, there at•e those of us iri Pacific Grove tvho would not even wori;y about who discov- ered, the identity of "The Bar- barian:" ....But not so in Monterey. In that town, where local history is as im- portant as is the breath of life, 'Lis mortal sin to give credit where credit is riot due. And it would seem that "Render unto Cae- sar ." is a behest not too care- fully heeded by the aforesaid Het•- ald. Ft•om the News-Star• is copied the following quotation from the Herald . read it, historians . and weep. "Thanks to Mrs. Laura Bride Power's this coMumn has the pt•ivi- le;,*e oP presenting today a truly distinguished guest writer—Robert Laois Stevenson; not• as 'R.L.S., the author•, but as a fellow Mon- terey newspaperman. While Ste- venson lived here in 1879, he se- cured employment on The Califor- nian, edited by a man named Bron- son.;..his .name never appeared in the publication, and, it vas not rtn- til two years ago that Mt•s. Pow- ers, reading for the tenth time the files in the Bancroft ]i'brary, after long and diligent r•eseat•ch finally proved his authorship of an article sie•ned 'The Barbarian.' Steven- Emlay Seeking Election to Stag Assembly FILED EDiLAY Candidate for the state as- sembly from the 33rd district, which includes Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, Fred Emlay today said his primary interests are in the welfare and progress of our community and the post-war future, particu- larly the care of returning servicemen. F.mlay, who lives at 812 Pa- jaro street and is gncral man- ager of the 1 ellow Cab and Ambulance company of Salinas, has five sons all in the service of their cottntt•y. Two of the boys were members of the Sa- linas Tank company on Ba- taan and one has been report- ed dead in a Japanese prison camp. , He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, active in civic affairs and interested in the welfare of children. He is 52 years old and a native of Cali- fornia. Kite Festival 1 -attracted Big Crowd Sunday ;3acific Grove's ann~uai kite fes- tival, held Sunday afternoon, Mar. 26, was made more successful by perfect weather cottditions. There were fifiy ©ntries, all types—large, small and- various. shapes and_sizes. One, all white with a 'huge red cross painted in the center, was especially attractive. One of inter- est was entered by the Pacific Grove Junior Traffic Patrol. It bore a picture of the patrol painted by Dona rd FlisintY Grove Beach Al`vays City AttractioYl Present Plans Revive Pioneer Memori•fls 'of Earlier Day Activity With Pacific Grove beach and plunge so much in the lime fight. these days, stories of the east .also come to the front again. Following is a letter re- ceived this week from Ml'g. `1V.. R. Sprague, telling about:the beach in the days when :`there wel•e few• bath-tubs in Peninsu- la homes," and the beach .pleas- ore resort also served a Rtili- tarian purpose for worker$ ~"on Saturday nights." The letter also r•efet•s to rho boats at the beach that have been opet•- ated b,y blr. Sprague cantinuously since 1893 with the exception of the p:r:od from. 1904 to 1912 and again o.te year recently. Mr. Sprague •w ill a'so be at his post when bhe season ol:ens this year. And it appears that Pacific G •Due's city attorney, Reginald E. F'cster might never have been giv- ir,g of his wisdom here, had it not been for 'the beach, since Dr, C. A. Fester who purchased the property fr •rn Wm. F. Smith and controlled ' it for eight years until 1918, .was the fabrer of the city attorney, the fa Wily coming here from Los An- ge es. Teginald was just a young sprout then, graduating ft•onr grammar. school under Rabert Down, pt~inai- pa1 then as now. "R~g" just missed by one year going down in history as a Pacific Grove high school gtadua.te but is doing his best to remedy that, having a daughter now a junior here--who, by the way, also graduated under, Mr. Do<< n. ~' 'hen hire. McDougall took over thE. property in 1918, the Foster fam.ly moved away, but in 1934 at- torr ey Foster returned to hang out his shingle and make his home het•e ar.d in time "take over the city" or• tt least see that the city fa- the~:; follow• th:e straight line at all Lim s>. Dr. and Mrs. Foster also returned to the Grove in 1935, where Dr. Foster maintained a pray°ice until shortly after his wife s death in 1937. Dr. Foster pas,~r•d away in .340. - Sc it is that with t•hi~s background Atto uey Foster, for the past mine year• a member of the recreation On the other sides com ,:fission, takes particular inter-, cst in plans for improving and add-i,built-in cabinets ~hav~ •The fascinatinj The trainers are ui Aray Corps. sow q I)yl~e's Rh ~ Gets S ri.n p Of _T mprov It has been acase-~ go around at Dylta week since workmen; sidewalk. torn up, . . fottr inch sewer pjj with the .Forest avel Cher Phan the one a tofore. 'jVe get spring Pets this time- of year," S1 "and just on general{ out•selves started at cleaning. Then we things that need doi getting quite a job it happened that in'~ FmprovEj the, founts ngty .sewer was- ; fo • aim' jri•esto ~in;'it'~~g•6 fain •will be open ag end, all shined up, ti everything. ink Lo iha ,a..,,.o, ;_ ~ ... "•-- , OCR Text: v~~I~ ~aders~ r t~l~lr SUCCESSOR TO TIDE -1 Pacific Glove, California, IVZarch, 31, 1944', s~~~ .~. Dula fights ~~ the last day 'unary election have not reg- , do so• now. G. McMena- uesday, April R-day to re- s .to sign up e. ff-season ear- ) ton delivery del Mar Can- accor•ding to fish were too courage more names were ~s of prospec- are to appear Then the final ill be. dranvn. rey names on. rmelites, with hher parts 'of r station ap- nnounced ap- oP the Navy nd other im- iterey airport laws have se men fined n Pt. Lobos unlawful to nimal~ life of same ruling 3rove shore game of the t this week uilding for- e Monterey is the man- aside, who radio pro- from Fort or of being year on the h~ursday by :pot. Miss :r of popu- •ed in the he: Central r Victory" ,ployees at d, by cash n by Brig. lain. Win- fsen, Neal nmons, T. Cordelia Koomen. Loops1~.ike The~Ierald Got"Took" Monterey Daily Gets •"In Diitch" With A Pasadena Newspaper The truth will out, somebody once said. f3ut apparently the. truth was not in the "Monterey Peninsu-, ]a Herald" on that 25th day of Januaa•y, 1944, when it wrote that Robert Louis `Stevenson had been discovered, as. the writel• who signed himself "The' Barbarian" in a story of .what , he saw at a Carmelo mass in the late seventies, printed in The Monterey Californian of November 11, 1897. But, gentle reader, be not -too hard on the "Herald.'' It merely was led astray when the ]earned History and Art Association w'as apparently enjoying a siesta. At least, so says the Pasadena Star-News of Februat•y 26, in an article by Perry Worden, writer of "Gleanings from' History." To some of us it might not seem important whether Stevenson did or did not call himself "The Bar- bat•ion." In fact, there at•e those of us iri Pacific Grove tvho would not even wori;y about who discov- ered, the identity of "The Bar- barian:" ....But not so in Monterey. In that town, where local history is as im- portant as is the breath of life, 'Lis mortal sin to give credit where credit is riot due. And it would seem that "Render unto Cae- sar ." is a behest not too care- fully heeded by the aforesaid Het•- ald. Ft•om the News-Star• is copied the following quotation from the Herald . read it, historians . and weep. "Thanks to Mrs. Laura Bride Power's this coMumn has the pt•ivi- le;,*e oP presenting today a truly distinguished guest writer—Robert Laois Stevenson; not• as 'R.L.S., the author•, but as a fellow Mon- terey newspaperman. While Ste- venson lived here in 1879, he se- cured employment on The Califor- nian, edited by a man named Bron- son.;..his .name never appeared in the publication, and, it vas not rtn- til two years ago that Mt•s. Pow- ers, reading for the tenth time the files in the Bancroft ]i'brary, after long and diligent r•eseat•ch finally proved his authorship of an article sie•ned 'The Barbarian.' Steven- Emlay Seeking Election to Stag Assembly FILED EDiLAY Candidate for the state as- sembly from the 33rd district, which includes Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, Fred Emlay today said his primary interests are in the welfare and progress of our community and the post-war future, particu- larly the care of returning servicemen. F.mlay, who lives at 812 Pa- jaro street and is gncral man- ager of the 1 ellow Cab and Ambulance company of Salinas, has five sons all in the service of their cottntt•y. Two of the boys were members of the Sa- linas Tank company on Ba- taan and one has been report- ed dead in a Japanese prison camp. , He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, active in civic affairs and interested in the welfare of children. He is 52 years old and a native of Cali- fornia. Kite Festival 1 -attracted Big Crowd Sunday ;3acific Grove's ann~uai kite fes- tival, held Sunday afternoon, Mar. 26, was made more successful by perfect weather cottditions. There were fifiy ©ntries, all types—large, small and- various. shapes and_sizes. One, all white with a 'huge red cross painted in the center, was especially attractive. One of inter- est was entered by the Pacific Grove Junior Traffic Patrol. It bore a picture of the patrol painted by Dona rd FlisintY Grove Beach Al`vays City AttractioYl Present Plans Revive Pioneer Memori•fls 'of Earlier Day Activity With Pacific Grove beach and plunge so much in the lime fight. these days, stories of the east .also come to the front again. Following is a letter re- ceived this week from Ml'g. `1V.. R. Sprague, telling about:the beach in the days when :`there wel•e few• bath-tubs in Peninsu- la homes," and the beach .pleas- ore resort also served a Rtili- tarian purpose for worker$ ~"on Saturday nights." The letter also r•efet•s to rho boats at the beach that have been opet•- ated b,y blr. Sprague cantinuously since 1893 with the exception of the p:r:od from. 1904 to 1912 and again o.te year recently. Mr. Sprague •w ill a'so be at his post when bhe season ol:ens this year. And it appears that Pacific G •Due's city attorney, Reginald E. F'cster might never have been giv- ir,g of his wisdom here, had it not been for 'the beach, since Dr, C. A. Fester who purchased the property fr •rn Wm. F. Smith and controlled ' it for eight years until 1918, .was the fabrer of the city attorney, the fa Wily coming here from Los An- ge es. Teginald was just a young sprout then, graduating ft•onr grammar. school under Rabert Down, pt~inai- pa1 then as now. "R~g" just missed by one year going down in history as a Pacific Grove high school gtadua.te but is doing his best to remedy that, having a daughter now a junior here--who, by the way, also graduated under, Mr. Do<< n. ~' 'hen hire. McDougall took over thE. property in 1918, the Foster fam.ly moved away, but in 1934 at- torr ey Foster returned to hang out his shingle and make his home het•e ar.d in time "take over the city" or• tt least see that the city fa- the~:; follow• th:e straight line at all Lim s>. Dr. and Mrs. Foster also returned to the Grove in 1935, where Dr. Foster maintained a pray°ice until shortly after his wife s death in 1937. Dr. Foster pas,~r•d away in .340. - Sc it is that with t•hi~s background Atto uey Foster, for the past mine year• a member of the recreation On the other sides com ,:fission, takes particular inter-, cst in plans for improving and add-i,built-in cabinets ~hav~ •The fascinatinj The trainers are ui Aray Corps. sow q I)yl~e's Rh ~ Gets S ri.n p Of _T mprov It has been acase-~ go around at Dylta week since workmen; sidewalk. torn up, . . fottr inch sewer pjj with the .Forest avel Cher Phan the one a tofore. 'jVe get spring Pets this time- of year," S1 "and just on general{ out•selves started at cleaning. Then we things that need doi getting quite a job it happened that in'~ FmprovEj the, founts ngty .sewer was- ; fo • aim' jri•esto ~in;'it'~~g•6 fain •will be open ag end, all shined up, ti everything. ink Lo iha ,a..,,.o, ;_ ~ ... 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