New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 3

S S e 2 e o o e S S (N S i ) N o S e O O O e P e - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, |ae Espagna. Two events ot outstand- ing tmportance in California history |transpired within the and bound- DAYSH.:-M of San Fernando—the di covery of gold and the surrender o CRUMBLING RUINS WHERE MISSIONS ONCE STOOD RECALL OLDEN | — Mexico to the forces of General Fre P tinit . Wass & Real, the King Koad, along whicl |mont, Visitor in Far West beesi“” many missions, has been in- | In 1708, was founded, near e Sy corporated into the state highway |Occanside, the grandest of all the Vivid Picture of Re- system through most of its lengtl, mission chain, Sun Luis, Rey dv lund mission sign posts—bells sur- (I'rancl: This mission restored to the ligious Crusaders Other Years. journey northy.ard. - - | The architecture of the missions— |state—ancestor to the milllons o % |a mixture of Moorish, Spanish and |frees now here and loved by Cali % April 30 UP—Ruins | \exican, has been adopted by Cah |fornians. ol Lwulily-ole issions in Calltorniu, | fornja as its « n, and each year Of |mounting metal il-t‘f-n crected at the trek of the standards--hu intervals to mark padres in their reatest degree of any, Is known as the King of the Missions. Within its grounds still thrives the first pepper tree to take root in the soil of th Los Ange fastcrumblips buch to the earth 'more buildings are conforming to | from which they ' were reared by |ihis style, ') i cau fathers more thun u | Jirst of the chain of missions century ago, are monuments o the | founded - S was San Diego de Alcal blight of governmental OPROSILION fnear the present site of San Diego, encountered by the Catholic faith in [in 176° by Father Serra and a small i1s relations vn - with official lgroup of sailors, soldiers and M Y | res. The yellowed parchment | ———— sheyewere bullt o the first [ records of this mission tell the sad- | crusade ¢f the chureh to carry the dest story of all for it was here that scriptures (Al Tovited to Send Delegates 1o wilderness. of the great Indian massacre took the ne orid. Almost unendurable [place resulting in the death of sev- . hardships were overcome in the |aral pudres and tcores of neophytes, Jemv C][y estuby ments of the bulwurks | TFrom San Diego Father Serra €l anity by missionaries harass ‘r‘nrv'l"d is crusade to Monterey ed by hostile Indlun bands, fronted |where the Missicu San Carlos Borro. Washington, D. €. Aprll 30 Ly vast stretches of frontier as yet imeo was luid out., Next San An- Mayors of twenty-one Camdens unsafe for the white man and ftonio de Pauda near King's City, have been invited by Camden, N forced to meet sickness and physi- [then San Gabriel, where bell were | . to attend the dedication cul hardships —with little to buoy hung from tree branches and a hos- the new bridge over the Delaware them except the great courage tile demonstration by Indians avert- river conmecting Camden and leadership of Father Junip ed when an old The task of these missi Y | Virgin Mary was unfurl pioneers had the wavering support | San Luls Obispo de of Old Spain and the slender |founded In 1773 and in, 1776 San ninancial backing of the Pious [Irancisco de Asis wai formally tund, contributed by church leaders |dedicated. Retracing their stey 1| “Franklin leads the list as a fay- i Mexico, |southward the IFranciscans chose a ' orito label for u town, s a bul- site midway Letween San Diego and jetin from the headquarters of the Los Angeles to rear another mis- | National Geographic followed the expedition that sailed |sion, San Juan Capistrano, belng repeated 31 or San Dicgo in 1769, Each of the Tragedy overtook Capistrano in | giates, wissions rose to prosperfly. Untold |the great coust-wide earthquake of franklin Vies With Camden numbers of Indlans were converted (1812, Thirty-nine persons gathered | «The name Franklin s & tribufe to the falth and taken within the [befora the ('urch altar in the dim | o tne great American of Revolu- protecting walls of the stately re- |light of early morn were crushed 10 | jonary — fame. Camden, too, is o ligious . t¢ 2kadcs death beneath a falling mass of | (hute to a Revolutlonary hero, But all this time the missions stone and adobe. but Camden honors an Englishman. stood v ithin the shadow of ultima Not a soul was saved except, the cpares Ppratt, a London lawyer, destruction. At frequent Intervals [records relate, Nino del Temblor o 0 A - MPREE AN there was ruLibling in official Mexi- | (child of the earthquake) born by G t/€ BT & FARLC 00 FHERCL PES o and hints that the government (the hand of terror and taken from ot 1% AT MR C8 T RS O nting of the | Philadelphia. : tence of twenty-one Cam- dens puts “Camden” well up in t list as one of the most populur [town names in the United Statee Tolsa way Indians Converted A century of courageous work soclety, “hy times in 31 would not stand by while its terri- |its crushed mother's side trom be Lori of Camden. [This earls eubse. tory in th rt of the continent |neath a pile of debris. i i ey wos colon | Sturdily Built Hisaq libkme o st i as January In the/ nieSEirivel lyears santa. S8 IDEAMESTEACO Ele 0O O Sl of se6 L ization was fssued Ly the |Clara_de Asis, San Buenavenwura N fribute to thelr champ o govermment at Mexico City. A land Sant. Burbara were founded. O him tonms ‘.:f‘ ‘v°','~h,,,'“r,3 el chango in overnmental aduinitra- |0 sturdily was the chureh of Santa (ieorgla, Maine, New Jorsey, North tion prevented this being made |Barbara built that withstanding the Carolina and New York, and alta four counties. The other Camdens have been established by sons from the Revolutionary Camdens. Names Given American Towns effective but in No miber 1834 the [elements nearly two centuries It de- act of secularization adopted |fied in part the destructive quake of by Governor Figueroa. 1 its towers alone crumbling be- Prosperity 'ades Ineath that disturbance. was he prosperity of the missions be- | La Purisir.a, noted for its beau- | '‘That, however, is not the whole gan to wither and their decl tiful mural decoratior nta Cruz, story of Camden. Like €0 many gathered momentum with the La Soledad and San Jose de Gua -r English names imported and warch of time. Th neophytes drepped lupe next were ded Bautis scattered broadeast over the United States, Camden is a thumb-nall pic- ed and then San Migucl priests and the vay and one at 'San Juan APRIL 30, 1926 England. Charles Pratt took his the name for Hastings, Nebraska, carldom from a manor park in the proud title of a vallant fribe county of Kent, which is south of that ruled and prospered in Kent, London, England. “To our Anglo-Saxon ancestors Billings and Delaware {0 generations back, ‘Camden’| upjjjings, Montana, has an intf would convey a description Just a8 mute |ink with the state of Dola. vivid as the names Thousand yure and Delaware hay which fs Islunds and Great Salt Lake do 10 not apparent, The Billings wero the us vistocratie tribe of the Varini who Origin of Ni it 1 cashire. Now the name “‘Cam," our barbarian forefather ne in time ‘Warrings,' would say, means crooked, ‘Den’ | ing the title to Warrington, Eng- w wooded vale where swine feed. lind, When a cenquering Norman “That gives us the 1 pleture of the twenty-one Camd materials for birthplace I'rench lord came into control of of our Warring tribe after the invasion he V0 2gzagging ime Lord de la Warr, A latey ravine in the Kent hills — the r of that title who was made slopes are forested with oak explored a whose acorns are welcome food for biry of the bay the swine, Swine were the only which now ar the name of the stock raised by our Anglo-Suxon Lord's Delawars forefathers, handy syllables for exca- “With the aid of tool’ syl- vat ame origing ‘or' or lables like ‘cam’ and ‘den’ one can denoting a settlement on the dig Into the origins of the innumer- of the ocean or a river; able town names Amerlea has im ‘ley,' or ‘lea’ meaning an ported from England.. The syllahl swamp land; ‘ey’ or ‘ea’ ing’ s to Lnglish names what th . he cxistence of i¥land ‘Mac' fs to a Scotch name und ‘' ) marking a fortit . to an Irish name. 1t is the mark ‘horough' a hill that w of a clan. Thus the Hastings were place; ham' meaning 1) the noble of the Goth tribes iy Saxon around in England a little digging which a vill ow up; ‘hy' the therefore, one mbedded in Seandinavian equivalent of ‘ham’ and therefore marking the home of a viking or Danish invader who settled in England. Some Names Misapplied “There are Innumerable humor. ous examples In which these thumb- nail geographical sketches telling bout an English town have bheen curricd over to the United States with no thought of whether they apply or not. Windsor, England, 18 on the shore of the Thames where the Anglo-Saxons put it, but many of the 18 Windsors in the United States bonst no more than a creek. The ‘ea’ marks Chelsea, England, 18 once an island 18 the Thames mouth, which it i1s no4 aow Nelther ire itg 11 brothers-by.name Chel- as in the United States islands. Pupils in school today think have a hard time spelling ny of our town and state names, They really have much to thankful for, The IMes wers often four Worc U nited ites whose often mbling block rs. How much more of stumbling block 18 the name of Wor progenitor, ‘Hwic vara-c r meaning the ‘castle wbitants of the country of the Hufcell’ Boston once ————————— ] known as ‘the town of §t. Botolp f tostified ind a shock-headed Dane of North| Phelan was previously tried ‘and England, returned to earth after a convicted on the charge but was thousand-years' sleep, would eall | granted a new trial on a technicality. the largest ity in America, New | In the first trial, the prosecution Eurewic.” | charged the bonds given as col- | 1ateral were loot from the Chap- ECHO OF CHAPHAN CASE [ Bonds Stolen in Famous Holdup Figure in Conviction of Man Who Disposed of Them. Mineola, N. Y., Apri! 30 (#—An |} ftermath of the Leonard street mall | ruck robbery by Gerald Chapman | § New York and the holdup of the | il bank at Wilton, M ame up in county court yesterday N vhen a jury found John J. 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