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Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rtainment more than any other. The first danza was El Som-brero lilanco. To the strain of guitar, mandolin, violin, flute and cornet thedance began. Each movement meant something in its charming grace anddelicate. This \^■hite Hat dance takes one back to the days of the founding ofthe city of Los Angeles. Tradition handed down from father to son, tellshow the caravan of the founders came to El Rio Porcinuncula (the river ofthe pigs, as the Los .\ngeles river was known to the natives), and camped onthe east bank. An old grand dame, called to her grand child to run downand see if he could find water. The wanderers were weary with travel andthirsty after their long march over the desert and waterless land. The ladsoon returned from the river bed, so the tradition goes, with a gourd filledwith cool, sparkling water. For Dio. This is the Queen of the Angels,devoutly and thoughtfully exclaimed the thirsty woman. It was the specialgift of the Virgin. 210 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A.
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J_>;incing one of the old time Spanish Danut-s—l^a Jola—for the entertainmentof the H. M. M. B. A. at the I^os Angeles Vaquero Club. TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 211 Soon the caravan was at the waters edge drinking joyfully. Then,refreshed and happy, they trooped u)), onto the western bank of the river,and as soon as camp was made, El Paderon Blanco (the white bluff), andEI Sombrero Blanco (the white hat), was announced. The dance is full ofmeaning. First there is the archness and coy hesitation of the maidens asthe sweet music brings out the words from the throats of the dancers, allthe time the dance is going on. Here is a translation of the song: If you wish me to love you, Make brick the ocean Hoor..•\fter all of )-our loves labors. Time will tell the score. Still dancing, no moment at rest, comes back the answer of the cavaliers.It is their time to answer the problem put before them. I take the ocean for the water; For cement I take the sand;Fishes will furnish br

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