Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-04-20 | Page 22 | Open Air Easter Festival Begins

OPEN AIR EASTER FESTIVAL At BEGINS Picturesque Celebration at Los Angeles Brings Brings- Great Thron Throngs 5 Los Angeles Cal April As 17 1 13 th the tho rising suns sun's first shafts light up lIl the mountain tops near hero tomorrow orrow morning tens teno of oC thousand of ot rever rever- reverent reverent ent worD of all creeds will ill kneel In pra prayer er In lit tho the great reat In celebration of oC the festival of or Easter Hundreds Hundred of or rn men n women and children chil dren ren not only from Crom all sections o or of orthis this state but from distant parts puts of oC the country havo o started today loJa for Cor tho ho slopes lop s of or Mount Rubidoux near Riverside Riverside River River- side for tor Hollywood and Eagle Earle Ro Rock l In the San l' l Fernando hills and anti otho other points where tho simple but bul eive i c annual open air air- services Ner are arc held Many of ot these have ha se se- se 1 cured accommodations for Cor tho the night In the various ailous mountain inns an and taverns tuv- tuv I I orns erns orns but hundreds t will sleep out under under under un un- un- un der tho the s tars stars so as 3 to be reI ready at the dawn to participate in the service of song sung and prayer Ministers will lead tho thu people In their devotional dc exercises exercises exer exer- and will preach short sermons to the tho pilgrims as they listen amon among the lie boulder strewn or grassy y dells and slopes of or the mount mountainsides I l cs It was Yat on Mount lount Rubidoux that lint the th first of or the these e outdoor outdo r services was huld hold nt at sunrise moro more than a decade 11 ago ijo 0 at the suggestion of oC Jacob Hils who has boon bon cd to by the I late H ORO as ns Amer mer America merIca ica Iea's most useful citizen n On April 26 6 6 1907 a great cross croba was as raised on I thu tho summit of t HUhl Rubidoux aut and dedicated by tho the late Bishop Conaty Conat to Father Serra among the tho first of or tho the builders of oC civilization In California A t tablet commemorating Father Serras Serra's work ork was unveiled by the of oC tho the United States Willlam Willlam Will Will- Ill Ill- lam Howard Taft TaCt In 1909 an and there I In 1913 1911 Hem Henry Van Dyke former United United Unit Unit- ed States Slates ambassador ador to the Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands read his poem Go God of the I Open Air One hundred thousand persons are aro estimated to have havo attended tho thu ert cr I Ices lart luit Ga raster morning Indications l is s I are that this number will be exceeded Q tomorrow Juarez Pauses To Say Prayers Ju Juarez April 19 Easter Caster interest Inter- Inter est cut in this old border town which come centered ed d In tho the ancient mission of oC Our La Lady of or Guadalupe where here dally daily musses masses religious lous processions and anti prayers were held during hol holy week will end In an faster Easter festival of oC sons song high mass and day all-day services tomor- tomor row ron j During During- holy week the tho bronze bells bels In the tower were client t. t Thai Tho holy Ima Images Ima within the old adobe church chulch w were ro draped In I black and ct Ci candles miles lUCS burned ala day and nl night ht while primitive people prayed kne kneeling ling on tho ho bare baro floor Joor The Rev Luis Soule tho the padre of or tho thu mission mh lon hold dall dally daily serIce services ser ser- I vices Ice durin during holy week 01 and officiated c cat at the Incident to this week of ot dc Including the r feast of oC foot washing Good Friday Holy Thursday and the i Trieste or 01 sad sail Satur Saturday ar Tomorrow morning tho the mission bells will ring again naha the tho faithful C will wilt flock to th the first t mass at nt sunrise an and crowds will continue to fill rill the ancient an- an ancient an an- church hurch to overflowing b all da day Four Jour masses will be eun sung during tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow and the tho little Indian choir J bo boys s s 's will appear In their new rob rob and the church filled with tho the per Ier perfume fume tunic of or spring s flowers which which hat havi been brought ht in h by tho natives t decorate th the tho o sacre sacred Images Y 1 Many Miny Americans 4 arc are In Juarez t t. t participate In the picturesque r rc j ceremonies attending the tho c cele l oration of or the tho resurrection Fathe Souls Soult who stationed station d at the CalI Cal Cab or l missions before coming comins- to t told th I old mission hero welcomes th thC American J worshipers and Invites th theto the I to tu take tako part In fu the Easter E festival I