Show PRESIDENT OF LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL MAKES CONFESSION AS TO CIRCUS EPISODE The UThe Circus Kids Oct 1 1963 1903 The above is the inscription on a handsome gold locket which Theodore president of the LOt Los An gees city council wears and which he be prizes more highly than any other I piece of jewelry which he owns It Itsu su suggests ests a story as well en as does the red vest which Mr Summerland wea wears and which peculiarly enough is directly in Mr mem memOry Ory or with ith that memorable circus day Mr Ir S Summerland was as asked to shoe give the strai straight ht of the circus stOry last night after he had been introduced at Lagoon as the circus kid council councilman councilman man manIt manIt It appears that two years ago a clever swindler came caine to Los Angeles in the gui guise of an advance agent for a circus This show was to be a wonderful affair was to run seven seyen days in Los Angeles and be the means of attracting real resi residents dents and money from all Darts of southern California On the strength of his promises he succeeded in getting the council to a allow hint him a reduction from to for the seven da days s permit and plO proceeded ed to Impress the councilmen with the Immensity of the circus that was coming I Councilman Summerland much Im Impressed pressed to a group of oC children about his home one evening that if they were good he would see e that they went ent to the circus There were about twenty In the bunch A fe few weeks after the promise was made mAd the swindling advance agent left the cit city leaving a number of swin swindled dIed merchants in his rear Councilman Summer Summerland land in common I with other Angels Angeh felt sore to but thought nothing of the promise made to tM the kids of the Fourth ward He was reminded however by sundry inquiries from the juveniles as to hoW th the circus was comin coming along Not wishing to tile dh I appoint them he did his best beat to main maintain tain tam a medium between pacifying and entirely Iy avoiding them Why I U ed to have to dodge cor corners ners ride home in cabs and use aU al I sort aorta or of ruses to preserve peace ol of mind he said In speaking of this purl part of the tho story Finally one evening about two weeks week 5 after the promise a delegation of ol Young Americans waited on him and am informed him that they wanted a final answer as to whether hether they were goinS to the circus The councilman found it II I necessary to explain that the circus man was a fake etc But wont ont you take us to a good dr drens ens cm when it comes along asked one of ol the juveniles This showed shoed Mr 11 Summerland the th t light and he promptly said id lie he would I take aU all the boys and their boy friends and the friends who lived In tin the t Fourth ward When a really tru truly circus came caim t along Mr Summerland took with hut him I Ito to the show boys nIne o of thou their mothers and one P iEman the latter as a of the forc forces To supply these 14 kids Mr lr Summer Summerland Summerland land bought just 0 worth of peanuts and the amount of pink lemonade that thai t this his charges got away aay with Ith would have hav i imade made an artificial lake Jake lakeIt It was as a few weeks after the memorable aWe able circus day that the boys of the tiit ward who had hd been the councilman guests got together and purchased hirs bim I Ia a fine charm On one side is the In inscription above while the other bears bean beana a B P O 0 E token In explaining the part the red vest played Mr Summerland said that In he i had bad the waistcoat on at al L the time and that both it and the th charm had come to be numbered lUmbered among amon I his big dearest tr treasures i |