[49]On June 1st, 1914, the Library—directed by Everett R. Perry, who came to Los Angeles in the fall of 1911, from the staff of the New York Public Library—was removed to the Metropolitan Building at the northwest corner of Broadway and Fifth Street, its shelves, a month later, holding 227,894 volumes.
[50]In 1914, Fredericks was the Republican candidate for the Governorship of California.
[51]Even while this manuscript is being revised, the name of another Angeleño—that of the lamented A. C. Bilicke, a self-made man of large accomplishments, who perished on May 7th, 1915, in the awful destruction of the Lusitania—is added to the scrolls of the ill-starred.
[52]The formal dedication took place on November 5th, 1913.
[53]During the night of January 21st, 1914, Willard died—on the anniversary of his birth.
[54]Died on November 1st, 1914.
[55]The present officers are: President, Dr. Norman Bridge; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Clara B. Burdette, Joseph Scott and J. S. Torrance; Founder Emeritus, Charles F. Lummis; Treasurer, Stoddard Jess; Curator, Hector Alliot; Directors, Dr. Norman Bridge, Robert N. Bulla, Mrs. Clara B. Burdette, E. P. Clark, Charles F. Lummis, Dr. J. A. Munk, M. H. Newmark, Joseph Scott and J. S. Torrance.
[56]On December 6th, 1913, the corner-stone for the building already looming large was laid by the Rt. Reverend Thomas J. Conaty—the broad-minded, scholarly and much-respected Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, who died on September 18th, 1915—and by General Chaffee.