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Ferdinand C. Ewer (1826-83) http://tinyurl.com/FCEwer

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Admission Day

From The Editor's Table, 1854.

Reader: Wm Leslie Howard

For many Californians—sadly enough—our national and state holidays are merely occasions for rest rather than remembrance.

Editor and author Ferdinand C. Ewer would have been astonished at holiday complacency, especially when it came to—that's right—Admission Day.

While the military have appropriated to themselves the celebration of the Fourth, and the Fire Department of our city with laudable thoughtfulness, have rescued the annual recurrence of the birth-day of Washington from neglect of appropriate notice, "Admission Day" . . . has been appropriated as their anniversary by the Society of California Pioneers, and its fourth advent was celebrated last month with becoming pomp and parade.

The banks were closed during the day, by general consent, as well as many of the stores; and, as a portion of the ceremonies consisted of a grand procession, all the World and his wife turned out, lining the side-walks along the route, and making gay the balconies of the brick and granite palaces on Montgomery, Clay and up and down-town streets, and the stoops and windows of the residences up-town.

Ferdinand Ewer founded The Pioneer in 1854. During its brief life, the magazine included some of the most original California writing of the time.