Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1937 Page: 13 of 26
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THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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TEXAS PIONEER JEWS
By THEO. D. MEYER
oid U. S. currency,” he retorted.
Edwin Larendon is not only a
pioneer Jew of Texas but a
modem city builder, having
built the Larendon Hotel at
611 1-2 San Jacinto street. Lar-
endon Building at 1210 Texas
avenue, and the Cotton Building
at Prairie and Caroline; many
residences and two Bayridge
summer homes.
This reserved gentleman of
the “did school” said his brother,
Dr. George W. Larendon, was
the limelight-politician of the
family, but I saw certificates
and letters where Governor O.
B. Colquitt had appointed Edwin
Larendon as a “special commis-
sioner” to represent Texas at
Washington, D. C., on the Nat-
ioanl River and Harbors Con-
gress, and Mr. Larendon helped,
in 1912, as a Democratic National
Committeeman to elect Woodrow
Wilson as president. In 1936, as
chairman of Precinct 40 of the
National Democratic Executive
-ommittee. he worked to elect
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and John Nance Garner, another
pioneer of Texas, as vice presi-
dent i
Turning the hand of time for-
ward, Edwin Larendon is now
living in the metropolis of Texas
—Houston, where the tide-waters
of Buffalo Bayou bring the ships
of nations to port and float them
out again to the seven seas of the
world.
“Backward, turn backward,
0 time, in yoar flight!
Make me a child again ...”
“Seventy summers ago I first
saw the light of day, and if I
live through September 5, 1937,
that will make the seventy-first
winter that I’ve lived in Hous-
ton,” said Edwin Larendon,
whose home was at 2005 Frank-
lin avenue, comer Chartres St.
This was in the second ward,
commomy called “Knob Hill.”
“My parents were Dr. Joshua
Larendon of Charleston, S. C.,
and Anais Pasdeloup Larendon
of New Orleans, La.
“Many Houstonians will re-
member my grandmother, Mrs.
Clemonce Pasdeloupe, who was
born at Bordeaux, France.
Mrs. Pasdeloupe was one of
the pioneer musicians when
Houston was a “mud hole.”
“We often played baseball on
Longscope Square. Went swim-
ming (in the raw) at Rusher’s
swimming hole in the Charley
Schrimp field.”
Mr. Larendon first attended
the private school of Fritz Duer-
er, at Jackson and German
streets. The new city directory
lists Canal as the present name
for German street. In the year
1881 he attended Clopper Insti-
tute at Capitol and Caroline, a
public school.
His first employment was with
the iaie T. W. House, wholesale
grocer and cotton merchant.
In 1885 with J. T. Baldwin he
engaged in the livery stable
business, called the City Stables,
located on Fannin street between
Preston and Prairie avenues,
where the Stratford Hotel is
now located.
“Next I built a building on
Franklin and Caroline and my
business was the sale of harness,
carriages and buggies.”
In those days of dirt roads,
mostly black and clay mud
streets, there were no automo-
biles as are now seen traversing
our hard surfaced miles of city
streets and highways.
“Our big celebration of yester-
years was Christmas Eve. We
ooys procured all the barrels we
could find and made a bonfire.
Big doings.”
“I remember in 1874 I made a
trip to Sour Lake, Texas, 77
miles from Houston, on the
steamboat ‘Diana.’ We went
down Buffalo Bayou to Galves-
ton, then to Wallisville by a
small craft on Trinity river, and
overland by livery. Taking only
10 days to make the trip,” Ed
Larendon laughingly remarked.
Now the trip by automobile is
made in two hours.
He said the old hotel where
they stayed looked like it was a j
hundred years Old. The Village Then I hesr an ech9 sounding
_ _ ________-xs I Of a voice so painful sounding:,
was overrun with Indians every-' which ourp blood ,nd t*.nd. th,
where. They had brought game
to sell to the white inhabitants.
1 asked Mr. Larendon, did they
bargain for gay colored cloth and
beads in payment?
“Heck, no! They wanted good
— IF —
By RABBI H. J. HORWITZ
Pensacola, Florida
(Dedicated to the 31st Anniversary
of The Texas Jewish Herald)
Ofen times in great remorse
We think, if we could change the
. course 9
And our life we would overlive,
O, all we have we would then give.
If againwe would turn young,
And again be bright and strong;
We would choose for us the way
That would keep us always gay.
We would not blunder, would not err.
All our plans would be with care.
We would not make the least mis-
take
In everything we would undertake.
All our deeds with retrospect
We would watch, shall be correct.
And never, never we would sin;
Not to strangers, not to kin.
We would give no reason for com-
plain;
Wealth and knowledge we would
gain.
And would acquire for us great
fame
That would give honor to our name.
Our home would be a real love-nest.
Feathered with everything the best.
Safe from trouble, pain and worry.
But illed with joy and grace
glory.
orry,
and
head
And makes us shiver, fear and dread.
Ramblers Club
It says: “If you would be young
again
You would suffer the same pain,
You again would be the same old
fool;
Again attend the same old school.
“You would err and blunder just the
| game,
commit
On Sunday, April 25, the
Ramblers Club indoor baseball
team wil play a team composed
of players from all the Jewish j
teams in Houston for what might
be called “the unofficial Jewish j
championship of Houston.”
The Ramblers, an organization
of young Jewish men, organized
for an athletic and social pur-
pose in Houston, has for the past
two years excelled in both base- j
ball and basketball. This organi-
zation of Jewish youths is spon-
sored by Siggie Frucht, who by
his interest and financial efforts,
has brought forth athletics among
the Jewish youth of the city. i
Following the
You would play the same old
And would transgress and
sin
So that nothing by the change you
would win.
‘So better see while you yet last
Not to grumble about the past.
But just improve your present life.
To live in peace and not in strife.”
Dark-Brown
Exploitation
From a source which we
choose to consider reliable comes
the report that the American
Gentile, a seething anti-Semitic
journal before it gave up the
ghost, is about to resume publi-
cation. So violent was this
periodical at one time in its
Ramblers - All . propaganda against the Jews.
that even those who sympathized
with its aims could not stomach
its
dreds of old issues of the Ameri-
can Gentile reprinted for the
purpose of showing their pros-
pective subscribers the necessity
for combating this menace which
seeks to rise again from its own
ashes. These two long-establish-
ed publications have chosen this
method of warning their public
that a ghost is preparing to walk
once more and that for the in-
significant stipend of a year’s
subscription to such tried pro-
tectors of American Jewry’s
status, they wil help effectively
to safeguard themselves and
their brethren from its diabolic
purposes.
We would imagine that the
administrative boards of these
two papers are not so witless as
to imagine that their scheme will
discourage the return of the
American Gentile to the formid-
able position it once held as a
promulgator of ill-will in this
country. One does not defeat an
objective such as this one by
raising a cry throughout the
countryside and thereby magni-
fying its importance. It is like
encouraging the masses to war
upon a disease by infecting them
with the disease
If' these journals aim to in-
crease their circulation or adver-
tising space by this bogey-man
stu?t, they have chosen a tawdry,
if not precarious, method of dol-
ing so. For not only will they
inadvertently be giving the lie
to an arch-foe whose aim is to
crush the very ones whose cause
they have vouchsafed, but they
will also cast grave reflection
upon the Anglo-Jewish press in
which there are still many pub-
lications that endeavor to op-
erate on a legitimate and trust-
worthy basis. — Jewish Times,
Baltimore.
Star game, it is planned to have
a game played between two All j the methods of spreading
Star Jewish girls teams as an vicious gospel. And so it was
extra added attraction. quietly embalmed and laid away.
_ .. _ .. Now it seeks to revive itself,
Both these games are worth and is being aided in its attempt-
your time, so be at Johnston ed come-back by two Jewish
High School athletic field on contemporaries whose bent for
Sunday, April 25. For additional increased circulation exceeds
information concerning this ath
letic program,
Club member.
see any Rambler
their capacities for good taste.
Both the American Hebrew of
New York City and the Brooklyn
Jewish Examiner have had hun-
Loew’s State
“TRADER HORN,” Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer’s version of the
strange life story of a guide and
ivory trader in Africa, is booked
for a revival showing FRIDAY
at LOEWS STATE to follow
“Personal Property."
CAST of the production, which
was first released in 1931, in-
cludes Harry Carey, Edwina
Booth, Duncan Renaldo and oth-
ers. The director was W. S. Van
Dyke, who made it his first out-
standing success.
STORY of “TRADER HORN”
was taken from the book of the
same name, which purported to
be the autobiography of a strange
character in Capetown who
called himself Aloysius (Trader)
Horn. He was “aided” in its
writing by Etherelda Lewis, the
novelist, with notes after each
chapter reviewing the incidents
in his own picturesque language.
It was keynoted by the mystic-
ism Trader Horn insisted is al-
ways alive in Africa, and by the
action which invariably followed
his excursions into veldt and
jungle. The production, in prep-
aration for some three years, was
filmed largely in Africa and met
with many vicissitudes. The ro-
mance is carried by a friend of I
the trader’s and a strange i
“white goddess,” worshipped by
an African tribe.
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B’nai B’rith News
Local Lodge* To Send
Large Delegation To
District Convention
The local B'nai B’rith lodges,
Herzl No. 608 and Houston No.
| 434, plan to send a large delega-
‘ tion to the Southern District
Convention in Dallas, May 9, 10
and 11th.
The delegates and alternates
from the local lodges are:
Herzl—Max Westheimer, Moe
Mandel. William Nathan, Abe
Levy, Ben Left, Julian Shapiro
as delegates with I. Tiras, Abram
L. Geller, Harry Dow, Rabbi
Sanders A. Tofield, Abe Samp-
son and Morris Catchman as al-
ternates.
Houston—Morris D. Meyer, M.
N. Dannenbaum, Max H. Nathan,
Aaron D. Faber as delegates with
Ben Noble, Irvin Waldman, Hy-
man Hart and Moses Schwartz
as alternates.
Read “EGO” on page one.
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Goldberg, Edgar. Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1937, newspaper, April 22, 1937; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1102737/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .