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The pajama-clad hordes took the city by storm Saturday night, the annual Pajamarino of the University of Redlands. There were 178 men in line and they marched from the Casa Loma downtown and visited many of the stores and the treaters, giving yells and doing stunts.

The boys visited the E.D. Reid Co. store and there had ice cream and cake. At the White Lunch they were given pie. At the Palace Barber Shop frost bites were served them, and at The Fair apples. The Sanitary Barber Shop gave pencils and Hutchins handed out bags of candy.

Editor’s note: In 1922, E.D. Reid & Co., a men’s clothing store, was at 218 Orange St. and the White Lunch Room was at 217 Orange St. The Fair, a department store, was at 6-8 E. State St., Hutchins Confectionery was at 5 W. State St. and the Sanitary Barber Shop was at 8 W. State St.

The University of Redlands’ annual Pajamarino, which began in 1911, was discontinued in the 1970s.

The home of Cecil T. Axworthy, 624 W. Fern Ave., was entered by thieves Saturday night while Mr. Axworthy was marching in the pajama parade and his wife was away from home. They stole all his clothes except those he wore, also a coat, his shoes, shirts and most of Mrs. Axworthy’s clothes. Tracks found by the police show it to have been a man and a woman.

Mrs. Axworthy’s wedding dress was taken, but fortunately the thieves did not rifle the contents of the bureau drawers. Mr. Axworthy is a senior in the university, well known singer, choir leader at the Baptist church, and the loss is a difficult one for him, especially since both he and Mrs. Axworthy had just purchased new suits for winter.

Editor’s note: The theft of his new suit didn’t stop Cecil T. Axworthy from graduating on time from the University of Redlands or from becoming a member of the clergy. In an alumni directory from several decades after his senior year, he is listed as the Rev. Cecil T. Axworthy.

The University of Redlands football men whom Coach Daniels ordered not to participate in the university’s 1922 Pajamarino were likely preparing for the Oct. 14, 1922, game against the University of California, Southern Branch, now known as UCLA. This ad for that home game ran Oct. 13, 1922, in the Redlands Daily Facts. (Redlands Daily Facts)

This photo from the archives of the A.K. Smiley Public Library shows Orange Street around the 1920s looking south from the Southern Pacific tracks, much as it would have looked when University of Redlands students marched downtown from Colton Avenue in the 1922 Pajamarino, except that the pajama parade was a nighttime event. (Courtesy of the A.K. Smiley Public Library Heritage Room)

Hutchins Confectionery, at 5 W. State St., was one of the stores the “pajama-clad hordes” from the University of Redlands visited Oct. 7, 1922, during the annual Pajamarino. This ad ran Oct. 9 1922, in the Redlands Daily Facts. (Redlands Daily Facts)

Some of the pajama-clad students in this 1950s photo from the archives of the A.K. Smiley Public Library could be children of the University of Redlands students who marched in the 1922 Pajamarino. By the 1950s, the annual pajama parade included women and it ended up at Redlands’ Fox Theater, which had not yet been built in 1922. (Courtesy of the A.K. Smiley Public Library Heritage Room)

The first Zanja party of the year was held at the university yesterday noon, when the custom was followed of ducking those students in the Zanja stream who had failed to participate in the annual Pajamarino event held last Saturday and had failed to show adequate excuse for absence from the parade. The two unfortunate men who went down into the cold waters yesterday were Harry Gromer, ’25, and Everett Mills, ’26. The four huskies officiating at the party and throwing the young men into the stream were Emile Allec, Donald Thompson, Eugene Pettibone and Gordon Cram, all letter-men at the university.

The Zanja ducking party is an annual affair, it being traditional that every male student of the university shall participate in the Pajamarino parade. There were 13 students absent from the parade in addition to those football men whom Coach Daniels ordered out of the affair. Most of the absent men had valid excuses to a Zanja bath. The third man who failed to appear for his ducking is John Fenton, ’26, of San Bernardino.

It is traditional for the frosh men to dam the stream so that it will be deep enough for a real bath and the men of the class did an unusually effective job this time. The dam was so constructed that at the point where the men were thrown in, the water was over their heads.

Editor’s note: Cecil Axworthy wasn’t the only future member of the clergy who was involved — or should have been involved — in the University of Redlands’ 1922 Pajamarino. Harry Gromer, who was ducked in the Zanja in October 1922 because he didn’t participate in the pajama parade, is listed in an alumni directory as the Rev. Harry Gromer.

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