The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-06-04
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A Wcrd Of Explanation-How to get
There-The Country-San Francisco
Chilamen-Other People-The Climate.
SAN Francisco, May 20, 1875.

| ing you, gentle reader, posted as to life,
| politics, and things in the Eastern me-
tropolis. Being like other men desirous
of seeing all there is of the world, l am
i'll the Western metropolis. Have yon
any objections TO knowing something of
this end Of the world? OF course not.
So for few weeks at least, shall send
you a letter from this side of the conti-
nent instead CT the other
HOW TO GET THERE.
Take any route you choose to Chicago,
and then take the Chicago and North
western road to Omaha Take Pullman
ears, if you have to go with one meal
day less, for the comfort of riding all
day in them and sleeping in them nights,
pays for more than ten times the cost.
IL yOu have any regard for your bones,
take the Pullman car at Chicago. and
pay the price without grumbling There
Is blessing on any seat in them. AT
Omaha it is HObson's choice, for there is
but one railroad-the Union Pacific.
You can walk to San Francisco, but |
would not advise it. A walk of 2, 900
miles is no joke. | know something
about it, for | not only had n substitute
i'll the army, who was in Sherman's
march to the sea, but | was personally
III the late blockade caused by the break
at Green River, on the Union Pacific,
and was compelled to walk four miles
around it. At the start | thought /
could walk the whole distance to San
Francisco; at the end of the first mile /
concluded TO take the cars again at
Ogden, 600 miles ahead, and by the time
| got to where the train was that was to
take us on, was quite content to crawl
into the Pullman, and permit steam to
do the walking for me- Don't walk it,
that is if you weigh 24O pounds.
THE COUNTRY.
From Omaha through the entire State
of Nebraska, the eye is delighted with
succession of views of the finest country
that lies out of doors Vast plains of
the most beautiful lands in the world
stretch out on either hand, .inteIsected
by the most lovely streams of clear rapid
running wafer, the tables rising one
above the other. Rich, prosperous
towns are located at conyenient dis
tances, and everywhere there are
visible signs OF thrift and prosperity.
When you leave Nebraska, however,
you strike another kind of country. |
Through the Wyoming Territory the |
sage brush and alkali plains abound, and |
they continue till the eye wearies of |
them. Imagine a vast plain, reaching |
farther than your eye, treeleSs and grass
less, covered with wild sage and the still
more disagreeabIe grease-wood, and in
habited by no living thing. A tomtit
would Starve on Il thousand acres, and
snakes grow poor there. There is no
wafer for Vegetation, and no Vegetation
for water The sage and grease-wood
seem to grOw there from desire to make
a naturally bad landscape worse.
After crossing the Rocky Mountains
you lind some good lands till you pass |
Ogden, in Utah, there you come to sage |
brush again, with rocks thrown in to |
add To the general dreariness of the |
scene. On the west slope Of the Sierra |
Nevadas you get patches of the most |
delightful country till yOu get down to
the Caiiforia plain, when you strike
country the beauty of which may be |
imagined, but cannot be described. Ii |
is simply gorgeous. | shall have some
tlAnS more to say of the country from |
Omaha to san Francisco hereafter.
By the way, if you want to know all
about Nebraska, send a postal card too.
f. Davis, Omaha, Nebraska, asking him
to send you IA copy OF the Pioneer,
which he will do free of charge. Ii is |
reliable and truthful, and is full Of
valuable information about that
country.
SAN FRANCISCO
is Il modern wonder. Scarcely 20 years |
old, it contains nearly 20O, ,OOG people, |
and as many fine buildin:.; as as any city |
Of its size in the country, Many builI-
ingS-indesd the most of them-are To- |
three stories being the regular height, |
which gives the city something of |
squatty appearance, but there is a rea-
son for this. Earthquakes are some
what common on this coast, and when |
they come they shake up things rather
lively. But why they build low on this
account | cannot see. If n building |
tuInbles down what difference does its |
heigth makel IL stone weighing ten
tons is to fall on NE in on earthquake, |
don't see that it would make any differ
ence whether it dropped from the top Of
three or six story building. But /
there may be difference. And if can
employ Chinaman at IL reasonable
price to make the experiment, | will do
so and report. | am willing to do almost
anything to get at facts Speaking Of
CHINANEN.
Here you have them in all their native
ugliness. They come here first, and
majority of them stay here. They do
the most of the homework, All the
washing and ironing, and very large
proportion of the cobbling and cigar
making. They are not particular as TO
how they make living, so that they
make It, They will wash your linen,
clean yonr windows. scrub your floors,
wait at your tables; or they will go out
into the mountains and shovel dirt on
your railways. They are industrious,
quick, active, and, as a rule, faithful;
and. accustomed as they are to strict
obedience, they are easily managed. As
cooks and cldmbermaids, or rather
clambermen, they are favorites with
Californian house-keepers, for they are
neat and trustworthy. a Cinnamon
waiting at table, with his clean, cotton
trousers and froek, bis noiseless step and
his niinIle movement, is n sight for sick
sfornaohs to one who has inwardly re-
b-Iled at the greasy men walters Of the
East BY the way, why don't the peo-
pie OF the East, who have been so long
under the iron heel of Biddyocraey, send
here for Chinese seryantsl Think, Owe