Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-12
orwt.rRopIc RESORTS.
aneut Los Angeles, It's Climate,
scenery ana surroundings' !.

SEMI-TR0PiC hESuhiS.
.n.ut Los Angeles, It's climate,
scenery ana surroundings'
A little brochure has been publisheo
bv the Southern Pacific Company upon
California winter resorts, scenery ana
kindred topics, which contains some IN
terestine gossip concerning Senator
Cameron's recent visit to this section'
and also introducing good many OF the
cyom;nent citizens Of Los Angeles IN
nrettv sketches. The little pamphlet is
finely illustrated and bears unmisiakable
marks Of the fasile and graphic pen OF
Major Ben Truman. The part referred
to is as followsi
~ noticed in the Philadelphia teie-
grams this morning that Senator Don
Cameron, who has just returned from
California with an additional twenty
four pounds of flesh, speaks very highiy
OF Monterey, placing il, indeed, ap1se
all other resorts Of the kind in me worm
That's pretty high and reliable inaolss.
ment Of what have been saying, 'Sn
III The true brilliant dazzies py Tvs
own sparkle, you know. CT,
Most ass,lredly. There IS sierra
Madre Villa. Colonei--I noticed oy tine
kilograms you refer to tnat ,he oei"'o'
spent several months there
cit ia in the southern Part OF 'ns p 5sa,. sah'
sometimes termed Semi-tropicai oai''
fornia, but. generally, and more proper
iy, Southern California.
1--WE had number OF friends winter
there last season, at place called Los
Angeles, think. You know all about
that section Of the State. supp0seI
~ sm as familiar with it as am WED
nav own home and It's surroundings.
was stationed in Los Angeles the year
after the Mexican War and again ID
1867. And | domieilsted there the
greater part OF the winter OF 1888. so,
you see, have. to some extent, grown
up or at least kept up with that section
of California. You will be greatly taken
with Los Angeles. | am fonder OF u
than Of any place have ever seen. IL
Is the strawberries and cream OF the
Golden State, Bob, Its climate is the
very incarnation of atmospheric perfec-
tion. So ioeund and bslmy are the
winters"
"Uolonel! You are taking me quite
into ne Vale of Cashmere, itself
I'm other words, you mean that am
drawing ths long bowl
III don't mean TO say that. Captaih'
Cecil and Stackpoie, Of the British navy
you know. fought u duel over that re-
mark"
,.Robertoi When the Sphynx, which
foreysr looks across the lifeless desert.
eondessends to take matutinal. then
we, too, will fight duel. 80,
"You never fought duel, Coiones
"Neyer; but, ] must confess, once
sent challenge TO brother oitcer.
"What was the causey'
"Ths causel'
Eyes"
s,weIi, I'll tell you. but you musi
never mention 1t to human being; the
cause was lady over whose head AZ
least tive fights of seventeen-year
locusts had passed, while the combined
ages of the would-be combatants marked
only foriy.two. Ill introduce you to
DIR. Griffin, when we reach Los Angeles,
who may present you with all ihe
graphic details, if he likes. You will
admire the people Of Los Angeles. and
especially such excellent fellows as
Tommie Rowan. Walter Moore, Walter
Maxwell, Jose Guadaloupe Estudiiio'
Henry Hazard. Andy Ryan. w. ..
Brodrick. Jos. II. Lynch, Billy Rowland
Tom Mott, Johnnie Carr. General Chap
man, Colonel Hewitt, Postmaster Green,
and many others"
II am already quite in love with the
City of the Angels.
s'You will be enchanted with it. i
promise. You will see. for yourself,
that Nature has been most bountiful,
indeed, throughout the section OF which
speak. She has dispensed ber gifts
with UNPARALLELED lavishness, and the
poorest participant may be a worshiper
At the shrine OF oonteDtment. No beau
tiful pictures need be sketched of this
land flowing with milk and honey.
Every man lives under his own riFe and
fig tree, and breathes the free air OF
America. The magnificent panorama OF
every day life laughs at all allegories.
Agriculture teens and Hygeia reigns.
The eye is charmed and the heart is
filed; the soul is intoxicated with o
vision Of loyeliness and beauty. msre
rare than that which greeted Cortez aud
his bold followers, When. from the ele-
vated crest of the Cordilleras, theil
rayished gaze fell upon the lake-dotted
palace -spangled, mountain-girdled Val
ley Of Mexico. "
"Au Eden, declared"
"Where the mocking-bird tunes iti
Tyre to eptrancing midnight melodies
aud the silyer.voiced linnet's sweet can't
cles while the morning star filings hei
splendors from its vault sublime"
"Colonel, catch met
nYou have wound me up, Bob, ant
there's no telling, now, when | shal
stop. In brief, Los Angeles. or La Pu
ebio de la Reina de los Angeles (literally 3
The Town of the Queen Of the Angels
to give its ancient spanish. h.Mexican it'll
in full is charmingly situated upon /
slope Of the Sierra Santa Monica. Thi
Los Angeles River furnishes it with wa
ter and irrigaies territory OF MANI
thousands OF acres No city in America
has advanced more rapidly or NOR
surely. Within four years the popula
tion Of the city increased to the exten
OF some iJ,0DD the present number o
iunADitants bttht 1stHiatou ~ hOt'
10000 to $4,000 During these fou
years more than 5000 residences wer,
built, in addition to nearly a mile o
business blocks. The old portion Of th,
city is irregularly built Of adobe, an,
still possesses many Spanish character
Istics The newer portion forms strong
contrast To the older, containing man,
handsome private residences and preten
tious business structures, Los Angelo
IL emphatically city of groves and gar
dens. Fruits and flowers abound every
where. There are largs orange orchard
aud vineyards within the city limits
and many private residences are embow
cred In flowers and surrounded by park
like grounds. A few miles out theselnS
urious exhibitions OF the great richnes
and fruitfuluess of the soil are multiple
On hundredfold. The most beautifu
suburb Of Los Angeles is Pasadena, som
eight miles distapt. Here the orange
groves and gardens are very rich an
productive, and handsome villas dot tn
fair expanse OF the valley. Many tin
residences have been erected by Easter
people who have gone thither in scare
Of health, and these are surrounded b
flowers and orange trees which make
the region veritable paradise. Pasaden
occupies healthful situation in hig
portion Of the valley, with an undulatin
surface, aud noble outlook both upo
the neighboring mountains Of the Sisrr
Madre, and down the San Gabriel an
Los Angeles valleys towards the ocean