The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-17
PASADENA.

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 want you to prepare to believe that ] am not Il liar. know how hard 1t l vii bc for you, a: the outset. and after ! you have read what l shall write of this ! place you will hesitate to believe me under oath l have struck the place ! that Is nearest to heaven ot any place on earth, do believe thought River ] side was most beautiful place. but with l all its wealth of oranges and grapes and other fruits II k no more tO be compared ! to Pasadena than nothing in the world After remaining nearly week in Los Angeles, a city of perhaps 2iotN luhAhi- tants, during all of which tune the ram fell Ill torrents, and the air was chilly. one day vouuc friend, who formerly lived lu Milwaukee. suggested that we 20 to Pasadena We took train for the r!de of ten miles. and the liule en- zine pulled the coaches up hill nearly all the way. and when the hills had | been climbed We Were eight hundred feet higher than Los Angeles. iu the San Gahricl valley at the foot ot the Sierra Madrc range of mountains the foot of the mountains touching the valley. and their tops only te1 to a dozen miles away. In the distance the mountains are suow-cappcd the Wear round. and they look sa near that Nou would hardly be surprised to hav" an avalanche ot snow sliding down upon the valley but snow never comes here fhe valley k gently rolling for many mil'~. and here i'll a dozen short wears. there Ina, been built up a lovely village of small farms. or Gardens of Eden Al first the place was ranch. with one adobe house. when colony oi eastern people bought l 1t, brought water down from titr uotji- tain gorges and they sct out orungS trees and waited fer them tn grow IL was a question as to what thc people could do to live while tho orange trees were growing large enough to bear fruit but they found something to do and finally the trees, became large enough Before that time however. other settlers came in to make hom"s and orange trees were of no account The original settlers sold out. most of them for more money than they eyer dreamed could hc made raising oranges They bought nor" ground. extended the water all over the valley, ncw corners planted ] every fruit and flower they could think ot, built houses and today th,,rr l. one of tue hnpplcst and most CuutrHtrd com munities in the world Every doorvard ] contains more flowers than the greatest conservatory at the east every fruit that can be grown anywhere on rurth k grown here and for three hundred and fifty days in the year the sky k cloua- less. and winter and summer the ehil- dren can play out doors with na wrap on, and ladies Eo about most of the tlme ] III white dresses. One can drive all duV every day. for n month without passing the same object of interest twfvc-over roads as firm as the park roats of Chi. cagn through grounds that are like cul- tIvated parks and never get tired of th" scenery, an appetite awaits every meal, and ten hours of sweet, refreshing sleep. k the inheritance of the happy pcopl. here This k the kind of a place l hav.. struck, after much wandering There are vineyards a mile square. where grapes are grown by the carload and sold to the wineries hy the ton Up to this time the hotel accommodation have been vile, and are now, but a Boston millionair" Ina, just erected on a high piece of ground hotel to cost nearly half a million dollars, which will be ready for next srnson The new hotel presents view in any direction, of from ten to thirty miles of truitcovrrcd val. ley, snow-covcred mountain. and ocean, such a4 travellers may eros. continents to see. No pen can dcscrihe tine lowell ness of Pasadena. There are miles of hedges of cypress, trimmed in all beau ttul shapes, and streets shaded with the rapidly grown pepper tree, the cucalyp- tuS. and tine live oak There are orange. I,4fn t.,.o plum trees plum and prura trees of all kinds, olive, walnut and banana trees twenty feet high Calla lilies are more plentiful than the common"-t flower at home To give you an idea how pl"nti- iul the lovely calla lillie- are here, 1 will mention one lady sent a hundred freshly picked callas to be used at an Easter service in the little Episcopal church, and at least five hundred cam" from other ladies This will open the eyes of some of my good lady friends who hay" watched 4 single calla for months, training 1t up in th" way il should go to have it ready to gladden. the pulpit on Easter 4 lady friend wanted to send flowers to A friend the other even. ! ing. who was going to give Il party, and what do you think sine sent them in? . kct tha, could be luund and filed it to the brim. piling full of rose buds There are rose bushes here twenty feet high and fifty feet across with millions of roses. and climbing roses that climb all over house. out on the roof. and they would go up the lightning rod, if there were any lightning rods on the houses \ woman from the east who k here for ba Hal L back carrying away the nowor- that are gwen her on visit to any house. The lttle old lady who travels with me has become actually roau1--honld"red lug ging around ro-cbud- anl worrying for fear there will not be any left to blossom tomorrow
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