Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-27
A KoKoMo HoosIER AROUSED
his Opinion OF Los Angeles and
It's Richness and beauty.


county, Indiana, who recently visited
Los Angeles, has contributed letter t.
his home paper, the Kokomo GAZETTE
Tribune, from which the following ex.
tracts are made:
Los ANGELES, April 9Th.
GAZETTE TRIBUNE = The other day,
after my wife had read over my manu-
script, | asked her to criticise 1t and to
spare 1t not. She modestly said: IL
you will allow me, would suggest that
there ia tinge of gush in your descrip-
tons" was cut little by the insin-
uation, but said never word. She has
not been going about much since we
came here, not being well. After
breakfast the next morning proposed a
jaunt about town and into the suburbs.
We walked out and soon came to fine
residences and Howery lawns lit is about
as natural and easy for flowers to grow
to perfection here in winter and spring
as Il is to grow pig-weed and pursley in
the latter part of summer in Indiana,
and particularly some kinds, among
which are roses, Gala lilies and gera
niums) and presently to one of the
finest flower gardens in Los Angeles.
wife at once became enthused and
broke forth in string Of adjectives,
the most OF which have forgotten.
remember she said, o my Did you ever,
everl Yes, had ever, for | had been
there day or two before, and that was
the reason we were there then. l will
not attempt to describe the beauty, brill
lance and fragrance of the place, be-
cause have not time nor ability to do it
| Justice. l will merely mention a few
things on account Of their enormous size.
One was banksia rose, growing by the
side Of large arbor or summer house
fifteen feet high. The rose entirely
covered the arbor and was one mass of
small white flowers, This rose bush,
vine, tree, or whatever it was, was full
| five inches in diameter above ground
that is the single stem. Another one
with large white rose on, four inches
In diameter and running up on the two.
story house twenty-f feet high, called
La Marque. A large red rose, as large
vine as the last named, called James
| Sprint. Geraniums ten feet high, two
inches in diameter, and grown hard and
woody from age. like the old clumps Of
alders in Indiana.
We went direct from the flower gar
den to the Wolfskill orange orchard,
which l described in another letter. II
there is anything in this cold world that
will bring enthusiasm to stole, it Is an
orange grove, with the trees laden with
fruit and flowers. pertaining the air with
| fragrance everywhere in the vicinity.
a "a r. l. - nd int
| iected awhile / limited that she was
slightly gushing" that morning.
| Citrus fairs and flower festivals are the
order Of the day here new. because this
| is the best time of year for them, and
because there are thousands of eastern
people here now. There was
lower festival in Los Angeles
last week that continued all the
week, and probably was one Of the
largest things OF the kind ever seen west
of the Alleghanies. 1t was held in
large rough building, $50 feet square.
called the Tabernacle, which was erect
ed this winter for the holding of DR..
Munhall's revival meetings in while he
was here. The attendance of evenings
has ranged from 5000 to 5000. The
first evening there was perfect jam,
which, with the addition of the
effects of the air laden perfume
from the flowers, caused several
ladies to faint. Wife became SO
overpowered by inkaling the perfumed
air that we were compelled to leave
early. l shall not attempt a general
description because have not room or
inclination. Ladies' of several of the
booths kindly furnished names of varie-
ties Of their flowers. But as these
would probably only interest few Of
the readers of the Gazette Tribune, such
as MIR. Wilcox and few ladies, will
not give them here, but keep them until
| get back to Kokomo, it that ever
should be. will give Just few points
| from my notebook: One lady OF
Los Angeles had one hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven kinds on exhibition, another
"a varieties OF gerbenias. another had
| 1000 fine specimens of pansies selected
| from her garden. There was one booth
entirely OF wild flowers. One lady had
go varities of roses, another lis, some
ladies from Tustin, this county, have on
exhibition 200 varieties, and lady here
| in the city claims to have in her garden
400 varieties Of roses. do not vouch
for-it, but.give it for Mr.. Wilcox's con-
sideration. In dubious plants, one col
lection has so varieties of anemones, an
other 80 varieties of ixias.
We also attended citrus mot citrons)
fair held here last Friday and Saturday,
and as Los Angeles can beat the world
in such things, and does it, you may in
fer that il was grand affair. The Los
Angeles County Pomoloeical Society
held its annual meeting too. here last
Thursday and Thursday night. at
tended the meetings an6 was very much
Interested in papers that were read, and
the discussions upon them. On the sub
jects Of orange and grape culture more
especially, but including some other
fruits.
Los Angeles has had a number of
eminent visitors in the last week or two.
A week ago the Congressional commit
tee that attended the remains of the late
Senator Miller to San Francisco re-
turned by this way and stopped here "a
hours, and were dined, wined, oranged
and driven about Los Angeles to their
safety. Uncle Geo. Hearst, as he is
have been here, but failed to arrive.
He and the long-hsired poet, joaquin
Miller, go direct to Washington from
Mexico, where they are now. George
| w. Peck, editor Of PecEs Sun and
author of "Peck's Bad Boy" is here.
Author of Pinafore is also here, and
bought some lots ON the hills in Los
Angeles, and is going to build fine
mansion. There are many other promi-
nent business men, authors. editors and
so on here at present.
have become acquainted with num-
Der Of people who have come here re-
Gently and bought property and settled
down to housekeeping, happy and con.
tented There is great deal of real es-
tate changing hands all the time. These
Eastern men mostly have money. When
they come here they nearly all like it
and many of them buy, some in the city,
some in villages and Others in the coun-
try, and that makes real estate active
and high. 1t is case of demand and
supply. There are more real estate
agents to the square rod here in
Los Angeles than any other place in
| California, and that is saying great
deal. They do big business, too. /
suspect there is more business done here
in that line in week than there is in
six months in Kokomo. The growth of
Los Angeles county aud city has been
marvellous for the past four or five
years. In 1880 the county had popu-
lation Of 81, 900. To-day it is 100000
The city had in 1880 population of
II 900; in 1885 it had IS, 600. Now 1t
has 10000 people, and no one here
doubts that the next decade will show
up 100, 600 people in the city. In the
past twelve months the real estate sales
in Los Angeles. have just learned.
amounted TO $40. 600, 900.
WILL you SUFFER- with Dyspepsia and