, 1888-03-27
CALIFORNIA; GLORIOUS CLIMATE"
Very Fine, Indeed. During Certain Months
of the Year.

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Very Fine, Indeed. During Certain Months
of the Year.
And first of all / will try and tell some
thing about this glorious climate
(Which could be much more appropriately
called "~slippery'), of which o much
has been said and written. The fact is
that the climate of California is a climate
differing almost with every county, and
to speak of the climate of California as q
whole is greatly to mislead people, for
you canno say it is perfectly fine or de-
testably mean, although both could be
said with truth by any one interested in
saying the one or the other.
The climate, for example, of San Fran
cisco during certain months of the year
is beyond measure fine. Our eastern
friends, leaving the frosty air and dying
vegetation ushering In their long cold
winters, ride right into our mild Indian
summer, filled with full ripened fruits,
luxurious flowers and perfect vegetation;
or, leaving the frost and SHOWS of Christ
mas, find here a bright, warm Italian
winter, flowers in full bloom, fruits in
plenty, etc., and tourists taking their
trip at that time of the year are apt to
return home and conveythe idea of some
wonderfully glorious, warm, delightful
climate. But what about the cold fogs,
that lie nearly half of the year like a
heavy pail over the city, commencing
early in the afternoon and disappearing
only late In the mornings2 What about
h clouds of dust swept down by the
cold winds from the ocean3 What about
h long, dry, dusty summer months,
when everything is withered and parched,
and all are fairly choked with dust and
want OF rain, and sickness and death are
on every hand from unfinished sewers,
etc.3 What about the long, wearisome
rains, although the rains are really the
least disagreeable feature of all the ills
of the San Francisco climate?
While all this is true of San Francisco,
yet, right across the bay, in what might
be called the suburbs yet really San
Francisco has no suburbs, an objection
able feature for commerce), the climate
is milder-less fogs, less chilling winds,
less dust, ETC.. and, still again, as you
cave San Francisco and travel southwark
the change in climate is more noticeable.
One oan write most truthfully of the
climate of California and yet contradict
ones self at every other line. From all
this the conclusion can justly be drawn
that each n car find the climate they
most like by a proper selection of county.
The climate of San Diego is written of
as mild and equable and delightful, and
many poor c~onsumptives are enticed
here, only to meet with disappointment,
lik one poor man ian example of many
who, arriving in San Diego, expecting to
find in its mild and salubrious air G
length of life, if not a permanent cure,
was met, on descending from the cars,
by such clouds of dust, such cold and
piercing fog and wind, that, overcome
by weakness and disappointment, he
dropped on to the first seat, shivering
and crying. Yet a few miles from San
Diego, had he but known it, is a good,
fine climate for consumptives. "A friend
of ours, a young man, for whose life no
hope was felt and who was carried to
this part Of the state, is now happy in the
enjoyment of almost perfect health
California Cor. Boston Transcript.