Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-18
THE FOOTHILLS.
The Semi-Tropic Paradise
in Spring Time.
PICTURESQUE PASADENA.
A Long String of Rapidly Grow.
ing Townsville Crown Of the
Valley Easily First.

says sOf the eternaI CITY, Wnen ner seven
hills ruled the world. See the foothills OF
Los Angeles Co., stay there and live, is what
the valetudinaries of the United States are
saying every day. And they are not only
saying this but they are doing it. Fifteen
years ago from the eastern end of Downey
Avenue bridge to San Bernardino the upper
mesas of this county were sheepwalk. The
land was worth from SO cents to SO per
acre. There was an oasis OF cul-
the home of Senator L. ]. Rose. ranked
easily first, here and there studding this
great desolatiOn of cattle ranges. AS late as
1880 from the Arroyo Seco to the Santa
Anita, Pasadena was the only thing in the
way Of town, and it was a scattering vii
lage of fruit growers, prosperous but
sparsely peopled. The Sierra Madre villa
hung lonely as an eagles eye on the brow
of the mountain with Mr.. Abbot Kinney's
lovely place the only companion for many
miles around.
Yesterday representative of the HERALD
traversed the country above outlined
Crossing the river, he found three bridges
spanning the stream to give 5000 residents
Of East Los Angeles access to the main por-
ton of this city. That section OF the pueblo
is splendid in its handsome residence,
and rich in business blocks, stores, banks
turesome have invaded the most sacred
soil OF the river divinities and many homes
are found disputing the rights of the naiads
and dryads of the streams and woods.
to the hearts OF the old picknickers, there
are dozens of really handsome residences
along the main road. Passing up to the
higher mesa, Highland Park breaks upon
the eye like a vision OF beauty. Mr.. A. W
Potts, the whilOm Democratic war-horse,
when SO long as he was in the field
no circumstances could circumvent, has
here lovely model home. New houses are
going up on all sides. Residences crown
some of the slightly knobs to the left OF the
road-and Highland Park has fine
thoroughfare running its entire length
which magnificent in their proporG ons
and picturcsquely beautiful in design and
finish. The next halt is made ut Garvanzo
large town already, and growing rapidly
1t is soon to h we q rapid transit railroad
for its avn use running to this city. 1t
already has fine water system, the
fluid being as clear as crystal, that
point. Garvanzo also has very pretty no
tel, and it has the repu alton of being the
b st Kept hostelry in the country. Who
would have believed six years since that
whose cost will run away mp in the thou.
sands, with all the outward signs of refine
ment taste and intelligence, as well as of
wealth, surrounding them?
Beyond the Arroyo Seco is Lincoln Pa k, g
pretty aud improving place, nesting among
the glossy verdure OF the evergreen oaks,
and with an unsurpassed view of the grand
mountain range to the north.
Below the big Raymond Hotel big town
is rapidly springing into being. 1t
known as South Pasadena. This place has
had fine hotel for some time past, called
the South Pasadena hotel, and now on the
Marengo Tract there has bee "A built second
hostlery. 1t iscalledithe "Marengo,' and is rs
hotel as there is in this section. ID.
Graham has selected the most slightly knoll
in the place and on it he has erected one OF
the finest residences in the State.
THE CROWN OF THE VALLEY.
To know what Pasadena has become, you
must go there and see it. Word paint
ing will not convey bright enough
conception of one OF the prettiest
cities the sun looks down on in
his diurnal course. around the world
1t contains $4,000 inhabitants. They live
in the cosiest cottages, the handsomest resi-
Every home is embowered in flowers, the
grounds are all aglOw with Towering shrubs
all the streets are wide and well made, the
air is as pure as the breath OF heaven. The
insignia Of material progress, and of sub
stantial improvement, indicate that this
people have faith in their city. The leading
streets are. filed with people
city, it is one in reality today. Why Pasa-
dena is spending at this moment $1OO,O 900
to make stt eets, and they are thoroughfares
worthy OF the name. This crown of the
putting in one OF the best sewer systems in
the Union, She lies hundreds of feet above
all miasmatic vapors; her atmosphere is
p',-e; she proposes to keep it SO. The Chinese
wash houses are banished to the outskirts
of the city. Horses are not al owed to stand
nll day in the streets Pasadena believes in
cleanliness and in good streets. She has
them at any cost. Nor is the material side
of life the only thing intelligent and pro-
gressive people here think of. Pasadena has
an opera house more spacious and more
richly finished than ours is. She has
public library Of which any city might be
proud. Pasadena has schools and colleges
Of all sorts, and they are all full of the
as beautiful as any. of the lower
forms of life. And, passing from the mate
rial and the mental to the spiritual, the
Crown crowns all her achievements by
New York might point with pride to some
OF these edifices which the Pasadenans
have erected to enshrine their faith. Clean
illness and God.in go together. For sew.
then for streets 500, 900 more, and for the
shrine Of the imagination, the opera house,
at least $75, GOO. Such people will attract
more OF the same sort
THE SIERRA MADRE.
Some reporter has written story of Pasa-
dena to the effect that a visitor to that
charming spot became bewildered and
thought he had recently entered the Gates
of Paradise. An ardent admirer of the
bench of land perched under the very base
Of the mountain where the Sierra Madre
Villa is built, as he stood on the veranda
and looked oyer the valley thirty miles to
Wilmington south, and thirty miles to Santa
Ana east, with all the wealth of broad ex-
panSe, studded with vineyard, orange grove,
farmhouse, hamlet, village and city grow
ing between, said: Here must have been
tempt him, and ! never knew how great
the miracle of self-denial was until now"
That most magnificent view never looked
lOvclier than yesterday. The green was of
the most vivid hue. The country has
developed marvelously during the past
year. The masses of cloud made most
pleasant contrast with the. earth and yet
full of visitors, and now 1t has a rival
near by. Where lived the past six years the
Vosburdge brothers have reclaimed a broad
area OF table land from the possessiOnof the
boulders, enterprising people have bur-
chased q liberal piece of land and on it
built most admirably; designed and ar
ranged sanltarium. It Is in charge of q
lady physician of much experience, and is
already attracting the sick from near and
matte vapors ever approach within miles of
1t. 1t is above the fogs, above the chilly
breath OF the frost king, 1t is supplied with
water the purest ever distilled in Natures
laboratory, and if anywhere he ick can be
made we1l it is here. And now the reporter
has told q story as long as his ride, and will
not trouble the reader by telling how he
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