Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-13
HOME AGAIN.
Mr.. Joseph D. Lynch's
Return.
ABOUT OUR POSTOFFICE.
The Frozen EaSt-RailrOad Mat
ters-SenatOr Hearst at
the Capital.
HOME AGAIN.
ABOUT OUR POSTOFFICE.


Mr.. Joseph d. Lynch, whose name
is household word in these parts
has returned home from visit to the
National Capital and other parts o.
the East. Knowing that readers oi
the HERALD who have for years en-
joyed the privilege of perusing the
productions of Mr.. Lynch's vigorous
pen would be pleased to hear from
him, albeit through the medium OF
a reporters interview, a HERALD
representative last night induced
him to submit to the ordeal ol
being questioned as to his trip to the
Atlantic side of the continent. And
it must be said that he underwent the
task with Just that good grace becom-
ing one who has been so intimately
connected with the newspaper guild in
so many of its phases.
Well, the pencil wielder began by
asking:
"Mr. Lynch, how did you enjoy
your trip to the East?"
"Where shall l begin?" said the
longtime head of the HERALD staff.
II will tell you first about my journey
across the continent. We hat a very
pleasant trip. The route lay by way
of Sacramento and Salt Lake. By the
Central Pacific to the last named
point all went smoothly, and we ar
rived in the City Of the Saints on
time to second. Here we took the
scenic route, as the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad is called,
and saw all the delightful
scenery OF the mountain country,
arriving at Denver a little behind
time. Here, ceased this supreme
satisfaction of making, close connec-
ton in our travals. Going and re-
turning the trains were always late.
Why, when we came West, leaving
St. Louis, we took what is known as
the Filler train for Omaha, and we
suffered whole days detention. So
it was all the way West until
we req ched the Pacific road, properly
so called, at Ogden, and from there to
San Francisco we made time all the
way. The Central Pacific is so well
managed and its snow plows are SO
effectively handled that in spite OF
the blockade OF snow. in the Sierras
we reached San Francisco in time"
Mr.. Lynch talks as rapidly as he
writes-or used to write leader for
the HERALD, and at this point stopping
to get breath-or to allow the reporter
to catch his-he asked:
"Well, what is the next point you
want to take up?"
The reported replied. "You speak
of snow as ii the whole continent were
snow-drift. What of the snow?"
"Snow! If you had crossed the con-
tinent from Washington or New
York to Omaha, a round thousand
miles you would see nothing but
snow. the train ran ON through
State after State, out of one great
Commonwealth and into another
The whole expanse is great field o
snow. 1t takes all the poetic fiction
out of that hackneyed old song
"The Beautiful Snow" 1t loses
its beauty as you ride day
after day through it. And then
it caused us such numerous delays
because of blockaded roads. Al
Omaha we had to wait twenty-foul
hours for the train to proceed. In
the hotel where we stopped the
thermometer marked eighty-6ve de.
grees above zero. Outside in The
open air the mercury stood at twenty.
two degrees below zero. As
you step. from the house
into the street you undergo
a change of temperature measured
by one hundred and seven degrees ol
the thermometer. How any lungs
can stand this long is mystery to us
who have lived for many years in
such a climate as Los Angeles. From
Omaha to the western slope of the
Sierras, 2000 miles, it was again snow
as far as the eye could reach. The
ancient mariner saw, "water, water
everywhere, until the aqueous ex.
panse set him crazy with its monot.
ony. Here we passed over 5000
miles of snow until we wearled of the
frigid pail that covered inanimate ma.
ture in all directions over the great
continent"
The reporter fearing he would catch
sympathetic chill if he heard
any more of the beautiful" took
occasion from pause in the
narrative to turn the interview into 6
new channel. So he said: "Mr
Lynch, our great industry here il
fruit. How much competition viii
we meet in the East from home
grown products p
Here the enthusiastic defender
of semi-tropic California waxet
eloquent as he replied: "Com
petition! Why, none-absolutely
none. In the whole stretch O
continent crossed by us 1 did not en-
counter half dozen orchards. Ever
in Missouri, where we spent some
time, I learn that they have aban
doned all hope of growing peaches
The industry is given up definitely
Farmers have grown tired of planting
trees and taking care of them merely
to see them killed root and brancf
about the time they bear one crop. Ii
the greater portion of that country
they have given up trying to raist
apples. The markets of the Who'll,
Union are open to our fruits, and We
shall hereafter find no competition il
our way"
AT THE CAPITAL.
These were rather gloomy recital
after all, SO far as the weather ant
crops go; and therefore the news
seeker turned attention to the Nationa
Capital where Mr.. Lynch spent mos
of his time, by asking:
"What is the prospect of our getting
better postal facilities for this city p
"AhH said Mr.. Lynch, 81 am glac
you reverted to this subject. 1t is {
question in which your reader
are so intimately interested in
Well, was pretty busily occu
pied with my own affairs, bu
IL determined TO do somethipt