Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-01

ulSulS VI btdlI6. luy u6dTL Dtdt
at the rate OF 10S per minute. Our guide
was an intelligent young law student
from Frankfort, Ind. Over two years ago
he begsn having hemorrhages of the
lungs, and year ago last April, while
unable to sit up, was brought by brave
sister to Southern California. Tenderly
and anxiously she cared for him in that
long and tedious journey toward for
lorn hope. He improved from the time
they reached California, and they soon
came camping to Strawberry Valley,
where he gained rapidly. In the autumn
they went down to the town OF San Jacin-
to, where the young man was able to
clerk in the bank. When May came they
again came to Strawberry Val
ley, and the brave and independent
young sister rented the hotel which she
now manages in such successful man
ner, while the young man acts as guide
for parties wishing to kill game or ex-
plore the mountains. Strange to say,
his pulse was only 60 per minute. He
did not seem near as much distressed as
my friend and l. Our evening meal was
soon prepared, and never were fried
bacon, potatoes and good bread, butter
and tea more enjoyed. We unrolled our
blankets and lay down under an i'm
mense pinet rec. The novelty of the
situation and the peculiar atmosphere
prevented us from sleeping very soundly,
and during the night we would from time
to time be startled from our slumbers,
but the intense stiffness and the sight of
the Pleiades that watched directly over
our improvised bed would reassure us,
and we would soon be dreaming of bears,
deer, mountains and burios.
At O'Clock in the morning we were
up. After feeding our horses and eating
a sandwich we started up the last peak.
We reached the very top in time to wit
ness the sun rise in his splendor from
beyond the Colorado Desert that lay
spread out before us in its stupendous
barrenness. What is that dark, twisting
object, about the size and apparently
travelling at about the gait of snail? 1t
comes nearer, and we see that it is a
freight train. The guide starts boulder
over the Eastern slope of the mountain,
and we hear it bounding through the
awful chasms below. From this peak
the ocean can be plainly seen. But
space will not permit me attempting a
description of what we saw from this
wondrous height. On the topmost rock
is fruit jar, with cover carefully fitted
with rubber, in which every visitor is ex-
pected to leave his card, with address
and date of visit. The name of DR.. Nc
Lean, of Riverside, alone represented
the medical profession, and proudly put
in mine as the second in the list.
Our trip back to Strawberry Valley was
enlivened by a mountain thunder and
hail storm, but the fir trees were like
umbrellas, and protected us.
This trip again revealed to me the
wonderful variety of Southern California
If an altitude Of 1400 feet is
needed, it is to be found at the town and
vicinity of San Jacinto; while at Straw
berry Valley there is an atmosphere re-
dolent with the fragrance of pine forests,
and an altitude OF 5000 feet. At Tauq-
WITT Valley are all these beautiful sur
roundings and an altitude of $500 feet,
and at Tamarack Valley we have again
the running streams, the beautiful mea-
dows, great trees, and an altitude Of 5000
feet.
In all Of these valleys the atmosphere
is cool in midsummer and there is an
abundance of game.
To the weary physician who desires
for few days to absent himself from the
busy hum of the world, 1 can heartily
commend these mountain valleys for
quiet, comfort and grandeur.
Aside from the value of these elevated
valleys as summer resorts, believe they
will become oven more sought after as
winter resorts.
The Alpine winter cure of pulmonary
diseases is very popular in Great Britain
and on the Continent. Thousands Of
consump ptives flock to the Davos-Patz
and Maloja Plateau in the Swiss Alps
every winter. Immense and we'll ar
ranged hotels have been constructed by
rich companies, and wonderful results
have been recorded. The following are
the attitudes OF the chief resorts:
tswIss ALPS.
Maloja. 5000 feet
Wiesen III feet
Davos 105 feet
AnQermatt A, ,I3S teet
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS.
(San Jacinto)
Strawberry Valley ....................5,20 200 feet
Trsndwat1t Ia avail yaa1es Vaisv ieet feet
tAlpine winter in its medical aspects By A.
Tucker Wise, M. D., London J. and A.
Churchill, 1886.
Approximate.
From the illustrations have seen of
these Alpine resorts, 1 judge they are
naturally barren plateaus, and have not
the wealth OF beautiful pine forests that
the Southern California valleys l have
so meagerly described contain. The ad-
vantages of the pine forests are: First.
Giving a medicated air for constant in
halation. Second. Adding beauty and
picturesqueness to the scenery. Third.
Protecting the valleys from winds. An
average of about three feet of snow COW
ers these valleys in winter. In another
year they will be much more accessible,
as an excellent road is now in course of
construction, and trust that soon capi-
talists will unite, as in Switzerland, and
provide suitable winter accommodations
for invalids From the Southern Cali
fornia Practitioner for September.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
ST. CHARLEs-H Cubitt, H Newlands, San
Francisco; Ocimopo, California: Magee,
Temecula; H Woodwork, Cotton; E Borchert,
NeWhall. 7 Hagen Milwaukee,. Mrs r Carpitt