St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-20
HERE'S A CONTRAST.
A Letter From the Orange Groves oil
Southern California.
FLOWERS AND SUNSHI NE
Los Angeles Boom in Real Estate.
The Luxuriance Of
Vegetation.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
Los ANGELES, Jan. SIT seemed as
II everybody knew had started for
California, the Eldorado of America, so
L came too. / left St.GPaul Dec. &c at
7;49 a. m, and arrived at Los Angeles
Saturday evening, Dec. 81. Our train
was twenty-four hours late from Kan
sas City, having been six days and five
nights on the road. Coming from a
place 20 deg. below zero and arriving
where there is no snow, except Oh the
peaks OF distant mountains, and finding
summer air, summer weather, trees in
fuii foliage, grass green, flowers every
where, orange trees full of ripe orans es
well. it was surprise nobody can
fully realize until landing here. A snow
storm on the mountains. land
slides and washouts made up
some incidents of travel not pleas
ant to remember. especially as we
were sometimes delayed far from eating
stations and no buffet or dining car. a
young man i'll our coach had an elegant
plum pudding sent from his home in
Philadelphia, which he generously
| sliced and distributed among his friends,
ing with me and myself. Eating that
for breakfast without coffee or brandy
sauce at home would have finished me.
but it did not disagree with any of us.
The emigrant car people Jared better
| Tor eatableS, but it is not a nice way to
travel. Coming across the dreary desert
and mountains of New Mexico and Ari-
IONA. picturesque sight was the In
dian villages. At Lugaise the Indians,
squaws and children were dressed
IN BRIGHT COLORS
and daubed with paint and scattered
among the houses. Los Angeles is re-
puted to have grown i'm eighteen months
from population of $1,000 to $4,000,
and the Improvements are wonderful,
| yet there are not the facilities for talk
| lug proper care of people. Hotels and
boarding houses are crowded, and
| people are literally living in tents. But
| that is nothing in this glorious climate.
California has a peculiar people. On
Sundays some attend church, but work
| goes on the same as on week days. New
Years day, right under the hotel win
dow, men and teams were at work
eXeavating, and on the street was a
circus parade in full progress. But of
all the racisets ever heard on this planet
the one of New Years night amounted
to pandemOnium itself. The blowing of
horns. the firing of revolverS. yells and
dlScOrdant noises made one think it was
the Fourth OF July, or that Gabriel was
blowing his horn, too. A real estate
dealer told NE the following as sample
OF how property had increased in value
in Los Angeles. A lot on the corner of
Hill and First,a block from Main street,
100 feet front, three years ago the
owner tried to sell for $1,000.
ind
and was forced to keep it, The
past summer he sold it for $fG0,0G0.
We went to Santa Monica Jan. 8. People
| iii large numbers were bathing in the
Pacific. The ride of eighteen miles
through country of
ORANGE GROVES,
palms, rose bushes, through avenues of
bowers, trees and strawberries, with the
the background and the Pacific ocean
in view made a scene long to be re-
mcmbered. Ladies wore Ito wraps and
had paraSolS, and needed them. Ladies
coming here can wear ANYTHING and
they will be i'll fashion. Sealskin cloaks,
fur-trimmed 1nant!eS and mutfs,
or summer wraps and summer,
clothes, or ladies with 40 wraps
at all, are seen constantly
on the streets. But ''Tenderfeet'' need
the same clothes at first that they wear
in the coolest climate until they are ac-
climated. There are seldom any fires
in rooms, or any means of warming
them. Al the Arcadia hotel. Santa
Monica, the finest | have seen, the
rooms are not heated. They rent rooms
Oh the sunny side for $50 per week. and
on the OFF side for $3.50, or $3.50 per
day. SO, you see, they actually charge
extra for the sunshine here. Fuel is
scarce and very dear, but happily little
is i:eeded. Invalids purchase coal-oil
stove, and that is sufficient. There is
never frost enough to kill vines. We
saw tomato vines four years old that
had tomatoes on the fourth year: nastur-
tium vines, two years old, full of How
ers, and rose bushes twenty feet high
The palm trees are beautiful. The
pepper trees, with punches of red
berries, the gum trees. the ever
greens. trimmed up in cone
! shape and the arbor vitae hedges
make beautiful places to see. They
have Floral Fair here every spring
Last spring one lady had a display of
roses in which were three hundred va
rietieS all grown in her own yard. Now
rain One month in twelve it pours
Jupiter Pluvius sends buckettuls. He
sent them this week, and
MUD, MUD, Is EVERYWHERE.
The crossings and some portions of the
sidewalks are aH0at. The streets are
not paved yet. People have had
too much to do selling corner
lots to attend to that matter
The sun shines so bright, the sky is so
fair, pleasantness is contagious and en-
tire strangers smile as they pass each
fn .rpt ont Of ft,n
There is pressing need for large build
ing for pOstOffice and for enlarged facil-
tiles for handling the mails in Los An
geleS. Yesterday there was long row
of ladies in line for the ladies' window
at the poStoffice and two long lines Of
men reaching out and down the side
walk. patiently trying to obtain letters
from home. took my place in line be-
hind siXtynine, and upon reaching the
window looked back and saw as
many more, and so it goes I'M
all there for mail, and residents
are then to see strangers. We saw SO
many old friends from Minneapolis,
I and how agreeable people are to each
other when they meet each other in
strange land. They shake" as though
they had not seen each other in a
thousand years, and exchange expe-
riences and renew acquaintance and
tell each other the news from Mime
sofa. l met a st. Paul gentleman, an
old acquaintance, and he informed me
it was 80 deg. below zero in st. Paul the
day before, and yet he sighed for home.
He didn't like the mud. go to PasSa-
dena, Sierra Madre Villa and the Bald
win ranch tomorrow, then to San
Diego, and after that to San Francisco
| and Sacramento. III. A. n.
l. ENTERPRISE WINS.
Sympathizing With the Widow of
n the Man Who Was Hanged.