The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-28

Dsesas, Rev Riehsri Fuller, Hon Alex. H.
Stephens Hssa. A J. Walker. ard many oshsrs.
5-Fs. zEiEfsd g. CO., phisaaesgaia.
till4 p. m. on sunny day is delightful.
and by O'Clock p. m. it is so cold and
chilly that no person should be caught
out of doors. | have seen five DAYS and
nights constant rain since coming here,
and three othec nights when the fog was
so dense that the water would run from
the caves ali. night like rain. and t
dampness would go through these open
houses like 4 fog through an orchard.
can Well see how Pulitzer. of the New
York World. coming here in his own
palace car. ana having magnificent
quarters at the Raymond. with steam
heat, and the only first-class hotel in all
this lower country. in looking out upon
this lovely country can say: The half
has never been told" and the despera-
ton his interview is put to. to help fan
to life the dead boom is pitiable. We
shall bear nothing of interviewing the
thousands stopping at the high priced ho-
tells in Los Angeles, nor the thousands of
others who do not have the 81 a day and
are Obliged to drop into boarding places
without warm or sunny rooms to COR
tract cold and consumption. No man
ever felt the cold ice-house chill and
dampness that he finds here from ) d. m.
till 5 a. IN. in the best of weather have
seen more strong men and women, to
say nothing of the invalids, coughing
hard from colds contracted here since
came, than in Minnesota in four wears.
L have not met one invalid who came
here this year for health, who is as well
as when he left home. A man who is
IN business here and has lived in the
State Tor thirty-two years says the cIi-
mate is good except in the rainy season
and during that time no one should
come here with lung and throat troubles
| a druggist told me to-day that he has
one of four drug stores in this healthy
| town of 5000 people, and that he filed
seventy-seven new prescriptions yestel-
day, besides renewing many old ones,
and that the most of themwere for feyers.
| He said you have no idea of the sickness
| here and that he has scid 1000 grains
| of quinine III tive months. How is this
| for the great health resort and the .sper-
| petual sunshine and fiowers!" | saw
more flowers in one day in New Orleans
| than IN this whole country. Soft coal is
| SO ton; butter 55 cents a pound; eggs
40 cents dozen; potatoes 3 cents a
| pound; common lumber S52 thousand:
| no wood here, few roots worth about
one-fourth of cord of wood. for $16.
! 1t costs twice as much to live here as in
| Minnesota, and far more to warm
home here than there. / have endeav-
| ored to state facts and draw them very
mild. The half have not told. Hoped
to use less space. | am very truly,
j. Nj. BARTLETT.
| CALIFORNIA AS IT is.
| To the Editor of the Tribune.
DEAR SIR: L beg leave to answer
through the columns of your paper the
many letters which was asked to write
regarding my trip and this country. The
! trip was very fine to anyone who loves a
| variety of scenery, passing over can
ons, through tunnels and, again, soar
| ing through the clouds. One can s. e
| beneath them the beautiful streams like
| silver threads, winding through the CAR
pet of velvet green and again laundering
down the mountain side and out into a
barren waste. For hundreds of miles a
dreary desert, an occasional town built
of mud ,sor adobe, half in ruins, old skei-
etons of houses staring at you with hoI-
low eyes. The Needles then we reached,
noted mostly for theswarms of half clad
Indians which infest the place, many
robed in only natures garb. At last we
reach, what they call, the garden of
Eden, Southern California. The garden
still remains, but the Eden has lost its
| identity, Los Angeles, however, is the
most thrifty town in Southern Cali
fornia, nestled among the foot hills OF
a beautiful valley, the mountains pro-
tecting it from the cold winds and the
close proximity to the ocean making a
rather temperate climate.
Ice has frozen here Yet as a rule
the coolest weather is about Christmas,
when the oranges commence to ripen.
Most kinds of business is doing well.
But real estate is being doomed to death
and the pillow in the near future will
turn many lots into fields again. Other
wise Minneapolis would only make q
suburb to this place. This land of fruit
and flowers, as tits termed, has been mis-
represented and its advantages greatly
overestimated. As to health it will in
no way compare TO Minnesota. Every
locality where / have beer which are
many teens with malaria. This coun
try is overrun with Cinnamon and East
ern laborers, both men and women
brought here through the boomers glow
ing descriptions of the country, hi2f
wages, and general chances for hasty
fortunes. thus making rent, fuel, provis
IONS, In fact, living Ia every way ver5
high and labor low. den are walking
the streets by hundreds with nothing
TO do, which very easily accounts for thu
great amount of crime committed here
as seen by the Los Angeles papers, thu
most heinous records printed. As Il
city improvements. of which Los An.
geles boasts, a Minneapolitan wouIs
blush. Just think (when it rains) O
streets that flow, not with water bu
rivers of mud; of an electric motor
when stopping for passenger having {.
remain for half an hour for another cur
rent; OF fire department, never 10 m,
knowledge but once saving anything bu
the lot: q post office whose papers, di
reeted to general delivery, are thrown
. aside tai tons accumulate, and then ar.
burned, some places have genera
dumping ground on some lot or com
mons once a week. and every one pick,
out his own papers. / make these state
nents in answer 10 inquiring friends
As TO health / have spoken. As to rea
estate, Minneapolis property is goo,
enough for me, and in the near futur
will yield the greatest profit
Los AHzeles, Cal. l. A. GORDON.
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