News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-18
From California.

STOCKTON, CAL, March 20, 1889.
Dear Friends
have just returned from three
weeks STAY at one of California's most
attractive places and thought few
lines might interest you. 1t is about
12O miles from Stockton to Montery,
where we take bus to the CHATEAU
qua of the Pacific coast. Pacific Grove
has 500 inhabitants in winter, while
in the summer there are two or three
thousand who live in cottages owned
by people in the grove. There are
some very nice buildings-an acade-
my, Episcopal church, or est. Mary's
Church by the Sea" as it is called, as
it is on the Pacific coast it makes it
very pleasant. March Sd wedding
took place and it was one of the grand
est weddings of the season. There
were flowers of every description and
the church was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. The bride and
groom walked with grand march and
looked the happiest of couples. In
another part of the grove there is
Methodist church, four grocery stores,
furniture store, etc. No saloons
are allowed, as it is controlled strict
" by the Methodist Social Union.
There is a livery stable which was sold
last winter for $4,000. A reservoir
that covers 17-acres supplies the grove
with as good water as there is in
Vermont and around it is road and
a high fence. Nothing but eucalyp-
tus and pine trees make up the grove,
which, with the balmy breezes from
the ocean make it very pleasant. All
around the cottages by the sea are
cedar hedges and around them twin
eth flowers, grass five inches high, new
potatoes, green peas, and in fact
everything in the line of vegetables
are plentiful. Geraniums that grow
only indoors in Vermont, here grow
five feet high, and Gala lilies grow
four feet high in the yards with moth
ing to protect them. California is
called the land of flowers, as it is, for
of all the flowers I have seen indoors
in the east, here they grow outdoors
the wear around. There IS drive
of II miles following the ocean all
the way on the right, while on the left
are beautiful oak and pine trees, where
people go and have picnics. There is
a light house built on high rocks and
Moss Beach, where nothing but moss
grows. As the tide was high we did
not get any moss, but came along to ]
Lake Meiilla, where the water was so I
calm that it seemed like a pond beside
the Pacific, with its waves dashing
everything before it. Far out in the !
ocean is a ridge of high rocks extend '
INC to the beach. The seals are sun 3
ming themselves and swimming around I
IN the salty waters. The next place I
Of interest is Cypress Point, where
are groups of trees said to resemble '
he cedars of Lebanon. The road is h
hard and smooth the entire distance o
and surrounds large tract OF land Q
owned by the Southern Pacific railroad ?
Every one who goes to
Monterey takes in the II mile drive.
Hotel DelMonte, is three buildings in '
,ne and is connected with a round j
house covered with thing, which is the F
bird largest in the world. Monterey a
S the oldest town on the Pacific coast .
md there stands the old oak tree s.
where the Catholic fathers first landed h
md tied their boats, and the same old g.
dobe buildings stand where Fremont e
rst raised the American flag. There a
re many interesting places l would
Ike to write about, but fear my letter il
already too long, 80 will close. y,
Looping you may have the pleasure of d.
trip to California some time, re-
lain, Lucy THOMPSON.