Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-03-22
at is is years since l stopped with

"And you had a little girl with you
Judge, said the German. 81 remember
well; you lived in Arizona"
"Just So said the Judge, 'and | live
there yet. The little cir! has grown up.
] left her at home" The Judge, too,
came to California in the fortes, and
early went to Arizona. He was Mis-
sourian, and is at present attorney general
of Arizona. | also called upon State
Senator Conn, another of the early set
tiers of California, and splendid man,
genuine American, now mar so. He, too,
was a Missourian. l called on him to
make enquiries about the trotting sire
St. Clair. He knew the horse when Mil
Ter had him at Sacramento; knew that
he was brought over the plains and was
a Morgan. That was what they said at
the time and he knew no reason to doubt
it. but he could not tell the name of the
man that brought him over. Mr.. Conn
had known before in Missouri horse
called st. Clair, owned by Thomas Janu-
airy of st. Louis, who bought him in
New YorA State, he thought, and sold
him for $500. He was called Canadian,
and Mr.. Conn thinks went to Detroit af-
ter he was sold. He thinks he was sold
about 1913. Knows he was not the Cali
fornia horse.
We got on the Southern Pacific again
at Cotton. All the way to this place,
80 miles, the country is in apple-pie Or
der, distributed in farms, villages and
handsome homes.
Leaving the train at the small station
of San Gabriel, seven miles from Los
Angeles, a street car runs to the Ray
, mond Hotel, perhaps three miles. This
hotel is one of the larger and more popu-
lar tourist hotels of California. Built by
Mr.. Raymond of Boston and run by Mr..
Merrill of the Crawford House, New
Hampshire, nearly all the help, amount
ing to 80, are brought from New Eng
:. land. The hotel accommodates some 300
and is well filled. 1t is built on a hill in
r. the town of Pasadena, commanding fine
views of the surrounding valley and neigh
boring mountains of rock with distant
. view of the sea. The cultivation of the
country is decidedly artificial. 1t was
=, all desert and rock. Now the desert ha:
been made to blossom like the rose. Hun
. dreds of orchards of oranges are loaded
with their golden fruit. The eucalyptus
and pepper tree enliven the dust; vine
= yards dot the fields, peach orchards, wal
large grain fields are grown and the coun
=, try at this time is made green with then
+. and grass. Villages and houses adorl
- the plain, and they are nearly all of then
II prettly designed and some of them quit
-, expensive, but the charm of land wher
- growth is natural is wanting. Through
out the whole of this vast country, includ
ing great part of Mexico, New Mexico
=, Arizona and California. as well as othe
lands north, where rain comes only in
short season and sometimes not at all
-. the kingdom of death and not life rules
-, With us through the winter life is sus
pended, but the nodding tree and tn
: cracking limb are there. and under tn
. ice and snow the brook flows on. 1t is
. sleep, hot death, and the waking come
10 with great joy, where every inch of lan'
:, is burdened with its produce Not unit
, one has seen the opposite does he realiz
: the infinite beauty of such vegetation
, and appreciate the country in which
:. exists.
=, was furnished a room at the Raymon
on the first floor. The hotel has a ball
49, room 9OX45, parlor about 36X5O, gen
r. tlemen's visiting room, also biliard-roou
ladies ditto, two card rooms and the hal
- in shape of routunda, large enough to &C
commodate the house. The office is i
- are 36 tables, seating eight each. Fror
=, the door to end of dining-room broa
49, promenade leads down the centre wit
two rows of tables on each side.
- AS | sat in the rotunda, the evening
-, arrived, saw an elderly gentleman
:, through the door of one of the cSrd-roonl
,, that | felt sure | knew. He came tC
>. wards me and addressed me by name.
was difficult to fix him, but determine
+ it was DR.. Clark, whom | knew in tn
Legislature at Montpelier and | thin
% was from Windsor. He is a very plea:
-, ant and intelligent gentleman, and it Ia
- been very pleasant to meet him. Satu
. day, with livery team and driver, | WEI
to the stock farm of l.. j. Rose, the note
trotting horse breeder. My driver wa
from Maine, had been in southern Cal
fornia nearly two years. He said h
n brother came before him, and that he Wa
of saying the other day, that if they woul
en- give him the whole State of Maine b
es wouldn't go back there to live. San
It, so,'' said. "he didn't own it before /
ut came" He laughed aud continued:
an was sick, after first came, six month
th with malarial fever. Most all have IL {