The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-29
Los Angeles Letter.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 16, 3,

While the east is devastated by
storms and deluged with rain, here
every day is alike, clear, bright sun
shine, but with few days of heat
that sent the mercury above 100 in
the shade. But during the hot days
every one goes to the coast at Santa
Monica, or some other near resort,
and cool their fevered blood in the
oceans surf. Sundays is the great
day, and two weeks ago over $1,000
went from this city. 1t was a gala
day, Spanish barbecue, at which
whole oxen were roasted on the
beach, while visitors were entertained
by trapeze and gymnastic perform
aEces and music by several bands,
winding up by a balloon ascension
by Prof Van Tassel, who leaped
from his aerial car when 10000 feet
high and descended to terra frma
by clinging to parachute.
Since my last the police force has
been overhauled and a new Chief
appointed, making the tenth one
within two years.
The second cable line was opened
last week, and the third and fourth
lines are nearly ready. The Com
pany is English ''you know" and so
is the superintendent, who does not
get on we'll with his help somehow.
The Los Angeles young men as
conductors and gripmen, are dis
posed to resent treatment usually
melted out to dogs. Mr.. Robinson,
the superintendent, was recently ar
rested by the police and fined. He
succeeded in having the policeman
who arrested him suspended, but he
was subsequently re-instated, as it
was proved the arrest was right.
Perhaps the Englishman may yet
discover that he is in America, and
that some of the laboring classes
here are more of gentlemen than he
is.
Two elections occur this month to
vote bonds; the first Of 10000 to
build a school house. The location
is bitterly opposed and the fight
will be bitter. The second one to
vote bonds to the amount of ST.
100000 to build an outfall sewer to
the sea. On this question there is
much feeling. One party claiming
route south emptying into the river,
after the sewage has been run on to
a sewer farm, and thus utilized be-
fore it reaches the river, can be
built for $4,000. The people of
Santa Monica, Port Ballona, etc.,
object to the sewage being dumped
into the ocean and threaten iniunc-
tons. But the Doodle council will
hear of no other route, so it goes to
the people.
The new City Hall is completed
and is being occupied. 1t is a hand
some building, but is liable to tum-
BILE down by the ligntest earthquake.
Business is dull here and times
very close for the laboring classes,
while many business houses are
closing out or going to the wall,
There are stores and houses by the
hundred placarded, "To Let"
Fruit is abundant. Grapes are
selling for one cent per pound, and
pears two cents. The grape crop
will be enormous and will not pay
for picking. There are millions of
gallons of unsold wine of last years
make and thousands Of acres of I'M
cultivated graperies. Two brothers
have the product of large grapery
just out Of the city for the care of it.
No fruit on large scale pays the
producer except oranges. and ap-
pearances indicate that the Austral-
ian lady bug will exterminate the
white scale at least.
The barley crop is large and the
price cheap; has sold as low as 45
cents per 100 pounds, and I 900 lbs.
per acre is considered an average
yield, that would be about $40 per
acre, and this on land held at from
$I75 to $500 per acre, while the in
terest on money is something like
this: A poor man recently bor-
rowed $500; the terms were a note