Telegram-herald., 1889-09-28


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Ths L1os observatory h2z beS1 hefe
for sessxsl years AID - yet - 1- heax1
frc1n- L reminds lie og C1saxies Dle xsns
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pro11sss boast ~als Ehzs Il ha1 never re-
f freshsd ~ 5os;y- / cant for rhs 1fe 4
ns see h0~ Ja4ss Llck 4cqalrss a rspl1-
tation FOR great philanthropy b. os1id-
i1z thls oossrs atory ~iIh its oiggesG
telescope On earth Your correspond
enr may &c - the Gr41xrind species
I'D nIgbt make palasab.e soap u MS
zran1Ae-her. b1t he really cannot see
> aal practical Use the observatory Is. It
has 6een heFe nearly decade ana ia as
tronoI1srs have accom- mLllsAed nothing.
Possibly there l. nothing - accomplish.
AsGrou0mlcal science has virtually
reached it, zenith- The movements Of
ne heavenly oEbs. the principles by
which their motions are regulated. with
the causes VI the various phenomena,
are known thoroughly, and II ali the
Oossry atOrles On the giobs were aban-
dOEsd today the science of navigation,
for example. would know, and does
know. al that can aid It for the next
thousand years. san jose. however, =
very proud Of shls observatory. which
oyerlOoks - beautiful valley, and never
asks unpleasant questions concerning IT'S
utility.
AT the broad bases Of these towering
hills lies some Of the fairest land under
the sun. Deep green orange groves, lus-
clCus vineyards, extensive orchards, with
olive and prane trees galore. spent
two or three DAYS driving about under
the shadow OF Mount Hamilton, ana
never did my eyes rect on roeier or
more prosperous country, seeing nowhere
a sign Of poverty, and meeting people
Of uncommon thrift. One afternoon |
unexpectedly visited an olive ranch,
meeting tho owner on the highway by
accident. Il was near Los Gatos. few
miles from San Jose. and ID known, be
ueve, as the Quito grove.
Could be in California, recalled a
day in Tuscany, when l sat eating olives
and black bread with a sandaled Italian
priest, and heard him sing his dreams of
dropping yield Of his purple trees
Some one has said that no landscap. is
spiritual from which the olive is absent
DO not know as TO that, but tie sro~-
Ing olive To me seems 70 have the br sath
Of heaven on it's body just a. 1t had on
that mount where the sermon was
preached more than eighteen centuries
ago. Quito grove is an Italian reproduc-
ton. All the merf employed on it have
been brought from the olive groves near
Florence. and have given a national
character TO their present home. The
owner is Mr.. Goodrich, gentle
man with passion for olive culture
He is an eastern man, an aiumnus
OF Yale and a traveller OF observation
and taste. His family is living in Flor
ence, where his children are being edu-
Gated, and be has made his present quar-
ters resemble the Italian home OF his
wife as much as possible. The servants
and the service are Italian, which is the
one language spoken, and the whole
place has the true Tuscan flavor. He Is
improving the olive and, assume, max
ing money in this delicious valley, while
all about him are tidy little ten and
twenty acre farms devoted TO the French
prune. the grape and the olive, whose
owners say they realize two and three
hundred dollars an acre. To the visitor
it seems an ideal existence; what its
drudgery may be / do not know. But
this DO know, that the roads of neigh
bOrhOod are 4 fair criterion of the neigh
borhoOd's intelligence and prosperity,
and the roads Of Santa Clara are mag
nificeut, well graded and baliasted. The
Alameda, for instance, a broad ave
nue. running from San Jose to Santa
Clara. is level as a floor and shaded
by trees planted by the mission
fathers 100 years ago. In the perfection
of its roadways California gives the east
many points in the game. IF you are
in San Jose next Sunday | will run up
and dine with ycu at the Vendome,"
said San Francisco friend as on a
March Monday evening he saw me off for
Del Monte and Monterey. The next Sun
day l sat in the cool OF the veranda
awaiting the arrival of the noon train.
when my friend quietly bowled into the
court yard on his bicycle The distance
from san Francisco 70 San Jose is fifty
miles He had made it in a tride over
three hours so perfect are the roads