The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
Los Angeles Letter.
Los ANGELES, CAL, May Goth.


more has been only an hour or two
earlier. 1t is obscured by fog, but
not a Wisconsin fog. 1t comes in
just after shutdown, flies high like
clouds, is cool, salty and refreshing
to those native, or of vigorous con-
stitution, but to asthmatic or delicate
lunged, it is a drawback and makes
a cheerful fire in the evening and
morning desirable.
About May 1st everybody goes to
the sea on Sunday; the railroad rate
on that day is half fare. Extra
trains are run on all the roads, and
everybody but the deeply pious go,
and many of them. Santa Monica,
IA miles by rail, is the most popular
resort; the bathing there is fine, the
hotel and restaurant accommodations
are excellent, and two railroads lead
to the place. Long Beach, 22 miles,
has been popular place, but the
principal hotel is burnt and the char
ter of the town makes it strictly
MethodistiCal, and is in such shape
that real estate owners cannot mort
gage their property; the result is, it
is dead place, though possessing
the finest beach of all the sea resorts
and an extensive view of Santa Cat
alma island and the harbor and ship
ping of San Pedro. The writer
spent a day there and saw numerous
sea lions disporting themselves in
the water There is fine of $50 for
killing or capturing one of them.
San Pedro, a few miles less from
this city than Long Beach, is the
most important town on the coast,
next to San Francisco; it has fine
harbor, the mouth of which is pro-
tected by the Santa Catalina island.
1t is port of entry and the Oriental
Steamship Co. are to make this its
shipping point on the coast, it being
500 miles nearer Chicago than San
Francisco. All of these points are
reached by branches of the S. P. r.
R., while Redondo Beach and Will
mington are reached by the SantiFe
R. R. This road has lately formed
a connection with the Steamship Co.,,
and will extend a branch to San
Pedro.
Serious questions are arising in
city circles relative to Chinese en-
ployed on public works. Hundreds
of whites are out of employment and
work is not equal to the supply of
laborers, and many contractors who
employ cheap Chinese labor are Bit
terly complained of.
The city charter has been declared
constitutional. but an appeal is being
filed to another court In the mean
time the great sewer to the sea to be
built is untouched, business suffers,
firms are failing, others closing out,
rents and real estate depreciating;
the fuel question bothers all the
manufacturing interest and dullness
pICVdllS ScncIdlly.
The United States Senate Com
mission who came here to look after
the harbor and public building in
terest had a good time and were ia
vorably impressed with the possibili-
ties of Southern California The
new post-ofice is we'll under way; it
is of stone and brick, and will be a
handsome building, but is smaller
than the present rented post-ohice,
and complaints are rife of its in
adaptability to the wants of the city.
Like at BalaClava, Some one has
blundered." The cable for the car
line was laid last week, and efforts
are being made to revive the build
ing of the 10th street hotel. This
was one of the wild schemes of at
tempting to build three million
hotel with $4,000 capital, and the
bottom dropped out of the pocket
book when the work was laid with
the sidewalk.
Harvesting IS about completed;
barley, the main crop, is considered
an average. Corn is in tassel and
looks promising. Fruit is beginning
to ripen and the markets are filling
up. Pomona and Pasadena were
each to have a fruit fair, but dull
times, high railroad freights, ETC.,
have left both places in the lurch.
Hundreds of tons of fruit will rot in
lower California for want of mar
ket.
The amusements of this city are
various. There are theatres, con-
cert rooms, dance halls, museums,
pantheons, base ball parks, race
tracks, rifle practice, pigeon shoot
ing, church service of all kinds, faith
cures, science, salvationists, horse
racing, bicycle racing, and about
everything else, good and evil, with
in hailing distance of each other,
and all in full blast on Sunday. The
order of the Mayor is to observe
Decoration Day with appropriate
ceremony A bicycle race is adver-
tised for that day and other amuse-