Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-08
THE INTERvIEwER
Hen Truman ON the Efffel Tower,
wines and Climate.


wines and Climate.
1t is your true sportsman who can
easily take the bird on the wing. 1t is
game thing to interview the interviewer.
But one of the HERALD's S ubiquitous PEN
oilers cornered the nomadic Ben Truman
yesterday, and got some things worth
presenting.
ssIt is cold," said Truman, with an ad-
jective which need not be repeated in
family paper; "but, after all. from Janu-
ary to December, Southern California has
the healthfulest and most beautiful eli
mate in America or Europe, undoubtedly;
and California, on the whole, is more
picturesque than Switzerland. There is
no place in Europe in the winter that
can at all approach the view to be had
from the Raymond" at Pasadena-a
hundred miles of snow-clad mountains.
with thousands of orange and lemon and
pomegranate groves at their feet and an
expanse of sea made warm from Cathay,
with hundreds of thousands of acres of
natural flowers and luxuriant grasses
between; as a seaside hotel the Coro-
nadoa at San Diego has no exact rival; as
an all-the-year-round resort the famous
Del Monte at Monterey is replete with
charms, apd as metropolitan hotel the
Palace at San Francisco stands out boldly
above all others in the world.
"Yes, / know something about the
onward march of our products. Our still
wines are knocking the imported ones
out more and more every day. George
Hamlin, in New York, can hardly keep
up with his demands. Kohler & Frohling
have doubled their business in the past
three years. There are two wholesale
houses in Boston which have given up
importing the Malaga raisiu alto
gether, because the Cajon (San
Diego, Riverside (San Bernardino),
and Fresno and Los Angeles county
raisins are SO much better and cheaper.
The Malaga raisin has received bigger
black eye than an other one thing that
California producers have competed
with. In hundreds of New York, Bos-
ton, London and Paris stores you will
see crystalized and dried fruits from Los
Angeles, Sacramento and Santa Clara
counties, while the California apricot lin
CAM is to be seen in every grocery store
nearly in the world.
II think there will be a good many
people leave the East from now on to
March for this State, majority coming
to Southern California. 1 left Bos-
ton on the 20th of December,
and have never worn an over.
coat-but once, 1 will cay, 30
that you may know that own one.
Raymond and Whitcomb will do as fine
a business as ever this season for Cali
fornia and much larger one for Mexico.
They are the monarchs of their busi-
ness-and, coming through by one of
their vestibuled traine, is like dream
palace cars, smoking cars, dining cars,
shaving, bathing, and all one would
have at a frst.class hotel or in any
pretentious home.
1.-The Paris Exposition was perfect
symphony as they say, in Boston, of
everything from an oratorio down Cor
up) to plate of pork and beans. All
the exhibitions merged into one would
have been a side show in compari.
son. La Tour Eiffel i'm pressed me
more than the Brooklyn bridge. 1 can.
not describe il briefly. 1t told the skies
q matchless story Of mechanism, and
had dozen bazars in the clouds pre-
sided over by smirking maidens who
sized your pocket by your accent. The
Figaro had printing Office in the Sec
ond story, and upon one occasion it was
all sunshine above and all clouds below.
In another story there were five restau-
rants, beside other adjuncts to capture
the wayfarer, two of which were as large
as the dining room at the Arcadia at
Santa Monica. At one time when
I was in the tower there were
IL 900 people. 1t captured all for
eign visitors, brought France to its
feet and defeated Boulanger. Buffalo
Bill die staving business, but not 30
good as in London two years before.
81 got as far as Ell Monte by rail, and
was told that could not go to Los An
geles for week, or to San Francisco in
month. But / knew something about
concern called the Southern Pacific
and man named Hewitt, and in just
one hour afterward was put into one Of
four coaches sent out by the Southern
Pacific Company, and in three hours
afterward l was in Los Angeles, where l
hope yet to live and die.
"No; don't think, on the
whole, that there will be 30
many people come here to
stay as generally during the
past four or five years; still, the agents
for what is called in Boston and New
York the 'second.class excursion busi-
ness declare that there will be as many
or more people go to California as last
season-and great many of these trav-
elers have good big wads of money, you
know; and they come to stay, most of
them-don't they?
81 saw Miss Juch in Boston two weeks
ago. Hers is the best English opera COM
pany at present in the world. Miss Juch
is as good a singer as Gerster was in her
prime. Her company is altogether su.
perior one. Juch is splendid Mari.
tana' and 'Arline,' and l liked her in
Carmen.
II should say so. I have made
twenty trips across the continent
by rail and two by stage coach. note
an improvement every year in the way
Of comforts and accommodation of trans.
continental travel. 1t is now only two
days between Los Angeles and San
Antonio, and there are buffets on the
Pullmans and mighty good eating
houses and lunch-counters between Los
Angeles and New Orlesns-iust about az
good as between New York and Chicago.
went East in June last by the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe, and arrived
in New York in little over four days
from Los Angeles. That's pretty good
travelling, isn't it?"
The Councils Mistake.