Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-01
The climate Of Los Angeles.

The Climate OF Los Angeles.
In the routine portions of this paper
there are purely scientific data in abun-
dance of the climatic peculiarities of the
Los Angeles valley. and yet these do not.
represent to any appreciable degree the
supremacy of this region from climatic
point of view. The old and stupid
aphorism ran that figures can't lie.
Never in the history of the American
continent have figures been made to lie
with the wantonness with which they
have been made to perform that Office by
the editors of the Sacramento papers
in juggling with the official figures of the
United States Signal Service Depart
ment. According to the veracious news
papers of the capital city of the State,
there is little difference between the
climate of Sacramento and that Of Los
Angeles, and that little difference is in
favor of the city Of Sacramento.
Every human being who knows any
thing of California is aware OF the fact
that any man who should jump
into the Sacramento river and
swim around there for two or
three minutes at this season of the
year would be as good as q dead man.
La Grippe would have hold on him of
deadly significance. because it would
eventuate in pneumonia.
0na .f kho aJ;ko~c rf {ha sHrnAxO oo-
cordingly determined to supplement the
official climatic statistics which appear
IN our columns by practical demonstra-
ton of the mildness, equability and
geniality of our climate. He accordingly
invited Mr.. Charles Homer, a young
gentleman Of St. Louis, who has come
out here for bis health, and Mr.. William
G. MacGregor, who is an attache of the
United States Postal Service, to 60 down
10 Santa Monica with him and sample
the weather as ''she" actually exists on
that portion of the Pacific Coast which
aligns Los Angeles county.
Arrived ON the seashore we found that,
maugre the late storm, Nature was smil-
ing and benignant. A sun OF great bril-
liancy overspread the matchless confg-
uration of this to be great international
and transcontinental watering place.
The expanse of the greatest of oceans was
cerulean, as usual, with the exception of
a narrow strip at the oceans edge,
which represented the late storm in a
considerable contribution of murkv fresh
water. The survey being satisfactory,
the trio procured bathing suits and
plunged into what Richard Swiveller has
called with great felicity "the briny."
For upwards of fifteen minutes these
three disported themselves in the waves,
the editor showing a disposition to stay
there forever, and the gentleman who
had come to the Pacific Coast to get rid
of pulmonary trouble, holding his own
in the waves like q Thoroughbred.
Emerging from the bath house, each
member of the party reported his condi-
ton as highly healthful and really exhil-
arated.
This experience, to the mind Of an
Fastener novel for midwinter-for the
day before New Year's-was followed by
stroll through the lovely town of Santa
Monica. The luxuriant growth of the
lush spontaneous grasses of Southern
California-the alflerilla and burr clover
lis nowhere more notable than in Santa
Monica, and it extends to the very edge
of the bluff. This article is of course
not written to refer to special residences,
but to give veritable demonstration of the
exceptional geniality of our climate.
Right facing the ocean, without even
wind-break, the most delicate flowers
fourished in profusion. The tuberose,
the heliotrope, all varieties OF the rose,
the geranium, the habiscus, fuschia, ver>
bena and camellia, were delightfully."- in
with the palm, the banana,
the lime and hundred other
specialties of distinctively semi
tropical region. There would not
be 80 much surprise at a state.
ment of these facts as respects the city
Of Los Angeles herself-an interior point
but when it comes to shedding such
fragrance and beauty on the wrinkled
front of old ocean himself the amaze
ment of the Eastern visitor is intensi-
lied. Santa Monica never looked more
radiant or beautiful, nor did she ever
more fully exemplify the lesson that in
Southern California is the home OF every
hing elegant, eclectic and fragrant, than
IN yesterday.