St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-14
IN GOLDEN CALIFORNIA,
And the Tribulations of Those
Who Go There.


Who Go There.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.
Los ANGELES, CAL, March 7.-Those
who have never enjoyed a visit to
Southern California and had the pleas
ure of paying $4 per day for board don't
know what it is to be happy. A ride for
five days over the sandy deserts of
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona is
amusing, if not enlightening. The man
who undertakes to reach California via
the southern route has to take many
chances. If he does not lose his temper
a dozen times before reaching Los
Angeles he is born philosopher. To
be laid over for ten or twelve hours on
the desert one hundred miles from any
town, and then be told by the buffet
man that he has neither coffee, bread.
nor beer on board is not agreeable, but
you dare not kick, for kickers never get
any favOrS. To have the curtains on
your berth drawn at a. m. and be
raped on the head by the genial porter
and told that you must get up for break
fast, as the next eating station is 800
miles away, is liable to make man use
words not found in the dictionary,
but he daren't kick. He must
take it all in good humor,
and think it good joke.
When he attempts to walk through the
aisle, if he should be pitched through
the window by a sudden lurch of the
train he must not kIck-nOt even if his
neck is broken. The citizens here take
pride in calling this '"The Angel City,"
Why it should be so named God only
knows. l think am good judge of
angels, and after thorough canvass of
the city have failed 10 find anything
resembling an angel. In. that respect
Los Angeles differs very much from
New Orleans, where angels are plenty.
This city is not the paradise that some
have pictured it, though at present it is
the undoubted metropolis of Southern
California. 1t is at present suffering
from the proStration which naturally
follows all oYer-boomed towns. Real
estate is drug on the market. ! saw
one lot offered Oil Spring street near the
business center for S7OO per front foot.
Most of the streets are beautifully paved
and there are four cable lines all in full
operation. They have a very pretty
custom here of raising the American
flag over all public school buildings-a
custom which hope to see adopted in
st. Paul. This is the first town where
l have seen ladies riding bicy-
cles on the streets. 1t is quite
eXhilerating to see pretty school
marin mount that balky instrument and
meander away to the school house iii
the morning and back to her lunch at
noon without a smile. Los Angeles,
and, in fact. all other towns in South
ern California are supported entirely by
tourists. Take the tourists out Of South
ern California, and you will have moth
ing left but deserted cities. Everybody
has heard of Santa Monica beach, but
everybody has not seen it. Everybody
knows how sweet it is to bask in the
sunshine in May, but everybody does
not know how pleasant it is to lie on
the heaying breast of a breaker and get
his mouth full of salt water. At Santa
Monica the boys and girls 60 counting
in the sand. 1t is a privilege which
but few of us have enjoyed to lie side
by side in the sand with our best girl,
and whisper words of love while we
listen to the roar of the breakers. There
are enough hotels in Southern Cali
fornia to supply the whole world.
Lucky Baldwin's fifteen thousand
acre ranch lies close to Pasadena, and
Lucky Baldwin, like lucky Solomon of
old, has taken unto himself many wives,
| must say 80 long," and HE me off to
San Francisco. Dr.. t. j. FEARoE.