Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-17
spscia, Correspondents o: The Evening STIR.

special Correspondents o. The Evening STIR.
MONTEREY, CAL, September 80. 1891.
II must be an ideal existence to live in a land
OF perpetual sunshine and flowers. but as il is
not always possible for the working classes il
Is pretty good thing to get few weeks in
the midst Of such luxur.es. do not want 10
mako any reflections on the Washing
ton sun, for l still remember viv!dly
the last Chance it had at me, the 18th OF August.
and feel glad to have since escsrod its
warmth. Here the weather does aot enter in
TO ones calculations. for It is absolutely GER
tain 70 be perfect and il is a perfect paradise
Tor outdoor life and amusement At the
mammoth hotel the fashionable season for Cali.
forrians is over and the eastern tide of visitors
has not yet set in. Consequently the hotel
Only echoes the tread Of fifty or sixty guests
ana You can scarcely find thea. except at meal
I ne, scattered over the ing dining room.
iLer, are two or three parties of
the heavy San Francisco swe!ls who
are aitording plenty of amusement for the
Few eastern people. They loll about the sea-
snore every morning. men and maiiens. at
tlied IN the vhiteSt of white flannel. the girls
shading their faces with the daintiest of Leg
horn flats and carrying the pre:tiest OF crepe
parasols- For the afternoon game OF
lawn tennis the girls are gowncd in
white china silks or light muslins.
Z oAhN sucrc tflulng accessories OF
to'ie; just SO as to show up tho sort Of climate
We are enjoying IL you GO driving around
cypress Point. the famous seventeen milo
afive, IN the afternoon Won can pile on all the
heavy wraps You own and still feel that the
racine can send shiyer through you.
THE CITY OF MONTEREY.
The city Of Monterey is q quaint old place,
with just enough of the Spanish architecture
left to tell the story Of its founding 1t has the
Oldest brick house on the Pacific coast and O
few other landmarks in civilization. Sunday
morning at the San Carlos mission a congrega-
tion made up OF many natonalities, but span
ish, Mexican an Indian prcdomina:ing, were
gathered In the old church, the third of the
missions founded by Padre Junipero in 1870.
In the parsonage, where the Old priest Father
Casanova, has lived the thirty-one years @.
his service, l saw the books bound
IN hide, the parish records OF baptisns,
marriage and deaths in the handwriting OF the
, founder, Padre Junipero. 1t was to fifty mark
the spot where this lowly Franciscan iuonk be-
gan his labors in the new world that Mrs. Stan
ford has erected monument. which
represents him as Just stepping from the
Indian canoe in which he landed The
figure is life size and cut in granite, quarried
at San Jose. 1t stands in d prominent position.
just overlooking tho Bay Of Monterey, only a
few rods from the exact spot at the foot Of the
hIl. IL Is now one of the attractions OF the
city to strangers, and 90 revered is the
memory of Junipero among the old
Spanish and Indian women that thew
have gladly volunteered to Keep the grass
about II green, though 10 do 30 they must carry
the water half mile and work from the level
TO the summit. 81.
TIE BIO TREES.
had the box seat (where could hold on)
and all sorts of fattering attentions the other
day when I essayed an all-by-my-little-loney
journey to the big trees. / was impressed with
the big trees l would have been if they
were not half as big, considering
W course, l was two or three months later
| than the season when the average tourist
crossed the Sierra Nevadas and the noun tains
did not seem to have expected me. The
dust was pretty bad. but it was not
half bad as the rocks in the
road This is the way to get to the big trees
| IN Calaveras: Take an afternoon train from San
Francisco and you get 20 Stockton by bed time.
You sleep well and rise early. BY 10 o'clock
you are through your r-ilroadiIg and at
mn T., There you take the stage and
hill. but mainly the former, aud with
| four horses ahead OF you, though you can I
| always see them the dust is 30 thick: still you
manage TO cover about half OF your thirty-four
| mile ride, when you reach the dinner station
| "a bit OF mountain cottage. where your appe-
tlte finds abundant material to appease its
demands. The next important station where
the aust has SO far gubsided thai You can see
the houses is Angels Camp. Angels is the
name IN general Use, and my innocent query
| as to when ana how such celestial visitors were
| enter tanned revealed the fact that the place was
named after noted Individual called Jim Angel
Another no less noted jim. ex-senator FAIR
also spent fifteen or eighteen years OF his
eventual career there and had little something
In the way OF money with quantities of ex-
perience when he left it tor greater finds
In Nevada. 1t was at Angels he mar
ried the hotel keepers daughter, and all
agree that in the ups and downs OF a miners
life he and his vile spent happier years than
they did when fortune smiled her brightest on
them. The people in Angels have a very soft
SPOT In their hearts for the memory Of Mrs.
fa.r.
STOP AT MURPHYs.
The long stage ride ends at Nurphy's where
| a gentleman of Hibernian birth once dwelt all
alone and where 600 persons of many nationali-
ties now peacefully abide. The hotel is a nice,
clean mountain inn and the star boartlers
are two lady school teachers, by whose efforts
the educational statistics of the next census
will be measurably increased. The telegraph
operator. a Frisco girl, formed the other wing
OF this much-respected, lacylike syndicate.
After supper the oldest school teacher had a
private pupil in whose brain she was try
ing to induct the mysteries of book
keeping. The pupil had seen thirty and
acquaintance with this special branch con-
ided ~ me that she had left school at fourteen,
bni nov she thought everybody ought to learn
something well. Il nave been trying cooking
for five months, and am ured of that. would
just love to play the piano and sinf, like Patti
1 heard Patti once. Them skinned fingers
OF miEe got that way the other day
while l washing. l never will learn
this bookkeeping and there's no use me fool
ing With it. Ibis Is the way she ratified on
every time the patient teacher diverted
her attention, and at one point she
stopped entirely until the teacher promised
10 come in the next day at 5 and get some
maccaroni. From Murphy's to the Big Trees
is sixteen miles more, bu. the road was better
and doubling the journey was an easy task the
same day. At this late day il is impossible to
say any thing new or startling of the big trees
/ an amply satisfied that all heard in advance
is true and seeing is believing.
AsrAET AT FOUR A. NJ
The stage leaves Nnrphy's to return to the
valley at q. m. Now that may sound romantic
and would be If you had the proper DISPOSE
ton. ] did not and hence all my weariness
At 3 the stage driver walks through the hotel
and his bang on your door settles the question Of
further slumbers. At it's ''all aboard" and
over the trail you 60, the moonlight marking
the path and strong imagination conjaring
mp stage robber in every shadow. At
$50 You breakfast at Angels, when day