The morning call., 1891-11-01

I0ll III juan " sAlu CCA. W sletH. -
the hills lie very near to the water, their
: lark feTny canyons opening to the sea, as
Mrs, Jackson: so graphically describes In
that romantic wedding journey of Ramona
and AlessandTo. One young man living
near Los Angeles thinks he has followed i
the trail of those children of romNnce
through these5hillsi aud found each canyon
n which Alessandro prepared" the fragrant j
fern bed for his -AtajFl. -. =. = ~:
The old Mission San Juan @CaRistranoS /
founded in II TO- Ties close by the rAllw ay
and is quite extensive. j. is fairly!well pre- J..
served. There are the usualsl6ng arcades 4
and the chapetWth inches Tor bells OF sew
eral sizes. = Il. :, =: T.: - >.
From: this point the road follows The coast.
slime 20 San Diego. and a.erdnder marine
view it would: be difficult to find. As:the
afternoon train SPEEDS on. tile sun. slowly
drops, a red Dall, into lie calm deep blue :
while tire Traveller from the. interior IS re- !.
. freshed by the, sea breeze, which has lost
all the fifreenesS. itexbibits farther north.
= Just before entering: San Diego, "Old.
- Town't is passed, @where among a few adohe
Guins is that Of the earliest of California
missions, founded @by Father Jnnipero
Sierra in 1z69e 1t. is so. unpretending in
architecture that it would probably be
passed without being recognized as a Mis-:
sion, though il IS: very close t0the track
Fhls little chapel is the scene Of .Ramona's
marriage. -. =. II: * :. e l..
& In Los Angeles one is always told that it
no visitor can fai4 TO besimpresSed with. the.
NATURAL ADVANTAGES .of Its situation and lis
climate, in winch semi-trOpic Softness is
i tempered by tlI6J nyig6rating. sea air. Beau
tiful building spots are afforded by the ele-
vatiOus VIII Cll.ONerlAWk the bus fneSs Dart. of
the town, tile bay. Coronado Beach and the
ocean On the other hand may be seen the
mountains even 10 Baja California. a: ~.
THERE'S on Coronado. Beach a pretty but
very quiet little town. =. =. :!
Il.,t, El,s !,
p is a miniature San francisco Bay, without
the connecting bays on the north =: " /.
= A fay0tite tTipfrOma San Diego is toTia-
Juana, on the border in Lower California,
where, Hsthere. is not mucti to see, one has
al least the Satisfaction of setting foot on
Mexican SOIL The most interesting object
on the wayis the Sweetwater Dam, which
3. furnishes. San<DieG0's water supply ~. g.:
= In returning 10 Los Angeles one can fol-.
low the c0astllne back to Orange, and then
take the road through lsiyersite to San Ber-
rardin0, which. winds among hills, in suns:
mer brown.and bare, by ado be rlIinsof what
seems 10 have been village OF some size
perhaps century ago. -: = - !. - =:
Crossing and recrossing the Santa Ana.
fine views are canghtof :" Gray Back" with
his rugged, rocky side, his~snOwy top: of
the Sau Bernardlno and San JacintO, lrri-
gating bitches and orange. groves begin to
appear. The distance between stations Is
shorter the small tracts cultivated bringing
-t2t "a % ~ liatA ~ 10
: most like passing through a large town.
g Then Riverside, with the. russell hills
around, CLEANS forth like an. emerald in ASSET
ting OF bronze. me area OF citrus groves@is
being extended by conpaRies buying large:
tracts of land, irrigatlng it,.plantiIfg young
orange trees, and selling it in small tracts.
San Bernardino being considered too long
a name for ordinary use is, in this part Of
the State, commonly shortened To- San.
" Berdino or San San BeTdc. In architecture
and gen ralappearance it more resembles
the older towns OF the northern part of the
Stale than.it nearer neighDors.e The shop
windows presentsoin specimens of Mexican
: and Indian y oTk-silyer flfgree lewelry, bas-.
keis and pottery. couple OF Indian dolls
from an Arizona mission are shown They,
are made OF clay and some% hat fiattened by
lying on their backs to dry. They have
:. long, coarse, black hair, and the faces are
: painted. The giri:doiis only garment Is a
skirt oil tufes The boy doll has simply a
pice OF Iurkey-red calico about the IONS. =
The main line Of horse-cars extends from
the depot through the principal street. Two
= branches from this reach the Mount San.
: BernardinO base line, where there is a fine
view OF. Mount San Bernardino, II, 555 feet
high. It's heavily. wooded sides furnish
lumber for this part of the State and stands
! pre-eninent among its whte-capped COM
panions. On the dark mountain side, at an
elevation of about 1000 feet above thatof the
town, is a natural curiosity in the shape of
clearly de fiued Indian arrow head, cover
: ing many acres, apparently formed@by the
outcrepping of light colored rock There
( are the Arrowhead Hot Springs T.: = - :
About ten miles to the right, perhaps. 500
!. feet lower, lies Redlands. Even at.tilat dis
tancesthe origin: of its name is plain to be
seen. :: = r; -. -. " = :.
From San Bernardinoto Los Angeles the
= Santa FerHns parallel with the Southern
:: Pacific Railway, and about two miles TO the
north. This part: of the Santa Fe line the
:: boon" seems ohaye struck with peculiar
, force, IL one can Judge by the costly hotels,
!. that haveneyer harb0red a guest, and which,
with the fne scbool-h0uses, are about ali
that mark the site of some Of the towns that
made such fine appearance on paper. The
hotel at. GIarenont, one Of the best situa-
.ionSi mas pteh given TO POMONA College on
= cSadition ,G Of the removal Of the seh9ol