The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-14
CELEBRATED SAN+A Cruz.
1t is One of the Most Delightful and
Pleasant Cities of the
Golden State.
WHAT HON. BEN C. TRUMAN SAW.

An Ancient Mission Church, Beau
tiful Climate Where Everybody
Gan Pick Roses.
Benjamin G. Truman gives a pen pic
ture Of what he saw on the Pacific coast.
He SAYS:
Opposite Monterey, across the beau
tiful bay Of that name twenty miles as
the gull flies, Eut more than twice that
distance by team or rail, nodding vi
vaclously at it's somnolent vls-a-vis--
the SLEEPY Hollow of California" Is
Santa Cruz, one of the most delightful
and dashing cities OF the Golden state.
Up to the time Of the building of the
Hotel del Monte, near Monterey, Santa
Cruz was the Newport and the Long
Branch and the Coney Island (all in
one) of the Pacific coast for from fifteen
to twenty years All the fashionable
and the common people" went there
for day or two, or for week, or for a
month, or for the summer, and the mil
iionaire and the mechanic. and the
drummer and the barber, all bobDed up
and down sereneIy in the waves to-
gether daily. and took hold of hands
and had regular saline symposium
*sringing all around" until they got into
their proper clothes and reached their
respective tables at their hutels. when
again the social line would be faulty
drawn and up would 60 the noses Of the
more fortunate possessors OF lucrs to an
angle that can hardly be found iu Linn
erick.
So. while Santa Cruz gets as big
crowds as ever, and many of its devotees
are the fattest kind Of coupon cutters,
the ambulant butterflies of San Fran
cisco go to Del Monte each summer,
generally with the latest creations of
Felix and Worth, and other tailor made
clothes, and handfuls OF 1llrtatious salt
for the tail of the male bird ct extrav~
agant plumage and substantial bank &C"
counts be he a picturesque chuckle-
head, gay widower or lonely bach
elor as bald headed as jug. And that
reminds me that some years ago very
pretty and otherwise refined young
woman, who had the inside track OF a
wealthy redwood octogenarian Of Men
docino county, who had buried four
wives, either in divorce suits Or obscure
cemeteries, and who had seven grand
children living, who ate corn and fowl
with both hands, who carried enough
real estate under his finger nails to start
q s'bOOm'' with, and whose manners
generally were not those Of a Chester
field or a Depew, said: "I'll take that
old man in out of the wet and abide the
consequences. He ought to have sense
enough to die in wear or two; if he
don't, I'll get rid of him by divorce and
get alimonv enough TO keep me at the
head Of the procession" She was a
tactician to this extent: she welded the
logman of MendocinO, and she sat with
him for while at meals and saw him
shovel In his food with knife, take
soup from the end Of a spoon, besmear
everything around him with soft-boiled
egg. and refresh his health daily with
raw onions and schOoners OF beer. But
she didn't fool him. Indeed, he became
the real tactician, he dropped on her
little drives out at Cypress Point and
her moonlight boating at the laguna
He set detective at work--uid this
miserable old husband, but cOnsummate
tactician-and he got her inextricably
mixed up with truff1es and mustaches
and Perrier Jouett and love letters and
lots Of communications, and now she is
q divorced woman without a cent or a
child. Poor thingI She was beaten at
her own game.
The mission of Santa Cruz the
Church of the Holy Cross-was founded
by Padres Alonzo Salazar and BaldO
nero Lopez, assisted by a rich Spanlard
named Hermenegildo, and non. com
missioped officer and two private sol
diers of the Spanish army. on Sunday
at 8 O'Clock, september Is, 1871. Padre
Lopez wrote to Dolores, San Luis
Oblspo, San Gabriel, and to other mis-
sions, that 1.-THE site is fine and the pros
poets fatterlng. There is the most
superior timber all around, and grassy
valleys and grassy hills innumerable.
The site could be easily fortified, as the
lands overlooking the sea are more like
terraces than bluffs. Let me have all
the assistance you can at the Begin
ming" Santa Clara lent the new mis-
sion 85 cattle, 20 horses, 80 sheep. 100.
bushels Of barley, and such miscellane-
GUS articles as seed, soap, bread, candles
and yestments and sacred articles for
the new church. Carmel sent 200 cattle
and as many sheep, and San Francisco
about the same. Every year saw an in i