Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-28
Correspondence to the HERALD.

Correspondence to the HERALD.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. %. = Among the
good people OF this blooming burg, are
set of cheerful lunatics, and the psy-
Geological student will find more kinds
of awry intellects to the square inch
among them, probably, than in any
other town in the broad republic. AS a
general rule, it is safe to say that every
San Diegan is cracked upon the subject
of the rivalry, or the alleged rivalry,
existing between this city and Los An
geles. On this score San Diegans are
rapid. They spend all their waking
hours telling each other of the desper-
ate attempts Los Angeles is making to
'down" San Diego, and at night they
dream new instances to relate the next
day.
San Diego owes about all she has to
the Santa Fe, and yet the people here
are always growing about the "dis-
elimination" practised by that road
against our beautiful city. They never
stop to think that it would be immeas-
urably to the interests of the Atchison
to build up this town, where it has
everything its own way, at the expense
of Los Angeles, where there are COM
peting lines, but the charges are sung
day after day on the old story, until the
railroad men are getting very, very
tired.
l would warn President Manvel,
through your very excellent and broad
measure columns, that he had better
not call at San Diego on his present
trip to the coast. A gray-haired fossil,
with nicotine stained and gray whiskers
called on me at my Office the other day,
and presented petition signed by
nearly everybody in town, and directed
to Marvel, requesting him to move the
general offices of the Southern California
back to San Diego. This will be pre-
sented him whenever he can be cor
nered, and when he has to decline the
proposition. as of course he will, this
will be added to the already long list OF
determinations" which the road has
made against San Diego.
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That smooth and intrepid operator,
DR.. Eames, is getting along finely with
his squeezer bloom plant, although en-
thusiasm does not run 30 high since he
decided to please the outfit across the
bay at Roseville, in juxtaposition
to the defunct wireworks. Il.
is my opinion that the willy
doctor wanted to get the mills as far
from the daily observation of the gulled
populace as possible, SO that no sighting
comparisons should be made made be-
tween the roseate pictures of the great
industry" he created in the minds OF the
subscribers and the disappointing real
ity. DIR. Eames reminds me of Ryan.
You remember Ryan. He is the indi-
vidual who was to erect big iron works
on the Chino ranch three years ago. He
and Wolcott and other schemers bonded
2300 acres of Dick Gird's rancho, fitted
up sumptuous Offices in Los Angeles, at,
Pomona, and also Ontario, got out pros
pectuses of the big things they were
going to do, and then-sold land. don't
think that Gird suffered much from his
connection with the outfit, for he was
shrewd enough to have all the purchase
money turned over to him and applied
to the $4,000,000 or thereabouts which
the willy Wolcott ct al. were to pay for
the ranch, but he undoubtedly got burnt
to come extent in the deal.
Eames, think, is working very much
the same sort of scheme. A miniature
boom has been started at Roseville, and
lots have gone up somewhat. The doctor
has not yet intimated where he is going
to get his iron or his coal. 1t may be
Australia, Pennsylvania or the northern
Michigan peninsula, for all the sub
scribers know, and with this hazy idea
they appear to be satisfied, after
donating several hundred thousand dol
lars toward the scheme. All the doctor
has done so far is to purchase about $l26,
worth of iron doors for his furnaces.
wv
hear very good story about one of
George Cards handsome and efficient
deputies. About a month ago he Il
should dislike to mention his name)
came down here to arrest a Chinaman
or postmaster or something, and put
up at the Albemarle. Now at this hotel
there is a very pretty chambermaid,
and the chambermaid has husband
who is, or was, employed as barkeeper
in the building. The husband was sup
posed to be out of town one night, and
the deputy marshal made overtures to the
maid. He was successful, but alas the
husband returned and called at his
wife's room just as the deputy had dis
robed Guns flashed about for awhile,
and the Los Angeles officer was given
half an hour to leave town. He did so
(without making any arrests), and
caught the morning train at Del Mar
or somewhere else up the line. "Poor
little man; poor little maid"
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