St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-06

ed Us at the ''deppo"-aS they say here.
Los angeles is a beehive at night,
when all humanity of the 10000 legal
subjects of thrift and thraldom seemed
to be upon the street. She is the me-
trOpOliS of Southern California ''shoah
nuff," and the statistics declare her to
be the second city in the state. At all
events she received us as the first city
in the state, for San Francisco, her sis
ter Superioress, did but very, very little
as city to entertain-even acknowl-
edge the existence of such proud and
pondsrous institution as the National
Editorial association.
Wednesday morning dawned wi th
bad taste in the mouth of us, for, be 1t
understood, the water of Los Angeles
is poisonous for drinking purposes. l
only noticed this the morn ing following
our arrival. and, to be hon est, after the
association had taken, or was presumed
to have taken, bath. But for all the
water and worse beer, when the good
people of that long-tO-be remembered
city rubbed the sea weeds from their
eyes in the morning. and when they
once seized the objects of the day, it
went most merriIy with the visiting ed
itors. TalIyhos by the cavalcade. bug
gies, wagons, carriages and paloveIs, in
fact, every form of vehicle, decorated
and poliShed-all were enlisted in the
service which followed over hill and
dale, through wOnderouSly pretty ave-
nueS, past triumph upon triumph of
magnificent architecture, along beauti-
full water ways, through extensive and
howery parks, beyond the din and hum
of a mid-week day to Bunker Hill,
Angeleno Heights and Mount Look
out, from where the eye may range
for hundred miles and never rest on a
deSolate spot. The n. E. A. badge was
acknowledged carte blanche every
where; except before the hotel clerk
who in the jealous interest of his man
agement squeezed the literary wallet for
all there was in it. But then, hotel
keepers are discOvered-not born.
Cast your eagle eye back six years and
fancy little, emaciated, tanned and tot
tering Los Angeles, with $4,000 people
and eighty dissipated. calf-eyed dogs,
conceive the picture of sand, hot suns,
hope and municipal Indebtedness, bad
laws, bad sewage, bad bays and naught
but
Mouse-CoIOred Mules.
for a grabbed transit system and then !
ope both your eagle Orbs and stretch |
wide YOUR auricular drum and behold |
the Los Angeles Of today. with $4,000 per- |!
manent residents and visiting transit |
coneourSe of 30,00u more, constantly |
passing through this dividing lock of |
Northern and Southern California
sections destined to become separate |
states, ] believe. And here, where one |
still views with reverence and admira-
ton the Old Mission church opposite |
the plaza. you Will learn of the nursery |
of the sweetest children and most noble |
mammaS in all this land. Nowhere, |
from Portland. Maine, to the main Port !
land, away out in huStling Oregon, will !
YOU see the sweet, rOSv-cheeked, fine |
featured boys and girls you may see in |
chatting. romDing groups in the clean |
and fragrant city of Los Angeles, and
recall that where children are, there |
is the golden age"
But Withai. this juvenile freshness is !!
tempered somewhat by the present dor
NANCY of the real estate market. Like |
all such impulsive UoltS at booming with |
which the city was invested a few years |
ago. the bottom o. things is gone clean
out on 'eui. and now the mending pro-
cess is steadily going on. Said mule
driver to me and my clerical companion. |
Rev. DR.. Conway. of st. Paul: You !!
see that 'ere palk? Well, that's Sixth
Street park, and the poor sucker what |
guy it to the city, clean and clear of no
charges, actually starved to death
few years ago-died genuwhine pau Z
per. Git up thar" swish. and the mule
got it most unkindly.
You will laugh when tits said that the
ice in California is not as cold as our /
Minnesota ice. But that is the case,
and my attention was first directed
piished lady of wealth and culture and
the keenest observational faculties, as
serted that the lice was really inSipidly
stale and not at all cold" StraightWay
went | TO an art dealer across the hotel
and as he mixed the ''clOud |
frappe la mint | teaSed him gently as |
to the frigidty of the manufactured ice
used i'm the Golden state. He admitted |
that after several tests there was found
to be slight difference III solidity,
frigiditv and several other ''iditieS" of
this most precious article or general
The newspapers are also
less frigid than some of our own Mime
sofa brand. They are entarpriSlng jour-
mails all of them, and the Times building
is a monument to the solid, substantial
base of Western journalism.
Redondo Beach and Santa Monica
were visited by some of our party, and
many took their first dip in the incom
ing tide. From Los Angeles we visited
Fresno, the raisin ranch of the world.
Inhabitants /. 200, saloons S5 in number,
each paying SS5 per quarter. Wine and
flowers, pretty girls and silvery-tongued
post-prandial speakers, kind words and |
heartiest attention were but few of
the features of our midday meal in the
opera house at Fresno. AS usual, your
correspondent embraced the interesting
of one of the city leaders. !
eRorphuro,a a gentleman by whose
tact and talent we saw aud observed
book of knowledge
on the greatness of California, and the
part the fertile lands about Fresno play
in our domestic economy. When L