Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-28
FIT FOR A QUEEN
Magnificent Reception Given 10
the Editors
IN PASADENA THE BEAUTIFUL
Professor Swensbefg Continues His Ora
phsc Description OF California
and the Coast

phsc Description OF California
and the Coast
A Dirds-eye view of charming PssA-
dena. "tae erowa OF the valley"
We made = snort stop al this garden
OF the goas on May IL ~ 5 o'clock pm.
Ga our way 70 Los Angeles Al urgent
invitation was rendered our party TO
return. Ga the lstn u special CON-
miftse came 10 .sthe angel CITY," on
train made up Tor the purpose. and
large number went. TIE vssit was
we'll worth repeating. A pubic recep.
tion Was gwen the journalists. All the
At our command and . most delightful
drive was taken through the beautiful
avenues anu lordly suburbs, including
San Gabriel mission, winch 10 three
miles out. The Roman Catholics still
hold services here. While on our drive
with . number of the citizens, others
arranged for = grand ovation IN the
shape of flower festival banquet"
aud pubic reception, which WAS nj Tor
K ngs and queens. II seems AS though
AL the good things that Gods eartn
prod uccd WAS none too good for the
tourists. TINS was not all. While We
, partook of the good things committees
with plenty II help had gone
to the special train and fairly
covered il with flowers and
fruit. The engine had been beautifully
decorated. anu the interior IT the CARS
had been handsomely festOoned from
floor to top. If ever ladies showed
taste and skull, 1t Was shown by those
Of Pasadena. The fine carriages were
handsomely trimmed, and their noble
horses were blanketed with every var
lety and shade of flowers. Less than
ten years ago the grounds OF Pasadena
We're only u sheep pasture. Since then
transformed into q beautiful flower
garden, IL is the hame Of CALIFORNIA;
present governor, and the home OF sew
eral miiliouaires. There 10 not ore
saloon as yet. and the citizens say they
will see to it that none will ever be
located there.
Only Eight Years Old.
The city is of eight years growth,
and has 5000 inhabitants. It's hun.
dreds Of flower -smbowered homes are
beautiful, aud their surroundings de-
hghtful. 1t has o public library build
ing which cost $4O, 900, and Q univer-
atty building with 500 900 endowment
| fund. It's church and school buildings
are of nigh architectural character.
| So are Its dozen or moro hue hotels,
tho "a RI nNnnA
them.
Pasadena is located in the northwest
corner Of San Gabriel valley, in Los
Angeles county, and nine miles from
| Los Angeles City, At the base of the
Sierra Madre mountains, which tower
over 5000 feet above the sea level. The
hundreds of uDpretentious vine and
| rose covered cottages are in harmon
ious keeping with the magnificent sur
roundings of largo and beautiful rose
trees, foliage and evergreens, the hull
domain, the valley, the rich soil, the
| ripping waters from the snow-capped
mountains, the climatic conditions,
giving 70 each IT. full share of natural
beauty and attractiveness to the citi-
| zen and sojourner. Its unequal!ed
beauty - . vast orchard vineyard.
trimmed with evergreen hedges and
shade trees, attracted the eyes aud
warmed the hearts Of every man and
woman in our party.
| The fertile San Gabriel valley, the
richest mission domain, is covered with
prolific vineyards, orange, olive and
deciduous fruit orchards, waving fields
of Wild flowers, of grass, wheat and
corn, broad acres of cereals, gardens of
rarest shrubs and flowers, swarma OF
beef, roaming herds of fine cattle, fiockl
| of sheep and noble looking horses.
What . sight to behold!
Scenes Of Ravashing Beauty.
In . land of such fertility, with the
SIERRA Msdre mountains but Eve miles
north towering 5000 feet above the
valley below, overlooking lesser peaks
TO the southwark and eastward, en-.
closing the great undulating plain Of
the San Gabriel, which stretche,
or moro Pasadena, 1t the head Of THU
valley, commands not only this wide
spread view, but between the bills tc
glimpses of the glmmering PACING, o,
il shines smooth and fair in the sun OF
beats In high-roliing surf UPON the
PtNtuAts40C SVSsts VIC iOoA
beyond the boundary line of the valley
to the east and here we zee another
scene, the white, glimmering snow
capped peaks Of San Jacinto and Sau
Antonio.
The city itself forms . fitting fore
ground for the picture which We ARE
unable TO paint either BY word or pen
Between its lines OF broad avenues the
orange and lemon orchards, the many
varieties Of semi-tropical shade treel
and shrubbery, and the profusion o.
fragrant flowers which characters.
southern California a. land abound
ing in floral wealth surround and clus
ter about the dwellings of the people
whose good fortune it 10 TO call Pasa
dena their home. Some of these resi
dences are costly villas of elegant archi
tectural design with character and ut
tractveness. while many of them ar
specimens Of the heat clsse Of moderl
dwellings of smaller size, with beauti.
. | fal lawns And flower beds which hav,