The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-07-02

N. 4. Y.
Passes Through the Golden
Gate
Into the Land ofFlowers, Fruits
and Wines
And Reyels in its Exuberant
Hospitality.
Every Place Vies with Every Other
Place
To Make the Excursionists Feel they
Have Entered Paradise.
Then Comes a Trip to Mexico
The Land of the Gringoes with their Lazy Lives
Reposing Amid Blooming Flowers and
M0sses A Letter full Of Won
derful Descriptions OF a Wonder
full Trip Through q Wonder.
full Country depicted in I'M.
A. vs. Best STYLE.

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in California was taken at Bar
stow and gave us realizing sense of
the possibilities ofthe climate, in the
new peas, radishes and potatoes, here
placed before us and the profusion
of flowers with which the dining hall
was decorated this 18th day of May.
Every column and chandelier was
festooped with roses and smilax in
prodigal profusion. On every table
stood great pots of creamy, fragrant
roses and lilies; on one long table
lay hundreds of dewy bouquets of
exquisite cut flowers and bevy of
California ladies stood behind and
passed them over with a smiling
word of welcome to the delighted
tourists. We here, also had real
izing sense of CALIFORNIA; hospitali-
ty-being met at this point by a
committee of her prominent men who
here took the excursion in charge
and we became the guests of the
state. They came accompanied by
two cars loaded with oranges, roses,
wine and cigars All these were dis
tributsd with lavish prodigality
among the members of the National
Editorial Association and after the
train got under way members of the
committee passed through carrying
great arms full of splendid Gala ill
lies, dewy baskets of beautiful roses
and plaques full of jessamine, gera-
NUNS, heliotrope and verbena from
which we were helped to all we could
carry of the fragrant treasures.
The day being Sunday the Illinois
and Indiana delegations proceeded to
hold divine worship in their cars
after having secured goodly amount
of the spoils. While they were thus
striving to lay up treasures where
thieves do not break through and
steal the Kansas and Iowa men
swooped down and bore away their
wine. This performance was notable,
inasmuch as the parties hailed from
the only prohibition states repre-
sented. One lady had secured four
bottles of the vinous fluid and put
them in bundle done up in a shawl
strap. At the Coronado Hotel that
night when her young man picked
up the luggage three of the four fell
out with a dull thud and poured out
their rosy contents on the marble floor
of the hall. The lady turned as red
as the wine and the young mans
oaths were deeper than his rotations
had been. The General Passenger
Agent of the Southern Pacific r. r.
came in his private car as soon as
we entered California and presented
each member with beautiful souve-
mir pass over their entire system
which crosses the state in all direc-
tions
To day our route lay along the
edge of Mojave desert pronounced
Mohawvy)and through SanBernardi-
no county. This county is 300 miles
in one direction and equals in extent
Rhode Island Massachusetts andNew
Jersey. There is one county in Arizona
which equals in area the whole of
Ohio. Along our line of travel stood
thousands of bee hives, seemingly
set down at random among the sage
brush and the blossoms, for we are in
the "honey section" of California
There are wild flowers in the great
est profusion all along the way, but
| from no flowers do the bees make
finer honey than from the purple
blooms of the alfalfa. 1t excels in
flavor that nectar of the Gods-the
white clover honey-of our eastern
states. After crossing the Cajon
Pass we run on down to San Bernar-
dino town with population of TO-
600. 1t was settled by Mormons in
1851, but its growth dates from 1888
in which rail connection was formed
with the east by the extension of the
great Sante Fe route to the coast.
The city is surrounded by orange
groves and vineyards while the San
Bernardino mountains $4,000 thigh
on the north and east complete
most enchanting picture.
All day we had run nearly due
south and had been wilted with the
heat and the dust of travel. AS the
afternoon sun beenn to cast length
ening shadows eastward a salty fra
GRANGE refreshed our senses and a
few miles further on the majestic bill
lows of the glorious Pacific burst
upon our enraptured vision. For
miles we ran along the beach in full
view of its sun-lit waters, now down
at sea level, and anon looking at its
restless rollers from great cliffs and
high promontories where the waves
had Numbered in for ages and cary
ed out quaint coves and tall myster-
ious bluffs-now flower crowned and
kissed by the rays of the setting sun.
just at night fall we reached San
Diego and are ferried across the bay
to the hotel Del Coronado. San Die
go Bay is the only land locked har
Dor south of San Francisco. The
peninsula of San Diego protects it on
the west while great promontory |
called Point Toma curves round it |
on the north. On this point is the
highest light house in the world.
The water here admits the largest
vessels that ever floated. Pacific Mail |
and Pacific Coast steamers leave here
twice week for South and Central
American and way ports. The eli
mate here is noted for it's equability
and freedom from fogs.
Four miles away the first Cali
fornian Mission was founded by /
Father Junipero in 1769-the foun-
dations are still to be seen. In l774
the Mission was moved to point 6
miles up the valley where larger
church was built. 1t was destroyed
by an uprising of the Indians, for
the Catholic fathers frequently con-
verified the Indian and then Cypress
ed him with many hardships in ma
king him a newer of wood and a
drawer of water The Catholic chap