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


Against this moral corrosion eight
churches spread their subduing ele-
ments. The natural gas, which is
served from wells and not from the
throat of the ranch agent, saves the
consumer in the proportion as $12 is to
$50. Spanish seniOritas stay out late at
night, and meaSly China town is
quaint and squalid corner of the city.
The wheat i'll this district keeps the
state in bread. The mayor and citizens
turned out handsomely, lunched US at
their great pavilion, and then ID. A.
Guernsey, one of the city fathers, and q
gentlemen of extensive estates and most
generous disposition, toasted party of
us in manner herein acknowledged to
have been but another substantiation of
the proyerbial hospitality of California
people.
Dreamy old Sacramento bestirred her
self not little when the 700 scribes cast
themselves upon her rOOkey streets.
Dining at the capital, John L. Sulli-
van, a genteel wag of head-steer waiter,
pointed out crack in the dining room
wall, and, says he: ''An' there be tha
rint av the urruthquake, racIntly held
at Vacca valley, a heard an a seen
away-a Oop here n tnlsh place." The
old town-One OF the oldest in the state
was nightly shaken some three
weeks before our visit, and the wonder
is the town withStoOd the shock. The
capitol building and grounds are mag
nificent. The building is of white mar
bic of imposing design and elegant fin
iSh. | met Gov. Markham and his lieu
tenants. They We're gracious, interest
Ing, generous in every act. In the even
ing the $1,000 SacramentonS congre-
OqfQd af thn anItnl yEhnra nuhli0 ro-
ceptiOn in the senate chambers was
punctuated with speech and good fel-
loWship and ambitious talk about the
wOrld-knOwn GLORIOUS climate of Cali
fornia'-the prayer the little tots are
taught when they begin TO realize that
of them is expected a perpetuation of
the same old gag, 1.-The glorious climate
of California, etc"
At Napa the natives had prepared a
lunch III the grove. The graveyard was
just beyond. 1t has taken until now to
appreciate the grimnesS of this Napa
humor. 1t take only about twelve min
utes to appreciate draught of the Napa
soda water fresh from the Napa springs.
But Santa Rosa the rose garden of
the world-for from its prolific rose
culture has 1t derived its name. The
humblest cot is but a nest of sweet
oNShbCO lOoO hAhOO hid OuoilCos Quh tlO
streets and cutters are literally alive
with the rampant growth of this fora
queen. Six thousand inhabitants thrive
Gere, and the winery Of t. De Turk is
without doubt the greatest establish
ment Of its kind in the States. The
supper given by the citizens was
A SumptuOus Treat.
The people, in their anxiety to please
all and asSail the scruples of none, had
two great halls appointed for the sery-
ice of the richest foods i'll the larders of
the city. In one wines were served to
the cOnnOlSSeur III that sort of beverage.
while Mrs. Tea and her coffee-liued old
codger discussed their delicacies in the
blue-ribbon hall.
San Jose, Mount Hamilton the Lick
Leland Stanford univer-
sity and Palo Alto stock farm were all
visited on Monday, May %, while ON
our way 10 that laundering smoking
metropolis of the coast, San Francisco.
We just crawled into San Francisco in
the evening of Monday. the 23d. Out
fifteen days, and, at last, having SO thor
oughly done" the country and so COM
pletely ''done" ourselves, we entered
the City of the Golden Gate, of the
famous and wicked Chinatown, with its
vice and crime, and orientalism and
fanaticiSm; the city which is reputed
he proudest and fastest in life of any
,ity in this Countrywide Paris of Amer |
here we were to rest and work |
or three days. ''attendin' meetins' an
'ich' of the convention. But really
San Francisco didn't care, so long as we /
spent our money and that OF our friends. |
No ride, of course. The Examiner, |
hat spirited journal of the West, than. |
which there is no more ably conducted |
newspaper in the country, mitigated |
San Francisco's contempt with a lavish |
This paper, at its own in
stance, gave the association an excur-
lion about the bay on Col. Bergin's |
steamer, and when the Press
Hub rendered the gentlemen of the en-
ire party all entertainment at its com
nodious club house, we let down the
disturbed caste of cOuntenanee and put
IN jolly, good face. The convention
OrmalitieS over, we struck out for Vina
md other points of mining interest.
where an itinerary of two days kept US
humping" Thence to Portland, where
me princes of entertainment just scat
cred good things among us. Seat
md Columbia river, all pictur-
.sque, rugged. wild and enchant-
ng. Portland is now $4,000 strung.
We boarded the cruisers Baltimore and
Charleston, lying in the Willamette
iver, and through the kindness of |
Lieut.. Herbert Dunn and Midshipman |
Walter Bennett. both witnesses of the
Valparaiso fiaScO, we were given most |
intelligent idea of the formidable war
,oats of Uncle Sam.
From San Francisco to Portland we |
vent by the Mt. Shasta, the great scenic
QUITE of the West, over the Southern
Pacific railroad, winding through the
Sierra Nevadas, crossing that beautiful,
parking. rushing mountain river, the |
livery Sacramento, eighteen times;
,aSt the Scott mountains, Castle Crags, |
soda Springs, Moss Brae Falls, Pilot
Knob and Mt. Pitt. entering the Siskiyou
early on bright and breezy
morning. This was indeed a wonder
and; a region where the four seasons
# the year may be experienced in
lay; where snow and ice cast a sheen
# gold upon fields of fruit and flowers.
After the entertainment in Oregon |
he editors struck out for their respect
We homes-scattered everywhere i'll the
Union. Some made up parties and Wis
ted Salt Lake City; others will come to
It. Paul over the Northern Pacific, and
ome left San Francisco direct for their
ZONES in the South and East.
The Santa Fe aud Southern Pacific
oads fairly outdid themselves for the
economy and comfort of the editors,
md when the party reached California,
he Santa Fe people issued pass over
he entire Southern California line to
Zach and every one of US, and we were
it liberty to travel anywhere over its
Tho rnah iS nntQH re Iihoraf /
ty, and the attractions along its route,
which traverses the greatest and grand
.st regions of the country. The North
,rn Pacific road was equally attentive
md as frankly generous, and our care
lnder the chaperOnage of Mr.. Austin
ind his chief, Mr.. Fee, was all that man
onld exact, even of railroad company.
HARRY w. WACK.