St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-29
THELAND OF FLOWERS
American Editors Feted by
CALIFORNIA; Knights OF
the Quill.
Train BerthS Of the Visitors
Filled With Oranges
and Wine.
Beautiful San Diego and the
Hospitality Of Its Good
People.
A Golden State Ranch Which
Is Truly a Paradise
Realized.
Special Letter to- the Globe.

Special Letter to the Globe.
MONTERREY. Cal, May 22.-FrOm the
last day in Arizona to the first in the
Great Pear te-Californla-lS as great
a transition as has come to the touring
editorial assoeiatio II. From where the
Spanish needle and cacti grow in
threatening attitude upon the parched
and pulveriZed sand dunes, where the
locuStS hum in the glare of sun hotter
than the breath of hadeS; from the
Canon Diablo and the Canon Padre,
picturesqueIy rugged rips in the bosom
of the broad interminable mesaS, never
punctuated with tree or shadow, save
long clouds of rolling dust streaming
from the trail of some galloping cow
boy, the junketing ScTibes entered the
Orc desert of Southern California on
the morning of the 18th inst. When
we entered The Needle. the gateway to
California from the East, 1t seemed we
first perceived the fainter rays of a
coming hospitality. for to that juncture
of the trip the days OF weary travel
were relieved only by self-invented
merriment or incident of the road. This
anticipatory vision brOadened OH the
18th into day of the most lavish re-
ception by the San Bernardino folk,
VINO, leaving their city away up in the
beautiful valley which lies in county
larger than five of our largest Eastern
states, pushed into the Ora desert dis
trict
To Sprinkle wine
Of rarest California vintage, upon the
parehed tongues of our men, to allevi-
ate the pains of unusual travel by bury
ing our women in floral profusion SO
rich in color and 81 rare in scent as to
diStil the heat of desert land into nee
tarlne draughtS of refreshing beverages.
Here at BarStow. eighty-one miles east
from San Bernardino. the special eX
curSiOn train was met by the Bernardino
county reception committee, manned
by such splendid types of California
gentlemen as Judge G. w. Rowell, G.
ID. Wbitcomb. Mr.. Haskell, E. Ii. Kip
linger and Messrs. Grid, Wood and
OCOnnOr. This committee met us at
Bar5tow. greeted us with two car loads
of cut fiOWerS-color form and effect
upon the eye beyond deScriptiOn-fiile
our individual births with oranges and
wine aud California literature, and
then, when the inner man revived I'M
der the tonic OF so citrouS a breakfast,
the members of the committee eX-
pounded upon the cryptogram of Cali
fornia, and so the run to San Bernardino
was paved with the truths, jokes, facts
and fiction about the ever-peryading
glories Of Southern California. This re-
ception, preceded as it was with the
marShaling ability of ScipiO Craig. of
the California state committee, in
desert 100 miles wide and 800
miles long. where Dante camped when
he wrote the Inferno, was such a de-
lightful exodus from the very horrible
to the keenly delicious that every editor
swOre that the fellows of California
were as skilled in the arts of hOspitable
entertainment as their fame abroad the
land for many years had acknowledged
them. The ovation was lnaugurated
just within the state line and here we
are at Monterey. having travelled and
Toasted week, still in the heat OF
The Warmest Greetings,
The most liberal. most wisely planned
entertainment that ever extended its
alluring features to fellow man. In
fact. we often times feel "cbeap''-ac-
ceptIng the delicate. gratifying results
of a work of many days and much de-
tail, for some of the displays both of
food and of flowers, of fruits or wine, Of
greSS are really only at our disposal
after much labor ON the part of the
kindly dOuOr.
San Bernardino is the beginning and
complete development of CALIFORNIA;
varied and unlimited prOductiveneSs.
Here irrigation has become a science
and the yield is reckoned to certainty.
Money is plenty, profit large, prospects
infinite, people great and prosperous.
San Diego.
If Providence should design to pun
ish in practical ways. can conceive of
10 seYerer, no more tantaliZIng eX-
purgatOriO than that the life-lOving sub
ject should be given full and favor
able glimpse of beautiful, enchanting
San Diego, and then abruptly doomed
to live in Canada or some ''Sich" make
of place. While there, staying with
other guests at the Hotel del Coronado,
it was my individual good fortune to
meet and enjoy the personal entertain
ment of E. Ii. AIlis, gentleman of
rank and culture in the creme de la
creme of wealthy, refined S0ciety.
AS an instance of what these people do
with strangers who come to them fro m
afar permit one to extend to our people
In Minnesota an account of what this
to me.
was standing in the rotunda of the
most magnificent hotel on the coast, the
Coronado. awaiting the disposition of a
numberleSS crowd of hungry, travel
stained editors. each of whom sought TO
register simultaneously. | wore the
badge of the n. E. A, and, believe, an
expression of wonderment, when a
smiling member of the city reception
committee approached and saluted me.
Two minutes and he knew who l was.
and felt myself within the magnetism OF
one of those opponents of California hos
pitality of whom you read about. Half
all hour and | had had one of the most
delightful, most cordial yet dignified
chats of my short but crowded life, as
they say. On the morrow, as early as 8
O'Clock, was booked to meet mine
new-found host at the club, the Cayu-
maca. l retired that night at o'clock
ante meridian. | arose at o'clock.
After plunge in the salt water surf
tank, where in my nOvItiate | startled
my-inside-self with copious
DraHshts Of Salt Brine
which smelt much like the liquor ofraw
oysters, [ boarded the ferry for the
town of San Diego and Cayumaca club.
My thoughtful host had provided for
my coming small company of club
men-the very essence of conviviality-
California recOnteurS of high place in
truths and fiction, all of them. Break
fast and laughter. Behind a team of
spirited roans and beside my host Alis.
rode and listened, took notes of all
SaW-Seeing much. and asking more
through orchard and ranch, vineyard
and winery. over mesa along the coast.
past cypress hedge and the stately euca-
lypti on, around and, it seemed to ME,
over the grandest country. as
the Hibernian says, the hand
of man ever Sot foot upon
Five hours of this sort or outing, and
yet would have more of it. so full of
detail, interest, feature is California
drive in the conduct of SO princeIy Il
host as my friend Allis. Then nothing
would do but should meet his charm
inV family III 4 home crowded with fine