The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-23
THEY ARE CLIMATE CRANES NOW.
The Chicago Journalists Visit
to Los Angeles.
A Pleasant Description of the Hos
pitality of Los Angeles.
A Drive Beneath Italian Skies Through
the Nice of America--A Few
Lunches OF the Party
Mentioned.

sherman, one OF the band OF Chicago
newspaper men who recently visited
Southern California, in which he speaks
OF this part OF their trip as follows:
Among the entertainers OF the party
was the San Francisco Press club, with
it's famous punch bowl modelled on the
generous plan OF the San Francisco bay
the bay that could float all the fleets
OF the world and still leave plenty oil
room for ferry boats. Col. Thomas F.
Barry of the National Guards showed his
loyalty to his state by rendering a din
ner in which every article, from the
oysters and salmon to the canvas backs,
Burgundy and fruits were California
products. DR.. LAWYER of the quarantine
staff unfolded the beauties of the match
less bay to the visitors by placing the
health department tug Governor Per-
kins at their service for day and pilot
ing them about among the shipping and
outside the heads among the rollers of
the Pacific, where they saw the chat
tered hulk Of the good ship New York
pounding itself to pieces on the rocks at
the Threshold OF the Golden Gate.
Boys, let ue run down TO Los Ange-
les" said the leader of the party one
evening. "We're invited to be the
guests of the city, and the Southern Pa
ciic has put its tracks and engines at
our disposal"
"All right |" answered some one. 1--WE
will go tomorrow morning and get back
in the evening in time for supper at the
Palace"
The first speaker laughed, and 30 did
the rest of the party when they realized
that the little run" was a matter of
500 miles and took nearly a day and
night by the swiftest train. Neverthe-
less, the party went, and now every
member is peripatetic land agent and
Southern California climate crank.
HOSPITALITY OF Los ANGELES.
Forty miles out OF Los Angeles the
car was boarded by a delegation from
the Press club and the chambe of COM
MERGE of the city, bearing welcome in
the shape of luscious hamper filled
with birds and bottles. Accordingly,
everybody was cheerful-quite cheer
ful-when the train rolled into the de.
pot hich has the distinction of beng
guarded the year around by an ancient
date palm. A shower was falling, but
some of the party insisted that the sun
was shining and that they were getting
runburned.
drive beneath Italian skies through
the Nice of America. A glimpse OF the
beautiful home of Colonel L. A. East
man-formerly postmaster of Chicago.
A rousing reception al the Press club
rooms, with addresses from the mayor
and prominent citizens. Thus ended
the first day.
All hands were piped on deck early
next mArning. "All aboard for the San
trip up into the clouds ~
That was great day for Chicago
newspaper men. In two noisy wagon
ioa is they went dashing through inter-
minable orange orchards, golden.green
and summer bright, that stretched from
mountain range to mountain range;
through avenues of eucalyptus and psr-
per trees than ran on and on until the
two lines met in the crystal distance
past the old San Gabriel mission, with q
peep at it's historic altar and paintings;
into the largest winery in the world
that of San Gabriel-where in a single
cellar they saw 500, 900 gallons of wine
and tasted 20-year old port fit for Gany-
mede to bear in golden gobless to the
gods. This one vineyard, by the way,
produces yearly between 1000 and 5000
tons of grapes, making about 100000
gallons of wine.
LUCKY BALDwIN's BIG RANCH.
After an enhancing drive oils miles
the party passed into Lucky Baldwin's
famous Santa Anita ranch and drove
amid a tropical profusion of oranges,
lemons, palms and flowers to the
Oakwoods botel-part OF the ee-
tate-where midwinter dinner,
including fresh strawberries, was
served Each man in the party, by the
way, also wore on his coat spray OF
peach blossoms from Colonel Eastman's
orchard.
On reaching Altsdena all hands
climbed aboard trolley car and started
on a most remarkable journey up one OF
the highest peaks OF the Sierra Madre
range. Up and up went the car, around
curves with mountain walls on one side
and deep ravines on the other, to half
way hotel where the track seemed to
end in perpendicular wall.
"Now for the balloon ascension ~ cried
the guide.
In front rose dizzy stretch of triple
tracks to the summit OF the mountain at
/ an angle alarmingly suggestive of the
vertical--4S degrees from the horizontal
to be accurate. On this track rests a
queer white car, built on the plan of q
staircase to suit the seats to the slope.
The party steps upon these platforms,
and, prestol electricity and cable do
the rest. 1t is a smooth, easy ascent.
unless one happens to look down--and
think.
At the top, $500 feet above the sea
level, the party found Prof. I. S. @.
Lowe, the daring originator of this new
mountain railway, awaiting them. They
spontaneously broke out with the gang
yell by which they will long be remem-
bered all along their route.
We'll, we'll, we'll Don't this beat
Chicago all to -. Well, well, well !"
magnificent panorama lay before
their eyes. Thirty-fve miles away
stretched the Pacific coast. studded with
dozen towns, with the sweep OF coast
line visible away to whore the Mexican
boundary line lies under the eub-tropical
haze. Forty mies out at sea the Santa
Catalina islands loom grandly up. Far
beyond them-100 miles away stands
chip under full sail, seeming to float
neither in the ocean nor in the clouds,
but in a glorious sunburst that happens
at the moment to fill the horizon line
between the two.
BEAUTIES OF MOUNT LOWE.
Turning to the still higher peak be-