The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-20
PROF. LOVES GREAT WORK.
Electric Cars Climbing Above
the Clouds.
Herculean Labors That 0vercame
Great Obstacles.
George Conant's Graphic Description Of
Trip to Echo Mountain and
Kubio Canyon.

bat strength of massive muscle.
He subdued big lion and slaughtered
q snake with hundred heads; chased
q golden-horned stag 10 months before
overtaking him; killed composite
man horse; accomplished some rathe
heavy Augean stable work; brought
home in his girdle from hunting trip
some oannibal mares belonging to one
Diomedes. q wild bull, . string Of cArniv'
orous BIRDS and after few other minor
triumphs closed up by going down into
hell to catch thres>headsd dog known
as Cerebus, who had been guarding the
entrance to the internal regions. Fol
these feats, which were considered Of
actually performed by this muscular
god, he was immort allied by being
placed among the constell atoms, whore
he as the starry Hercules can be seen
today siezing the nape of the neck OF
this three headed dog.
How puerile the NEUROLOGICAL labors
OF this ancient Grecian god appear
when compared with the real labors of
our modern Hercules who, on account
OF his geniur can lift daily with his pow
erful brain lover, scores and hundreds
10 the tops Of mountains above tbs
clouds. The Greeks believed in the
superhuman exploits OF their gods.
They looked upon the begrimed God
Vulcan, as forging thunderbolts for
Jupiter, the burly blacksmith using the
crater OF volcano for his forge. And
one of the particular pastimes OF this
Jupiter, the most powerful of all the
heavenly heroes, was to destroy men
with his thundsrbolts.
JUPITER OF MODERN TIMES.
Prof. Lowe, the author Of the greatest
OF mountain roads--this Jupiter of mod
ern times, has set his Vulcan to work
in an Altedena orange grove at a greater
forge than that of the fiery crater of Mt.
Etna. This willing and obedient Vul-
can has the strength OF a hundred and
fifty horses. He forges lightning dyna-
mics, silent thnnderbolts, not to kill,
but TO serve for the deleotation OF the
multftudes.
The tourist, az he leaves the steam
cars near this forging shop, will see
here the beginning OF an electric sys
tenn that ends 10 miles away and 5000
feet up.
Lot the traveller follow this system
and note this marvellous and heroic
achievement, with its adiuncts and de-
lightful tributaries; let him look upon
the consummate engineering skill oil
the first two miles, which no obstacle
has appalled,; let him enter into ths
pavilion, the hotels, the observatory,
and luxuriate in the elegance and am
plitude of their furnishings. ask him
to walk up the ingeniously con
structed stairway OF Rubio csiioI
among tine waterfalls, ferns, bay
trees, and sublime rock scenery
visit the 100.horss power water motto
in the third story below the CRANE
, pavilion listen near BY to the pulsa'
tions Of the printing press as it strikes
off the illustrated Mt. Lowe Echo
board the white electric chariot and be
lifted skyward $500 feet; aud from the
chariot landing ascend the stone stepI
OF the Echo Mountain house and open
the massive door to hostelry equipped
and kept with the magni6cencs and
comfort that no other mountain hotel ia
in the world. and as but few Others are
equipped and manned anywhere.
TO BRIDGE UPPER RUBIo.
Let him put his feet under the table
OF this house at Its dinner hour and be
convinced that it is not dinner he sitl
down to. but a feast, q fact attested by
hundreds of guests. Request him to 90
upon the brink of the mountain neal
the Swiss chalet, and look into the
chasm 1000 feet deep, over which O sus-
pension bridge lie to be thrown, reach
| ing the cascades, fern bowers and charm
ing picnic grounds of the Upper Rubio
walk up to the Lowe observatory, meet
the celebrated director, DR.. Lewis Swift
and his interesting son, Edward, who Ii
beginning q brilliant astronomical ca.
reer; inspect the plant for furnishing
the big hotel with incandesosnt electric
| lights the large power house where
gas, electric and water motors will soon
| be pushing cars loaded with enthusiastic
crowds, seven miles further up thu
mountains; take in the mountain
menagerie, bear pit and caprioornu.
copia; lean over the bslustsr of the
great cable wheelhouae to gaze upon
some of the most unique machinery In
the world mount any one of the &c
saddle animals ready for an exhilarat-
| ing trip over any Of the 40 miles o.
bride paths; and on the zig.zsg trail
stop and drink of crystal springs or, il
| in the winter season, indulge in q gam {
of snow balling, whilst at the same ii me
orange groves are freighted with fruit
and roses and poppy fields wake up the
eve in the valley below; and on the re-
! turn from the saddle ride the traveller
should walk out on the partially com
pleted electric extension. that he MAY
see where the mule has to struggle ovel
some of the trails along which the cleo
trio car is soon to glide when such trailE
are graded into easy roadbeds.
NO PRAISE TOO EXTRAVAGANZA.
Direct him to the working camp 10.
Gated about three miles from the Eoh,
Mountain house in the widest gorge o
the Sierrau, to plant which excavation
| into tho steep sidea Of the mountain
had to be made for establishing lodging
and victualling tents, the whole almos
suspended amid the shade of primevA
forests and rugged crags; ask the mul,
rider who is gripping his saddle pomme
to keep from sliding off and into I'M
pleasant depths how it was possible
| man could be found who had the c0uf-
age to undertake such q BtupendouI
labor as this, and she interrogato
may hear the answer in thu
labored breathing OF this patien
long.eared friend, ut never could hav'
been accomplished if Prof. Lowe hat
not made . contract with me to hell
him." and before the muleteer disi
mounts at the hotel he will not onlI
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