The herald., 1895-08-22

ating winter sports as may best accord
with and express their changing moods
and fancies, till their faces glow like
mountain roses in June and the hour ar
rives for them to descend to the city to
dine.
After dinner the green and gold of the
orange groves will invite them to an
hours ramble.
There they may select and taste the
delicious fruit at will, but they never can
gather and enjoy enough of the fragrance
and flavor and beauty of the queen fruit
OF the world. shining in her bowers OF
gold and emerald, which are often fiecke ed
with fragrant snow.
From these they may 60 down to the
sea and enjoy rowing, sailing, bathing
and shell hunting on the beach to their
hearts content.
In the evening they may join the prom
enaders in the streets, and again the
beautiful city will offer them hundreds of
new pleasures that may be had for the
taking.
The angels hus may while away
With help from sun and snow and ocean
spray,
And rich perfumes. as though from
fragrant May,
A most delightful idle winters day.
The city is in intimate touch with all
the world by snip and car and post and
telephone and telegraph. 1t is magniii-
C6Ub lu SltutbIOU, III PlOPtItioii, III
achievements and in promise of things to
come. For these things 1t is the peer of
any other city of the world. ard for these
things it is superior to ninety mine In
every hundred of all other cities.
When il becomes generally known
abroad, through the gossip in the news
papers, that the programme OF winter
recreation IN Los Angeles includes the
extraordinary and delightful contrasts of
mountain solitude and ocean roar, of
crunching snow and laving sea, of snow
shoeing and rowing, of skating and sail
ing, OF dangerous pTecipices and level
streets, of pendent icicles and pendent
oranges, of nipping frosts and blooming
bowers. no doubt thousands will visit us
in winter to share those pleasures with
us.
When they see for themselves, not
through other peoples eyes, that every
thing grows here that can grow in the
temperate or semi-tropic zones OF the
world: that our climate offers them both
health and pleasure; that we control the
moisture eight months IN the year and
can draw q mouthfGl TO drink or flood
to cover Thousand acres of land; that
cheap fuel lies undei out feet so apound-
ing that petitions have been presentd to
the honorable council to declare it q pu bile
nuisance and muzzle the pipes TO prevent
it from rising out OF the ground: that an
undeveloped mpire lies before us. preg-
nant with unlimited possibilities tor the
future; that the natural outlet OF that
empire Is downhill into our own streets;
that the only easy grade free from snow
is in the mountains beside us
and must some day become the principal
all rail route between the east and the
west: why, then, should these wealthy
people go back to their snow blockades
and their mud blockades, to their floods
ani til cir drouths to their blizzards ana
eIa;, fp1 ipo fp m n y
frosts below zero and their fatal sun
strokes, and. worst OF all, to their desc
lated farms from which every tree and
bush and stalk and fence and building
and animal has oeen swept off by the be-
sor1 OF destruction?
probably hundreds will go back, and
thousands will remain with us. By that
great influx Of wealth and energy our idle
lands will be cultivated. our bursting
mines will be opened whiIring wheels
and flying shuttles will sing where now
silence reigns; commerce will, plume her
wings anew for larger flights; our hund-
redfold population and our thousandfold
wealth will be doubled; and the erst-
while mud village, With buzzard and
crow scavengers, will become one OF the
largest. wealthiest most beautiful and
cultivated cities in the western hemi-
sphere.
ALI of these possibilities and probabili-
ties nave been created or greatly hasten
ed into possession and use by the Cali
forna Pioneers. California is a large and
magnificent stats when compared with
the other states of the union, but 1T is
only small and insignificant place when
compared with the rest of the world. Yet
into this small place the pioneers have
assem- bled from all nations End climates,
speaking all languages, familiar with the
principles of all governments and reig.
ions, learned in all literatures, skilled in
all cultures. adopts in every handlcraft,
among men. By that means they have
m ade California an epito:..e OF the world.
More than forty-seven years they have
been discovering and developing the re-
sources of this great state, and during all
that time they have been cleaning tine
rest of the world to enrich their farms
and gardens and orchards and vineyards
and forests and to embell,sh and BEAU
tlfy their homes. Those forty-seven years
of well-directd labor, cleaning abroad
and developing at home, selecting, COM
pairing, exchanging, blending, improving
adapting. distributing and perfecting
whateve. they have been able to find ON
the land or in the air or in the water;
added to many other causes OF growth
and development operating in many
other directions at the same time, have
enabled them to create the California OF
today-she who leads the world and
stands as one. The incompatible. The
unapproachable
Yonr petitioner believes that if care
full, truthful, impartial and comprehen-
slve history of the state Of these last
forty-seven years were put into the hands
of the newcomers into the state today,
they all, with one accord, would CRATE
fully eXclam:
Oh, noble heroes, pioneers,
Who by the toll of many years,
Though tried by ii re and tried by food.
BY battle scared, and bathed in blood
Still wrested ii ON barbarous fate.
And left for us this noble state;
We bless you. bless you, bless you all;
May Heavens blessing on you fall.
Your fires now are smelling ores,
And make us rich with shining stores;
Yo;.r floods refresh the arid plain
And load our ships with golden grain;
Your scars are found on mountain sides,
And show where precious treasure hides;
Your blood is in the dropping vine,
And gushes forth in ruby wine;
Oh, well our loudest bells may ring,
And well our lovelest children sing:
''God bless you. bless you, bless you all,
May Heaven $ blessings on you fall.
The glowing sisters of the West.
Welcome her of the shining vest
Bright on her brow their jewels shine,
Around her form their arms entwlne;
And proudly they and proudly she,
With pride that swells beyond the sea.
stand up to make the whole world ring
With thanks to you. to youolhey sing:
God bless you, oless you, bless you all;
May Heavens blessing on you fall.
That noble army of fearless men was
the vanguard of civilization and progress
on this western side of the continent.
They found it wilderness and have