The herald., 1895-03-04
rvIcHLANp PARK

HIGHLAND PARK.
To see the sun rise over Old Baldy's snow crest
Or sink behind old esrth's upheavals In the West
Into north bound University electric car squeeze
AT Second and Spring streets. If In terrible
In thirteen lucky minutes by the Santa Fay.
Or by the Terminal Railroad, traverse that pleas
Or You can walk, and loiter rest, and muse, and
And stroll through Sycamore Grove. the winding
And there you are in Highland Park, your jour
You could drive these four miles in thirty minutes
There are various ways OF getting there besides or
bike
The broad Pasadena avenue will soon be finer and
A boulevard through Highland Park, with palms
on each border.
As out Of this valley up to this mesa, this plain
The wider scene to the eastward and northward
fars we see the earth piled
A distant wall, looming up. solid. precpitous, to
LOFTY peak, another, another and always an
The whole comprising the sierra Madre-Moun.
And playing at the feet Of the Mountain Mother OF
Her lovely young child, Pasadena, hiding in her
Above. in her lap. on her knee is the Echo Noun
A large hotel. but seeming from here like small
Further up on the top, The peak particularly high
Is called Lowe. with astronomical exactness eclip-
Down here AZ around every inch Of air is entranc-
BY the music Of every form Of earthly and heaven
Blackbirds and bluebirds and red birds and yellow
Industrious crows, all stealing, exulting and wing
ing and cawing
A meadow-lark leaves his mates In the meadow
and comes to eye you;
His sisnces are many and varied, and keen, and
He wonders what under the sun you folks are
Then OPENS his slender beak to voice the welcome
And pours out wonderful volume Of melody
round you and through you.
A graceful hen-hawk, descending part way from
infinite space,
Wheels his long round and seems to say right
II see you are ,enderfoots, Just what like; set
Hurry up now, and raise fat chickens for my din
ners."
What Is that noble bird, sailing aloit on the
It's a turkey -buzzard watching to see IL anybody
To the splendid outlook of Highland Park forging
ahead.
1fyou go 70 Highland Park, besmes you will hear
Growing the slories Of Highland Park as loud 70
this doggerel
But the biggest birds that fly around here are wind
mills of steel,
And they drink more water a day than would float
the deepest keel.
Many, enchanting attractions are viewed from
And not The least are the mountains, when day.
light deepens to dark.
The mountains! the staunch old mountains. lust
far enough of and high;
More impressive In grandeur than II their enor'
NOUS forms stood nigh;
sublime transformation scene occurs at the close
Of each day
The sun spreads over the mountains all resplend
ent gray!
For possibly better spot to resde'so to Venus Oh
Highland Park is the finest location this side of the
stars.
What could excel this bracing California climete oil
ours?
With its perfect summer and winter every twenty
four hours?
Highland Park is growing faster than any either
About 80 per cent of It's houses were built this yeaI
alone.
II you would like 70 make a residence Highland
Park in,
The best thing you can do is to call at the Office Of
Larkin,
ITO South Broadway, city of the Lost Angels.
JAMES G. WITHINGTON,
Highland Park.
I see by the above that IL Is not
The 'orn OF the unter thai Is card on the ills;
But the buzz and bang Of the artisans tools
That's building the houses the villas, the schools
The poets are moving in,
The gophers moving out;
Not Longfeow nor Burns, but the Whittiers are or
the run
For homes thereabout.
Those are but uncouth lines from tiler,
But the fun will
When Jack and Sam walks In with Miller.
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