The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-11-28
YAKIMA PEOPLE ABROAD
interesting Letters From Rev. Chsadle
and Major Fred R. Reed.
The EAST And THB WEST COMPARED
one Speaks OF His New Home I'm
' Caiifornia,' while she 0shcr DE.
votes Bimseir MAINLY % tse Fl.
naneiai sisaaiisn.
A Letter From Rev. Ch.aaie.

| A Letter From Rev. .Chsadie.
| EDITOR HERALD: promised to write a
few things concerning California when
We were settled In our new home. We
have been much longer getting settled
than We anticipated. While we were on
the high seas in the throes Of NAL de mer
the good brother at "Ocean View church
San Francisco decided to postpone bis
resignation and 90 arranged with his pee
pie to remain for time. The secret
being he did not know where to light and
90 decided not to fly till he knew. The
situation was rather embarrassing for
Supt. Harrison and myself. but after see
ing the place l was not 90 much disap-
pointed. "Ocean View Church )" sounds
better at North Yakima than Il. does at
San Francisco. 1t lies out exposed 10 the
ocean and is rather bleak, windswept,
fog.enveloped place and full OF Dsgos.
The chief embarrassment Of our situation
was the difficulty Of getting places In CAL
ifornis, but having q few warm friends
here the way soon opened both north
and south, and we chose to 20 south
landing at San Juan, about ninety miles
south Of Frisco. Here we are somewhat
pleasantly situated having pretty good
church and good parsonage OF eight
commodious rooms. San Juan 10 an old
Mexican town, started a. Spanish mis-
sion in the eighteenth century. The old
mission church and tile covered work
shops are still standing and few adobe
houses. The old convent was shaken
down by an earthquake and has been
replaced by modern building. The
adobe building, In which he lodged and
on the portch OF which Fremont was
standing when courier announced
to him the opening Of the Mexican war,
Is still standing just as ii was then. The
mountain to which he withdrew his men
for ga fety and from which they could
: watch the arrival Of 9 gunbost in Mon
teray bay Is called Fremont's Peak. Ours
is the only Protestant church here and
We have fine body OF young people.
They have treated Us right royalty since
We came. The surrounding country 10
beautiful. A beautiful valley and rolling
bills rising away to the mountains north
and south and covered with grass and
liveoak is all very restful and pleasing to
the eye. Wheat, hay f.aits. nuts and
sugarbeets are the staple products.
There is sugar refinery at Watsonsville
fifteen miles away. By the way, these
beet tops fed to cows make the butter
hard as tsllow. Alfalfa makes soft greaay
butter. II the people in Yakima raised
sugarbeets and fed the tops to their cows
with alfalfa the com bination, for while
In the fall would make soma of the finest
butter that Yakima ever turned out. Try
it. One Of the members OF our church
harvested seven tons OF almonds this fall.
His orchard, OF fruits and nuts contains
twenty thousand trees. The climate 10
very even all the year round, Q little frost
\ between showers in winter and cool
winds from the ocean in summer. e We
are fifteen miles from the eoo5an and cut
off by O low mountain ridge 90 that both
the winds and the fogs are In part kept
back. The warmest weather 10 generally
In September but this year it has come
ia November. We are six miles from the
railroad but We have regular stage and
mail four times daily. The San Fran
cisco dsilies are handed in to'usat noon
instead OF at breakfast. San Francisco Is
In many respects q great city. Things
are done on large scale. Modern build
ings are large, business 10 large, crime Is
large and plenty of it. Then everybody
seems to be in a hurry. Market street 10
. good place to get stepped on, II fellow
leaves himself lying around loose; Il is
also good place to get run down by
street cars, for they run in droves.
The death list from this cause is large.
Also man does not have to remain In
Frisco long to find out that expenses are
large. A gentleman stopping at the
Palace hotel took little run out in the
country without the for mality OF cancel
ing the engagement of his rooms and
returned two weeks later to face bill OF
$3.50 for rooms and board. And by the
way, the Palace is sure enough call
wool" palace and you don't have to go to
Europe to see it. II Frisco gets the Re-
publican National convention probably
the next president of the United States
will be picked up around the Hobbies Of
the Palace.
Frisco must be the original home Of
the flea; unless he came from Egypt to
Morocco and on the back of Moore
into Spain aud rode Caballero over the
Atlantic into Mexico and then shipped in
the sleeve of Greaser to Frisco. In
either case he 10 decidedly in evidence at
Frisco. 1t does not bar one from the
charmed circle Of the 400" in Frisco to
have fieas. In fact il is rather aristocratic
to have feas, for the church carpets OF
the finest churches are full OF them and
the man who can sit through long ser
mon without wriggIing is saint and
deserves a place in the calendar. The