Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-09
A Trip to Los Angeles and MT. Lowe

A Trip to Los Angeles and MT. Lowe.
To the Editor of tie New Mexican.
Santa Fe, May 7.--"Los paises del sol
dilatan el alma"-Fyea verify! But they
do not only delight and dilate the soul,
they help to expend the entire man, de-
veloping hts pryer to inhale the God
given, ife-bestowing atmosphere around
about him-these lands of sunshine dol
"Mens sana in corpore samoa sound
mind of itself will demand sound body
as the suitable vessel for it's life-energy.
Your correspondent has noticed this once
again IN his trip to the City of Angels.
With all its beauty, its calla lies and roses
and geraniums; its blooming oranges; its
olives; with its magnolias and eucalypti,
there seems to be longing to ascend
into purer regions above in the hearts
of those whose calling exacts from them
daily attention to duties in the lower re-
gions.
Among the pleasures experienced in
the Angelic city, recalling for moment
am ong the many, that of meeting the sil
yer haired widow of the pathfinder, Col. J..
G. Fremont none will be of more lasting
remembrance to me than that of my as
cent from out of the beautiful valley of
San Gabriel, from the hustle of the cities
of Los Angeles and Pasadena, through the
orange groves and orchards of Altadena
up, up into the region of clouds, 5000
feet above the levels of faraway Pacific,
&c oh hn
gushing in as the car winds its way over
the jestic circular bridge in the Alpine
division.
Prof Lowe, who has after many en-
deavors realized his philanthropic aim of
providing for all who may desire the bea-
titic privilege of going up into the noun
taips. and who may return either the same
day or week later, spending all the time
amongst the most enjoyable of environ
| ments, most safe rs we'll as beautiful
means for gaining this end, is by no
means ''lowe" either in stature or concep-
tiun of gigantic plans. He has expended
more than 100000 in the last six months
on the Mount Lowe railway, and that
Mount Lowe is high and unique in it's
manifold beauties every traveller will &C.
knowledge. The two trolly systems, the
cable incline as we'll as the hotel on the
city of the mount, is shining white, and
the Alpine tavern with its huge old Eng
lish lire place and inscription from the
Hanging of the Crane, by Longfellow:
aye ornament OF house is ye guest who
doth frequent it," are all we'll nigh per-
feet. Aud whoever can stay at the Echo
Mountain house on the city on the mount,
see the great search light throw its beams
over the nightly cities below, and see
the stars through the observatory can
consider himself fortunate. Only he who
has seen the ocean, the groves and gar
dens and the cities, but also the majestic
mountains of California, has seen Cali
fornia. How often at such times. in the
beatitudes of such surroundings, IN ozone
laden hooks on Pisgah heights, does men.
tai man wish that his lot were cast in an
eternal land of sunshine!
The writer of this would be prone to
answer such a one in sucha time. "Thou
need not 20 so far; know land, of all
the sunshine lands the most sunshiney
know in that land a quaint beautiful
shelter, amidst the most enchanting en-
vironment, where the most fragrant OF
health granting atmosphere is waited
continually to the delightfully heavipe
bosom and where eternal sunshine kisses
all her children day by day in an altitude
more than seven times thousand PAGES
nearer Heaven than the Angelic CITY," II
be should eagerly wish to ascertain the
name of this boon city shall say "Santa
Fe, New Mexico" g. A. NEEF.