The herald., 1896-03-23
MOUNT LOWE.
Phenomenal Travel Into Alpine So!itudes-
SnoMhanks ON the Northern Slopes.

Phenomenal Travel Into Alpine SoIitudes-
Snowbanks on the Northern Slopes.
ECHO MOUNTAIN, March 22.-The daily
| visitors to Alpine Tavern have heretofore
been RECALLED with popcorn dealt out in ex-
| tempclized cornucopias, but today. Tor the
| first time, they sat down to wholesome,
| abundant and appetizing lunch. Never was
the new and beautiful alpine car so taxed
| to its Utmost capacity as today. 1t is now
| the thin for all visitors to Echo Mountain
to continue their trip to Mount Lowe
| Springs and take in the entire grand scenic
| route. BY giving the hungry tourists a
good lunch. they are enabled to prolong
their ay among the mountain pines.
Among the large company who came up
on the train last evening were two former
neighbcrs of Prof. Lowe at Norristown,
Pa.-Messrs. J. b. SteInmetz and A. M.
Schultz. or course the three had pleas
( ant visit in the parlor last evening. Mr..
Schultz is engaged in a new enterprise cal
culated to develop ono OF Southern Cali
fornia's hitherto dormant resources. He
is engaged in the manufacture of orange
wine, and 1t is said that he will probably
ship twenty carloads of that new COM
modify from Riverside during the present
season.
Among the Los Angeles people we no.
ticed President George H. Bonebrake, of
the Los Angeles National bank; Cashier
A. p. West, of the Columbia Savings bank.
and wife; City Attorney w. E. Dunn and
wife, DR.. and Mrs. Granville Mowand
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. H. KnightMcGr. an
Mrs. E. Thomas Hughes- Mr.. and Mrs. E.
NJ. Hanna, Richard Altschul, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Stevens, Cashier j. W. A. Off, OF
the State Loan and Trust company, and
daughter; NJ. A. Newmarlk.
Foreign countries were represented by J.
de Jersey. London. England; j. o. Rice,
Monterey. Mexico; Mrs. John Howard
McFadden, Liverpool, England; Mrs.
Noyes Lewis of Isle Thetna, England.
An interesting party who stayed over
Friday night were Mrs. j. W. Bull, Duluth.
Mimi: Mrs. Geo. P. Carpenter Miss Laura
Carpenter, Mrs. j. B. Turner, Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa; and Mrs. J. A. Phillips, Of
tumwa, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. Ferry. Miss Blanche
Ferry and d. NJ. Ferry, jr., were from De-
trolt.
Judge Waldo NJ. York of the superior
court. and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. p. NJ. Green,
Mrs. E. j. wickersham, G. c. Horton, DR..
and Mrs. Talcott were from Pasadena.
Mrs. Cornelia M. Bergen, widow of Jacob
j. Bergen, formerly surrogate of
Kings county, Long Island, has
been making long stay at Echo noun
tain. Mrs. Bergen is member of the
famous Sorosis club, and has an elegant
residence on the Hudson, and in New York.
Many Cincinnati people have taken the
Mount Lowe trip this winter. Among those
on the register today are Mr.. and Mrs. l..
S. Roth, Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Evans, Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius Geisler.
Not ali visitors are content to end their
mountain climbing at the Alpine tavern.
This morning an enterprising and rolick-
ing party extended their travels by the
mule express to the summit of Mount
Lowe and gazed from that lofty outlook
over fields of virgin snow reposing in the
cool canyons on the northern slope of the
range. Those who constituted the mule
brigade this morning were DR.. and Mrs.
Granville MCGOWAN and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
E. Dunn of Los Angeles, Mr.. and Mrs. f.
L. Champlen and L. M. Hamburger of
Chicago, S. H. Westfall of New York, and
A. M. Schultz and ]. B. Steinmetz of Nor.
ristown, Pa.