The Press., 1896-04-09
Continued from last weekly WESTERN LETTER.
Madison, Wis, March. 10, 1s9t

Madison, Wis, March. 10, 1896.
 Another day spent in visiting Pasa- dena, 8 village to the north and east about ten miles from Los Angeles. 1 was in Pasadena on three different days, passing through one day to visit a ranch of over fiy' hundred acres upons which found oranges, lemons, olives and grapes in featuring establishment near the ranch, and saw where the Port and the M aderia and the Clarets and the Angelica are all made, as we'll as what they call good brandy. Returning to town, passed the old mission of San Gabriel.
 On another day went by electric car to Pasadena and up on to the foothills to the east Of Pasadena. After the electric cars reached place where the ascent was
 co steep, we were accommodat'J by q cable car up a mountain side fourteen hundred feet, at an angle of fifty-eight degrees. At the top, or at the end of the cable, is the hotel known as the Echo Mountain Hotel. Above this point is another electric road leading still higher up the mountain for distance olive miles. At the end of this electric road, there is house known as the Alpine Club House. It costs but one thousand dollars to join the club. need not say that did not join it. Still above this electric road is mule path to the top of Mt. Lowe, which is over six thousand feet high. At the upper end of the electric road we find 8 large forest growth of pine, white oak and 1.-Two oak. We found pine-trees more than twenty feet around; and we found large number more than four feet through.
 From Los Angeles, went to San Fran cisco. Taking the train in the early after neon at Los Angeles, reached San Fran cisco the next day 0 little before noon. The three days that I spent there were too short to make a complete description. I will however, attempt an outline. Some thirty miles to the northeast of San Fran cisco, the Sacramento and the San Joa- quin rivers unite and enter the Bay of San Francisco, at the southeastern end. The bay runs from the north, bearing little east, to the south and its exact length I do not know. It must be at least forty mS1Cs long and probably more. To the west of this and between it and the ocean lies range of hills running nearly paral- Tel with the coast north and south. These hills slope on the west to the ocean and on the east to the bay. San Francisco in it's business part is on the eastern slope of the hills and facing the bay. Its wharves are on the bay; it's business portion is down close to the bay and it's leading business streets run to the bay. How this bay was formed is a query that can not answer; but, if Iwere toguess, I should say that 1t was once large lake made by the waters of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers, that in time it broke over the hills lying between it and the ocean, ,and formed channel through which the ships now enter the bay; and the mouth of it at the ocean is known as the "Golden Gate" As l said, great part of the city is on the O0"0UOAA 04OP0 O4 Ch0 ulllS ldClLS III0 OdJ It extends back on the hills, and over the hills, and some of it extends to the ocean. These hills are so steep that electric cars can not be used upon them, and the street cars are largely cable.
 The entrance from the ocean to the bay is to the south, think, of the center of the bay. Near the mouth of this entrance to the ocean and to the south of it is a point of land projecting into the ocean known as Inspiration Point. At the ex- treme end of this point large and beauti- full building has been constructed The