The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-10
Special Correspondents.


LOS ANGELES. Dec. 3L--We viii soon
talk about last year. and date our let
tiers 1897, and in three short years IL viii
be a new century. and airships viii be
as plentiful as huckleberries o. Vermont
hillside, while science viii no doubt pro-
vide us with so many new inventions that
labor viii be pleasure and living an art.
/ have this wildly brought before me by
an inspection in the windows OF a big
carriage store on South Broadway of A
Pueblo Indians cart, made so many years
ago that II is only by a strain OF magma
ton we can place it's conception, and be-
side the ungainly two-wheeled antedilu-
Wan relic is a motor carriage, imported
from Paris and doing away with horses.
The owners OF both vehicles do wei TO
show them-one as a freak of modern
times and the other made a freak through
modern times for If ever there was A
freak country this is the one
What DO you think OF a country that
sends a schOolma'am 10 the Farallons
thirty miles from land. 20 instruct ten
children OF lighthouse keepers. and which
IS ward, or part OF a ward. OF San
Francisco How about land where
tramp comes along ore balmy day in
spring, works on the streets for dollar
a day. saves $50. opens 4 street stand, and
three years later owns $4,000 worth OF
property and is q big gun In politics.
That's Peter Horsen. OF Los Angeles
Can you conceive OF anything more ridicu-
fous than this-"Mai J. r. Carroll. Of
Randsburg. is a busy man. He IL night
clerk at hotel. a newspaper correspond
ent. stage Tine agent, deputy postmaster
sells stationery. IS manager OF the fele-
phone line. assayer real estate agent and
chief of police. all at one time, IN the
mining city OF Randsburg. where one year
ago there was nothing and now they have
eco population"
There is a hoy In Los Angeles. years
Cd, who believes that there is bona
flde Santa Claus, and there f. a beautiful
young lady living on Adams street who
has declined 10 be made a Fiesta Queen A
man named Warner runs one Of The neat
est. cleanest restaurants ] have seen ont
West. although rot lavlshly or ornately
adorned. ard each meal costs only )
cents. 4 New England boiled dinner con
sists % q large slice Of cOrned beef, well
cooked. two white potatoes. carrot a
halt of turnip. quarter nea6 q cab
bsKe. three slices Of good bread, piece
% butter. a cup OF good coffee and dish
az saEo pudding and he claims fs makes
4 ceEt or each meal. The menu consists
az raasts. boiled meats. fish etc. ane from
u a. m until ? II each day. Sunday ex-
cep.ed. for Warner refuses 20 % bust
ness on the Lords day. his res .auran1 IL
crowded men In line awaiting a turn. II
vas simply astounding. and the class q
patrons was most decidedly respectable.
Min quite a few merchants clerks and
IN ore instance. the owner o one 81 fhe
dry goods stores q The cltv. Do Jon Won
der 7 call this 3 freak land
The annual carnival % the roses Of
Pasadena takes place this coming New
Years agy. ard promises 20 % grand az
fair. The executive committee % he Los
Angeles Fiesta wiH 70 over as guests q
TIE Paxadeaa fo.ks and taeir tally no
ELL be s!a5orately decorated g.th roses