Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-29

turned into vineyards and orchards, ant
water that was formerly used for washInJ
for gold is now used in irrigation. Her
we entered the California fruit regions
and the finest peaches were sold us "thre
for five, then at cent apiece and later a
five cents dozen, and at last good ole
man came aboard and handing fifty cen
box to Mr.. Pease hastily said, "Scatte
these to the Vermont friends. My name
| is on the box" and he was gone.
At Placers we were first welcomed By
the Californians, and fruit and flowers
were distributed to us all.
AT Sacramento this was repeated ano
surely tn, re were 1000 people at the sta
zion TO greet us, and when the Vermont
yell was given you may be sure we re.
ceived a double welcome. Here the White
Caps met Us from San Francisco and &C
companied us to that place. At Oakland
our welcome was repeated and cannot be
described. We arrived at San Francisco
Tuesday night, July 9th, at about
O'Clock.
GEORGE w. MORROW.
The following is an interesting extract
from letter written in San Francisco
under date OF July 18th to Mrs. Ellen
blanchard and Miss Maud, by DR.. L. o.
Blanchard -
1--WE are having very, very fine time
here and are escaping the terrible hot
weather that all the rest of the country
outside of San Francisco are troubled
with Just now. II is warm in the sun but
cool on the shady side OF the street with a
good breeze ali the time. 1t is the warm
est about 10 a. m, then the cool winds
begin TO blow and in the latter part OF the
afternoon one needs an overcoat on to be
comfortable.
Well, we have been to q good many
places in San Francisco and have seen
most OF the points OF interest. We went
out twice to Golden Gate Park, which is
considered finer than Central Park in New
York. We made two visits TO the Seal
Rocks and the Cliff House and beach, and
while out there we saw hundreds OF seals
and seagulls on their nests on tie rocks.
The baths are great resort here and
are the largest enclosed bathing houses in
the world II is so cold here that the
water has to be heated for the baths,
which are immense tanks in a large con-
servatory of flowers with seats for the
lockers on.
We attended a number OF the conven-
tion meetings, which were very good. Had
quite time getting our trunks We ar
rived Tuesday and did not get our trunks
till Saturday evening and worked hard
every day to get them at that. They had
more trunks down on the pier than you
could stack up in Randolph.
Wednesday was Oakland day and we
went out there. II is just across the bay
from San Francisco and we went on the
ferry. The Oakland people arranged for
transportation and car fare and gave us a
very nice lunch. They furnished guides
to show us around and took us to their
parks, the cemetery and fine places. 1t
was terribly crowded and somewha
warm. For lunch they had $4,000 sand
witches, two carloads of fruit, besides cake,
lemonade and coffee in proportion. That
makes me think-we are living on fruit
now. We can buy sixteen very large, the
very incest favored, thoroughly ripe
peaches for five cents. | never ale any
thing so delicious. Tney just melt in
ones mouth. Plums, and oh, such nice
cherries aud apricots, all for songl
Yesterday we went TO San Jose, where
the people were met by carriages and taken
out to see the fruit and nut orchards.
We were SO fortunate as to get into a
team drawn by four horses, which took
fourteen people. and were driven 10 the
house of the man who provided it. He
raises olives and grapes and he took us
all through his works for extracting the
olive oil. He had tanks and tanks that
would bold over one hundred gallons
each OF olive oil, which he said was
worth four dollars gallon. He then
took us into his house and gave us an ele-
CANT lunch. He wasia royal entertainer
IA very wealthy man who has been
abroad good share OF his life. After
showing us his vineyards and olive or
chards we we're driven back to San Jose,
" hich was nine miles, all the way through
orchards on both sides of the road as far
as one could see, of peach, olive, walnut,
almond, apricot, plum, cherry and other
fruit and grapes. We stayed over night
at San Jose. Have Just returned from
there this afternoon and go to the meet
ing of the Pacific Coast Dental congress
this evening with DR.. Fred Metcalf, my
chum in Boston.
Tomorrow we go down to Del Monte
for two days trip and take in the eight
cen. mile drive which is raved over so
much as the finest drive in the world. Re-
turning we stay here over Sunday, then
go to the Yosemite Valley for a weeks
trip. Next we go to Bates Nichols, at
Dinuba for few days, after which we
come back to San Francisco for the last
time and start homeward. We stop at
Sacramento little, then stay in Portland,
Ore, for day or two. Next we go to
Tacoma, Wash, and stop one dsy to have
a boat ride ON Puget Sound. From there
we journey to Spokane and then on to the
Yellowstone National Park. For one
week we visit that beautiful spot. We
stop one day at Jamestown, n. D., one
day at Chicago and then come directly
home. We are at the Palace hotel, San
Francisco, and have good accommoda-
lions here.h