The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-26
ON THE STREET

There is one time In the week whe
you will never find the people of Los An
geles at home, and that is Saturda,
evening. But, go down on Broadway
Spring or Main, particularly Spring, an,
time between and 8 p. M, and you will
find your friends and all the rest of tn
world there. Spring street Is a cosmo
politan promenade between those hour
on Saturday night. People come dpwI
town to market, to walk about and get
little fresh air, and to see the other peo
pie doing the same thing. The crowds
remind one Of Broadway in New Yorl
on busy day. why, you surely mus
have more than 100000 people here
exclaimed little maid from Boston la 81
| night, as she almost vainly strove tc
pick her way through the crowds or
Spring street This Is as bad as it i
on our own Washington street." Which
the maid evidently meant for a great
compliment.
Another noticeable thing about the
Saturday night crowds is that every
body buys fruit. One of the leading
dealers tells me that he sells three times
as much fruit on Saturday as on any
other day, and no doubt the same is true
of the others. The Angelenos have prop
erly got into the habit of eating fruit,
and there is no reason on earth why
they should not 1t is plentiful, cheap
and of manifold variety. There is no
need of killing ones self by eating green
or overripe fruit in Los Angeles. If one
kind is not ripe another is, and it is
worse than useless to display poor fruit
for sale in this city.
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Speaking of fruit. Elvira and I drove
over to Pasadena last Sunday afternoon.
Elvira took it into her head. that she
wanted some fruit, and we drove over the
whole blessed city without being able to
find a fruit stand open for business.
They are either awfully good or very I'M
enterprising in Pasadena.
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All the world loves a lover, and this
tender sympathy has added a personal
interest to the leading members of the
Lyceum opera company, who have been
delighting large audiences at the Los
Angeles theater the last four nights.
James X. Hackett and Mary Mannering
as'suredly make as handsome a pair as
eyes may wish to look upon, and their
many admirers here will wish them a
long and happy run in the drama of real
life.
Can anyone explain why the west side
If Spring street is so much more popular
han the east side? AS far as fine !
buildings are concerned, the latter side |
las distinctly the advantage. And yet |
III an ordinary sunny afternoon you
nay stand at the corner of Second and |
spring and count twenty pedestrians |
PASS you on the west side to one on the
ther. If you are. looking for friend |
-ou are much more likely to find him on
he west side, and there are many more
etreats for liquid refreshment on this
ide also.
III &c. ------'-4 = 1---A 20 cA--A rrI-,i
cores of men I meet every day who are
tricken with the Clondyke craze and
ave got it bad. There is talk on the |
treet of Los Angeles expedition being |
tied up but If the moving spirits are
wise they won't set sail till the spring. !
Within the last two or three days have
leard the following remarks from at |
east two score men: "Ah, if 1 were an |
unmarried man and had no ties |
nd could lay hold of few !
hundred dollars, would be off |
o the new Eldorado p. d. O." And |
he strange part of it is that the women
want to go, too.
We have not heard much Of that anti
ton on-the-pavement ordi-
lance lately, but every day you can dis
,over plenty of evidences of its violation
Without looking very far either.
Louis Vetter is bound to make for
.une and without going to Clondyke
either. Although the Home Telephone
by the grace of the supreme
court, has had to retire into it's own shell
and possess it's soul in patience, Vetter's
,ssiduous study of the intricacies of the
telephone business has not been without
profit, at least the promise of it. He has
got hold of an invention, with the pat
INT locked up in his safe, of really good
thing. Vetter calls it an "antiseptic
but it is not as might be
expected any safeguard for the epicure
It is a very neat and simple contrivance
to make telephoning cleaner and less
dangerous. We can never tell what
-1,o
phone has transmitted into the receiver.
Weschcke's "Antiseptic Telephone Dia-
phragm." Just slipped over the mouth of
the receiver, prevents any such IN
pleasant possibilities. Vetter intends
taking his good thing with him to Chi
cago shortly and will undoubtedly lay
the foundation of his fortune forthwith.
BYSTANDER.
MY OWL-EYED TROUSERS