The San Francisco call., 1897-03-27
A QUEENS AMBITION.

1t is brave news that Santa Cruz has
authorized THE CALLS correspondent to
fash before the gaze of the world. In a
two-column dispatch from there which
THE CALL published yesterday morning
the claim is vaianIiy asserted that the
people down that way are not content
with merely having one of the most de-
lightfuI pleasure resorts in the world.
The fact that nature has endowed their
little dale by the sea with advantages
which nothing within the power oil the
world could duplicate or equal is duly ap.
preciated by them, but it does not prove
to be a couch sufficiently soft to tempt
Ambition to lie down upon it and rest.
Past it, with merely lingering glance of
satisfaction, it goes, and ultimately re-
solves into a conviction that Santa Cruz
Is fitted to be even more than nature has
fashioned her, Notwithstanding that ma
ture has adorned her so far above the
average of her sister cities.
Santa Cruz asserts that she can be self.
reliant commercial factor as we'll as
pleasure resort. Manitestly the office Of
pleasure resort is by far superior to that of
commercial center. Certainly it is rarer,
more attractive and withal more bene-
fetal to the higher elements Of humanity.
Yet, holding a position which nearly
every other community in the world
might envy, this energetic Santa Cruz
confidently assures US that queen may
become saieslady and still retain the
royal heritage and perquisites OF her
birth!
1t is redoubtable declaration. It is
very rarely that one sees a particularly
favored spot for recreation made into
successful commercial mart. Nor does it
often happen that the inhabitants of q
particularly favored pleasure resort desire
to exploit in other directions, whereon
they commonly look down with lofty
superiority and complacent security
Whether one is wise in doing so remains
for Santa Cruz to determine. One thing
alone is clear to US less fortunate burgs
if Providence had only been as kind to US
as it has been to Santa Cruz we should
hesitate to desire anything further. es-
pecially anything less valuable than the
things which we already possessed.
For selfish reasons alone caution is nee
essary for our versatile little sister city to
observe Will society, which now in
ciuQeS Sant8 OruZ as one Oh ltS summer
pets and makes much of il every year,
continue to smile upon it if commerce,
in tho shape of hurrying drays. tram cars,
vegetable wagons and cattle trains, in
trudes upon the sylvan repose which now
prevails? Will commerce harmonize with
the beautiful cliff drive the beach, the
quiet, pretty streets? Santa Cruz, you
see, is all in bunch, so to speaks
right up next to the ocean, whence es-
cape is rendered impossible by the encir-
cling hills crowding up to the rear of it.
The area is too small to accom- modate con-
fiIcting pursuits. What the town is in
one place it is in all places. or all over.
And it is all over an ideal spot to DRIFT
into for enjoyment.
If some friendly advice be permissible,
we would venture 10 suggest that Santa
Cruz give not too much thought to COM
mercial development. Rather expend her
surplus energies in adorning, with such
touches as man may add to natures won-
derwork, the rare features which make
her 30 attractive and so celebrated within
the pleasure-seeker's ken. In that lies her
province, and where could more glorious
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