The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-14
BEAUTIES OF CALIFORNIA,

from minnesota 10 Tue coast, Via Tile
popular Canadian Pacific railway.
And now, having been ia Cauluruia
Tor some Time, l am EN- oldeLeu 10
write 10 you VI It's beauties, Al The
WORD Is permissible. My comments
must or course be limited 10 those
localities OF wulcn l am cO1nlZtnt
from personal OOstrVatlon: tor l nud
that the one source Of Tue UVd report
ed OF California is the vlvlu aud ever
TeruIle imagination OF him, aud sumo
times. alas that it should DE 20 OF
ner, who has never seen Tue particular
spoJ when heOr she So depI eclatlngy
describes. And 50, lest my enLhuSl-
aStic liking for THIS great state should
lead me 10 tie opposite tIeme,
viii write only OF LAe places L nave
seen; and know OF no OeCOer U1Glu-
ming than the great Sdnlocd unlVer
Sity God gave TO a loving Iathrr dnu
mother child, a boy. After lettlug
MIN Uarry with them until he haa be-
come their Idol, the Very sunSnlre vi
JhcIr existence, the Heavenly FAJuer
IN bis III hulte WISDOM, gathered Llie
darling again uaUO himself. IL was
his Wish that his parents sn0uId tx
pend the great fortune which YOU'D
nave been his, in The erection or d
mighty uniyersl1y; and his visa has
been sacredly observed aod tncEe mas
been erecbeo TO MS memory mouu-
men5 which shall endure Tor ali time.
So, ia a spot which has shOWered
upon il every conceivable naturdi adj
vantage, there stands the great Lee
land STANFORD, Jr., university, Wnere
may cone rlcn and poor alike and,
without money and Without price,
may secure the priceless boon Uf
liberal education. This great school
is situated IN the famed Santa Clara
valley, CALIFORNIA; garden spot, near
the village of PaIo Alto, and eighteen
miles from the city of San Jose. Here
it lies, hidden away in this SequeSLered
vale, caTeSSed by sun and azure sky,
shut off from fog and boisterous wind
by the grim and massive mountains,
removed from the clamUr and strife
Of the busy world dyet near enough
TO be in touch With It's thought aud
action. Standing on the summit Of a
hill near the university buildings and
looking down the valley, the sIlvery
san FrancisQuito caa be seen rippiiug
It's way TO the distant bay. La the
foreground the wooded heights OF tue
Santa Cruz range. la the distance,
gliuting aud gllstening in the rags of
sunlight, is the round white dome ur
the great LICK Observatory. browning
the highest peak of the Monte Dlablu
range. AT your feet the beautiful
green's OF the orchards, and the fields
Of waving grain, yellOwed here and
there by the prufusion of 60 den pop
pies. Surely" you will eXclaim,
this is goodly spot and worthy OF
much mention" Near by is Mrs.
Stanfora'S summer home, and the
mausoleum, built c. pure white Parlan
marble, and guarded by two great
spninXes, whose lmmuJab e silence
seems emblema5ic of the hidden Sc
cretS OF eternity: all surrounded by
beautiful grounds and an atmosphere
redoent with the scent OF ever Gloom
ing roses. The simple symmetry of
The university buildings themselves
is remarkable, The Architectural
motif is the 0Dd Moorish. 1t is built
10 the form Of huge quadrangle.
series of long, one StOrled bulldogs
enclosing mammoth flower filled
inner court from which often the reci-
taJlOu ana lecture rooms. When
finally completed the university VIII
Include a second quadrangle built
about the first. Work on the second
has Just begun. Besides the uniyer-
sity buildings proper there are two
large dormlLorles, Eacina ana Robel
halls, gym1aSiums, and a great mn
scum filled with rare and costly
things from all lands. Besides THESE
there are the various fraternity houses
and the homes Of The teachers.
Stanford is the richest endowed
school in the world. The estate On
which it is located consists Of 8,4OO
acres, rising into the foothills. In ad-
dition to this is the Vina estate in
Tehama county Of SO, 900 acres and the
Gridley estate ia Butte county of b.
coo acres The balance of the endow-
menu being in interest bearing Sc
curities. The faculty consists of
eighty-seven professors and in
structors, at the head OF which is the
world famous David Stan Jordan, and
under his direction Stanford is be-
coming world renowned California
is well supplied with schools and col
leges. The great state university at
Berkely has already secured praise
from the great university at Oxford
in England The affiliated profess
sional colleges are in San Francisco;
Mankato being represented in two OF
them, Theodore Hansen in the dental
and myself in the law department..
Miss Flood, a daughter Of the late
millionaire Flood, has just given to
the state university property valued
at 81, 100000 in consequence Of which
the work of the university is TO be
greatly extended. The great 36-inch
telescope at Mt. Hamilton is the prop
erty of the state university and the
Mark Hopkins institute OF art, in this
city also belongs TO it. The latter is
home built by the late Mr.. Hopkins
and decided to the state by his wife.
1t is said to excel in architectural de-
sign and beauty anything among the
private castles of Europe. Its cost
was 1,50O, 900. 1t contains thirty
four rooms, no two of which are fin.
ished alike. The walls and ceilings
are hand decorated and the floors are
inlaid with colored woods Another
of the educational institutions of the
state is the University of the Pacific,
a Methodist school OF much size and
Importance, at College Z ark, near San
Jose. A fourth is the Catholic coll