The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-24

even grade could be obtained, and the 500
feet of altitude overcome with a grade SO
light that it would not be felt much. To
build such cyceway g. bill had to be passed
through the legislature. The first bill was
killed by the governor when it was almost
passed, for fear that a regular elevated
railroad would be the result. A new bill
was drawn and finally passed.
Since that time work has been going on
all the time, securing right of way, incor-
porating, surveying and experimenting in
surface for the cycleway, besides a number
of other details that had to be considered,
A franchise through Pasadena required con-
siderable effort and time to obtain, but
has just been secured. y franchise
through South Pasadena is now being
sought, and then will come the effort to
secure similar favor from Los Angeles.
In Pasadena the cycleway will run as an
elevated railway over an alley from the
heart of the city to the car and power house
of the Pasadena and Los Angeles electric
railway. This will bring the Pasadena ter
minus opposite the beautiful Hotel Green.
within two blocks of the very center Of the
business portion of Pasadena.
From near Raymond Hill, where former
ly stood the world-famous Raymond hotel
ana WHeTI tll0 new lLdyI1OHu 1Idy some
day be built, the cycleway runs parallel
with the Los Angeles Terminal railway to
the ostrich farm.
Thus the elevated bicycle path goes
through Pasadena and South Pasadena in
an almost straight line and at an even
grade and reaches the east bluffs of the
beautiful Arroyo Seco, where picturesque
stretch of country begins.
The first six 81 a IF noi1ec M ho
way is to be ready for use this winter. This
will comprise tho first and second sections
and brings the path to the edge of Los An
geles. 1t also traverses Merlemount park,
no acres of land lying on the east side of
the Arroyo Seco beyond Sycamore grove
and consisting of a small mountain and
deep canyon. with timber, q spring of wa
ter and amphitheater sides that should
soon be converted into another Smiley
Heights" the beautiful spot which has
made Redlands famous with globe trotters.
The accompanying map will show the
general direction OF the cyceway, which
is southwest. After striking the Arroyo
Seco bluffs at Lincoln park, near the os-
trich farm, the right of way follows the
bend of the bluffs except below Garvanza,
where 1t passes behind the mountain along
which the Santa Fe railroad skirts before
turning abruptly and crossing the Ar
royo on the new steel bridge. The cycle
way will cross above the Santa Fe tracks at
this point with a high bridge so through
hogback with a thirty-foot cut and skip
across q canyon at a dizzy height, and
finally, with fifty-foot-high arches again
strike the brow of the rolling slopes that
there make the east wall of the Arroyo.
At Merlemount park the cycleway is a
clear hundred feet above the bed of the
stream, although following the bluff with
the viaduct but dozen or so feet above
the ground. At this point the big pavll-
ion in Merlemount park will be a hundred
feet above the main cycleway, but the
cycleway will fork on each side of the
park and paths will run up the mountain
to the pavilion and park with per cent
grades.
By the view of Sycamore grove, which
was taken from the right of way, one can
get good idea of the grand panorama to
be had from the cyclcway and from the
park hundred feet higher up the foot
hills.
At Avenue 50, formerly known as Swain
street, the cycle path will cross Pasadena
avenue on another high bridge and fol-
low the Terminal and Santa Fe railways
down Los Angeles river on it's way to tho
terminus at the plaza in this city,
At Fillmore gate entrance to Elysian
park. the cycleway will be but two hun
ured yards away On the other side of the