Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-02-07
FROM SUNNY CLIMES
The Business End of THE Journal
Sizes up the Eden of America.
1872 State street.

The Business End of THE Journal
Sizes up the Eden of America.
PASADENA, Feb. I've have now
spent about week at this famous
hometown for the wealthy-winter
resort, summer resort, natures sani-
tarium, home for invalids, heaven on
earth, or what you please to call it,.
They have had several frosts here,
reducing the ordinary profusion Of
flowers to minimum, nd of course
making the customary unusual sea-
son." The temperature has ranged
from 60 to Is degrees during the day,
and falling as low as freezing at
night, but the days are usually sunny
and the atmosphere is delightful.
Pasadena is beautifully laid out 10
the rolling San Gabriel valley, about
thirty miles from the Pacific, Its
streets are well graded up, and almost
lined with over-hanging shade trees.
1t is chiefly a residence city, and the
homes are built in all styles Of archi-
tectuIe, from the ancient adobe to the
modern brc-a-brac. Large lawns,
wIthspreading palms, orange trees and
beautiful Shrubbery, beautify the sur
rOundings of every house, from the
simplest cottage to the most palatial
mansion.
People come here from all corners
of our land to get we'll, yet it is the
fashion here to be sick.
The mild, salubrlous climate,
the sweet pure mountain and
sea air. as we'll as the fairy tales
about the wonderful fruits of the
tropics. draw thousands Of tourists
here annually. The people who live
here have come in part . to enjoy
these luXuries, and other to supply
tile needs of the suffer-
ing. The hotels here are mod
els of comfort, and the doctors
are legion. Nearly every other home
on the fashionable streets has ply
sician's sign on it, and in certain sec
tions boarding houses are equally
numerous.
A common sight these balmy morn
thousands of consU mptive patti
ents and all grades of 1nvalids
afoot and in rolling chairs. People
hobbling about on crutch and one
lung are the rule while the robust
physique aud bOunteous smile is the
exception. This of course refers
chiefly to the tourist, as the average
resident is the personitication OF
health and happiness. 1t is claimed
the one-luDger is soon rehabiltated
by the magic touch of the golden
cline, aud then it is only matter OF
time when be becomes a fixture
dead or alive.
1t is common thing to
separate the people here into
two classes those who have con-
sumption and those who think they
have it. The patient who comes
here ia the last stages Immediately
thinks he is getting better. Then
the other class, whose bronchial or.
gans are sound and think it is the
fashion of the country TO have con-
sumption, soon get to feel that they
are going into a decline and it's only
short time until they become con-
vinced that they have the dread dis
ease. The probability is both these
classes are mistaken as to their true
condition.
Los Angeles, the metropolis
of Southern California, is ten
miles west of this place, a
live bustling city, of 10000 people,
still growing, but place that offers
little opportunity for business except
for people with capital. Wages are
about the same here as in Oregon,
with but little better opportunity for
employment. Expenses of living are
about the same, rents are higher, but
the people grow more dependent here,
from the fact that all seem TO depend
entirely upon the influx Of eastern
people and money, and look less to the
results Of what they produce on the
ground. Los Angeles, nevertheless,
is remarkably lively place.
A. F. HoFER, JR.