The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-08-26
A Week in California.
Riverside California, August II.

f0rnla. Some places of interest
visited.-Editor Timis:-In South.
ern California every body is suppos-
ed to take vacation during the
summer months, going either to the
mountains or the Sea shore, we
chose the latter place. We (my
brother and y left Riverside Aug.
LIST for Los Angeles where we spent
two nights and a day in visiting
points of interest in and about the
city. Los Angeles is a thriving city
and claims population of a hun
dred thousand and is growing rapi-
Oily. Its streets and parks are we'll
kept, has an excellent street car
service, both electric and cable cars
being used.
A thriving business in crude Pc
troleum oil is being carried on in the
northern part of the city where are
located hndreds of oil wells which
We're opened up about four Years
ago.
On the End of August we went by
wheel to the ostrich farm which is
located nine miles out on the cleo
trio road running from Los Angeles
to Pasadena. The farm is enclosed
with high board fence. There are
nearly 100 birds on the farm. the
old ones weigh $50 lbs. each, the
young ones, when hstched, are as
large as a common sized hen. They
commence to lay at four years of
age, lay from twelve to fifteen eggs
at laying, each egg weighing
three four and half pounds. Their
nests are made by scratching out a
basin in the ground. 1t takes the
eggs forty days to hatch, the male
bird sets at night and the female
during the day. The young birds
are taken from the old ones as soon
as Matched and turned into an al
falfa patch where they thrive and
grow like so many calves. The
principal food given the ostrich is
alfalfa hay, beet pulp and grain
The plumes plucked every nine
months are dressed and sold at the
farm. The receipts from sale Ol
planes and the admission fee tC
the farm, which is twenty-five cts
makes it very lucrative business
1t is well worth ones time and the
admission fee to see this novel in
dustry.
From the ostrich farm we wen
three miles to the Old San Gabrie
mission, one of the twenty-one mis-
siOns established in California by
the Mission Fathers in the latter
half of the last century and tn,
early part of this century, being thu
fourth one established within thu
state. San Gabriel Mission was
founded Sept. s, III, by a party
consisting of Rev. Fathers Angel,
Somrea and Pedro Cambon and +,
guard of ten soldiers.
The mission church is about 10
#. long, 26 wide and 80 high, lnsid
measurement. The foundation
and walls, up to the original win
dows are of stone and morton, tn
upper part being of brick. At tn
ground the walls are about five f,
thick. The mortar used was q
such excellent quality that tn
building is almost as strong as
hewn out of solid rock. When i
1856 the windows were enlarged,
was with the greatest difficult,
that the work was done.
The altar is very old and quain
1t is adorned with number of lif
size statues, as follows: On tn
left-hand side facing the altar, tn
upper statue is that of st. Franci
of Assist, the lower one is that c
st. JOrachim. In the center ar
those of the Angel Gabriel,
whom the church is dedicated, an
of the Blessed Virgin. The uppe
statue On the right-hand side
, that of st. Anthony of Padua, Will
the lower is that of st. Dominic.
In front of the church, under tn
organ left, is an old confessional
said to antedate the church buiI(
ing.
f The interior walls are ornamente
with number of life size picture
7 of the apostles and other saint
: They are very old and in an excel
!. ent state of preservation.
I. The belfrey was constructed f
} siy bells hut two of the bells we,