Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-02

farm, worth a trip any time to see. A
days trip takes you through the orang
groves and the orange belt cities of
the San Gabriel ard San B~ernardino
valleys. Then there is San Diego, Santa
Catalina. Santa Monica, Mount Lowe.
and a score of other places. Mount
Lowe is a bold peak of the Sierra Madre
range, 5000 feet high, and climbed by the
MT. Lowe railway. Looking down from
almost any eminence, there are stretched
out before You the fertile valleys and
beautiful cities. The scene includes
Los Angeles, twenty miles distant, Pasa-
dena, six miles away, and a score of
smaller villages and towns, with thous-
ands OF acres of orange groves, vineyards,
while beyond you at one side are ranges
OF rugged mountains and on another the
broad Pacific studded with finnumerable
ocean islands.
Pasadena is city of L 1900 people. It
has grown from a sheep pasture to a
winter resort, world wide in fame. in
fifteen years. Eastern travellers reside
during the winter in modest homes or in
palatial residences. Every fruit and
Hover, shrub or treee known to the most
luxnriant forest or flower growth of Cali
fornia is represented within the limits of
tho city. There are commodious
churches, public and private school
buildings, free library, elegant private
homes, and INTELLECTUALLY beautiful
buildings and public institutions.
The ostrich farm &C South Pasadena is
worth visiting. There are upwards of
$40 birds, the offspring of some fifty-two
that were brought from South Africa in
1885. The Matching of eggs and pulling
of feathers are interesting events of
which due notice is always given in the
local papers that travellers may see if
they choose. The missions are another
feature of the sights of the locality. In
the middle of the century the Spanish
government, desiring to the
colonization of the territory, then un-
peopled save by the tribes of Indians.
entered into an arrangement with the
Order of st. Francis for the establish
ment of missions which were to be the
future nuclei of cities and villages. The
franclscans were practically left in pos
session of the country for half a century.
Seven years before the declaration of in
dependence the first monks entered the
bay OF San Diego and founded the first
mission near the city of that name.
Others were established as far north
as the present site of San Fran
cisco. They were built of stone and
hard burned brick, and the labor Incl
cent to their construction was vast.
Brick had to be burnt, stone quarried
and heavy timbers felled and carried
down from the mountains on mems
shoulders, The Indians performed most
Of the labor, under the direction of the
monks. Primitive factories were estab-
lished and the missions 0 became
enormously valuable, their yearly rev.
enues sometimes amounting to $1,000
OOO. The missions have stood for gener-
atoms and generators. Earthquakes at
times destroyed some of them, and on
one occasion an earthquake toppled over
a tower, sent it crashing through the
roof OF a mission and over forty people
persisted. So long as the missions stand
there will be an air of historic romance
connected with them-the faint atmos-
phere of a time and condition that is for
ever past, and yet will live forever in the
minds OF Thoughtful people who see the
ruins OF these temples erected by the
1lrst monks of the western coast.
vi the delights of California books
have beer written and might DO again
and something still be left untold. To
appreciate California is to see it. and
to travel through it's resorts. To .see
California and die" might be an apt par
aphrase of an old %admonition, but there
is no better one: "See California-and
live." For there life is certainly worth
its trials and efforts.
Quite a number of Bismarckers are
now at or near Pasadena, and all write
back to friends giving glowing descrip-
tons of the climate, the beautiful drives.
the tropical fruits, flowers and foliage.
Mrs. M. H. Jewell and her mother, Mrs.
Woods have a cottage for the winter in
Kensington Place. A sister of Mrs.
Woods has lived in Pasadena for manv
years-was n of the first settlers. the
city being founded by an Indiana COLONY,
Mrs; Rev: Durrie is spending the win
ter at Pasadena and her health is much
better than when she left Bismarck.
MI. and Mrs. Frank Donnelly are visit
ing, friends in Los Angeles, Pasadena
and San Diego.
Miss Maggie Davidson is also at Pasa-
dena, and finds the mild climate bene-
ticlal to her health. She is much i'm
proved.
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