The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-07
SAN DIEGO, CAL,
October 2S, 1901.

my paper find my subscription
is overdue, l enclose check, as
| would not like to do without it.
Although nearly a week old when
they arrive, / fairly devour the
home papers--I say home, for so
it will always be to me. 1t hard
ly seems possible / have been
away a year, but left there Cc-
tober "a, 1900.
''I think it was the greatest de-
sire of my life to go to California,
but now l am quite satisfied, and
willing to move on While there
are many advantages, there are
about as many disadvantages.
SIT has been said that Califor-
MIA is fairyland of agreeable
surprises, and this is true of this
southern portion-especially Is
this true of the summer climate.
The generally accepted idea is,
that it is very hot here. That is
true of Pasadena, Los Angeles,
and many other places that are
noted for their winter climates
but San Diego has an ideal sum-
ner as we'll as winter climate
We are about 1876 miles south OF
Los Angeles, situated directly on
San Diego Bay, and overlooking
the Pacific Ocean. San Diego is
well built city of about 10000
Inhabitants, with numerous good
st6res, fine residences and gen
eral air of comfort and prosper
ity.
"Situated on the hills above
Coronado on San Diego bay, with
view of the Pacific ocean in
front, and with mountains for
background, it offers attractions
of which the eye never grows
tired. Far to the South can be dis
cerned the faint outline of the
Mexican coast, and a few miles tc
the north is Point Iona which
separates the bay from the ocean.
"a short distance north is old
San Diego, rich in legends OF
Ramona" the heroine of Helen
Hunt Jackson's book. 1t was
here, in an old adobe chapel, still
standing, that Ramona is said tc
have been married.
"The bay and harbor of Sar
Diego are remarkable. Never
visited by storms, and with M
dangerous rocks or passages, i
offers an ideal haven for ships
Point Iona and Coronado Beacf
are lined with mines which make
it well nigh impossible for a hos
tile ship to approach the city
just here, toa, is the quarantine
station where all foreign ships
must be examined before the,
can unload their cargoes.
Coronado Beach is a very Ions
peninsula which separates tn
bay from the ocean on the south
as Point Iona does on the north
1t is connected with the mali
land about fifteen miles below th
city. On it is the magnificen
Hotel del Coronado, with but on
rival on the Pacific coast. Situ
ated between the bay and tn
ocean, but almost overhangin
the latter, in the midst of trop
cal garden with broad beac
where surf bathing can be indu
ged in the year round, it seems
veritable paradise to those seein
il for the first time. During tn
past summer, the bay was unusl
ally attractive on account OF I'll
phosphorescence which filled il
water. That wonderful glow r.
sembing huge electric lights
now underneath, now on top
the waves-cannot be described
and has not yet been satisfacto
lily accounted for. Here an
there a fish would dart through
looking for all the world like
streak of lightning; and, agai
whole schools of fish were brougl
IL light by it's radiance.
"The city has fine Librar
and during the winter win
housed ia splendid buildir
now In course of erection at