The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1902-01-10
San Diego, California.
Dec. 10th 1901.

Dec. Goth 1901.
Am right, yes, the calendar
says this is December and was yes
terday not Christmas, but looking
out on the green lawn with here
and there palm upon which the
bright warm sun is beating down
and looking too lhro' n window
ever which green smllaX aud fuch-
sias are trailing, is it any wonder
that we stop to think II we are
right in date which to us hereto
fore has suggested snow? Are we
to blame when some 5ne comes upl
to Us while we are picking straw
berries (as we were yesterday II
we do not wish them a Merry
Christmas. To me II seems quite
a long while since Christmas,altho'
it is n tact even Santa Claus can
live here, yet L think he has aban
doned his old time sleigh, and per
haps takes an automobile In Cali
fornia; anyway Santa Claus has
been here, which is the only evil
dence that it is Christmas The
watermelons which still lie thick
in the patch seem all unmindtul
that they are very much out OF sea-
son, but tomatoes and green beans
are never out OF date and can be
had from the garden at any time
OF the year and 50 can peas, lettuce,
onions and spinach.
The orange season is now at its
hei hit, tho there is always to be
seen green fruit and blossoms. II
takes an orange 10 months to ma
ture, and aftcr they are ripe they
will still hang on tho trees three
or four months. Oranges grown
near the beach are not good, The
salt water effects them. There Is
not season but what there is ont
, or more kinds OF fruit to be had
The whole year,even now, which /,
: the scarcest fruit season, we still
have the awberries and tn,
( quavas with the orange at its best
The loquots come in when thes
e are gone.
Lemons are very prolific her
r and are also very profitable, but t
t see the piles that are dumped int
the bay and along the roadsld
: you would think they We're wort
t nothing. The fruit growers AssC
citation, an organization protectin
: the grower, will not allow anythin
l. but the very best to 60 onthe ma
ket, neither will it allow them
i cut prices, hence the standard
J. the fruit as well as price is kel
up.
t. ! was temporarily employed q
Il assistant Cashier at Hotel Del Go
onado, while the lady took ~,
d ton, and i you will bear with n
will tell you about the Hotel al
V the Island.
,e Hotel Del Coronado is the large
seaside resort in the world.
lie covers five Of the twenty acres
its grounds, has $50 rooms, Is pa
lors, several dining rooms, /
10 main one having a floor area Of /
L. 600 square feet. There Is b;
room with 1900 square feet
n. space and an inner court or troI
be cal garden OF more than one ae
The Hotel in fact, is a city with
as itself with its drug store, boot
curio store, barber shop, telegra
I'd oillces, messenger service, 81
bles, printing office, library, ,
I'd gallery, fire department, elect
light plant, ice plant, water syst,
ne and grocery, and for theanuseme
~ OF the guests there are bowling
he leys, billiards, the plunge ba
es ostrich farm, monkey colony, 5,
1t. tanks, golf links, steam launch
to sail boats, Japanese tea garden {
IS SO it Is not strange that people "
he have more money than they kn,
what to do with, come here to fiji
it all away, There are so ma
things to see and enjoy. The h
is on one side OF the Hotel a
.st the Ocean on the other, ard son
es times the big waves dash
10. against the house. Coronado Isla
is about miles wide and 4 mi
ri long, has postoiiice,four churcl
NO and graded school, a populatI
OF 1900, so you see the island
adj quite populated. Coronado is q
OF nected with San Diego by elect
20, cars and steam ferry. :,
,s- This, | think is quite enou
rk about a small Island, but il y
will permit me to come again "
at say something about San Die
T. and the ever interesting story
is Romona's home old Town,
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