St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-02

a comfortable home upon your lot LOT
$4,000 more. Many save from SoOO TO
$1,000 by building pretty bungalows
with wide p,azzas and sloping rooiS
This NAV seem like a small homestead
but after you have kept the weeds down
for one season and paid tor the water
that runs through your meter you VIII
he glad your ward was no larger. ne
luxuriauce of plant lite adds to the beauty
OF YOUR home. Some yards nave rows Vi
callas and Others long rows OF palms.
One place has a rose bush winch had, as
was estimated, 1250OO blossoms anu
every house is surrounded by DEUS "
Euolish violets, carnations, geraniums'
rose IN shes and usually few orange
trees. There are d, Ems of other flowers
hlossoming here IN all their glory, but
as | d, MT know howto spell their names
7 will stmplv say you see about every
fling here in gardens that you grow IN
window garcens and greenhouses IN the
East. No mention OF flowers would DC
comDlete without reference to the poppy
fields, which are just now seen IL all theI
golden glory. The poppy IS the S a {
flower and 20 see acres OF these DeauIliul
flowers in blossom delights the tourist
as much as it enrages the farmer, VINO
hates them as much as Vermont farmer
bates field of daisies.
Pasadena was plotted out with an
area of six square miles and it now mas
nearly $4,000 people and room Tor an
other 100000 1t is 1000 ct above sea
level and protected on three sides by
lofty mountain ranges now lightly Gov
cred with snow. Its location is ideal
and it's climate is unsurpassed by any
place in the United States. This last
sentence is not taken from any handbook,
but is the statement OF health seekers
who have tried all desirabe places and
come here to stay-nOt to die but to
hve-and enjoy outCo r life that Is tree
from zero weather. fogs or extreme heat.
Besides being the permanent home OF
people of small! mans, it Is also the home
OF many miliOnares whose residences
are nearly on one street. | doubt II
there is another ST. eet in the world IN a
city Of this size where SO much wealth Is
concentrated as on Orange Grove avenue,
a street over a mile long aud lined with
| houses on both sides, costing rom S25,-
| 600 to 100000 The semi tropical
surroundings OF these homes make the
| houses more attractive and the COmbtna
ton OF landscape gardening and archl'
lecture is ideal.
Pasadena is a Mecca for tourists and
every hotel aud boarding house has
turned away this winter as many tour
lists as it has housed. Col. Green OF Au-
gust flower fame owns the big hotel
which hears his name. This can accom-
MEDIATE 500 guests and he will spend
| $500 900 this summer to build second
annex to this palatial hosiery. When
this is completed the Green will be the
largest hotel in the world. The Ray
mond, a mile farther south, is almost as
large as the Green aud will be enlarged
to the extent OF 5000 900 this summer
Many of the smaller boarding houses
will be enlarged to meet the roWlnE
tourist trade which comes to southern
California to escape a winter i'll the East
| have mentioned none OF the interesting
side trips that we made from here tt
Mount Lowe on the wonder full railway
to Long Beach where bathing in MarcI
is always possible, to the ostrich tarn
with its $50 birds OF all sizes, or to Gaia
lima island, which always reminds glob
trotters of Capri near Naples, but hav
written enough Tor one letter and an
going to get another bit OF the outdoo
life which have so impertectIy described
ARTHUR F. STONE.
Pasadena, Cal, March %, 1902.