Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-17
California Does Moth
ingUnleSS OnaMag-
nificent Scale
Street Car Conductors Dur
ing Recent Storm Wore
Gum Boots and Carried
Passengers Ashore
lEdItorlal correspondenee.l J

land ferry, past the wireless tel
graph station on Goat Island, OF
through Oakland, the beautiful res
dence suburb of San Francisco. Lea
ing Santa Barbara Saturday we m,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gid. Stolz, enroute fo
Los Angeles. They have been NAL
ing the tour of California south b
day journeys, but went down tn
coast, while we went down throug
the interior. One can go either wa
and get day trains, and so see the fin
scenery and get good rest at night
They were as well pleased as W
have been at cutting out night rldinl
on trains and for one or two person.
II Is the more agreeable way to travel
TO say nothing OF cheating the Pull
man company and getting so mucl
more out OF the trip. On a Sut'ei
street car our party again met Mrs
Williams Of Stockton, one Of the mos
NHdIWlhk Nulubi nuns ~ was Jul beoV
pleasure to meet on the whole trip
How the ships we meet on the ocean
OF life do brighten the voyage, and we
pleasantly speak as we pass them by
The day trip out Of Frisco over
the Southern Pacific is a very pleasant
one to take. We come out OF Oak.
land. through a region of ollwells,
along the great bay with its ocean
shipping. past the bay of San Pablos,
and across the ferry over the Straits
of Carquinez, where the Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers enter the
bay. The great bay with all its arms,
beaches and tributaries is a world Of
commerce. Port Costa Rlca has an
immense lumber trade, many Of the
Oregon water points emptying the
product of their sawmills here. The
bay points will take more and more
of Oregon products. and river steam.
ers tow barges far into the interior.
Alameda is rapidly developing into a
rival OF Oakland, with residence dis.
trlcts. docks and the new Salt Lake
railroad terminus, called the Western
Pacific It runs via Stockton, Sacra.
mento. Orovlle ami the Beckwith pass
to Salt Lake, with a branch at Feather
river to the Diamond match factory
near Frisco. j
One can get almost any kind of
climate In Southern California. on
Thursday when the big rains fell in
Los Angeles and all over the valleys
the temperature was 81 at the sum.
mer resort hotels on Nj. Lowe. Tues.
day it had been "a in the shade IN the
valley cities away from the ocean II
never rains but Il pours in California.
is an old saying and partly true The
dry hard character OF the soil where
Il Is not cultivated and irrigated makes
Il pour on In washes as fast as A.
comes down and street cars make
their way through rushing torrents
IN the finest residence and best bust ,
less districts. Conductors are an ,
.blebodied men, as hey are compelled
% take their passengers ashore. The ,
men generally pun on their boots and ,
wade, but the ladies and children are
.arried TO the sidewalks. It's grab !,
our clothes and run. child run" when
he rains begin TO come al los Angel,
IS.
AZ the Occidental hotel Frisco. we ,
let Major G W. Johnson. an officer of
he Union Veterans Union. on his wav :
Calistoga 60 visit his son. and a .
reatgrandchild He began life as A 8
rinter In Indiana went 10 Bloomfield
avis county, Iowa and established a 8
ewspaper hauling his plant out with 3
'ur yoke OF oxen from Keokuk. and
citing up the pie" with his young s
lie for a helpmate. ne having mar, g
ed az eighteen. There he got into 3
e STAGE business and went 10 the =
lclnc coast with the Oregon immi. q
alton in 1889, locating at Corvallis
ID oonducting the City hotel In the y
Us when that was the head of navi. y
tion for the whole upper valley He r.
IS one OF the first 20 go into Ya0uiua ..
y and asked for news OF an the Ola
ners' many Of whom have slipped 4
er the bar and gone unto their last Z
'age into the mysterious unknown Z
lor johnson was present at the Y
'ning of Hotel Chemeketa ana IN.
red after old-timers like A. Bush
also after his friend Jack Conner
present landlord Of the old time 4
telry.
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