The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30

train from Chicago to California. Con-
ditions are similar on the Rock Island.
Though the California service of the
Rock Island is only in its third year,
the trains via the Ell Paso route are do
ing nearly as well as those of the Santa
Fe- The business is not confined to
first class travel, as the tourist cars on
the Southern California lines are being
filled every trip.
On the central routes via the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Northwest
efn and the Burlington, business is bet
ter than ever, many of those who are
unable to find accommodations on the
southern routes going by way of San
Francisco and thence south. The bust
ness has increased to such an extent in
this direction that in addition to its
first class overland service the Mil
waukee & st. Paul will establish a
through line of tourist cars to Los An
geles through San Francisco this week
The Illinois Central and the roads OPP
Grating by way of New Orleans are also
sharing in the rush.
Los Angeles and vicinity is grid
ironed with electric railways solid
roadbeds and modern equipments. A
ride to the ocean beaches can be made
in forty or fifty minutes at a moderate
price where fishing. boating and bath
ing comprise only few of the past
times.
millionaires, it is said, is but a half
hour ride distant. Mrs. Garfield lives
here. President Roosevelt paid her a
visit during his stop here last sum-
mer The Rev. Dr. Talmage and Bob
Burdette also reside here and have
regular pulpits in this city. At Pasa-
dena the Tournament of Roses takes
place on the first of January of each
year and this year outclassed them all
for crowds and miles of decorations in
natural flowers and bedecked equi-
pages. 1 counted over sixty automo-
biles in line. Bands of music, fire de-
partments, carriages gaily deelzed,
helped to swell the long procession.
Pasadena is proud of this annual event
and makes it a New Years holiday
greeting.
Los Angeles has five daily newspa-
pers, three morning and two evening.
The Express is the leading evening pa
per, receiving the Associated Press.
The Examiner, owned by William Ran
dolph Hearst, has one of the finest
equipped newspaper plans in the United
States. While just five weeks old, it
has a circulation of over forty thou
sand. 1t has money behind it and
newspaper brains, talent, enterprise and
union labor in its makeup.
THE PACIFIC BEACHES.
The beaches are the great attractions
for tourists and for the home people.
Some of the descriptions are fiowery
and apparently OVerdrawn but when
one visits them, the attractiveness of
the ocean side is truly appreciated.
mere IS VITAL one WllLCI Scil4 lCCcully
after making a trip over what is called
the Salt Lake Route:
.Old Ocean is chanted in every age
Poets sing of it as deep, grand, majestic,
darl1ly blue and in weird and solemn
notes full of minor cadences of meanings
and sadness. But here in southern Cali
fornia the music of the sea is ever bright
and joyous. The mighty Pacific, true to
its name. flows on in happy tranquility
Fo yR Same and o ID % Of e a@et Waters
from January to January and over again;
And shore and happy bather are washed
by the waves as benignly and merrily in
the middle of February as in the most
torrid days of the calendar seaside
outing is as pleasurabie and entlclng at
Yule-tide as on any midsummer holiday.
The Salt Lake Route, which traverses the
coast from the picturesque foothills
delightful resorts, each distinctive in at
traction and the whole combinati ton of
and traveller. Leaving the higher regions
of its source, this route runs by town and
orange groves. fruit orchards. strawberry
and Chinese gardens, and all the famed
delights of this semi-tropic land, until
a sudden curve brings into view the great
Pacific in one grand sweep, like the en-
trance into a new country.
Charming little Alamitos neStles here;
A little village by the sea- Not sandy
as is the wont on eastern shores but a
happy bit of real inland town of soil and
growth an appearance of picturesque viii
lage life set down beside the water
"A little further westward is Long
Beach, with its exquisite stretch Of ocean
beach and the largest and most populous
of the Salt Lake resorts, "A thriving city
by the sea-. Here you find well shaded
streets, public buildings of attractive
architecture, elegant residences and coy
cottages. with green lawns, ornamented
with shrubs and flowers. and a well kept
park on the ocean front. AS a summer
and winter resort Long Beach is positive
" fascinating.
1T is particularly noted for its large
pleasure wharf. fine surf pavilion and its
famous ocean beach, extending for four
teen miles along the seashore. As an ed
lcational center it is the home of the
Southern California ChautauQua associa-
ton which is the occasion of the gath
ering every summer of some Of the most
celebrated educational leaders in the
country. There are no factories OF any
sort to mar the quiet, secluded beauty,
and here you can rest and recuperate the
worn-out mind and body, yet at the same
time have all the luxuries and pleasures
characteristic of watering place The
purity of the atmosphere, the solid agrf-
cultural back country. with its delight
full drives and other advantages, such as
fine open sea bathing, yachting and fish
ing, makes it a. place of unrivaled excel
Ience.
Just belong Long Beach and not to be
overlooked, though in its early stages OF