Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-07
TRIP TO CALIFORNIA.
POINTS OF INTEREST NOTED.
EDITOR PRESS :

| EDITOR PRESS -
| send you another brlof description Of our
| trip, commencing where l left off in my last
| account:
| Sacrim nto is very nice town, the streets are
nice and clean with many ornamental trees and
| flowers The buildings are neat bat not as high
| as in our eastern cities. We stayed one night
| only and on Monday left for San Francisco On
| the way up here everything looked fine, having
had plenty of rain, some places the fences being
| under water. Much of the land here is swampy,
| We get to the largo ferry boat which
| neck OF the bay, which will carry forty coaches
| and four engines. 1t is one mile across, and
then we get into nice country again where they
are plowing and sowing wheat and barley and
we also see large herds OF cattle and sheep. We
get to Oakland City, which is to San Francisco
| as Brooklyn is to New York.
| Oakland is n very nice city and compare es
nicely with Sacrimento. 1t has fine streets
| nice residences, many of the business men OF,
San Francisco live here. 1t has fine electric
| street system and railroad cars run every
thirty minutes to and from ferry. Ten cents
takes you from city to city, which is five miles
across the bay. We stopped at Oakland part of
two days and took in many points of interest.
Here we the navy yard where the battle
| ship Oregon was built and the great swinging
| bridge across the neck ofthe bay. There are
| two bridges, one railroad aud one for street
| These bridges less than $50 feet long and
! swing on pier in the centre to let steam boats
| through. We spent very busy day at San
| Francisco This is a city like New York or
| Chicago, everybody seems to be in o rush. Tho
| place is very hly and on this account the street
cars mostly cable cars We went through
| Chinatown first which was very interesting, but
| did not spend much time here. Next we went
| to Preside to the soldiers barracks and gave Wes
| ley Hughes a warm reception. We surprised
him very much. We took him along out to the
| Golden Gate Park and to the Cliff House on the
coast. From this point we could look out on
| some huge rocks and see the sea lions bathing in
! the sun. There is also nice park here con-
nected with the Cliff House. We then spent the
| remainder of the day at the Golden Gate Park,
which suppose, is the finest park in the United
States. 1t contains about 200 acres aud is laid
out in drive ways, bicycle tracks and iwa1ks, also
| artificial and natural lakes. There are many
| animals such as buffalo, elk, deer, bear and
others too numerous to mention in the park,
| and many birds and flowers. Our time was too
short to see all. The next day we started for
LosAngelas and went down the valley which is
| wonderfully nice, most of the way level and
nearly as far you could see to the foot hills
| This IS mostly grain country and the farmers
| were busy blowing and sowing their grain In
| some fields we as high a five sets of plows-
| they have gang plows with three or four plows
and from four to six spans of horses or mules
| hitched to plow. The towns are mostly small
through this valley. Night came on and in the
morning we found ourselves going down a mar
| row canyon, but after while the valley widen
ed and got into fields Of melons and pumpkins
Our next interesting scene was pagen farm O,
city. There were many thousands of them
We arrived at Los Angelas and passed the day
as we could not get train to Aura until even
ing, where my brother, r. NJ. Sipple lives
and so we started out to see the city.
Los Angelas is very progressive city. 1t i.
said to have doubled its population in the las
ten years Buildings going up in every di
rection and it is not much to be wondered at fol-
in one day, it was estimated that 400 people ar
rived in Los Angeles from the east and peopl,
come most every day. The city has seyera
parks and we visited East Lake Park, which is
fine place, the flowers are most beautiful. W.
then took a street car to Pasadena Wine Mills
which is the garden spot of the world On on
way back we passed the Ostrich farm and thel
we took our train and arrived at Aura lust as
was getting dark. We are now in the land O
sunshine and oranges and in my next letter will
tell about the country and the different tree
are used for fuel.
KAsPER SIPPEL,
Aura, Los Angelas Co., Cal.