Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-30
have very large Interest,". here. Ralph

Granger a Colorado miner, owns the Mer-
chants Bank and a lot of other property.
Bartlett Richards. Nebraska cattleman.
has a handsome house at Coronado and
spends q good deal of time there.
e. w. Scripps of the Scripps- McRea
League, which owns a string of eighteen or
twenty newspapers, has built himself a
beautiful home called 'Miramar" and has
invested, large sums of money. His sister,
Miss Ellen Scripps, is also permanent res
ident and one of the richest and most en-
terprising women in this country. Mr..
Scripps considers this the finest climate in
the world He hunted everywhere for re-
lief to his diseased lungs, and found 1t no.
where else. Hence he considers San Diego.
in climate, topography and every other con-
sideration, the next thing to Paradise. He
bought a ranch of 9,ee0 acres. built a house
and will enjoy himself here the rest of his
days. He runs his papers by means OF
wire that ends in his study. but deVotes
more attention to his 800 acres of fruit and
flowers and a cactus ranch of six acres. In
which he has between 5000 and 1900 plants
of $50 varieties
In his grounds Mr. Scripps has striking
bronze figure of an Indian, made by Arthur
Putnam. a young genius In sculpture. for
merly of Omaha Putnam has studio In
San Francisco. where he Is now doing arcnl-
tectural work and Is furnishing the designs
for the Hearst memorial building at the
University of California. Mr.. Scripps has
given him q commission for five heroic hg-
UreS in bronze, representing the f1Ve PERIODS
of California development.
1. The Indian sQuaw.
g The Spanish conquistadores.
3. The Franciscan monk.
f. The prospectors and trappers.
5. The farmers and fruit growers.
Benefit From Isthmian Traffic.
The people Of San Diego. confident Of the
superior advantages of their harbor ana
geographical location, expecting to de-
rive great benefit from the construction OF
h., o,,tJ v,,n hnt
are greatly rejoiced to learn that the
Hawaiian-American Steamship Company,
owned by the sugar planters of Honolulu,
has entered into contract with Pearson
& Co., lessees of the Tehuantepec railroad,
to ship their sugar in connection with that
line. Some years ago the government OF
Mexico built a railroad across the isthmus
but 1t was poorly. constructed and was
practically useless because there was no
harbor al either terminus-Coatzacoalco on
the Gulf of Mexico, or Salina Cruz, on the
Pacific side. Seven years ago, however,
the Mexicon government entered into an
agreement with Pearson & Co. to build the
necessary harbors and reconstruct the
road The contract is nearly completed and
the new route will be ready for business
before the end of the present year. :.
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association
has a fleet OF nine 12-knot steamers. from
5000 to 1900 tons each, which have been
transporting their sugar products from
Honolulu to New York through the Straits
Of Magellan-a voyage of fifty-four days.
They have carried about 25O000 tons OF
sugar annually. This company has recent
ly entered into contract with Pearson &
Co, who have a fifty-year lease of the Te-
huantepec railroad, to use that route. which
is about two-thirds shorter than the one
they follow at present. Shipments can be
made from Honolulu to New York in less
than twenty days. The distance from San
Francisco to New York via Panama Is 6Z70
miles. BY Tehuantepec 1t Is 5.OOo miles.
The sugar company will put on nine
steamers at once, and Is now building two
more, which will be ready by the middle
Of next year. They will make weekly sail
ings between San Francisco and Salina
Cruz, stopping at San Diego and interme-
diate ports, and will open up a new trade
In sugar, coffee, bananas and general mer-
chandise. The sugar steamers from Homo
lulu will bring return cargoes from New
York and thus furnish competition for the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the
transcontinental lines.
There is an understanding also that SEN
ator Clark of Montana intends to estab-
lish line of steamers from San Diego to
Chinese and Japanese ports in connection
with the railway he has recently completed
between San Diego and Salt Lake. Mr..
Gibbon, the vice president and general
counsel OF the Clark system, has just
sailed for the far east on some mysterious
errand. which confirms this rumor Some
years ago a line was started between San
Diego and Japan. which was literally sub
sidized by the Santa Fe Railway Com
pany. But. for some reason difficult TO
explain-it might have been bad manage
ment-it was a failure. After sinking a.
good deal of money the enterprise was
abandoned.