Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-01
ASSERTS ANGELENOS DO
NOT APPRECIATE HOME
MUST LEAVE 1T FIRST TO KNOW
ITS GREATNESS
DR.. n. Gordon Bayless Returns From
European Vacation and Says That
Fasteners and Foreigners Are
MarveIne at Los Angeles

DR.. H. Gordon Bayless, house physi-
clan of the Angelus, who has been in
Europe for the last three months, re-
turned to Los Angeles Friday in fine
health and with renewed confidence in
and love for the city.
TITS good to be back" said the doc
tor, "and to breathe this ozone after
living in the heavy, smoke-laden at
mosphere of the Old World. We talk
much Of our glorious climate and boast
OF it perhaps inordinately, but one has
only to go away to see how well JUS
titled it all is.
mo city in America is better known
abroad than is Los Angeles. You hear
of it everywhere. In London, Paris,
Berlin, Rome and Vienna I met per-
sons who had been here and scores
more who knew of the city and want
ed to come. 1t is known abroad as the
most beautiful place in the United
States and our Southern California is
called the American Riviera
''It makes one proud to register from
here, to see the attention the city has
attracted.
Nothing we have ever done, how
ever, has advertised us as has the
Owens river water deal. No other city
of our size has ever attempted so tre-
mendous thing as that $230OO,0 900 pro-
ject. All through Europe they know
about it. I stopped on the way home
in New York, Philadelphia and Wash
ington and heard any number say that
it forever established Los Angeles as
a metropolis and that no better place
to invest was on the map. Millions of
eastern money is quietly going into
seem to be the slowest to appreciate
what 1t all means.
Unique Experiences
while I was abroad I had several
unique experiences. We passed on the
high seas the fleet bearing to America
the body of Paul Jones and our ships
band played while we stood with barred
heads. In Rome I had the honor of a
the pope-a kindly and very lovable
old man. In Venice I participated in
the annual water fete on the grand
canal, beautiful affair. I also saw
the ereuption of Mount Vesuvius at
close quarters, as 1 was a consider
able distance UP the side. 1t was the
most superb spectacle I ever beheld. I
attended some of the worlds most IA
nous clinics in Paris. London and
especially Vienna and altogether spent
a very busy three months.
THE time, too was not without its
serious side. AS peculiar fact 1 want
to tell you that the day I left 1
smashed a small shaving glass. Now,
am not superstitious, but here is
the chapter of bad luck that ensued:
II was caught in a railroad wreck
when reached Kansas City, was un-
conscious for hours, rather badly hurt,
and lost all my baggage. This delayed
me so that had to cancel all my plans
in New York.
"I was seasick three days going over
something unprecedented for me. I
was in train accident in the st.
Gothard tunnel, badly cut by flying
glass and narrowly escaping death.
"On the return trip our ship had to
put back because of cholera and dis
charge 1900 emigrants. At sea one
shaft broke; we had to come home
with one propeller and were a week
longer than schedule in doing it. And
by that time my railroad ticket had
expired.
"Can you beat that, or wonder that
I am glad to be back?"