Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-06
SUNSHINE FADES,
BOREAS RE|GNS
TOURISTS AND CoL0NlSTS AS.
FOUNDED
twenty-five Thousand Pilgrims From
Frozen East and North Aghast
at Doings Of Weather
Man
Golden. dripping sunshine
Warns me through and through
Man

Twenty-Five thousand tourists and
colonists came from the bleak, chilly
and inhospitalab1e east and north last
week, and in the heart OF every one
that song bubbled.
Coin to the land Of everlastin' sun
shine, where there amt no cold; where
II never freezes and folks wear gossamer
underwear and linen pants all the
year"
That was the crystallzed expression
that was on every lip.
And so they poured In, with huge suit
cases and telescopes Of summer togs,
worn through the fierce eastern sum
mer, and with straw hats and light
weight shoes. all prepared for the most
glorious climate on EARTH
For a week they had been coming
across the mountains, shivering and
blue; across the barren desert, dry
and forbidding; and every living one
of them had been struggling to get
his baggage out of the huge piles at
the stations that he might get into his
Sunday best and go out and pick
oranges in the main streets and gather
flowers from Broadway and Spring.
Sunday was set aside for Sightseeing
and every mothers son undid his lug
gage and got out his glad rags for that
event.
And on Saturday night twenty-five
thousand strangers went forth and adj
mired Broadway and it's lights, albeit
a bit cold they were.
But they didn't mind that; it wasn't
n marker to the blzzards of Iowa or
New York or Michigan or even old
Missouri. And they went to bed TO
dream of Towering olive trees and
luncheons in the shade of the sheltering
palm.
Dripping Sunshine "Frost"
But, alas! oh, it was cruel! Ten thou
sand diFappointeds!
For the first time since last spring
the weather man got gay with things.
He threw on the chill stop in the grand
organ of nature, swelled out the wind
bellows, unloosed the water plug and
sprang a leak in the skies. Out of the
corners of the north, old Boreas sent
a blast that froze the marrow in the
tourists bones.
Through their thin garb the zephyrs
trickled and Slowed and their flesh
goosed as if they were in the old home,
and 1t was time to pail the COW, with
the ice not yet thawed on the rain
barrel
The golden dripping sunshine had
betaken itself back of the Tehachapi
and the balmy atmosphere and the
climate were mixed up in one grand
struggle to make all the benighted,
cravenetted travellers feel at home.
SO that sadly the fine-textured raj
ment Of the summer vintage was
doffed and from any and every old place
heavy things were dug up and donned
The corridors of the hotels looked
good to all the visitors and the "Inside
track" and the "Balloon" and the kite
shaped and all the various seeing"
this and that and the other trips were
passe and appalling. No oranges were
picked from any trees by alien hands
yesterday, the shade of the sheltering
palm wasn't half as palatable as was
the cozy corner next the heater, and
the miles of roses were all unplucked.
1t was really the case-a "damper''
was put on the enthusiasm even of the
tourists and the dinky caps and kodaks
had a day of well earned rest.
Weather Man Tries to Explain
OF course it was inhospitable. cruel
and deceiVing. 1t was simply that
things slipped a cog. The golden sun
shine will be on deck again, never
fear 1t was only tarnished a bit yes
terday; it will be polished up soon. The
oranges are still waiting to be plucked
UNLESS the tourists are plucked first
and the flowers will be found meath
the spreading palm when they are
properly sought.
THAT hitch in the storm center
which was expected to move east
ward from Arizona yesterday, but
which remained stationary, is the
cause of the Sunday Indictment weather
in Los Angeles and vicinity" said Dr.
Franklin, official weather forecaster,
last night.
REPORTS from the same source mike
it advisab BILE for the populace Cncluding
the astonished tourists) to cling to their
wet weather wraps before sallying
forth Monday morning
DR.. Franklin asserts that conditions