Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-27

ming all away.
There is nothing up to date out thi.
way that can see. Everything comes
from eastern states. All the street
cars are from st. Louis, and so on with
all one sees.
Railroads Own Country
The railroads own this country and a
man coming in here cheap from the
east thinks he can go back for the
same as it cost him to get out here
but II will cost anywhere from $40 to
500 more to get home than 1T does to
get here, as l will show you. I came
out here for s665O, and went up a few
days ago to see what 1 could go home
for by the same line and was told for
s7s.75, and Furthermore they even went
so far as to tell me / did not get out
here for that money.
Sunday Is about the same as any
other day. Rum shops are open and so
are billiard and pool rooms. and one
can see men any Sunday morning
shaking dice for the cigars. Go into
some of the saloons Sunday night and
one will see men playing cards at a
table in one end of the room, with a
big pile of poker chips piled up. This
is the truth, and the police don't see
It, or, if they do, don't say anything.
l was out one Sunday morning and
came to a church on one of the many
streets in this town. The windows
were open and I could hear most all
the preacher said, only for one thing.
and that was that there was pool
room on the other side of the street
with doors wide open and a large
crowd in there, mostly young men.
making a loud noise and playing pool.
Carpenters work Sunday. In fact
it is no day of rest out here
in the city Of angels.
No Place for Poor Man
poor man never wants to come here
for work; it is no place. but man
with plenty of money can have a good
time. one will hear people say: why.
just see the blue sky!" | think the
sky is just as blue in Massachusetts Is
/: is anywhere on Gods earth
| hope you will print this, as it may
save some poor man from losing all he
has in this world. A man coming out
here with only about $500, and all he
has got to do, he thinks, is to get Off
the train, ask the first man he meets.
and he is going to get work then and
there. Let him try it. He will find
he will spend most of the $500 before
he gets out Of Los Angeles.
The drinking water is so bad that one
thinks when he first tastes it, it must
be dose of salts. These people cut
here call it fine water 1t may be to |
the native, but not for me.
All that keeps Los Angeles up and
before the world is the eastern men
coming out here to pass the winter. |
The real estate man meets him at the |
depot, sells him land, tells him what is
In store for him, gets his money. puts
up a shack for him, and that adds one
more to the lost list who have been
roped in.
A man to make money here wants to
get into real estate at once, put up a
tent. hang out his shingle, and then the
money comes in on every trainload |
He gets all the E. u. marks if he looks
out and gets to the station on time.
Visited Pasadena
1 went over to Pasadena, the
'rown of the valley, as the
Spanish used to call it. 1t is
lot very good name for it. Pasa-
lena is in the foothills and about ten
niles from Los Angeles. 1t costs four
'its. so cents. for the round trip, two
IN extremely hot day when I went
here, and l did not enjoy it much.
There was nothing to see anyway. One
AN go up into Mt Lowe from there,
,ut it is not worth the time and money.
t costs $3.50 from Los Angeles to Mt.
lowe and return.
One sees no paper money out here,
I'll is gold and silver.
The living out here is high, and so
8 rent, a four-room house being from
Is to 500 a month. One cannot get
my good steak or in fact any good
God, without paying for it, l tell you
dropped in a store the other day ami
Isked the man in charge what he
sked for bushel of potatoes. He
coked at me hard and says, How
rany pounds are there in a bushel?"
San Gabriel was the residence of the
arly Spanish fathers, this place being
elected in III for a mission 1t is
till standing, and there are still
meetings there. One thing that struck
ne as funny is the way Franciscan
athers did in the early days. There
: a wall of cactus around the church.
nd they used to catch the poor In
ians and keep them there until they
would join the church. 1t must have
een hard on the poor Indian.
Old Adobe Houses
The old adobe houses look queer.
lost of the MeXicans live in that kind
f house, made of brick dried in the
un, about ten feet wide and twenty