Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-27
OREGONIANS BASK
IN SOUTHERN SUN
ON BEACH IN MORNING, BAY IN
AFTERNOON
Northern Visitors Watch Automobiles
Arrive From Pasadena Endurance
Run-some Drove to Mex
leo and Return
Special to The Herald.

/ SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26.-Morning,
noon and night the oregon visitors,
touring California to get information
and liking the state better every day,
had something to do and see in San
| Diego today.
There were ITO in the party that
| came hero from Los Angeles, but a
dozen have gone northward again to
make another weeks stay in the Angel
| City, making side trips from there as
! fancy may dictate. Very few Of the
Beavers seem anxious to leave this
| hosptabe state.
The visitors have scattered among a
| half dozen hotels according to their
| degree of friendship and these groups
! have leader who works with the San
! Diego committees, and thus the sight
seeing is done systematically.
Tickets and invitations are quickly
| distributed in this manner all come
| and go at the proper time, and much
| confusion is avoided.
Ho for the Beach
Having shifted the salt air yester-
day and seen old ocean tinted with
sunset radiance, the Oregonians re-
solved 10 get UP early today and take
dip-and they did. The start for
! Coronado Beach was made early.
r.. r. Buck and W. o. Cotton two
men who know everybody and every
thing in san Diego, had charge of the
visitors as guides and they performed
their duties to the satisfaction Of their
guests.
They pointed out an ocean freighter
that had just come in from the horn
and was being unloaded at the wharf,
as were coal and lumber craft, which
gave the harbor busy appearance.
1t is this harbor on which San Diego
lays much stress for her future ad-
vancement. Out in the ocean waves
and beyond, torpedo destroyers wer9
maneuvering about with much fussi-
ness of smoke, while now and then a
loat's crew could be seen making its
way ashore from the training ship
Princeton. Point Iona lighthouses
looked grim and watchful, while fur
Their down the peninsula the Theo-
sophical settlement with the gllstening
glass dpme on the main building seemed
anchored in lonely grandeur away from
worldly surroundings.
Ashore and AfIoat
The trip to the Coronado by ferry
and trolley was through an avenue of
palms reminiscent of Los Angeles and
when the grounds were entered the
party instinctively grouped on the ter
raced stairs, where the omnipresent
photographer took shot or two at the
Oregonians.
The rest OF the morning was spent
in the surf, around the hotel grounds,
looking at the tent city and watching
the breakers. Some went into the
bath houses, Others wrote letters in the
hotel sun parlors and a busy hour or
two was thus spent. One bevy of
young ladies', led by Miss Lillian Fowler
n a dpnpn "a
hotel.
The order had gone forth that the
tourists must reasscmble at the cham
Der of comm cree at l o'clock to pre-
pare for the boat rides in the bay in
launches and sailboats. Many had
taken fishing tackle borrowed from the
fishers hauntS on shore and they pre-
pared to test the gameness Of the
fish They had much sport, and the
afternoon proved most pleasant. Re-
turning to shore the visitors watched
the arrival of the automobiles that
made the endurance run from PaSa-
dena leaving there Thursday
The evening was spent visiting in
Chinatown, where the manners of the
Chinese during their holiday festival
seemed to impress the Oregonians as
interesting, though they have quite d
Chinese colony in Portland.
Ride to Mexico
A dozen Oregonians formed a party
OF their own to visit Tia Juana in the
morning in order to give them the
opportunity of saying that they had
heen in Mexico. A stage was char
tered for the purpose and the thirty
mile round trip ride, though dusty,
was interesting for the travellers. A
Mexican dinner was served at the
boundary city.
The program today includes more
rides in trolley cars, private fishing
trips up the bay, trips, to the old mis-
sion up the valley and in the after
noon races by automobiles that par
tcipated in the Pasadena-San Diego
run.
The men of the party have by in
vitatlon made their headquarters in
the Cabrilo club, which occupies the
top floor OF one of the Office buildings.
This club has 300 members and is grow
ing with d. II. Elliott, president: c.
X. Bartholomew, vice president: L. NJ.
Schiller, treasurer, and NJ l.. Cardell.
secretary. The club was formed four
teen years ago as a wheeling organiza-
ton, primarily to encourage good roads
and for social features, and having
outgrown wheeling, became the Cab
rillo some two years ago. The fees are
only 81 a month with no liquor and
no poker playing permitted The club