The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-31
The R.H NesbitCo.
 Church and Elm Streets. BRANCH STORE,
 275 Edgewood Avenue.

275 Edgewood Avenue.
 side them were thronged with people all this was an experience which needed to be frequently explained. Ev- erybody knows that California is ire ligious, but the evangelical churches around San Francisco bay are sufflci- ently anticipated to keep their doors open all the year around. And we also have the vacation habit there.
 San Francisco has no white ,bri- gade. Her streets were often dirty before the earthquake and the fire. It was no easy matter to enforce the anti-spitting law, even against some of our rnoneyed men. But g. man did not have to wear rubbers to keep his feet dry on sunny day. If there are nastier sidewalks in America than the sidewalks on Broadway, New York during the ten days we were there, we have not found them from the Pacific to the Atlantic sea. The "slyscrap- CTS" did not impress us more than did the desirability of an occasional sand heap on Broadway where a man might scrape his feet. We hardly dar- ed look up for the necessity of con tinually looking down. This, and the fact that when we wanted to ask the passing pedestrian for local direction we found once in while a man who could understand English and could reply without an accent, made us won- der whether we were not farther from home than we supposed. What the man from Mars would think of New York city I do not know, but the man | from California occasionally thinks he is in a foreign land. As for cleanli- ness, the East in general has no city of size which will compare with Dem ver,. Col.
 It may be that my eyes were mis- taken, but I thought I saw on a street l vendors fruit cart, just above a shrinking, timorous, handful of grapes, Two for Ave cents" I found | by actual count that the five cent bag | held about two dozen grapes, such as they were. The sign probably referr- | ed to certain sickly looking apples about the size of ping-pong balls II | is currently reported in California that whatever the East may lack as re- gards other fruits, this is pre- eminent l ly the land of the apple. confess that certain memories of my boy hood are very much on the side of l that report. But would never have suspected it either from the price or the quality of the stuff that was pass ed out to us for apples on the streets 1 of New York. As for other fruit, the easy way in which Kew refers to huying "by the peck, taken with our observations and experience in Port land, Boston and New York, not to name other cities and towns, suggests the possibility that the peck to which he had reference was not the fourth of a bushel, but rather bird-like sampling of tidbit here and there Meats seemed to us exorbitantly high all over the East, and our visits to the big stores of every kind left us with l the impression that the difference in prices, even as concerns goods which | are nowhere manufactured in quanti- lty on the Pacific coast was astoE1sh- lingly little to the advantage of the Hast Regular residence might cor rect some of these impressions but | "the East as it is," in the eyes of g stranger, offers less for the common mans money than our home" stores
 on the Pacific coast
 We sat under the classic elns or
 Boston common, and were just seated
 when certain young women of higf | school age, evidently having desired 1 the seat for themselves, looked ut over with all of "Kew's" candor, ant remarked, distinctly and emphatical- 1 Nv. Well, wouldn't that jar your" The l man who had charge of the load ling and unloading of the train wt wished to enter at the South station ii the same cultured city treated us witt all the courtesy of a high-toned gen ltleman toward the street beggal whom he does not see, contriving tt close the doors of two trains upon uI lbefore we persuaded him that his higf Imightiness was there to serve thu public and not simply to exhibit hi Town callow youth. With the aid O lone or two other travellers, we sue ceeded in getting 10th of a second more for the third train, and were dismissed with manner that would
 have done credit to the prime minis ter of caliph or pasha. Even a Northfield the young woman who sa at the same table with us, taken t'
 task on the side for her feminin' lboorishness, responded to the paterna ladmonition petulantly. "Oh, it's tot
 much trouble to be nice to people.
 Space fails to tell of the fnild-manner
 ed way in which the Central park DO lnceman hurried acros a quarter of l mile of greensward to order off tn lvoung couple who were resting quietl, in the shade of a tree just off the roa' way and who were treated with 8
 much courtesy as a Californian woult
 show his dog When we get surnme
 grass in California, the skies give u Inc help; we do it by expensive irriga
 ton. Yet there are more Keep off tn
 grass signs in Central park than ther
 are between the Siskiyous and tn
 gulf of California
 Perhaps we stayed too long to g
 back with the notion that these thing
 or the sum of them, really exhibit tn ! T7. =