The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1907-03-14

( them just rookeries for bats and fly
by-nights.
Then the ostrich farms that dot the
sun scorched landscape in several dj-
rections, where all ages of ostrich life
can be Viewed so to speak at glance.
The largest of these is near Los An
geles and the property of an Anglo
American millionaire who has made his
money out of California ostrich feath-
ers and is wealthy that he finds Eng
land the only congenial habitat for a
California Cresus. Through a vast pile
of ostrich finery guarded by dozen
beautiful women, the fraters will me-
ander ere they behold the strange CEN
taur of the desert feeding as peacefully
in a corral as domesticated hen. Boys
will ride the ostriches for the enter
tainment of the fraters, and a plucking
of the birds will be inaugurated, when
the picture of these freaks jumping up
in the air as feather after feather is
pulled out. will amuse and interest the
travellers. Ostrich chicks will venture
out of their monstrous shells where
they have been quiescent for six weeks
and cast their blinking optics upon the
Shriners. The vast feather factory will
slave from dawn to dark, making os-
trict feathers for the profit of Midas
and their own sustonance. 1t is a great
sight and speaks well for the future
of California and the death of the
Anglo American ostrich feather trade,
which now takes away nearly $4,000, 900
of American money annually to Eng
land
Then the beaches on the sea coast,
bordering the silent, sailIess Pacific;
organized excursion companies take
people down the entire lot in one day
and give an excellent idea of Califor-
MIA as 1t was when the Pilgrim Fathers
jumped on the rock at Plymouth. Santa
Catalina, known in the advertising as
the Magic Isle, will be visited in steam
ers chartered for the Shriners and
their friends alone. Here the yellow
tail will sport and the big tunas and
Jewish keep sharp eye on the bait
offered by the well fed Masons, who
will hike onto the deep wit ha local
fisherman and rowboat at the minimum
charge of $40 day, fixed by the three
native brothers who own the island and
adjust all charges. The wild goat will
run up the volcanic rocks and look
down with contempIative eye upon the
Shriners, haply some Masonic Nimrod
will wing one Of these wild creatures
and see 1T fall over the mountain side
into the silent deep, allowing the hunt
er to go home to the distant east and
tell his hunting story The kelp beds
will receive attention from the visitors
who will be rowed out to their vicinity
orlr,
in wonder and amazement the strange
sub-aquatic life around Santa Gaia
lima. This trip must not be omitted.
Then the Sierra Madra mountains
will be assembled by an inclined railway
and all the land viewed from celestial
standpoint. At the top of the height
is small hotel amid the fir trees
where camers milk, zim zim and other
things can be procured and if the
traveller gets hilarious he can go still
higher on the back of mule and see
in the perspective the mountains of
Old Mexico. This is sight for the
gods, who really have a monopoly
Let the brothers make terms for the
mules before they start and not after
for there is distinction and differ
ence.
That's all. Then if time permits let
the brothers go by steamboat or rail to
San Francisco and see the ruins of a
great city and mans rejuyenating pow
er when assisted by insurance and cap
ital. Leave on the morning train so
they can see the country as they go
along and notice how much greener the
land gets the further north one travels.
Pictures of San Diego are furnished
in Los Angeles; these are sufficient.
E. III. r.