Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-13
Mr.. SIEBERT SENDS
ANOTHER LETTER
Tells of Travels Through Texas,
Mexico. Arizona and CalifOr-
MIA. Did Not Find Straw
berries i'm Los Angeles
NO ROSES IN CALIFORNIA

Arrived at Los Angeles at last and
what | can see of it is a very fair city,
excepting the suburbs, which is made
up of the lowest class of every nation
ality, Mexieans, Chinese and Japs pre-
dominate. If palms could be grown
in dear old Philadelphia and were
planted and cared for as literally as
here 1t would exceed this part of the
United States one hundred per cent.
AS for flowers being in bloom and
strawberries ripe, why it is a fake, for
we have seen none yet. Of all the cit
les we have seen SO far, San Antonio,
Texas, is the grandest, climate and all.
There we saw roses and many other
flowers in bloom, and straw berries sell
ling at fifteen cents box or two for
twenty-five cents and fine ones at that.
They have just as fine buildings and a
climate which is much better than Los
Angeles. But Los Angeles has the
railroads with it, hence its popularity
in the United States. 1t is simply
Atlantic City over, only on much
larger scale. We have been here three
days and have had two holdups on the
streets, which does not speak very we'll
morally for Los Angeles. We hear
that Latimer r.. Baker has been quite
sick; we hope that he may be much
better by this time. We are sorry that
he did not come along with us on our
trip. / know it would have. restored
him TO health. We went to Pasadena
yesterday; this is lovely spot, that is
the palms and hotels are. These are
very beautiful, but still no roses. They
have very fine drives there aud some
handsome houses but badly painted or
rather stained. Nearly every building
going up here is built of cement and
sand and look well. They have cement
walks and curbs nearly everywhere,
all made of sand and cement, some
red, some brown and some blue, mostly
all natural in color. Wildwood conf
pares very favorably with their walks
and curbs here.
Now for the trip from San Antonio
to Los Angeles. We left on time or
nearly so. The weather was hot when
we left, and will say that the scenery
enroute to Ell Paeo was grand, beyond
expectations; canyons, Tavflies, ciraszfs
and round topped mountains every
where, and as bare of vegetation as the
strand of the Atlantic Ocean, but none
the less grand. We arrived at Eel Paso
four hours late; this is quite a hust-
ling city made up principally of Mex
leans, dirty lot. We went over to
Mexico to city called Jurazo, and of
all the mud huts called adobe houses.
Mrs S. was afraid of her self while in
this city. No one works here; they just
lay around like dogs on hot summer
day. What they live on l do not
know, except it be what the Americans
take over to see the bull fights. They
had one while we were there, but L
have no time for such cruel sport, there
fore did not go to see it, but it is said
that thousands of Americans do go to
see it. We next left for Tucson, Ari-
zona, where we were six hours late.
This is nothing but mining camp,
but plenty of money. Pennies are not
in circulation here, not even in the
post office. / bought postal card and
handed in a cent and was told that il
/ did not have the cent | would have
to hand in five cents and take stamps
for change. We then left for Cotton,
Cal, where we arrived three and half
hours late. This is very pretty little
place. From here we visited Redlands,
San Bernandino and Riverside, all fine
cities, and oranges enough to supply
the United States. Oranges every
where. We do not care for them here;
they are more sour than in Jersey.
They say here that they must lay
awhile to become sweet. They are just
as expensive here as in the east. We
saw vineyard here that has 5000
acres in it. Today we will visit Long
Beach, Cal. / hope everything is NOV
ing along nicely in good and beautiful
Wildwood-by-the-Sea. We have seen
no place its superior yet. We are both
well. Yours very truly,
CARL l.. SIEBERT.