Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-30
PASADENA, FAMED CITY OF ROSES
Special Correspondence to THE TRIBUNE.
Pasadena, Cal. March 8, 1910.

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Pasadena. Cal. March 8. 1910. |
I promised / would write you an
other letter from California telling
about Pasadena, the city
where we have now lived a year.
Pasadena is located in Los Ange-
les County about IS miles from the
ocean and about 4 miles from
chain of the Sierre Madre mountains
running east and west. 1t has an
elevation of about 900 feet. The
city of Los Angeles lies about IL
miles south. Pasadena numbers
about 10000 souls and this popula-
ton is thoroughly representative
American. being made up mostly of
people from all over the United
States with a goodly sprinkling
from Canada who have come to an
ideal city. There seems to be
more people from Iowa, however,
than from any other one state.
Pasadena is famed all over the
world for its beauty and beautiful
climate. 1t is a city of flowers.
Tho the flowers bloom profusely the
year around, of course, during the
Spring and early summer the bloom
ing is at its best. Then nature is
more refreshed after the winter
rains and even the desert is nice
green. That is the time Of the
year for roses. First come the
Cherokees about like our wild roses
in Minnesota only they are white.
About simultaneously comes the
ragged Robin" a deep red rose
also singIe-petaled. Then follow
the double roses in endless varieties.
One of the most beautiful Of all is
the "Gold of Ophir'' roses, no two
hardly alike and blending in yellow
pink and carmine! Of course there
are all kinds Of other flowers besides
the roses. Just at the present time
the California wild poppy is in
bloom. Many people are now max
ing excursions out to the poppy
fields" at the foot of the mountains.
One mass of these golden flowers
stretching for miles is a pretty
sight to behold. On the first day OF
January of every year there takes
place in Pasadena an event that has
done more than anything else tc
spread the fame of the city. 1t is
the Tournament of Roses" Or
that day magnificent floral parade
is held, many of the floats being
simply magnificent while the beauti
full flower bedecked horses are in
spring to see. Flowers are beauti.
full at any time, but to see this flora
display at time of the year wher
one usually expects to battle with
Jack Frost and shovel snow, adds
greatly to the charm of it all
especially to eastern people. NJ
wonder thousands come from fal
and near to see the unique celebra
ton. During the afternoon, races
and sports are carried on at ''Tourna
ment Park one of the bigevent
beirg a genuine four-horse chario
! race for big purse. For 81 year,
now this festival has taken place
without failure, they claim. ever,
New Years Day.
One Of the things that made u
sit up and take notice. when w
first came here was when our eye
fell upon the California bungalow
With their low protruding roofs
their wide roomy porches set with
ported plants and hanging ferns
their old-fashioned windows opening
on side hinges, their shingled o.
shaked walls, their rustic outside
chimneys, their fower-coverel
pergolas, they certainly look coy
and home-like. Home building il
Pasadena is certainly down to ;
science. BECAUSE of the little vino
in this country the houses are bull
in very frail manner. but wha
they lack in substantially. is made
up in novel arrangements and arts
tic designs. Of course the bungalow
is not the only style houses built
there are many others, all different
imagine that the architects ar
laying awake nights thinking VI
: new departures. They get many O
their ideas from Southern Europe
England, Switzerland, and Japan.
!, The civic pride Of the people il
Pasadena is splendid and their idea
are very progressive along munici
pal lines as we'll as in practica
: applied Christianity. The FasBdep
ians are the greatest church-goin,
people have ever seen. They hav,