The Falls City tribune., 1910-04-15

and often, which Is a great thlng
indeed. Nearly every house in the
residence portion has its lawn with
flowers of many kinds. The beauti-
full BreYalia vine took my eye. and
geraniums viii grow as high as the
house if they are not pruned back.
They say the flower parade or festi-
walls are something wonderful 10 be
hold and that We a hardly imagine
the wealth of beauty and variety. It
surely is the grandest climate in
the world. You have the bright sun
shine and the pure bfacing air and
at night you lie down to sleep you
may have cover @ you. n or two
light blankets. wake up refreshed and
inyigorated. ! was there IN August
and one or two days they called il
quite hot, but il did not seem so to
me; the lovely sea breeze seems to
temper the heat. BY |anneXing San
Pedro last summer Los Angeles be
came a seaport town, though she is
t~~enty.three miles inland. But that
Is nothing in that land of daring pro
ieets, as they are TO bring their city
water from Owens Lake, oye geo
miles away. There is a great oil
field close by and the supply seems
inexhaustable. They use it for the
fuel for factories. they oil the dusty
roads, etc. They know they have
a bonanza in their petroleum as well
as their fruits and harbor and other
enterprises. for without this oil Los
Angeles could not have become a
manufacturing city. Last year young
orange trees were in such demand
that nursery-men could not fill their
orders. The same was true of the
fast growing eucalyptus; some Vari-
cites are planted for the timber, rail
road ties. etc. while some much like
our williW is put on low ground to
absorb the moisture or reclaim land,
We learn many interesting things
in the great west. Pasadena is call
ed a suberb, yet it is n city of
itself. 1t is called THE Venice of
America" ii is a wonderful place
patterned from the Venice of the
old world. but they say much more
beautiful. Boating down the streets
and the wonderful lighting by %electri-
city. making il so beautiful by night
it must be see TO be appreciated
cone New York man has put 5000
100000 here they tell YOU besides a
number of smaller contributors
Ocean park an ideal beach resort
has a magnificent bath house and
a grand concrete walk along the
ocean shore. And then the ocean
baths! oh my Redonda Beach has
an immense auditorium, grand hotel
and immense shipping interests. San
Ia Monica, one of the most beautiful
little cities on the cost has many
fine residences and some ~milliouaires.
Then we came to Long Beach, the
greatest and grandest of them all.
\ real city where many of you have
been and where many of our towns
people live. has attractions which
make one wish to resist it often, 1t
las the most magnificent as we'll as
The largest b%athhouse we visited and
the Virginia hotel has a state wide
reputation foI its ~splendor and mag
n'ficence. San Pedro is not such a
large city, but it has one of the
greatest made harbors in the
world. The government has put im-
mense sums of money into it already
..nd it will take So, 900, 900 more to
omplete it, but they have immense
shipping interests, great fisheries and
factories and are wide-awake to ev-
erything which win make them great
er. This city was attached to Los
tneeles last August, the election be-
g held while | was there. There
is a great light house situated there
which We visited. There are side
trips out from the city called bal
loon route excursion not up in air,
but balloon shaped, by Trolley line,
100 miles for 100 cents, They are
very nice and Instructive as Well as
reasonable. On one of these We Wis
tied the old San Gabriel Mission. the
Cawston Ostrich farm and the Alli-
gator Farm. One can see much whic
is of interest on one of these trips,
but it seems 10 me that the trip to
Santa Catalina Island was a little the
finest of all. We started at $50 a.
M. and got back at $50 p. M, maxim
a full day. while many tourists stay
over night or more if they wish.
We went over on the steamer Cab
rilo, an ocean trip of t|hirty-two