Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-03-09

beautiful beach. Gathering moon
stones on moonstone beach is great
sport. It is fun to see the people get
wet feet and an occasional ducklng
from the great waves. Redondo beach
has an immense bath house, audi
forum and pleasure pier.
The balloon route is fine; one
hundred miles for one dollar. The
orange grove trip is through River
side, Redlands and San Gernardino
the greatest orange growing district
of southern California. Smiley Heights
is the most beautiful place on this
trip. The beautiful homes surround
ed with orange trees, roses and all
kinds of flowers in bloom makes the
place look fine The orange trees are
close to the car tracks so [ reached out
and got two oranges. They were
fine ones. The branches of the big
palm trees cover forty feet. I measured
one OF them.
The Mount Love trolley trip we
enjoyed very much. 1t takes US past
the ostrich farm. through Pasadena
up Rubia Canon. On reaching the
incline, which is 5000 feet long, the
grade begins with 60 per cent, the
steepest is 60 per cent. then drops to
So per cent, and at the top 48, The
direct ascent is about 400 feet. The
car that takes the people up the in
cline holds about % people and is
drawn by a cable of the finest of steel.
Reaching the top we took the electric
car which winds its way up the
mountain for about miles, makes 1877
turns until it reaches Alpine Tavern.
We admired the skill and daring of
its construction BY looking up and
down the mountain at one point 9
different tracks can be seen From
Alpine tavern to the top is 3 miles.
1t was a cloudy day but at the top we
were above the clouds The sun shin
ing up there and the clouds below us
made beautiful sight and which we
will long remember. We had dinner
on the top of the mountain. Going
down l didn't like as we'll as going
up. It seemed more dangerous.
We visited Pasadena. The Hotel
Raymond is a beautiful hotel. Going
down Orange Grove Ave. we saw the
beautiful homes Reaching the Busch
place we took walk through his
garden, It'll simply beautiful and is
the incest in Pasadena.
We also visited the ostrich farm.
The great giant birds are fine sight.
They can kick swifter then a mule.
They eat as much as a COW. They
, tie when they are four years old.
/ ley choose their one mate aid stay
mated for life. One is named Mr..
and Mrs Washington, one Mckinley
and another Roosevelt and so. on. It
was hard for mamma and Mrs
Watkins to leave the farm. Those
feathers took their eyes.
Well 1 think 1 will be firing you
children and also Mr.. Lowrey in
writing such long letter so l will
cut IL short.
We enjoyed going to Long Beach to
battle. We have been there several
times. Tomorrow we are going with
crowd to Kedondo Beach to go bath
ing. The trip to the Catalina Island
is fine. You go to San Pedro; and
there take the steamer to the leland.
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there were a lot of people that got
sea sick and we were among them.
We took ride in the glass bottom
boat. We could see the nice green
gardens and the fish in the deep water
and watch the divers going down and
getting some nice shells.
Coming home in the evening we
met with an accident. The Long Beach
car collided with the rear car on our
train. We had four coaches. 1t
smashed in the car. Two men had
legs broken and one woman was hurt
in the back. It occasioned consider
able excitement among the crowd.
We were invited out for dinner and
had two visitors this afternoon. We
are going to see Miss Grose this even
ing. She is a Potosi girl. Otto Fure
is going to be there. He is son of
Mr.. John Fure, of Potosi. Otto has
On excellent position as chauffeur.
The auto he rus cost $4,000. He is
going to give us ride in it before we
go home.
We will start for home soon by the
way of Frisco, Salt Lake City, and
Denver and will visit in Nebraska.
1t ralned out here Saturday but it was
only little shower. They need rain
badly.
We were out to see the big grape
vine. They claim it covers half an
acre of ground and they picked 80
tons of grapes from it in one year.