The Cairo bulletin., 1910-08-25
A BEAUTIFUL CITY
FORMER CAIRO PASTOR GIVES
HIS IMPRESSION OF PoPu.
4 LAR CALIFORNIA RESORT
Santa Barbara Is Paradise on Earth
With Hstoric Surroundings Says
Rev. chas. II. Armstrong
Met Cairoite and
Bride.
Santa Barbara Cal. S-2o,1

Santa Barbara Cal. S-201910.
Editor OF the Bulletin few
words from Us may, perhaps, be of
interest to readers of the Bulletin.
While wife and | have been away
from Egypts metropolis for nearly a
year, we still retain pleasant mem
cries of our sojurn with you, have
Ia warm interest in the evolution of
, greater land better Cairo" and
beg to assure our many friends there
of our sincere regard.
Our lines have fallen in pleasant
places. Santa Barbara, on the Paci-
Ific, one hundred miles northwest of
Los Angeles and three hundred
south of San Francisco. is the most
beautiful residence town in the states.
We have population of about twel-
We thousand. It is great tourist re-
sort. with beautiful scenery, equabe
climate and surf bathing winter and
summer cannot give an adequate
description in words; the town and
surroundings must be seen to be ap-
preeiated. Perhaps Introductory
words of my address here on the
Plaza Del Mar" July 4th, may con
vey some idea of Santa Barbara and
her scenic assets. Just one year ago
today ! beheld and enjoyed that gem
of the ocean, Santa Catalina island,
having the preceding day for the first
thine entered the confines of the gold
en- state. We had been passing ac-
ross the Nevada desert for more
than twenty-four hours, with the
Ibreath of that oven--a vast and hid
eous inferno burning our faces. and
lit was a blessed relief to roll past
the orange groves, olive orchards
and palms Of Riverside into the great
Los Angeles, city of the angels, So
called from an old Spanish legend.
In the afternoon of the first day,
6eheld that far-famed suburb, Pasa.
dcna, called the gateway, presumably
OF that angelcity. But, a few weeks
later when | stood here for the first
time, | said this Is Paradise. Eas-
| lily, with your soft lHue sky, sunlit by
lday: with starry nights. cool and re-
freshing with breath from ocean old 4;
with the channel-isIands, the nearest
twenty-five miles westward dimly
seen through the morning mists, and
reminding Of those phantom shores,
| the Islands of the blest; and with
the Santa Ynez mountains, forming
"a crescent on your northern horiz-
on and smiling on us, seemingly but
a mile away, with their shifting
shades of blue. we may imagine Thes-
sally and Olympus beyond. with the
gods and their consorts holding court,
yes, easily, we may feel ourselves be
meath historic Grecian skies"
| must not, however. paint toe
lglowingly, or some will accuse me Of
drawing the long bow" But, II
any Cairoite should doubt the accur
acy of my Judgment in demoninat.
| ing Santa barbara, fairest Of Califor
MIA bellies, he has but to pay us a
visit to say, the half has not been
told
The city begins practically on the
beach, where the tide GIBBS and flows
twice in four and twenty hours" sing.
ing of coral isles, strange sea-dwell
ers and Saint Elmos fireanj exttnds
back to the foothills, beyond which is
range Of mountains four thousand
feet high. Our chief point OF inter
est to tourists Is the old mission
founded in 1856 by Franciscan monks
The old walls, stained with age, are
the same that thousands OF Indian
converts built directed by the Span
ish priests the chapel. interiorly,
presents the same aspect 1t did wnen
the fathers said masses for the In
dian workmen, lulleJ into that wond.
rous sleep of death by an awful pla.
Igue that swept them all away after