New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-19
TheConning Touer
THE GRAND TOUR

chairs, man-propelled. | remember ho..
sorry I used 10 feel for the men NJ.
pushed them, and how ore day ran ax,.
from my mother because she rode in ON.
I have grown callous 10 suffering tia, /.
no acuter than that felt by a man who Ia,
to push wheel-chair. But the ant,
mobile, as the farmer said when he lookA
at his turnover chicken, has changed Al
that. At San Diego you hire a 2.ua,.
senger, self-starting, left-driye, universal
keyboard, car, yclept the Electriquette. h
runs on first and only speed, at the RAJ.
of about 21a miles an hour. The price IA,
dollar an hour. II is fine, safe spo.
Only, drunk with my success as chauffer
am afraid have case Of automobT.
fever. Mote to Miss Spall, the telephor.
girl: Tell all automobile statesmen who csu
I'D that | won't be back for five or Sr
years. Tell Louis not to forward anythins
that looks like an automobile cataogusl
It is so pleasant to be outside here, 20
beautiful, that you don't care much abou,
going in to see the exhibits. There ia,
suppose. a lot of stuff TO see in the build.
ings. | looked at all of it, and found
most of it Of the Interesting variety. |
am narrow and bigoted, and don't care
whether the San Joaquin Valley raises
better raisins than Imperial County can
and does-boast of. All these things the
visitors may learn. Ninety per cent Of the
worlds mustard is grown somewhere or
other: Riverside has the Most Equabe
Climate in the World; there is sunshine
forever in the Coachella Valley; there are
~ 900 colonies.of bees in San Bernardno
County; and so on forever. 1t convinces
you, If you never knew it beforehand
didn't know-that California is large
state; that it can produce and does pro-
duce everything that can be grown any.
where, and produces most things better
and more plentifully than any other state.
The "Isthmus" is San Diego's Midway
Plaisance. 1t is as clean and moral as
cake of soap. 1t has two Of the best
shows ever staged. | went to them re.
luctantly, as part of the job, but | had
fine time. One is the Painted Desert
Exhibit, which is a reproduction OF
New Mexican Indian village, seven acres
of Indians, pueblos, woven baskets, ponies
and burros, egetation-everything. The
other is the Panama Canal Exhibit, which
is given in a theatre. The stage is 200
feet long, which looks longer than the
Hippodrome stage. The curtain rises and
shows the Isthmus in miniature-houses
trains, mountains, lakes, the Culebra Cut
the oceans, wireless stations, ships going
through the locks-all of it the finest and
biggest and truest toy imaginable. Il
shows a day on the Isthmus, and the
color and lighting effects are something
Mr.. Belasco might be proud Of.
And | had two glasses Of perfect cider
too, Just out of the press. knew the ap-
piles personally a second before they were
fed to the machine. 1t is better than pick
ing out your fish as it swims, to be caught
and cooked for your breakfast. Mr.. Bur
bank probably will arrange it before long
so that you may point to the COW and the
peach tree you want your ice-cream from.
The cider girl was reading "Ishmael, or In
the Depths" and l apologize hereby for
having interrupted her.
The biggest cocoa firm in Dorchester,
Mass, has an exhibit here. I asked one
of the girls whether she was at the Chi
cago Fair, and she said no. | may not
be so schooled in dialect as the professor
in "Pygmalion," but do know the Quincy
accent. | asked her which Boston suburb
she came from. She was from Braintree
and before coming out here, where she now
lives, she summered at Egypt, not far
from Ham Welch's tennis-court and only
a mile or so from Howard Frye's. She is
very pretty, and her name is Marian
Howes, and the world, as she so aptly put
it, isn't very big after all, is it?
F. P. A.