The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-09
ALL BOARD FOR VERMONT.
Vermont Auto Tourists Finally Make
Their Start From California.
stockton, Cal, July 81, 1913

of my letters from the Middle west
where one of the main streets OF tho
city was blocked by the pageant so we
could not get near the postofiice VIII
our autos TO get our expected mail. such
a carnival is taking place here in Stock
ton this week, bockading a whole stree,
| Canal street, for half mile. IL is not
a local city show, but travelling concern
going from place to place, the same as
circus in the East, and drawing large
crowd. 1t is a good deal like the zone
at the San Francisco fair. We have made
trips by auto into the country in all d.
rections the last few days. Have visited
several moving picture shows. There are
probably 20 or more in continuous opera !
tion from 2 p, m. till ii P. m. in this
| city. Admission, five cents mostly; some
are 10 cents. One fare admits to the
whole nine hours show, if you stay in
side.
Aug 2, 1915.
We are still here at Stockton and Dix
and his family have not arrived from
Knowles yet, but we got letter from
them, written at Livermore, saying they
were on their way to Knowles, and would
probably be here about Aug. or 3.
Clarence said that, as / had visited a
brewery and beer bottling establishment,
ought to visit winery, so ! visited
one of the largest wineries, just outside
the city. OF course it was not IN opera
ton just now, excepting in ripening the
wine now on hand, which they said was
over 100000 gallons, mostly stored in
wooden tanks, averaging in size, or hold
ing, over 1000 gallons each. Their sea
son for working the grapes into wine 10
about the same as our season in Yer
mont for making apple cider and lasts
only about as long, but their method OF
making is different.
Most of the wine grapes are brought
in by train and trainloads, from 10 to
80 cars at time, and pitched directly
from cars to crlsher and the pulp pumped
directly into storage tanks, where 1t is
allowed to ferment about a week. Then
it is drawn out by spiral screw and
run through presses similar to large
clothes wringers, the pulp passing away
out of doors on an endless belt and the
juice pumped into the ripening watts or
tubs.
Their shipping season has just com
meneed, the shipping being done mostly
in tank cars similar to the Standard OIL
tank cars So the wine mostly goes out
as the grapes came in, not in carloads,
bat in trainloads, and the price which it
is sold for here is scarcely more than for
cider (sweet eiderl in Vermont during
cider.making time-five cents per gallon,
or 10 cents after ripening. Considerable
difference, | guess, from the prices paid
for the same in New England. They
said most of their wine was sold in train
load lots, sent TO New York or Chicago.
Ever since | arrived here at the coast |
have been studying the Chinese and Jap
anese question. For over century this
government allowed the people from any
nation on earth to come and live here
and to become citizens, provided they
appeared to be supporting when they
arrived here Then Congress, under the
influence of labor leaders, most OF them
unscruplous and themselves of foreign
birth, passed law forbidding any more
Chinese TO land In this country. What
was the result? Thousands have come
here and been sent back, this government
/
and the average cost to the government
of every Chinese so returned was in the
vicinity of $1,000. Fat jobs for a good
many United States officers. To-day /
find no one here in California who OBJ
jects to the Chinese being here. They
are very industrious and make the best
of citizens. The merchants here say
they sell more goods on trust to Chi |
nese and Japanese than any other people. |
and never lose a dollar. The merchants
trouble with the Japanese is that they |
are shrewd traders or business men and |
soon acquire the business and can under. |
sell other merchants and still make mon. |
ey at il when others would fail
| spoke in another letter OF visiting |
the Chinese section of the city of San |
Francisco and finding it one Of the best |
sections of the city. IL is the same here
in Stockton. and they are some Of the
most Industrious mind your business peo-
pie have seen. II we had few hun.
dred thousand Of them on our farms In
the East, the value OF our real estate
would double in five years. The whole |
Of the farming country east Of the Rocky /
is short OF efficient hired help. /
Remedy-Let Congress rescind the Chi
nese exclusion act and save this country /
the cost OF enforcing il and bring in a
class Of people who viii in the future
make good citizens
As said before. the only objection find
from the people here is flat the japanese
are too enterprising. That Is the kind
of people that California needs to-day.
They have plenty OF the other kind.
This section Of California seems to be
Dyerrun with either tramps or people
seeking work. The people here say they
sre nearly all tramps, and are not seek
ng work. This section Of California has
, climate in which the tramp can sleep
put Of doors the year round. HAY or
straw stacks. which they find here BY the
million. make them good beds. Plenty
u fruit and vegetables that they can
wipe at any time Of the year. That
makes California an ideal home for
.ramps They ssy they DO very little
lctual begging here. They don't seem
% find il necessary.
Yesterday eight q ne went to a basket
licnic about 70 miles north Of here with
'ur autos. I forget the name Of the lake
II vas only an artificial one, anyway,
made for holding back the mountain wa.
srs for irrigation purposes. More than
,np0 sores 81 peach orchards. vineyards
italia. ETC.. are uatsrsi from this lake
d Wa q nice place for q picnic and