The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20
THE GOLDEN WEST.
BY the Editor.
BACK TO LOS ANGELES.

SACK TO LOS ANGELES.
Chapter 6.
One thing hat Los Angeles appre-
ciates very much is the fact that you
cannot get to San Diego without go
ing to Los Angeles and consequently
that city is constantly crowded with
visitors going to and from the two
great expositions and is giving a
splendid impression to them and many
are the complimentary remarks on
the beauty, push and aggr%essiveness
of this the city beautiful of the Pa
cifc Coast and it is little wonder that
its population increases by leaps and
bounds and in five years it will sur
pass Frisco in population. Well we
fingered, another day here and loath
to give it up we boarded the train
Wednesday evening and amid the
wishes for a pleasant journey from
the delegation that accompanied us
to the Station we started on our jour
ney to the Panama-Paciic Interna-
tional Exposition.
THE JEWEL CITY.
We arrived in Frisco at 400 P. NJ.
the next day after passing thru the
greatest grape and fruit country we
have ever seen. We saw men shovel
ing grapes like coal into fiat cars
built especially for that purpose and
passed one train of % cars made up
wholly of freshly gathered grapes of
all varieties to be made into wine
and grape juice. 1t looks as if there
should be splendid opportunities for
the industrious Colored man On farm
and fruit ranches in that country and
quite a few are taking advantage of
their opportunity. Before reaching
Frisco we were all unloaded from the
cars onto the ferries at Oakland
which are large, comfortable boats
with every convenience and which
carried us across the bay which is
six miles wide there in about 90 min
utes. On a clear day you get an ex-
cellent view of the city which is one
day destined to rival New York in
its foreign and sea going ira. &C. To
a person who had never been to Fris'
co there were no evidences of the
great earthquake catastrophe that
overwhelmed that city several years
ago. But it is one of the most pro
gressive and bustling cities in the
whole Country. There are not a
great many Colored people living in
Frisco but the bulk of those in that
section of the State live over in Oak
land where u people conduct many
creditable places of business. During
our stay we were the guests at the
Hotel Panama conducted by a former
Kansas Cityian, Mrs. V. l.. NORTH
Hueston who made our stay pleasan
while there. She also conducts thu
new Hotel Deluxe which is head
quarters for railroad men running int
Frisco and seem to be doing nicely
We alternated our stay between the
great Fair going on and the Imperia
Council being held in Oakland where
we met a number of the Masonic dig
land we met a splendid Kansas Cit!
boy who is making good in the per
son of Glesner Fowler who is success
fully practicing law in that city anC
is located in one of the best build
ings in the city; also Ernest Love
the oldest brother of the Grand Sec
Rotary, who is one of the best known
etfefs of the Northwest. The Stae
conducted by Lett and Fisher is one
of the most popular places in the two
cities and here we met quite a few
of the prominent railroad men who
run into Frisco and Oakland. Over
in Frisco we met an old friend, S. L
Nash, attorney-at-law, whom we knew
many years ago in Des Moines, Ia
Sam is still delving in politics anG
seemed to be very much in demand
in the political campaign which was
then being waged in Frisco. Possibly
the most pretentious business place
conducted by our people is the Ban
croft Cabaret and Cafe located a
236-242 Townsend street, opposite the
Southern Pacific Coastline station
restaurant where we took our meal!
sltho the Grand Secretary was a lit
tie chary about Chinese service.
While visiting the Fair we met
number of distinguished gentlemen
from other cities and states amonl
whom were Joseph P. Evans of Bait
more, Nd, Grand Master Of Masons
DR.. J. C. Lowe of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn
who bought quite an extensive rancl
near Frisco; Isaac w. Young, M. ID
the mayor of Boley, Okla; and JnC
Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Planet @
Richmond, Va.