Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-02-11
CIRCUS IN Los
ANGELES STORE
Mike Maher Says People on
Pacific are Great Per-
vericators.


it is raining all day and can moi
take my usual four or five mile hike,
will write few lines. We are commenc
g to get homasick a7 we do not see
but few faces that we recognize from
asst winter. We expected several people
rom Baraboo bere for five or six men
told me last summer they were coming
to Los Angeles this winter 1t must be
they think the cost IS too great. 1t Is
no great cost for those not working
and can get free transportation.
The money they would pay out for
reot wnuld offset the fuel bill they
would have to pay in Baraboo. We
sold our home in Baraboc last fall and
it did not make any difference where
we rented it is Just as cheap here as at
home.
don't want to entice or encourage
any one to leave dear old Baraboo eX
cept for the winter months There is
lots of comforthere. 1t may be we
have the wrong kind Of hope but we
are going to enjoy ourselves and see
some of this country. That is what the
money is for and we don't think we can
carry any of it with US when we leave
this earth.
Since my health got better the last
year | could go into some business, es-
pecially the show business as | under
stand that and make some money but
what is the use. We have enough and
enough is as good as a feast. Why
worry our head off to leave money for
the lawyers to fight over when we are
gone:
They have the finest department
stores here we ever saw. One covers
fourteen acres and one can buy any
thing desired. There is one city in
itself In one they have free circus
with ten acts of bareback riding, doing
tricks with the horse and men and
women performing on the trapeze.
There are three clowns, five or six
trained monkeys, tricking mule and a
band playing all the time. The show
lasts one and one fourth hours. Then
there is tea room and if you feel ia
tigued you get all the tea you want and
waters too. When you come out ofithere
you can go up on the roof garden for
a while, then into the photograph stu
dio and then into the moving picture
shows. All this is an advertisement
for one store and free.
They are great on advertising, boom
ing and grating and the biggest liars l
ever saw. We went to Pasadena jan
uary 1st and bought ronnd trip ticket.
When we got.within one and one half
miles of the city they dumped us off and
we had to pay an extra nickel to get
to where the parade went by. They
had lot of athletic games at Tourna-
ment Park and you paid another nickel
to get there and when that was over you
paid another nickel to get back to
where you got a car to get home.
Three fourths of the buildings here
have rooms to rent. They pay a high
rate of interest for the use of mon
ey all the way from z percent
"a per cent. This place seems like a
su MINER resort switched to winter.
About half are strangers here, just
for the winter months.
Business Overdone
Everything seems to be overdone
here. There are ninety business build
ings vacant in two miles on one
street and every little while some one
goes bankrupt and is sold out. Then
you can get the goods almost at your
own price.
Los Angeles is growing so fast they
are thinking of building a subway t.
handle traffic. 1t is quite jo0 to Sc
through the crowd on some of tn,
streets in the center of the city.
Well I must ring off as it has qui
raining and the sun Is out fine an'
warm. With regards to all we remain