River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-11-18
AS THE TOURIST SEES THE
PACIFIC COAST
By MRS. E. B. Armstrong.


Back of the hotel is a forest re-
serve embracing 10000 acres. The
Big Trees, as they are popularity
called are found only in California.
There are two varieties, The Sc
qurvia sempervious or redwood
and the Sequrvia gigantic, the real
Big Tree at an elevation of $4,000
#. Both varieties are eVergreens,
Santa Cruz trees. Cathedral Fir
10 height 300, Sherman SO c.
height 285, Fremont % #. in di-
ameter, height 285. In 1916, Is
sailors camped in this tree. There
are enumerable intere stin
points in Monterey that are cherish
ed in this bustling twentieth CEN
tury, In 1922 California fell into
the hands of the Mexicans, and the
first Custom House was erected in
1924, over which Commodore Shoat
raised the American flag. The old
Washington hotel, built in 1882,
had been the haunt of famous men.
The house occupied by beloved Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson during his stay
in Monterey, in 1879, stands near by.
The ruins of a convent built in 1877
may still be traced, and the old
theatre in which Jenny Lind sang
is a relic of the days before the
rush to the gold fields. And there
is the rose that General w. /.
Sherman, then a lieutenant, plant
ed in honor of his sweetheart,
Senorita Bonifacio. In 1910 Juni-
Zero Serva landed to colonize Mon
terey, and in the Preside is to be
seen the monument erected in his
memory by the late Mrs. L. Stan
ford. And nearthe Catholic church
will be found the JuniperO Oak,
under which the first mass was said,
TWenty-six miles east from San
Jose is Mount Hamilton, upon
whose summit the white wall of
Lick Observatory is plainly visible.
This observatory has already be-
come celebrated for the discovery of
Jupiter S fifth satellite, and gives
promise of affording many another
astronomical sensation in time to
come.
The completion of the Panama
Canal, the event celebrated by the
Exposition melting the Nations of
the East and the Nations of the
West, realizes a dream Of four cen
turtles. 1t represents eleven years
of actual work by the U. S. The
first earth having been excavated
May 4th, 1904. The Exhibit Palaces
are eleven in number, exclusive of
Festival Hall, cover a total floor
area of 10 acres and cost $5,000,-
000 The Exposition covers 635
acres. 1t is a natural amphithea-
ire with a floor about 3 miles long
and from a third TO a half mile wide,
backed by low hills. thanked at each
end by government reservations
and Notifications and fronting for
its whole Tenth on the beautiful
blue San Francisco Bay. 1t lies
Just within the Golden Gate. The
architectural scheme of the Expo
Sition is the most beautiful. AS a
meeting place of all Nations ex-
preston has been given to many
OF the great types of architecture
both of the old World and the New.
Thus, the Court of the Universe.
The Palace of Fine Arts, Machinery
Hail. and the Court of the four sea-
sons sprang from the Roman Greek
models. The Festival Hall and
Palace of Horticulture are after the
French Renaissance, The Tower OF
Jewels, the most commanding fea-
ture of the entire plan strikes an
entirely new uOle. Inc NanLOIHla
building is taken from the old Mis-.
sions, The color scheme was de.
vised by Jules Guevin the famous
colorist. The entire exposition is
tinted in eight colors. French
green for garden lattice, deep cev.
alean blue for recessed PANELS and
vaulted ceilings, an orange pink for
the flag poles, pinkish red with
a dash of brown for the background
of colonnades, golden burnt orange
for small domes and mouldings.
terra Gotta for large domes, gold
for statuary and verde antique for
urns and vases. The buildings are