Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-11-17
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LETTER FROM P. T, GULLEY,
10 the EdlLor of DID RegIster!


To the Editor of the Register;
Would my friends like to take an i'm
aginary trip with me around this pretty
city, which has been our home for
nearly one year? Letus start at Castle
Rock grand old beach marx, then fol-
low along to the Plaza Del Mar Park
by the Seal, Located here Is the finest
bath house on the coast also the cleo
trio power plant and car barns, sur
rounded by beautiful palms of many
varieties and green lawns, Towering
plants of every variety blooming in
their respective seasons, So on along
the boulevard past the Potter Hotel
with its acres of lawn and Towering
hedges. Here it is not an uncommon
sight to see a pair Of whales or a school
of seal outside the kelp beds, which is
sort of sea.weed that is quite visible at
low tide and is extensively used in the
manufacture of potash. 1t also contains
much iodine. Kep has commercial
value as a land fertilizer, The county
has levied tax of a nominal sum per ton
upon the companies who harvest it for
manufacturing purposes,
Here we turn up State street, past
the S. p. Railroad station which was
awarded the prize for its beauty over
four hundred which were in the contest
last year. This street is busy one
with fine line of stores and theatres,
with double street car tracks, several
lines of iitneys, and often times three
hundred autos within seven blocks.
Now we come to Il e new U. S. post
Office with an absolutely perfect lawn,
which everyone must notice. Close by
there is being erected the new Carnegie
library at an expense of one hundred
thousand dollars. At this point on
pleasant days, going north or east very
frequently we observe the mirage,
which is wonderfully interesting to be-
hold
Here we approach the new Arlington
hotel which is beautiful in design and
second to none on the coast. We turn
here to Victoria street then up Garden
street lined with its fine homes, also
the Ell Mrasol (Bungalo hoteD and
Gregson which are of the high class.
Here the paatial home of Mr. Hopkins,
the founder of the Boyland school,
which is now being built at an immense
expense.
tits impossible to compare this city's
past without connecting with it the Old
Mission founded in 1856. The Preside
was founded four years earlier and
marked the beginning of Spanish life
here when the rude hut of the nude and
semi-nude Indian was superseded by
the adobe house Many more or less
well preserved specimens of this adobe
architecture are to be found still, but
the Old Mission is the most command
ing. 1t is the largest stand most import
ant of these historic landmarks, and the
best preserved Of any of the California
missions. For more than century its
altar lights have never been dimmed
AS we leave this dear old spot we
pass the entrance to Mission Canyon
and wind up the hill of several hundred
feet elevation to the Riviera and State
Normal school of manual training and
domestic Silence for both ladies' and
gentlemen, founded by Mrs. Hall and
endowed by her. Riviera is the coming
residential section and has grand view
of mountain, land and sea. AS we
leave here we pass the st. Francis
hospital, then through the Almeda park
with its fine shades and lawns and out
past the Cottage hospital to the old
Modock Road which leads us to the
world famed Veronica spring. This
spring was known many years before
the white man came, first to the Indians
who inhabited this beautiful Santa