Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-02-18
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP
LEAVING Los ANGELES.
The Run Down The Pacific Coast TO San
Diego.
[RY JANE FAnLK. ]

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Letters then running ana having prioritf as
the latter had started first a number who
will likely never visit the scenes which this
resumption will touch have asked is 10 write {
more on the Californiatrip which aoeoun
for us being taken uaaA az This late
day. EDITOR.l
After getting back from Passade
na to Los Angeles that afternoon
our party repaired to their respect
i've hotels, collected their baggage
and were soon at the depot where
we entrained for San Diego. OF
course such large party as this
called for a special train which was
known officially by the railroad peo-
pie as the National Editorial Sne-
cial. 1t was run 10 double sections,
that is our train followed or was
preceded by the regular scheduled
passenger train for the evening,
we disremember which was the or
der.
The run down there afforded some
opportunities for quiet observation
and reflection upon the country
through which we were passing, as
the social strain was now slackencd
aud many we're SO tired from the
days rush of sightseeing and hospi
talty demands that they were quite
ready to drop into q seat for re-
lease from high nervous tension.
Glancing out Of the ear window ar
ter we bad sped ses.-hward few
miles, the writer noticed that w
had begun to run along side OF the
Pacific. The old ocean was booming
sending in its white crests to break
on the bluffs along which we ran and
which reminded us Of the deserip
tions we had read of this Identical
country when boy from Dana S
Two Years Before the Mast. which
book by the way has such recogniz-
ed value ia american literature that
Chas Eliot when selecting his Five
Foot Shelf library Of worlds elias
sizes, known specifically by title as
the Harvard Classics in honor Of
the university for which Mr.. Elliott
SO long served as president, was
constrained to give it a full volume
place in such set Of critically picked
books.
Mr.. Dana's narrative was suppos-
ed to have been written Of in those
days when sailing-snips we're the
only kind that plowed the seas and
when California was, yet portion OF
the republic of Mexico. He tells OF
how they sailed up aud down this
coast taking on cargo OF hides
brought to the coast from the int
rior by indian drivers on OK carts
for the Spanish ranch-owners, and
what time they had rolling and
throwing the hides down these same
bluffs when the tide was out and
wading out with them Oh their heads
or padding out with them IA boats
4. the ship riding atanchor IN the
uncertain anchorage OF such q rough
coast. where the ocean ia such pla
ces as these makes right up to the
land, in many cases the shores Of
which are high aud rocky aud in
others clayey and not so high but
stilEabrupt.
He spoke of the sarbor 70 he city
of Los Angeles WHICH We had left
aud San Diego to which we were go
ing as being OF the few places where
land-locked bay eoald be found.
AS these waves rolled in and out in
their ceaseless surge, we meditated
upon how they bad kept up their ac-
tlvities all these years and how the
land had preserved its contguratiOn
till this day just about as that sailor
boy depicted t in the Two Years
Before the Mast, the impressions
upon his mind and ours being some
what similar only hhe difference was
great modern civilization had
sprung up long these coasts since
he travelled them, as the country
now teens with population andGide
production cuts very small figure
in the products which so forth 10
the world and also serve TO feed and
sustain the teeming population
which has sprung up under less than
Il hundred years OF american rule
Sometimes we would run just d little
900 close to the water breaking be-