The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
A Whit of Golden California
And Breeze From San Diego
AS Exhaled By
GEORGE HENRY WHITE
formerly o. the Topeka State JournaD

exclaim. like Secretary Daniels in
Life" $50 this is the oceani"
And what big thing the ocean is.
How peculiar the parasites that eat
the legs off the wharves. And the
steamships, how majestic. Yes. it is
simpler for them to lie at anchor than
to go to berth. The warShipsi How
formidable they seem, yet how grace
full. Also, what joke, as to these
on the Pacific, if a regular fleet
hoped onto them.
But the Iandlubber to the land. He
has a motor car, or Ford, no doubt,
so he will be expected to rave about
the endless paved highways that
CLEAN like rivers in the fertile val
lays, wind about the hillsides and
shoot straight for miles across the
sage-grown mesas-the death knell,
by the way, of short line railways
And if he buys an orange grove or a
home with a beautiful marine view, a
mountain outlook and a valley ex--
posture. he may learn who is paying
for these highways and numerous
other public convenienoes for which
the tourist believes he a.lone has been
singled out for separation from the
wherewithal.
Following the states coast highway
the topic of liberal bond issues and
taxation and the one and only railroad
available in this direction, we come to
San Diego, the city of magnificent
things, the least widely known perhaps
of California wonders in spite of per-
sfstent efforts to advertise, and there
fore selected as the particular view
point of this effusion.
Combine Against San Diego.
Here is to be found the best evil
dence that the careless person who
named California had, like tourists of
the modern era, been persuaded by
jealous real estate peddlers not to go
to San Diego. You will not be in San
Diego many hours before somebody
informs you the climate is wonderful.
OF course, some who reach there re-
gardless of arguments in Los Angeles
and elsewhere that San Diego is no
more than a sleepy Mexican village
note for themselves that the weather
is very fine, but the chances are you
will be denied an original discovery.
There seems to be a reason for this,
too, for the climatic reputation of the
section is most jealousy guarded and,
by speaking of it first, the resident is
ena bIed, if atmospheric conditions de-
mand, to explain that the day at hand
is quite unusual"
Nevertheless, it remains a fact
tablished by perfectly competent
cIimatologists that san Diego has the
shortest thermometer in the world, an
instrument of only eight degrees that
catches the mean averages of tenn
peratures that come to San Diego in
the course of a year. They say the
mean, or better grand, average of heat
and cold for year is IS degrees, so
with only four degrees for ups and
/ four for downs, it readily can be
| agreed that the person who named the
/ state was neither a resident nor Wis
] itor of San Diego.
! Furthermore, San Diego was there
! before California After being shown
Ramona's Marriage Place. It 10 cents
per, in order that you may grasp an
you will be informed that one Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navi-
gator, navigating for the Spanish king
| in quest of some new worlds to con-
| quer, sailed much tossed galleon into
San Diego bay in 1912 and reported
he had found a regular harbor. This
is now, and for many years has been.
( called the Harbor of the Sun, and
globe trotters declare it is more
Naples.
HarbOr of the Sun.
But to go on with the historical ro-
nance. Cabrillo, for whom the pres
ent generation names cigars, motion
picture theatres, pool halls. gas
launches and other things too numer-
/ Gus to mention and have dedicated the
site for a monument with the help of
the Spanish ambassador, entered the
Harbor of the Sun on his map of the
new Spanish world and sailed away
he being, as before noted, a navigator
I and not a colonization agent. But
the good. safe, land-locked harbor was
not forgotten. Instead, an expedition
was sent out from New Spain, Wood
! row Wilson's big worry of the present,
and landed at San Diego in the late