Milford chronicle., 1917-06-15
IMPRESSIONS OF SAN
DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

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California and san Diego during the
Panama Exposition that anything your
correspondent may relate may not be
new to them
Ninety miles down the Pacific coas;
from Los Angeles on one OF the
fine coast steamers, is san Diego. san
Diego Bay is a fine large harbor separa-
ted from the ocean by North Island and
Coronado long strip Of Land connected
with the main land about five miles
north Of the Mexican border. Rounding
Point Iona with It's great search Eght.
and light houses with Fort Roscrans
and Old Glory floating over il. Coronado
Beach with its $500 900 hotel accom-
I modating a thousand guests. together
with tent City caring for five thousand
more. the famous Sunshine City bursts
/ into view. Il shows OF well on the
/ slope OF the h.ns with a back ground Of
distant mountains Beautiful for situa-
/ tion is san Diego-the streets are at
! right angles-the blocks very short
eight or ten blocks and back is only a
lttle evening stroll for even a poor walk
er, like myself
The streetcars are numbered /. .. 8.
etc, and each number has It's own route.
Il is easy 90 get about when one learns
the route of the numbers From a
comparatively insignificant city Of L.,
0o0persons in 1900. it has grown TO be
one Of some 10000 at the present time,
II Is one OF the tastes; growing cities
in the United States and is pre-em.-
neutiy q ciiy Of great hotels apart
ment and roomiag houses. being a mecca
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Its climate IS doubtless the most even
all the year and year ny year. Of any in
the United States. If not ia the world.
The mean annual temperature for over
three score years. according 20 the L.
S. Meteorological data. being only 81
deg. For the summer months 6S deg.
and for the winter 90 deg. Only once
in forty-six years has the mercury
dropped below 80 deg. or gone above
100 deg and this with over three-hun-
dred days Of sunshine during the year
May is said to be the month Of most fog
and least sunshine. but during our two
weeks stay Old Sol has favored US each
day and showers OF rain have fallen on
several nights a very unusual thing as
the rainy season Is supposed 20 be over
In reporting the temperature one says.
it seldom reaches the sos. The sky is
hecked with just enough cloud to per-
feet the landscape. and veil the sky-The
nights are always cool.
In the Plaza. near the centre Of the
city is a mOnument-ln the sides OF
which are T. S. Weather Bureau charts
and records OF the hourly. daily,
weekly monthly. and yearly reports
where one can read them from the in
struments at work making the records
as well as showing the barometric pres
sure, humidity rainfall, wind velocity &.
The record for May. 1917 as traced on
paper by the automatic thermograph |
shows the highest temperature this far
to have been S6 deg. on Sunday the 9th |
inst. the lowest As deg. on Tuesday the |
18th
beautiful s5O0OOO electric fountain whose /
waters at night, are continually changing |
in rainbow hues. Just across the street /
is the Grand Hotel, nine story struct- /
ure costing about one and a half million /
dollars. From its roof garden fine
views Of the city, bay, and ocean can
be had as well as North Island where
Uncle Sam has his great aviation school
and where his birdmen may be seen
almost any day trying their wings in
flights through the air.
Balboa Park Of 1900 acres is spread
out not far away. Near the entrance on
quite an elevation are the Polytechnic.
and High Schools, with about 1900 pu-
pills in attendance. and near at hand
new stadium or amphitheatre seating
10000 people and where two games Of
baseball can be played at the same time
IN the arena.
Farther up in the park the beautiful :
building Of the Panama Exposition open
'or more than two years, are seen,
though some Of the lighter structures
are being taken down. One OF the finest
eft and with its exhibits intact (the
others all being stripped Of their con-
.entsl is the Canadian building. Its
grand display Of scenery, homes. pro-
ducts, ingenious display Of grains.
the development and possibilities Of
1ur neighbor across the great lakes. one
hing that greatly interested US and
which we did not know before was the
'act that twenty-five years ago there
was not a wood pulp mill in Canada,
now there are eighty-hve representing !
lAUsVtVsuuN turning OlA ~ per NEAAAs VI I :
al the wood pulp used in the United
States for the manufacture Of newspa-
Ders Of which the Milford Chronicle"
may be a sample. Some Of the other :
great buildings have been given over 20 :
he government and are being fitted out
to accommodate the soldier boys, (as they
IRE called). who are here in training :
or this terrible war A large encamp- F.:
nent Of them are already on the
grounds and about 5000 more expected
he next day after we were there These :
boys" are in evidence all over the city :
many Of them I am sorry 10 say fire.
iuenting the public bars and the saloons
One dark blot on fair San Diego is, that :
while it has hfty-four fine church :
buildings, a iourishing Y. N. c. A.
Z. W. c. A. and W C. T. Z. and :
,ther organizations for promoting the :
physical, mental, and moral welfare Of
is people it yet has some forty-five
vide open saloons. twenty-three hotels
With public bars and twenty-one thea :
res. We have seen more drunkenness :
nd heard more profanity on the streets
uring the past TWO weeks mere tnan an :
he winter spent in California. or in :