French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-01-11

| Inc COAST line OF the Southern Pa
lciiic railroad, leading from the glori
Gus Los Angeles and San Diego re-
gion to the city of the golden gate, is
called the road of g thousand won
Gers, and as one sits in a reclining
chair on one of the Southern Pacific's
trains, first viewing the flashing waves
of the broad Pacific and then our
train plows into the Drinks of the
Emountains, he will soon conclude
that the wonders are more than he
can keep UP with.
We make the trip in day time. so
as to lose none of the sights from, Los
tAngeles to Santa Cruz, a distance of
! 375 miles, and indeed it is hard to
believe there is any other such a
stretch of ocean and mountain seen
cry combined on the face of the
] globe. In the midst of all the ma
tural scenery of creation is a con-
tinuous line of ocean resorts and
bathing beaches, ana 10 doubt ali tbs
| Hustler readers have heard of Luther
! Burbank, the c r1:sS- breeder OF flow
i ers, fruits, trees and eve; ything that
| Grows. First ut from the city If
Angeles we come to a. city they have
named Burbank" in honor of this
scientist and novel worker. To
locker on, at the gardens, fruit trees,
shrubbery, flower beds, in fsquare
miles, vegetables, unknown to the
East, grasses and lawns, most beau
| tifuIly trimmed and bordered, every
thing so different from other places,
in this Burbank town, one concludes
that sure enough this man is a world
wonder We pass such resort places
as Mont-AlVo, Ventura, Santa-Bar
| bara, one. of the greatest of the Paci-
&C resorts; Guadalupe, Paso Robes,
Hot Springs, with hotels, boarding
houses and thousands of health re-
sorters. Talk of gay places, but you
must know of Del-Monte, to get the
full meaning of gayety- California and
Pacific coast merriment sets our
eastern joy places in the shade-in-
deed in comparison, they are tame
affairs. We put up Del-Monte and
Santa Cruise. where we stop over
Sunday against all competitors, and
for ordinary small places on the line
of ad captandum vulgus, we will GER
tainly match this part of the western
hemisphere against any competing
ground in the East.
AT Santa CRUZ, which is town of
some 10000 inhabitants, it is said that
as many as thirteen different Ian
guages are spoken, when things are in
full swim, as they were when we were
there in June. 1916. There were Az
tees, Bohemeans, Chinese, Cross
breeds, Dagoes, EAST Indians, French,
Greek, Hungarians, Italians, Japa-
nese, Knickerbockers, Lithuaniaps,
Moros, Negroes, Orientals, Philip
pinoes, Quakers, Russians, Spaniards,
Turks, Utes, Vagabonds, Wampoos,
Xanthippes, Yankees and Zulus, so it |
will be seen, it takes all the letters
of the alphabet to spell out all the |
at these resorts and then |
some are eft out, who were there, |
such as Germans, Irish, British, Jew, |
Danes, Norwegians, Sweeds, Poles, !
Dutch and HawaiiaNs, all of whom
seem to be around these Pacific wa /
tering places.
1t will not do to say the bathers at !
these beaches wear no clothes at all,
hut it is very certain they do not
wear very many, nor is the fibre very
heavy, nor is the length very great,
and these declarations are made in all
sincerity. though it was custom
there which seemed to excite no one.
Santa CRUZ is known the world |
0evr as being place where every
cody goes, because it has what is
called modern attractions and It
seems as though this is one place,
where men and women can turn So
cial life into anything they may de-
Sire Sunday is gala day, for all
classes and conditions, the fisherman
With his boat and tackle-the saloon
SITS with hundreds of places of all
GRADES. so thick around the beach |
hat they build them out into the
Pacific ocean-soft drink and refresh
nent stands, cafes of all grades,
wheels of fortune, shooting galleries,
women slight CT hand artists, merry
grounds, chicken fights, dog fights,
lorse races, Russian dances, moving
ictures of the shady kid, vaude-
lille shows, orch estras ara bands Of
music, auto joy ride1s in every di-
ection FATHERS on the beach by the
the bay covered with
aunches, stores and everything else
tide open. An evangelist by t.
anne of Price from Arkansas was /,
here with an immense tent, holding
ervices,s but he was too wise to at
empt services on Sunday. in that
anita CRUZ city, while she was in her /
ilarious summer attire In addition
D the native home folks and usual re-
orters, for the Sunday festivities,
lere came sailors from all over the
yorld, it is cite fishermGns resort,
abroad employees from every direc
on, weekend excursionists, farmer
oys and fruit ranchers, from far
round, and even sightseers from