Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-03-17
LOS ANGELES NOT
UP TO ARIZONA
AS WINTER RESORT

UP TO ARIZONA
AS WINTER RESORT
Ever since he was a child at mis-
mothers knee this newspaper man has
heard of the golden glory of Southern
California. The skies there smile al
ways, so people said. and "the orange
and olive are fairest of fruit and the
voice of the nightingale never is
mute" Returning pilgTims from those
shores have raved about the sun-kissed
: beaches and inland lanes of yellow
and green and the wealth of pepper
| trees and flaming gardens and balmy
zephrys and flower carnivals until this
simple listener was forced to the con-
clusion that Los Angeles was a city
of the angels in fact as well as in
name, and that the old prophets who
narrated the glory of heaven were
dumb and palsied compared to the
press agents and locoed tourists VINO
sang Of the eternal summer and
miracle gladness of this favored Cali
fornia cline.
But listen. This newspaper man,
making his first visit to the Pacific
slope in the mad month of March, left
bright skies and balmy airs behind
in Arizona, only to wake up the next
morning in California and be greeted
by leaden skies and lOw-hanging
clouds and the beat of the wind and
rain on the Pullman window.
The orange groves and gardens and
gay villas were there, alright, and
doubtless very fine, but they were
hidden by the curtails of the mist.
Three long and dreary days did the
newspaper man spend in Los Angeles,
city of summer gladness and roses
the year round. And he went about
with his battered Stetson pulled low
over his eyes as a shield from the
driving rain. and his old overcOat but
toned up to the chin TO protect him
from the chilling blasts.
Italy is an iceberg compared To
California in winter" says the folders.
Southern France is a frozen snow
drift and Florida frigid waste, come
to California for the winter" pleads
the printed matter or the Los Angeles
amber of commerce.
Well, they come. alright. pilgrims
from the bleak Kansas plains and the
bitter northern lakes and the zerO
east and the pleasant places of Arizona
20 bask in the glow of the California
sunlight. The newspaper man saw
-hem by the score with rubbers Tor
their wet feet and firemen's helmets
ecr their catarrh-stricken heads and
rubber blankets and raincoats to IA
ford protection from the steady and
unending downpOur They were sad
and bedraggled lot. The air was we;
enough to float a submarine. And 1t
was cold enough to put an artificial
ice plant out of business.
AS a summer resort California may
be all that it is painted, this news
paper man does not know; he has
never summered there. But to him
il will always be a passing strange
thins why any tourist can the second
time pass through the beaming sun
light and bright beautiful days OF Ari-
IONA in winter to SILVER and grumb:e
and soak in the cold drizzle of Los
Angeles. Once might be explained
from ignorance, but the second time!
As a winter resort Tucson or Phoenix
cffer a climate as far surprising Los
Angeles as a sunbeam does a tallow
candle flame. Any eastern or north
ern man seeking surcease from the
sorrows of February and March who
will pass through these two Arizona
cities and go on to the mist and driz,
zle OF the Pacific coast must have
stand-in with his local probate judge.
The first time he might pass on mis-
led by the rainbow promises OF the
pamphlets and folders, but the second
time