The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-07-28

Editor Edgar Wright of the Florid
Grower, is visiting his old home i
California, and his letter is so inter
esting, we pass it on for the enjoy
ment of our readers.
Our editor is experiencing that fin
elation that comes with viewin,
something different" and he is al
sorbing great quantities of joy from
his vacation. He has a capacity TO
appreciation that is to be envied b,
those who merely look upon life anC
things as something to be endured
and taken as matter of course. We
OF the staff thought we would gel
many fine ideas and long letters tc
help us out during the interim, by
which we mean the period of his per
ordinations but the best we have
had outside of this letter was a postal
or two, containing for the most part
pictures of fish and "pome" Like
Dewey he got out Of communication
with us and is vacationizing like he
does everything else, at full speed
ahead.
His letter: "Of course I'm not 60
ing to renounce any of my love for
Florida but one cannot visit this love-
ly southern California without being
faced with the knowledge that it is a
beautiful country with a splendid
summer climate and that its people
are progressive to a degree hardly
realized by most of the people of
Florida. We find good roads every.
where we 60 and yet the citizens vot.
ed yesterday for new appropriation
OF S4O,0O0,OOO for more high ways and
thus, in comparatively short time,
autos will be enabled to go to almost
every nook and corner Of the state
over a road as smooth as the best that
Polk county has to offer. I also note
that the roads are very wide. I
have not yet seen an improved high
way around Pasadena or Los Angeles
that would not afford room for six
machines abreast and many are much
wider than that. Yesterday we drove
from Lamanda Park, where we are
making our headquarters, through
Pasadena, Eagle Rock and Glendale
10 Hollywood and the scenic beauties
OF the trip were beyond my poor
powers of description. That section
has built up wonderfully since I last
saw 1t nine years ago and much of It
reminds me of the best that Miami
has to offer In the way of fine resi-
dences and beautiful grounds. Holly.
wood, the home of the moving picture
Industry, is all that is claimed for it
and when / remember it as saw 1t
in 1902 and compare it with today It
seems almost beyond belief. did
not think that the business part of
Los Angeles has changed great
deal; Of course there are many new
buildings but so many of the old land
marks are here below 7th Street that
/ felt right at home, though amazed
at the throngs on the streets. The
congestion at prominent corners is as
great as ever saw in New York City
and the number of street cars and
automobiles on Spring Street and
Broadway tend to make the crossing
of streets an accomplishment fraught
with danger
I'VE arrived in Los Angeles Satur.
day morning, June 2Sth and sister
met us with the machine and we had
a nice drive home, enjoying every
minute. On Monday l took my first
trip to the city. l did not try to hunt
up any of the old acquaintance at
first, being content to walk the
streets, size up the changes and look
into tire faces of the passers by to
see If would recognize any of them.
You may be surprised to know that
for five hours l did not see a face that
had ever seen before and you will
be more surprised to know that the
frst man I did meet was W. B. Gray,
OF Tampa. THE needle in the hay
stack, l said to him as we shook
hands. Mr.. Gray is here studying
bungalow and apartment house con-
struction, planning to erect several