Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-06-11
Former Well Known Resident of
Winneshiek, Now Living i'm
California Writes Us an
Interesting Letter
TELLS ABOUT MANY
PLACES OF INTEREST
Visited With NJ. w. Daubney at Long
Beach, Where He is Employed
i'm The First National Bank
Los Angeles, Cal.
May, 80, 1919.
Decorah, Iowa.

Public Opinion, Decorah, Iowa.
Dear EDITOR
Not wishing to be considered toe
prejudiced 1 will give you an ac.
count of drive we took the past
week devoting the day to seeing OF
new places of interest and meeting
with many surprises. Before nine
O'Clock we got under way and our
first stop was at the little church
among the flowers. That being the
chapel for the Forest Lawn cemetery
or Park, would fit the case better
and the Mohsoleum Columbarium
which is now under construction.
However, the church is covered with
vines and growth and is a very beau
tiful little chapel and in connection
the ceamatory that reduces the body
in thirty minutes leaving only the
ashes of the body as the rest is TAX
en- out with a circulatory draft that
removes all the clothing and wood
ashes
1t opens with hydraulic pressure
and is constructed on the most ap'
proved and advanced ideas of the
present time.
AS above stated the place does not
seem like a burying ground, as the
markers are on level with tbs
ground and the cutting of the grass
is done with a gas mower.
The Mousoleum Columbrium is
being constructed on the latest and
most approved plan and is located
in the side of a hill of stone and has
, four divisions or stories and are con-
nected with staircases. They seen,
to just catch on the edge one to the
the other and are like twelve foot
step all covered over with marble
and the inside finish is of copper and
much gold leaf.
This was the home in her youth
of Ella Beach Yaw and she sang
mere W luS uCllSAI VI 'hS SAi'
water oaks that are dotted over the
level portions of the park.
Passing on through Glendale ant
Montrose We took the paved road to-
ward Pasadena in order TO get thu
state foothills road and not make
such an abrupt climb up to it.
This took us three miles or NOR:
out of the way, but we enjoyed it al
and drove past the mountain home
and through the canyon Of the latf
Z. T. Earl, the first to ship frui
from here east in refrigerator cars
but subsequently very closely allie
with the interests OF this city as
publisher of the Evening Express.
This was roped off since his deatl
and we had to go some distance u
get into his holdings. Adjoinini
this at the west is the castle CT EX
Lieutenant Governor A. J. Wallace
who certainly put up a castle tina
ever be a monument to him. How
ever, after his Office term expired
he found it too expensive to live il
so he traded it with Mr. Strong o
Marsh, Strong Co. and it is now tn
home of the latter. 1t certainly i
1 novel and in order to see the plac
we had to drive up and under TIL
driveway for the home and on laav
ing found ourselves on tOboggal
slide of a very steep pitch Passin
down to the state road anG to tn
west we passed Little Landers"
!, place that was in full swing when
came here eight years ago and wher
they have a fine school building AM
a cobble stone central amusemen
hall that answers all purposes TO
the place, a library, hall, dance he'll
social, club, city, church, and genera
utilities place. There was at one tim
some over four hundred peopl
living here under the delusion tina
they could live ,abundantly ON
space of ground less than two hun
dred feet square. The promoter wa
making speeches for La Toilette tn
last | ever heard of him.
Passing on to the west on tn
paved road we come to park own
ed and kept up by the government
called Monta Vista. A very delight
ful place with the giant oaks almos
shutting out the sun and they hay
provided tables with cement founda
tion and standards and plank bar
and seat, all immovable.
With fire places and CRATES t
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