The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-21

night SO as to see all the country by
, daylight, and had a chance to SEE
quite a lot of the city of Fresno
We took auto stage from there the
rest Of the way TO Los Angeles, anC
speaking of winding around the hills
on our trip from Oakland, wa:
nothing compared to the trip dowr
here. 1t does not seem possible 6
road could be made among the hills
and ravines and cement roads too al
the way. 1t looked rather scary in
some places when we Looked down III
the ravines, thousands Of feet below
US.
We arrived here in Los Angeles
the 18th of November and have re-
NAMED here ever since. For the
first week of our arrival we did
some sightseeing around here, the
first trip being to Mt. Lowe. Most
of the way up, 5000 feet above sea
level, we went on the electric cars,
and here again we wound around
among the hills to the top. Believe
me, it was some car ride, where part
of the way we could see no earth
besides the track, and only look down
into the chasms thousands of feet
below. We went over a circular
bridge with nothing but rocky
chasms beneath, and part of the
way we went into a cable car, like
they do on Mt. Washington, only l
think it much more steep climbing.
When the road was being built up
there, they had to tie the timbers
between two mules with a swivel, so
they could pick their way around
the curves in Zig-zag fashion, and 1T
took. | believe, about four weeks to
get four of the heaviest timbers up
for the cable road. Then we took
another trip to Catalina Islands and
had cur first ride on the Pacific
Ocean proper, (of course we had
been across the bay up to Frisco,
and here we went in a glass bottom
boat to the submarine gardens and
saw many wonderful things, some Of
which were very large gold fish, as
large as our suckers or bull pouts.
Then there were a kind of black
bass with white spots and many other
kinds Of fish in numerous numbers,
and the sea-weeds and corals under
water were great, also some very
handsome shells. A diver went down
from the boat with nothing on but
, bathing suit and stayed a number
f seconds and picked up shells, and
brought them on board and sold as
Il is a very pretty resort.
)ne Sunday we went to Alamanda
Park and saw Tom Hunkins' folks.
They are very pleasantly situated
md have very nice neighbors, and
rot work in a few days after they
rot here. In about a week after we
rot here Mr. Crafts went to work IN
sash and blind shop and is still
working there Now we have found
/ rent, and are going to keep house
'nce more. We went fer a ride
yesterday and il was rather too
warm with cur coats on. Sounds funny
Doesn't il when you are having cold
md zero weather? II does seem
lind of good to go out and have il
eem like our June or July weather
III the time, yet we have quite cool
lights and mornings | am very
much better now and seem to be
retting back my usual strength in
his wonderful climate, and Mr.
,-afts is hale and hearty as ever. |
We both have enjoyed il thus far,
md have enjoyed hearing from some
,ur friends back home, and would be
z sd to hear from any of you any
lime. Our address until further
1otice will be 9l215 East 25th t.,
IS Angeles, Cal. A Happy New
fear to All.
Mrs w E Crafts.