The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-01-29
TRIP AND A VISIT To
RIVERSIDE, CALF.
Editorial Correspondence to The Sea
Coast Echo.

Editorial Correspondence TO IHe oed
Coast Echo.
RIVERSIDE, Calf. Jan. 12.-Can
you imagine a trolley trip 6o miles
through an orange-ladened grove,
with The mountains on both sides In
their majesty and picturesqueness
as back ground setting!
Today we made the trip through
this scene, through California S
worlds famous Orange Empire" "
Leaving Los Angeles over the Pacific
Electric to which system will make
a short reference later straight as an
arrow flies to the target, the trolley
train makes Its flight from the corner
of Sixth and Nam streets, to the
heart of the great empire. The
train leaves frequently throughout
the day. Ours left at 900 A. NJ,
and a few miles later from the
Couna Junction, we enter the gar
dens and orchards of the Southland.
Moments pass swiftly by and Corina,
the foot-hill jewel. western gateway
of the Orange Empire is reached!
From Corina to. Etiwanda, the
route is highly productive groves OF
the citrus districts. The tram, short
ly after leaving Etiwanda passes
abruptly into the mammoth grape
district, entering "Orangeland" again
at Fontana, thence through Rialto
and Bloomington, citrus fruit centers
TO Riverside.
This sixty-mile run has been one
Of beauty and interest indeed. The
orange trees-through this valley
from both sides of the car track and
as far as the vision will carry to the
mountain sides, are ladened with
their golden charge. 1t is sight
never to be forgotten. Every few
miles the route is dotted with some
rose embowered town bearing some
of fanciful name as pretty and al
ways appropriate to the picture. The
whole stretch of land with it's fruits
and flowers has been hkened to some
poem and the towns seemingly serve
as punctuation marks.
But the end of our trip is reached
and We are at Riverside, a city of
possibly some thirty thousand or
more population, and after alighting
we are soon at that point around
which Riverside revolves or we
might say the one of the many big
attractions of Southern California
the Glenwood Mission Inn, only ho-
tel of its kind in the world. This is
the dream of Frank Miller the
owner. created into a reality with
the assistance of his sister, Mrs.
Richardson, a most charming and
practical person. and of both people,
whose acquaintenance we were
charmed to form through personal
letters of our townsman, Mr.. j. N.
WiSner.
David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford University has said:
1t has been left for you, Frank
Miller, a genuine Californian, to
dream of the hotel that ought to be,
stone, and to give us in mountain
belted Riverside the one hotel which
a Californian can recognize as his
own"
Ebert Hubbard. the sage of East
Aurora, visiting the Glenwood Mis-
sion, said:
There was a line of these mis-
sions. hundred years ago, skirting
the coast from San Diego to San
Francisco, just days journey
apart. These missions were refuge
and a home for the worn traveller
he could stay as long as he wished
and pay what he could afford, and
when he went away he took with him
the blessing of these men of God.
And if they served mankind and
made the world better, were they