The Penn's Grove record., 1923-05-04
CALIFORNIA TO PENIS GROVE

Town, Penns Grove, N. j., on the beau
Gful Delaware River.
Pasadena is a beautiful city and the
home of many millionaires from Middle
west and Eastern cities. They come
there to spend the winter in the mild l.,
climate OF California and view beautl-
ful lawns which are filled with many
kinds Of flowers and green grass. Lawns
are filled with pergolas, sunken gardens
and t~rellises covered with roses. IL IS
q city Of 10000 inhabitants and not in
tended for men of small means as
there are no industrial plants there.
They are not wanted. There are plenty
81 fashionable stores, Churches ana
geOd schools, ice plants and ~laundrles
and five large tourists hotels.
The Maryland. Huntington, Green
RAYMOND and Vesla del Arroyo viii
accommodate from 5000 to 7,OOO guests
Rates are from s15 to s35 a day each.
The Maryland is in the center OF the
city and the Home Hotel OF the COM
pany with a beautiful court with forty
bungalows with all convenience and
maid service. Meals are sent out u
they do not care to come to the main
lining room of hotel. Many are leased
BY the year at a rate of Sl,o0o a room
each. Five rooms are IS, 900 with meals
extra. The Maryland is open all year
The others are closed about elght
months in the year.
The social functions are many and
decorations are most beautiful. Many
guests bring their cars with them and
during the day, take long drives thru
the orange groves. vineyards and the
mountain bouIevards. They return to
the hotel with a ready appetite for
luncheon in afternoon and make ready
for the evening dinner, dance and ball.
Next day it is the same thing over
again and continues during the winter
season.
It takes many amusements to keep
GEO guests Interested.
In April and May they begin to start
for their homes. East July and August
we only had A to IS guests in the
Maryland Hotel and the help list was
1877.
I decided to return to the old home
town. Wanting to see our Panama
Canal. I took one of the Pacific mail
steamships, the Ecuador, which steams
from San Francisco to New York. a dis
tance of G,774 miles. and if on time. re-
quires 2S days. ! was % days to Balti-
more, Md, two lays late.
l left Pasadena March 10Th. 9.26 a.
NJ, took Pacific railway train to Los
Angeles, spent a short time there, then
took another train to Wilmington, Cal,
close to Los Angeles and san Pedro
harbor where our ship was waiting.
We steamed out at 6.15 p NJ. with about
215 passengers on board. The ships
orchestra played to give cheer to those
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dark and the light of San Pedro made
a beautiful farewell sight.
Our first port call was M"anzannillo,
Mexico, 1900 miles, four day run on a
smooth sea. It is the most important
Pacific port of Mexico and is connected
by railway with the principal cities of
that country. The company issues
through rail and pullman tickets to
Guadalajora and Mexico City by this
port. The Government charges $500
head tax to land. 1t is like the most of
Mexican towns with about 400 popula-
ton. Most OF the homes We're built in
under shade trees. The natives wore
very scant clothes. Most all women,
men and children were barefoot.
We loaded about 5000 bags of coffee;
not much merchandise. All were hand
led by packs on back. Our ship an
ehored about a half mile off shore. All
freight was lightered and in floats.
They looked more like Noah's Ark. The
passengers were lowered over the rail
Of the ship in baskets to the float, just
like the freight, and the same at the
wharf.
Their food consisted practically of
rice and beans. Everything was wet.
not rain water. The Volstead Act had
not reached there yet and many of the
passengers made good use of their
visit. They were not so hungry as they
were dry, and could get plenty to wet
their whistles.
Our next stop was Champerico, Qua
temala, another such town, which cost
$3.50 to land, with plenty of wet goods.
We loaded coffee there. Only one
wharf had a large packing house filled
with coffee, which is shipped out be-
fore the wet season comes on. There
were two steamers laying there wait
ing to load. One was French, the other
German.
Our next port stops were at San
- ~ aornn,apcio1 mort of G1atp-1
mala and at Acajutla, a commercial
mort of Salvador. Ships anchored about
a half mile from shore and passengers
go ashore and return in small boats
at their own expense of 81. We loaded
coffee there. The towns are all about
the same. Our next stop was at La
Libertad, the commercial port of Sal
yador. 1t is an outlet of large eXpor-
tations of coffee. Ships anchor about
a quarter of a mile from shore ana
passengers go ashore and return at
their own expense of 50. The City OF
San Salvador is reached by automobile
over macadamized road, a distance of
about twenty miles, or one hour. The
company ~endeavors to allow sufficient
time to La Libertad to take the boys
to San Salvador. The additional cost
includes small boat between ship and
shore GO minutes). Auto for round
trip and lunch at Hotel Neuvo Mundo
in San Salvador is about 81. Arrange
ments can be made by passengers with
ships purser.
After seeing this place we sailed for
Corinto, a quaint seaport in he depart
ment of Chiandega, Nicaragua. 1t is
situated on the Island of AserVadores,
between Realojo Bay and the Pacific.
It has an excellent harbor and is the
chief N~icaraguan port in the west
coast from Corinto Rule. Connections
are made with all interior cities of i'm
portance in Nicaragua, including Leon
Granada and Managua, the capitol. The
trip from Corinto to Mangua is about
eight hours. Now we are off on an
other run of GA miles, Corinto to Bal
boa. CPanama) a Government reserva-
ton and a clean city and policed by
Marines. About a mile we cross to
Panama City, which is wide open, just
as the cities we have passed. Lots of
the passengers bought their summer
Panama hats at 81 to 50 each.
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