The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-31

| ange ana apricot groves. The valley
is IA miles wide and our destination
was 26 miles distant. Here the land
company had 1000 acres planted in Z
year-old orange groves, which had
been divided into town lots. 1t was
very good proposition for those who
desired to buy. This grove has two
Sunkist packing houses, which also
serves other groves.
Further on the north side of the val
ley are 1000 acres of olive groves with
two packing houses for the olives and
near the foot of the mountain the
| government has a two million dollar
hospital for crippled soldiers.
| was on trip to Burbank, town
claiming to have 10000 population,
and located fifteen miles distant from
Los Angeles. l was informed that
Jeffries, the ex-pugilist, had rancho
on the outskirts of Burbank, and
prompted by curiosity l walked to his
rancho to learn of his success in farm
ing. l noticed a man near the JEFF
| fries home doing some work and he
informed me he was the tenant, but
did not know whether Jeffries was in
the house or not. He also said that
| Jeffries was in the dairy business for
several years but had given that up
and had sub-divided his LOT acres of
land into town lots with the excep-
ton of seven acres which contained
the buildings. He informed me that
the ex-champion was SO years old and
was in good health.
l then called at the house and Mrs.
Jeffries told me that her husband was
away from home. She is woman of
medium size and age with a pleasing
appearance and is courteous and So
ciable. She told me that she and her
husband had lived here for sixteen
years. They have a nice bungalow
and beautiful yard with shrubbery
and verious kinds of lovely flowers.
l have accepted on several occasions
the generous offers of the subdivision
agents, as l did not wish to be termed
an migrate, and of course it gave me
an opportunity to see much of the
surrounding country, and on those
| trips | have seen the immense acreage
in various fruit groves.
The apricot trees are very full of
fruit and about the size of robins
eggs at this time.
l have tarried very little in the city
spending the nights only and until
| about 900 a. M, as stay in any city
has much of the sameness.
Not all my roustabouting over the
country has been borne by the gener-
osity of other persons, but | made use
of company BUSES and electric rail
ways to a considerable extent, all Of
them charging reasonable fares.
In hotels, termed as middle class
houses, the rates are more moderate
than in small towns.
The electric street car lines afford
transportation to the various inter
esting towns, such as Pasadena, ten
miles distant, which is a beautiful city
of $4,000 population. In visiting the
several towns one will notice at once
that they are almost connected with
each other by scattered buildings.
Hollywood is a nice town, but the
resident section of Beverly Hills, in
my opinion, is the most beautiful of
all. In Beverly Hills are the homes
of most of the film actresses and &C
tors, producers and those standing
high financially in the business.
About three miles from the post
office is the temple of Aimee Semple
Mcpherson and Sunday, the goth Of
April, l attended both morning and
evening service. She spoke without
hesitation, in a clear, far-reaching
voice. The temple is said to seat
five thousand people and it was filled
to capacity.
Near the temple is Echo Park, con-
tanning eight acres and a beautiful
lake. There are seats and tables for
those who desire to eat their lunch
out in the open. Los Angeles and other
towns provide large parks for the
use and comfort of visitors.
The Southern California University
is very large, interesting place with
several thousand students. The build
ings are many in connection with the
University. The historical building
has many mountings of various ami
mails. Also here is located the agri-
cultural building and the most beau
tiful is the rose garden, an enclosure
of seven acres of various flowers in
beds with walks between. The park
contains 1876 acres, with beautiful
walks and shaded with trees and all
kinds of shrubbery.
l was much surprised to see so
many thousands of acres of level lan1
and the immense acreage not in cul-
tivation, but beckons to the tiller of
the soil.
saw corn from ten inches to three
feet high on my way to Long Beach,
but the acreage was small.