Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ALONG THE GREAT PACIFIC SEABOARD WITH ITS MANY CHARMS AND BEAUTIES By Dr. H. K. Aiken. The first Burn rlue an easterner meets when he comes out here Ik the size of these states. On the Atlantic seaboard wo had the thirteen Original states of the union. On the shores, of the Pacific, three states cover about the same distance, Cnl IfomiM is five times as largo as South Carolina; or to put it in another way, you could place the states of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhoda island, Maine, Vermont, Con necticut, New Hampshire and Ohio inside of the ringle state of California and have live hundred square miles of territory left over. Transplanted to the Atlantic its shore line would reach from Charleston to Boston. This Tac t serves to explain the great diversity of climate to he found in California. in describing California It is necessary to indicate whether \ you are referring to Northern, Ceti tral or Southern California, It is an error to suppose; that anything j like uniformity of climatic conditions j prevail. Two great mountain ranges run north and south through it. The ' ('oast range from ten to one hundred miles hack from the shores eif the' j Pacific, and the- Sierra Nevada's still further inland. Up towards the southern border of Oregon, Mt. Shasta ; a magnificent, glacial crowne d peak ? unites these two ranges. i shall ' have more: to say of this mountain after awhile. There Is tillable Innel between the Coasl range and the'' oc.er.n but the larger, central valley contains most of the farming lands. In the southern part of the state th?1 Coast range gradually breaks down and disappears so that for lf?0 miles an extensive plain faces the Pacific running hack from Ifi to 50 miles; Until it meets the foot-hlll8 of the Sierra Mndre i meaning "the Mother Mountains") which in this locality have replaced the Sierra Nevada taupe. Sierra means a saw-tootheel mountain and Nevada means snowy. This is Southern California and Los Angeles is its metropolis. The Cltj of The Angels. This was the name given thO location now covered by a modern, growing, rich and beautiful city, one hundred and twenty years ago by the Franciscan fathers when they planted here the mission of San Gabriel. It was the fourth in the order of found ing of a chain of 21 similar settle mentS made from the Mexican border up to San Francisco in this unex plored wilderness by these earnest pioneers. They did a wonderful work in civilizing and trying to christianize the aborigine-? and if the limitations of an article like this did not prevent, it would he a pleasant t;sk to pay the tribute that is due' their z<>al ami wisdom. To one fond of such pastime the history of the missions of old California is high ly entertaining. These monks have be- n criticised ami abused just as all "men who do thinus" have been, over since the* foundation of the world, but when you see the' native Indian of this part of the world the wonder grows thai they wore able te> make him work even a little hit. For Ignorance, dlri, sloth and general ItselCSSneSS the Mexican Indian is' about iho limit. Remember that ! these Spanish padres were the' leaven and the native- Indian the> loaf, that occupied all t his ? normous domain until compnrltlvely recchl times- j ; bout 1850. So that the: California of today is a ne-w state* as we> count j age. The edel mission e>f San C.nhricl now within the limits of Los Angeles is ke pt just as it was Over it hundred years ago. NVe visited n on the Til ton trolley trip. This is of a day's duration, carries yon 100 miles for 100 e-e-nts seated |fi a reserved and numbered revolving chair. S'oti v<? In and out ami all tiroutie! Los Angeles in a fast moving trolley car. Oil this trip you can vlsll I'asadena. Illlio I miles from l.eis Angeles, Cawstod's ostrich farm, the inagllificeiil tour ists hotels bttill here by millionaires from all over the country, the three million dollar Shore resort of Naples. get a lish dinner fdr fifty cenls n( its famous Pompelon cafe, cross over Alamlto8 Hay in gondolas or launc hes and ride up to i.emg Reach, another suburban pleasure park, beside the Pacific. This last named little city has a permanent population of 25,000, tine banks, skyscrapers, steam rall wavs the beautiful Hotel Virginia on an eminence overlooking the sea and its "Walk of A Thousand Lights" is a cement way 30 feet wide for two miles along the surf. Los Angeles has one of the best Fleetric traction systems I have ever seen. One hun dred and seventy five miles within the city and including Inter-urban service t'>7.r> miles of track. Much of this is private right-of-way belonging to the Pacific Fleet t ic Co. fenced off from Interference. No complaints about not going fast enough. The Union station for all these lines is an enormous building corner of Sixth and Main, in the heart of the city. There are so many sdde trips one can [make from Los Angelea that n mere list would bo too long. I wiil only mention a few. Santa Catalina Is lands, an enjoyable water trip from San Pedro which is the port of entry 0 I.os Angeles, twenty miles inland. Hero is Avalon and in a cove walled off Irom the oceun by llic island you see tic marine gardens with their Cora and fauna, through glass bot tomed boats, T/bey have a lish out in t!;!s part of the world culled the Burra-cootu (don'l know whether that is the way to spell ii bill I know the fish is all io the good.) The llesh is white, delicate, finely llnvored and a few large hones. Another good one is a fiie. Sand-Dab. M Its in your IllOUth. The waters of the Pa cific are much cooler than our ocean. Ilestuttrants serve oysters every month in the calendar. Passing on out of the central street of Pasadena you can ascend Mount Lowe by a wonderful cable incline or if you pre fer to forgo the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, the trolley will carry you to Rodondo beach. Santa .Monica, where you will sec acres of oil derricks out in wheat fields or In truck gardens and some of them are actually out in the surf. Venice (in America. I Ocean Park, IMaya Del Hey and still others remain to be visited if you are not tired. I.os Angeles has miles of tlowor-eovered Bungalow homes facing on Pnlm-glrt avenues. It also has palatial hotels and thea tres, splendid business blocks ami everything else that an up-to-date city can toa>t. We were there for t'.ie Elks' parade, an elaborate street pageant by day and marvellous elec trical effects at night. The scene was one of moving beauty as the dif ferent delegations in costume marched by the reviewing stand. The white hosts from Denver. the colonial dames of Uostoil following a Bunker Hill monument on wheels, the cowled monks of Santa Barbara, the orange men from Redlatlds, the Rollers of Cincinnati and tile two lone colonels from Kentucky these and all the other fun-makers for the visitors will linger long In memory 1 Near me on the stand was a .lolly old P.Ik, too fat in walk in the sun and as each suc cessive lodge appeared he would rise and shout ?'Hoorah for-(who ever happened to be passing tyou are der best lookin fellows in the der whole bunch" and the paraders would pass on immensely pleased but blissfully Ignorui.t of the fact that he had been saying the same thing to all who had proceeded them for hours. A crowd of P.Iks is a fun factory. Hut it is Friday night July 16th. and our train will move out so'.netinie during the night for Santa Barbara. We are going up the Coast route of the So. Pacific. This system has another route inland, that is optional with tourists. If I were not so tired from days of sight-seeing I would like to tell of the complimentary trip the Sail Lake route gave us back lo Riverside, Pomona. Redland and the San Gabriel valley, where the orange groves, vineyards, olive and prune groves are. The magnolia avenue IIUIO riile and a peep into the quiet, cool fragrance of the Mission inn at Riverside t< mpt one to write on. but readers as well as writers, sometimes tire. To visit this Riviera in America will be better than might 1 can do. We have arrived at Santa Barbara, had breakfast on our dining car and Rone over the City and up the hill a few miles to the mission. This mis sion as it stands today, Is the largest, best preserved and most Interesting of all "the twenty-one. Built of stone and adobe with a covering of tile made by tie Indians. In the open space in front, stands an old fountain over a hundred years old but still playing, The Church has two chapels and four side altars. The walls are covered with oil paintings and the attars with wooden statues of saints. Passing through the chapel you enter the old cemetery or Cnmpo Santo. Here are burled four or live thousand persons in a plot perhaps a hundred feet square. One or two young monks in coarse brown cowls ami sandlet! feet were pulling the rijiss and weeds j from among the Mowers along the walks. The present population of the mission Is only 40 or fiO, where in former days hundreds of priests and thousand of parishioners came and went. These monks cared for all travellers, no matter bow poo., In the olden days. Now, their days are spent in study, work and prayer, their nights in a stone cell. When the sand in life's hour glass runs down the old bell in the tower will turn on its wooden beam and raw hide fastenings as one by one the soil of the Campo Santo claims their bones. From such melancholy scenes we quietly retraced our steps to the cozy little mission passenger station of the So. Pacific, crossed the tracks and strolled awhile over the large Potter hotel and its ample and well kept grounds. Laughter and tears are never far apart In this world. Here at the station was a famous band (La Monnca's) playing for the delight of tourists. Paderewskl No. 2. was its conductor. We applauded his leadership? be played again and if his hair bad not been real he would have shaken it off. We sang a bar o;- two of "Dixie" and the crowd went wild. As ?im- train palled out Pad ercwskl No. :.' was having an epileptic lit to the accompaniment of the brass es. It is now noon and we are on our way up the coast in dine at the famous Paso Robles 11 > * i springs hot?l. Tile tracks run along the edge of a high bluff. As ihr as you can see to tl.e west stretches the green Pacific full of floating seaw ted or kelp. Ti-.e breakers now and then reach the track, hut we dart around crag and promontory follow5, g two big oil burning locomotives. We reached Paso Robles before dark and inspected the SOliri'OUndingS. These' are the most noted hot springs in the state'. The bathing establish monl connects by a glass enclosed passage with the- hotel lobby. The wate rs are> alkaline and sulphur vary- , ing in temperature from CO te> 120 degrees P. The grounds are large nnd some little distance from the depot hut the smell of sulphur gre-ets you early and stays late. We had a good dinner after we got in the dining room but the cottem states spee-ial of the Qlieen and ('resent, another from New Jersey and one or two more had preeecded us and we; had to wait quite awhile for it. The. Stream of j tourists is larger than usual this season. Retiring on our train we will stop next at Del Monte, after breakfast. tomorrow. A stop at Del Monte. Cal.. is a pleasant break in the trip from Los Angeles te> Frisco. Situated 325 miles north of the former on the shores of Monterey Day near the! quaint and historic town of Old Monterey, the town presents a mix ture' of old Spanish and modern buildings. Here was the first capital of California and a little- frame shack ? its first theatre, where Jenny Lind sang in 1 s47. We a.re* now on "The roads of a thousands wonders." if you have never loeikeel over a copy of this booklet send te> the> passenger depart ment of the Southern Pacific for a copy. its pictures are better than any magazine and some day you will visit the'se' wonde-rs and prove how accurate is the portraiture. One of the wonders is the hotel Del Monte. Its grounds are perhaps the finest to be see n in America. One hundred and twenty live acres of landscape' gardens. In its Arizona garden you see CO varieties of cacti. The IT mile drive around Cypress Point with its seal rocks. e>stiie-h tree-, witch tree and Chinese fishers' huts is famous over the world. What is here known as the' ex press is said to lie' the" saine? as the> cedars of Lebanon. We spent the morning riding ami walking among the 1300 different varieties of plant life being cared for by expert garden- 1 Crs lo re. Not too hot nor too cold, the combination of mountain air and: salt breeze is a wonderful tonic. We' lefl about noon for Santa Cruz? > "City of the Holy Cross". From this fashionable seaside resort we took 1 carriages and automobiles for a big tree grove aboul six miles back in the' mountains. The big i re-cs of Califor nia belong to the family known as seqiiola or redwood. The' smaller ami medium sized variety is the- prin cipal kind of lumber cut in California, while the giants are now preserved in groves, lOach tree- has a name. Seinie' of them ate' 340 feel high and over 100 fee t around the; base. The baric is rather soft and from one' to four feet thick. Their ngc is deter mined by counting the smaller rings from ihe centre?a ring a yenr. Prof. Miiir carefully examined a iroo partly, burned through ami found it te> be over 3,000 years old. Think of standing in the presence of a living thing even a i:ee thai was grown when the- Dabo of Bethlehem lay in bis manger! They b>e>k now Jur.l .as they elid when Columbus was landing. Yotl f< el like' taking off your hat in their presence or paying some form of homage to such antiquity. "Oil Mother Nature- hold my hand And steady me a little while-, That I may feel and understand This awe Inspiring sight sei grand. I ne-ve-r kne-w, I ne-ver gueSSCd But now I know what is is best". These trees are the only survivors of a pre-hlstoric earth, in the Marl? poosa grove of the Yosemlte valley are some larger than those here. They grow nowhere except in the COVC8 of the Sierra Nevada range. Had California no Other attraction than su<-li groves they would be enough. This is a city set upon an hill and the glory of the hill Is this hotel. I have no need of better accommoda tions than this hostelry affords. When you come o San Francisco stop at the Fairmont. We have spent two days here, visited Golden Gate The Largest And Best Line Of Chairs Consisting of a beautiful line in different designs made of the best quality of material, with turned rounds and well braced. On account of buying in 5 car load quantities direct from the manufacturers, we can sell the best fin= ished Chairs for what you would have to pay for a cheaper quality at other places. park, the ('li:'t' house r.i;<! its seal rocks, Chinatown nnd the presidio or barracks. San Francisco lias not as many handsome homes as 1 had ex pected in vi< w cd the wealth resident here. Too many frame houses. The effects of their great lire meet you on every sh". . Market street and their main stores, hanks and oflice buildings have been rebuilt, it is true, but it will be a long time before San Francisco is what it probably was bet?re the lire. The city came very near being located on an island, like New York. It covers a fan shaped peninsular and the stem of the fan is a narrow ship passage between high barren rock walls. This is the Golden Gate. Uncle Sam has this Gibraltar like entrance well fortified. Oakland is the Jersey City to San Francisco. This place is very windy and cold, too cold to be seasonable in .li ly. Most of the street cars in use in San Francisco were the first specimens that the builders of stich things turned out I should say. If Cnlhotin, Mllllnly ?t Co. are ever ac quitted of the charges pending they ought t<> be re-arrested for indicting such antiquated means of transpor tation upon a long suffering and helpless public1. To attempt to pet anywhere on a cable car here recalls to mind the problem of your boyhood. "If a frog fell in a well ami climbed up a foot every night and dropped back eight inches every day how long | before lie would get out?'' Miss Sexton Wen Watch. In I be Fan-Tax. contest, voting for the most popular young lady of the city, at the Palmetto drug store. Miss Mayme Sexton of this city won the prize, she having received 313 votes. The prize was a handsome chntcliho walch and charm, Gel in the contest and work. CHEAT POPULARITY CONTEST I Vote for Weekly Ballot SC (Not Good After August :10th.) r??~~ ~~? iTribble Clothing Co. | Up-to-date Clothing and Shoes % Hart Schaffner and Marx < C Clothing * E * f Edwin Clapp Shoes for Men ^ l Regal Shoe for Men and Women j| jWe have just put in a full line of Women and i Children Shoes and it will pay you to get ^ our price before buying ^ Tribble Clothing; Co. | The Up-to-date One Price Clothiers # Laurens, S. C. ? IA Grcal Rise in Do/ Valuation. J By W. I). S. Crawford lias sold ids hound dog llruno, to Cooley for his mule, Pete, und bttggy. This cr.lls to mind ;: young than down in S'owborry County, who carried to his new home, ft Wife, n pointer dOg nild II pun. Soon lite don became a nuisance to the wife. He ale up her eggs, killed her yOUUg chickena ami often cleaned up their breakfast- when hor back was turned on the dop. She expostulated with her husband to gel rid of the pointer. Intt he was deaf to her entreaty. She Anally told him she or (he dog would have t<> go. "Well, I am going down lo the court house and I will sell the dop". On his return from town he called out, "Come here, wife! I have sold Carlo for one hundred dollars". "1 am so plad, Hubble. It is too pood to he true?let me see tin money". "Hold on then, I took the pay in two puppies, at fifty dollars apiece." So Preston got two for one, from Barney In the dog trade. Good sense Is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want. Are you Idle? or do you want a better job? I can interest you if you are in either one of these'classes. I have a good proposition for three orj fourjmen* who^wttl work. Tetter. Salt Rheum and Eczema Arc cured by Chftiutierloin'fi snJvr. Out applies.* Uon rdicvM th< Ilching ?ml burning sonuuon< J. J. Adams at Bank of I .aureus