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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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ACROSS THE CONTINENT. 
Descriptions of a Trip from Boston to San 
Francisco and Return. 
[The following is taken from notes made 
by Thomas D. Connolly of Beverly Farms, 
on a recent trip to San Francisco.— ED.] 
No. 5.— From Los Angeles to San Francisco. 
Nature has smiled on these places. 
The soil is heavy, black and easily 
tilled. Fortunes have been made 
here by buying unimproved land, 
cutting it up into sections and lay- 
ing out streets through it. The 
electric’ cars’ travel” very fast; 
they depart from the roads, cut 
across fields, and own their land 
like the steam railroads. The trip 
to Mount Lowe is a wonderful line 
of railway, up dizzy heights, across 
ravines and curved bridges, making 
#« person think how small a space 
there is between him and eternity; 
but accidents ont his line do not 
happen. 
Los Angeles was laid out to 
grow a° certain. way, 
it almost always happens, 
turns. .thee"“sether #aeway. od 
mention this because the city had a 
tunnel built through a large hill and 
this tunnel turned the building of 
but as. 
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the city that way. Near the en- 
trance to this tunnel they have a 
small railway called the Angels’ 
flight, and it is very steep, one car 
holding the other up while it goes 
down. 
About 20 miles from Santa Mon: 
aca is Catalina Island, owned by 
the Banagans. The original Bana- 
gan made his money in early times 
lik, “THE SEX Press pusiness ;. ine tact, 
hauling heavy loads long distances, 
as was the custom in California be- 
fore the advent of railroads. This 
island is remarkable for its subma- 
rine floral gardens, and they have 
large boats with glass set in the 
Lottoms, where one may look down 
in the water at the*most beautiful 
objects; even seeing large fish 
swimming about. 
On this island there is quite a 
large town by the name of Avalon. 
Catalina is famous as a camping 
place, and one may hire a tent with 
cooking apparatus, etc., for as long 
a time as he wishes. ~ 
We are still located in Los An- 
geles. Today we madeatrip to 
Pasadena, fourteen miles from 
here, where several people from 
Beverly are located. It is a beau- 
tiful place, and really a part of Los 
Angeles. The electric car system 
here is a very good one, and every- 
thing is done to detain the traveler 
from the east. Great preparations 
are now being made in Los Angeles 
for the National convention of the 
Knights of Columbus, which is to 
take place this coming June. About 
14.000 are expected. Every state in 
the Union is to be represented, and 
 seph Scott, the head of this order 
in California, has been most untir- 
1i.g in his efforts to have it a great 
success. Joseph Scott was former: 
lv a New York boy and went to Los 
Angeles some twelve years ago 
He is a prominent attorney-at-law. 
The Los Angeles river is gener- 
ally almost a dry, sluggish stream, 
but when storms occur in the moun- 
tains, it overflows its banks and 
makes great havoc among the peo- 
ple. This happened while we were 
here, and for three days it rained 
very hard; consequently the ranch 
men were happy, as it assures 
plenty of water, which is stored in 
reservoirs. They let the water out 
from time to time, for irrigating 
purposes and this system of irriga- 
tion has worked wonders all over 
California during the dry season. 
We left Los Angeles this morn- 
ing at 8 o’clock for San Francisco. 
via coast line. This train should 
arrive in San Francisco at 10.30 P. 
M. on the same day, but owing to 
the severe rains for the last three 
days we are held up at Tropico. 
There are many washouts, but we 
dco not mind this much, as every- 
thing around is pleasing to look at 
We were just watching the largest 
pigeon farms that I have ever seen, 
thousands and thousands being 
cooped up ready to be sold. We 
just looked at the thermometer at 
Tropico depot and find it registers 
72 degrees. One train is ahead and 
one behind us. We are now six 
miles north of Los Angeles and 478 
miles from San Francisco. There 
are mountains on each side, and it 
looks as though we would be de- 
laved for some time. 
After waiting two and one-halt 
hours, we have started again and 
have passed through three tunnels. 
Shatswell tunnel is the longest one, 
and takes seven minutes to go 
through. These tunnels have just 
been built and save miles of travel. 
We have passed a place called Car- 
pentier, where the oil wells first 
come to view. At Summerside the 
oil wells are out in the ocean quite 
a distance from shore, and very nu- 
merous. On top of each well are 
windmills, which pump the oil up 
through driven pipes. The oil then 
runs along in pipes to large tanks 
or the shore. 
We stopped at Santa Barbara, 
where the old Mission is located, 
and it is still in a thriving condition. 
There are some beautiful residences 
located there, many New Yorkers 
and Chicago people making this 
their winter home. 
This coast line road runs’ from 
Burbank to Surf on the edge of the 
ocean. Burbank was named after 
the famous Burbank, who has pro- 
duced wonderful fruits and vege-. 
tables and has made the thornless 
cactus. He is doing more for the 
good and prosperity of farmers and 
fruit growers than any other man. 
He is a genius and was born in this 
state in the little town of Lancas- 
Fer. 
We have at last passed all the 
washouts, but our train is three and 
one-half hours late. We got off the 
train for a few minutes at Surf, and 
found the thermometer _ read 
8c degrees. We passed two places 
called San Luis Obisbo and Pasa 
Robles, both famous for their nat- 
ural hot mud baths, where people 
suffering with rheumatism and 
skin .- diseases find relief. We 
reached San Jose (51 miles from 
San Francisco), and finally reached 
San Francisco at 2 o’clock Sunday 
morning. 
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