To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California . Spanish monks, who last centurychristianised California. They saw its beauty of situation,set themselves down there, and called it in their ornately-pious way the Town of the Queen of the Angels. When the country passed to the United States in1847, Los Angeles was a pretty village ; in 1870 it had4000 souls; in 1880, 11,000; now, in 1889, its imagina-tive citizens claim for it a population of 85,000, whilsteven a cool on-looker cannot well place it at less than60,000. Marvellous growth! How it comes to passwe may consider by-and-b
To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California . Spanish monks, who last centurychristianised California. They saw its beauty of situation,set themselves down there, and called it in their ornately-pious way the Town of the Queen of the Angels. When the country passed to the United States in1847, Los Angeles was a pretty village ; in 1870 it had4000 souls; in 1880, 11,000; now, in 1889, its imagina-tive citizens claim for it a population of 85,000, whilsteven a cool on-looker cannot well place it at less than60,000. Marvellous growth! How it comes to passwe may consider by-and-by. In the meantime let ussaunter together and see what the Los Angeles of to-dayis like. The two chief streets—Main and Spring Streets—are broad, level, and well-paved, parallel with oneanother for a long distance, and then merging into oneavenue, which stretches away for miles in a straight linesouth. Tramcars occupy the centres. The broad side-walks are flagged or cemented, and front rows of hand-some shops, banks, hotels, etc., four and five storeys in. TO THE GOLDEN LAND. 33 height, reared in brick, freestone, or granite, and sucharchitecturally as the streets of London would not beashamed to possess. The newness of the town is evi-denced by the fact that these gorgeous edifices are notcontinuous. Sandwiched in between them are the modestwooden shanties, the stores which served the first raceof merchants and shopkeepers. Gradually these arebeing replaced, but enough remain to mark the rawnessof the place. The other streets are yet unfinished, andsorely need the paving which is being pushed rapidlyforward. In the prevailing dry weather they are wastesof dry dust, on the rare wet days seas of sticky at this corner of Main Street you can grasp at aglance a fair idea of the city. Here is a towering blockof handsome offices, there opposite a great red-brick to the former is a row of one-storeyed woodenshops, and as your eye shrinks from their rude ugli
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