California south . Angeles, too, is a city ofchurches, just as it is a city of homes, and on a Sunday morn youmay hear the church bells ringing from hill top to the level, andsee the citys avenues filled with a great concourse of people calledto worship. l Standing at some high vantage point and looking down uponthiscity smiling in the sunlight, and then with sweeping view fol-lowing the Sierra Madre mountains that rise into the lighter blueof the sky, around the undulating plain that sinks into the oceanfifteen miles away, one does not wonder that from all over theworld so many in
California south . Angeles, too, is a city ofchurches, just as it is a city of homes, and on a Sunday morn youmay hear the church bells ringing from hill top to the level, andsee the citys avenues filled with a great concourse of people calledto worship. l Standing at some high vantage point and looking down uponthiscity smiling in the sunlight, and then with sweeping view fol-lowing the Sierra Madre mountains that rise into the lighter blueof the sky, around the undulating plain that sinks into the oceanfifteen miles away, one does not wonder that from all over theworld so many intelligent people have in the past few yearsknocked at the city gates of Los Angeles. It needs not the eye of a prophet to see here fifty years hencea vast commercial center which, with rapid transit lines reachingin every direction to coast, mountain and valley, will be the nu-cleus of a city, unique, homelike and beautiful—a city of five andten acre homes that shall stretch uninterruptedly from the moun-tains to the sea. n. PASADENA ORANGE TREES— OF AGE. Los Angeles to Pasadena* THE suburbs of Los Angeles are not less pleasant than the cityitself, and possess individual excellencies that are ampleargument for their existence. Chief of these is Pasadena,far-famed crown of the valley. With uptown station at each end,the eight fast trains each way, of the Southern Pacific Company,take care of a large share of the travel between the two cities. Therest is looked after by two other steam roads and an electric rail-way. Starting from the business center of Los Angeles and cross-ing the river of that name, we soon leave the bluffs behind after aglimpse of the manufacturing industries of the city, and in a fewminutes reach Shorb, in a widening valley, seven miles east of themetropolis, and the center of a highly cultivated valley floor. p The finest tower and block signal system in the West-bnOKB nere protects the large converging traffic from the In-side Track, Pasadena and Monro
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