. Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory. HOME OF G. W. WATTLES, NEAR HOLLYWOOD, Myron Hunt & Elmer Gray, ArchitectsHOME OF G. W. WATTLES, NEAR HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. ON CALIFORNIA. 101 border and the great stream which cuts the continent in two, is in our time a gridironof railroads, whose passenger trains outclass in sumptuousness and comfort those ofany other country in the world, and whose speed leaves incomparably far behindthe achievements of any other railroads of the world. The wilderness whichDickens traversed in his slow progress across half the contin
. Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory. HOME OF G. W. WATTLES, NEAR HOLLYWOOD, Myron Hunt & Elmer Gray, ArchitectsHOME OF G. W. WATTLES, NEAR HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. ON CALIFORNIA. 101 border and the great stream which cuts the continent in two, is in our time a gridironof railroads, whose passenger trains outclass in sumptuousness and comfort those ofany other country in the world, and whose speed leaves incomparably far behindthe achievements of any other railroads of the world. The wilderness whichDickens traversed in his slow progress across half the continent is today one of themost populous, most highly cultivated and wealthiest districts upon the face of theearth. When the writer of Martin Chuzzlewit was penning his very exaggeratedword pictures of American society and character, the Mississippi River was to theworld the utmost boundary of the United States. Beyond was nowhere. A dayor two ago the President could very truly say, in his speech at Cairo, that here isthe heart of the United States. The country which stretches west of St. Louis,St. Paul an
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