The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1898. all set- s known been - section den with by the d the thelr et night in mid- moun- of winte EHOW wrag Mount £ caps of much he er ti the steeping E: s find the d here the y ever nd refreshment. whole year nostly at ere fell and at other ofourteeninches time, T e thirsty ) weeks' earth s wou is blest wi of the for health coastward valleys; e occurr as Redlands : th Al fog line - belt. But it is to behold the vallcy og bank, out upon as over a bank of these are of is on the and above the & common occurr below hidc which one may BnoW e city of Redlands and the surround- ing country e supplied with water for domestic purpo: for irrigation and for power purposes from the Santa Ana Rive Mill Creek and the famous Bear reservoir or lake. Valley a th in Bear Valley for impoundiig ing the big lake was 1883, and in November the following year it was completed is famous dam, designed and ucted under the supervision of F. Brown, is unique in its structur venture was a daring feat of engineering ause of its form, height and the thi iess of its walls. Built to a height of sixty-two feet, it arches ard toward the water to give it Lhe greatest strength use of the least possible ma- water and m begun September of con- i from half to a mile wide. This ands possible by insuring water ation. all the advantages of climate, a soil the best known for the production of the finest of oranges, and a site urpassed for beauty of location and environment, is it any wonder that people of te, of refinement and of means were attracted to this spot? And is it any rprise that Redlands has grown so rapidly, so substantially and so beautifully to be known as the “Magic Cit 0 city in the West has so many natural attractions, None of its size has more beautiful and costly homes; and the rapidity with which the slopes and hill- red with fine mansions as time moves on apace. the past twelve months more has been expended in the erection residences in Redlands than ars before. The am- contour of the country, ke trenches, broken by the eams flowing through the many small canyons, affords innumerable, desirable and com- lf:*(tW“n: bullding sites, upon which the nomes are erected, surrounded by orange parks and gardens of flowers and semi-tropic trees and shrubs. This rolling and broken condition of the tops are being coy increasing Within t twenty years | = S — AL RFF"“,,‘/ W'c&&flwfl WINTER SCENE IN REDLANDS. ORANGE TREES LADEN WITH FRUIT IN THE FOREGROUND AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN BERNARDINO TIPPED WITH SNOW IN THE DISTANT BACKGROUND. These gentlemen at once percelved the possibilities for the landscape gardener in the tract of land w they selected for Redlands is generously supplied imilar park sites, several of which ready prog of development lines approximating those followed Messrs. iley. C d and re- | . linked with energy, progres- | 2d public spirit and the expenditure | of several hundred thousand doll brought Canyen Crest Park to its high state of perfection. The pa along the crest or ridge and northern slope of the long spur of land proje westward into the valley between | Timoteo Canyon on the south and the superior advantages to the they have been taken t no other locality on arlety in which tr of the dwell- nd each home, from the most palatial, em- nd flowers and semi- ach different from the tropic vegetation, | Heights or throu but it more withdrawn frc broc is s in, surroun covered with orange groves, and without | the commanding view of a ride along the | h Canyon Crest Park iiet place, where one feels n the world. North | , on the opposite side from | a ridge known as Lu where there are some fine | the Casa L the mussion sty E v famous as a fashion- ddition to the is a gonia Heig ions; ecture, a able resort. In Loma ther Casa | arge commercial ho. House and Windsor Hotel, | and several family hotels of less pre. REDLANDS FROM CANON CREST PARK | other, according to the artistic taste or | Santa Ana wash on the northwest, at the [ 1timent of the owner: ‘Within, the | head of San Bernardino Valley. The sh;n‘p1 homes are supplied with more of the com- | ridge, falllng abruptly Into the canyon, | forts of a real home life than may be| furnished the material for the name. The k¢ in most communities, while the| natural contour of the land left little to necessities of llving within doors are| be desired by the landscape artist for a *oundation upon which to erect his park, and in doing so everydetail hasbeen care- fully considered. The northern slopes are seamed and broken so as to give portions of it with inclination facing nearly every point of the compass, some of which are abrupt and precipitous, while others slope most places. Throughout the of one’s time may be and is | spent out of doors. i xample of the ape gardening is t Park, the home Albert K. and Alfred possibiiitie found in Csz grounds of Me | is Sylvan boulevard, a splendid drive. Tt|1s, first of all, a citrus fruit center, the wded by higher ground, | orange being especially fine grown in the rich red sofl of this section. The first carload of oranges shipped t from territory now included in the nds district left here on January 21, The crop for this season—thirteen ter—will approximate 1000 car- To handle this immense crop, will be doubled within a very few there are half a score of large cking-hc , one of which (that of the Redlands Orange Growers' Association) is a brick structure, and one of the most substantial and best equipped of the packing-houses in Southern California. lemon is an important crop, and tne pe fruit (pomelo) is coming to be. The s are not confined to the citrus class. ches and apricots are grown In large ntities, so ..at there is a large can- nery, o several drying-houses, and the shipments of canned fruits, dried fruits and raisins are large. The fig is success- fully dried and packed here, this being one of the few places in California in which this operation is carried out. In the adfacent mountaln canyons magnifi- cent apples and cherries are grown, while the strawberry is frequeatly ripened every month in the year. Redlands looks well after the education of her youth. There is a fine high school, Red 155 y which a in which students are prepared for Berke- | ley and Stanford; a large and well-ap- pointed grammar school building and sev- eral other graded schools. As a moral and intellectual community Redlands has few equals. The population of upward of 5000 has been drawn from all parts of the United States, but chiefly from the well-to-do classes of New Eng- land. Nearly every one of the more numerously patronized of the church de- nominations has organizations here and brothers, who have made 1ome for the greater part utiful park of nearly L s begun in 1890 and idly grounds in Redlands d. The Eastern homes of Smiley are at Lakes Mohawk aska two famous resorts their attractive locations and are kept. Can- two hundred shows how for noted the care with which tk von Crest Park be | cognomen of Sm the name of th ne Heights, because of owners and the peculiar aphy of t nd selected for this k. But these gentlemen are modest d the name of Smiley Heights is dis mous under the | and fall away in undulations easy e. The park is now covered with vegetation even to large trees, so rapid has been the growth of some of the cies of eucalypti, and one would think it ht decades instead of but eight years since work was inaugurated upon the park. i Winding in and out, about projecting | knolls and around the heads of mi canyons, are the finest of driveways,| passing by rippling waters and quiet pools, In which are mirrored the bright colors and fantastic forms of myriads of flowers and tropical plants. A brook runs through Redlands, along _ CANON CREST PARK® IN WINTER™ tension. From so much having heen said about the beauty of Redlands, it must not be | tures. There are, all told, nearly a score ) most of them own church bufldings, some | stc and the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A., of which are large and attractive struc- | besides the music-room of the Casa Loma | E. | , and the | The lake thus formed is flve miles | tasteful | inferred that it is simply a place of resi- dence, a city of winter homes or a health resort, for such Is not the case. Redlands of religlous organizations, a large Y. M. | C. A. possessing a fine brick bulilding. | There is also 2 W. C. T. U., an Assoclated Charities and several minor charitable or- ganizations. There are also secret fra- ternal orders to the number of nineteen, several of which are very strong and flourishing. Among themostimportantare | the Knights of Pythias, Masons, 0dd Fel- lows, Foresters and Junior Mechanic: There is also a G. A. R. post, a W. R. C. a parlor of Native Sons and several simi- lar organizations. | Redlands is well supplied with literary | and musical socleties. Among the former | are the Fortnightly and Contemporary | Clubs and several reading and magazine clubs. Among musical socleties the | Spinet stands at the head, with several | less pretentious. There is an excellent | uniformed brass band, a large orchestra, a mandolin and guitar club and several | smaller clubs. The Natfonal Guard is rep- resented by Company G, one of the lead- ing companies of the Seventh Regiment. | In the high school there is a company of | cadets. The fire department consists of | hose and hook and ladder companies, the | clty being well supplied with water with a gravity pressure which may.be put to ninety pounds. The princtpal business streets are paved with brick, and the sidewalks are hard cement. A sewer system inaugurated a few years ago is being rapidly extended. The streets, business houses and most of the residences are lighted by elec- tricity, furnished by the Redlands Electric Light and Power Company. There is no | gas used. There is also a large company, | the Southern California Power Company, | now developing a large power plant in | the canyon near the city, for the pur- pose of furnishing electric power for manufacturing and traction purposes, in Los Angeles, seventy miles from the source of the power. For places of amusement there is an Academy of Mu- and several soclety and lodge rooms. The athletic association has a good park, with fine bicycle track and substantial and well-appointed rubbing-reoms. Redlands is well supplied with trans- portation lines. Although not directly on a transcontinental railway line, two pass near the city. and th Fe and Southern Pacific have trains to and from Redlands to meet all overland trains, be= sides running many local trains to and from Los Angeles. Redlands near the eastern bend of the famous “Kite-shaped Track,” the scenic route of the Santa Fe, and also at the eastern terminus of the newly organized ‘inside track” of the Southern Pacific. There is in addition a motor line running to the county seat. Although the newspapers of Los An- geles, both mornirg and evening, are laid down In Redlands within a few hours from the time they leave the press, and the San Francisco papers reach here but one day late, the city is well supplied with newspapers. The Record is a good morn- ing paper, the Facts, an evening paper, and the Citrograph, one of the best known of the weeklies in the State. Redlands is a moral community. There are no saloons. There are s veral billiard halls, | but no gambling houses, and what gamb- ling there is must be done in secret. And it Is an intellectual center, as stated above; besides the reading clubs, literary clubs, etc., there s a good public library containing 4500 volumes of the best books published, and In spite of the fact that there are very many good private libra- ries the public library is highly esteemed. During the month of January, 189, there Were over 2500 volumes withdrawn from the library for home reading. The num- ber of books taken in this way is in- creasing all the time. In connection with the library there is a reading-room, where nearly all the good magazines and & number of the newspapers are kept on file. During last January there werd over 2000 visitors to the reading-room. The library is now located in the Y. M. C. A. building, and is much crowded for room. But it will soon be moved to better quar- ters, for there is nearing completion the | Smiley memorial library building by Al- pert K. Smiley, to be presented to the city on completion. T};ls is the only exclusive public library building in Southern California. It is built on the old mission style of archi- tecture and is in the midst of a fine park, also to be presented to the city by the Messrs, Smiley. The library building and surroundings will have cost upward of $100,000 when completed. The city is sup- porting the library by a light tax, but there are liberal contributions from pri- vate Individuals which help make It the useful institution that it is. There was witnessed in Redlands last January a sight obtainable here only about once in five years. It was a sSnow- fall of about two inches all over the orange-growing district. Orange, pepper, palm trees, etc., were bending under the welght of snow, which lasted but about three hours and meited without freezing the fruits. Golden globes upon the trees and silver snowballs in the hands of the children made a picture long to be re- embered. mTh: seasons during which the different kinds of Redlands fruits may be had are as follow: Oranges, all the year; lemons, 21l the year; limes, all the year; graps fruits, December to August; olives, No- yvember to January; pomegranates, Sep- tember to February; figs, July to Decem- ber; persimmons, November ~to March; guavas, nearly all the year; loquats, May to July; apricots, May to August; necta- rines, August to September; peaches, June to December; plums, June to De- cember; prunes, June to November; pears, ‘August to February; apples, all the year; Quinces, October to February; grapes, | nearly all the year; strawberries, nearly all the year; raspberries, June to Decem- ber; blackbérries, June to November; dewberriés, June to November; .currants, May to June. WILLIAM STOWE DEVOle to them. They wish the place | the banks of and near which grow grand to be known by its name, Canyon Crest | old trees. Winding about beneath their | Pa | shade beside the rippling, dancing waters | | 1 AMES RAINEY took the witness- |In this rig and a clean shave I went to the railroad office and told the agent I wanted to ship a $5000 race horse through to California, C. O. D. ‘And give me a $1000 insurance on him, too,’ I asked, ‘because he's a world beater.’ It was pressing 'em hard, but the agent lotuked dat my stunning fur-lined overcoat, sized me up for a winn said all right. 'y B “You see at that time the rules of the company directed that any race horse sent over the road should be in charge of a keeper. I was figuring on going as the horse’s keeper. See the point? “My next trick was the capture of a horse. When I returned the overcoat and told my friend of my play and luck he was so tickled over the whole thing that he loaned me $10. I sold some horse trappings and raised the stake to $15. With that sum I had to outfit for the trip, get some sort of a record- breaking horse and rig him out to make a $5000 showing of himself all the wz;)" to California. You bet it was a job! “I hunted all the cheap joints for one to suit me, and found him. He had a head and neck on him like a racer, but don’t go any further, for- he was the dizziest old cayuse you ever looked at. Henestly, the crows would be ashamed to light on him. I paid $3 50 for him, and that was dear; but X must have m. “I went at him with a palr of clip- pers anr soon had a thoroughbred—a skeleton of one anyhow. “The boys got wind of what was go- ing on and all came around. They got so interested in the scheme that they all chipped in to buy feed. The whole gang escorted me to the depot that night. I needed them to boost the old boneyard along. Just before we got to the depot we took him down an alley and ‘doctored’ him to make him good and frisky. Well that we did, for the freight agent was there himself to look after me. He never recognized me in my old clothes, dirty face and hands and tumbled hair. I talked my best brogue and the disgulse was com- | | stand in a court in Phoenix, Ariz, not long ago and speedily earned the title of “Stuttering Jim,” by | stammering and stuttering whenever a question was asked that he did not care to answer. He had never been known to stutter before. He excused his defective speech to the court by saying that it was due to excitement and that a nervous affection-was the cause. Jim was shrewd. In four years he had married the only daughter of a wealthy rancher, had acquired a hand- me ranch and interests in mining properties, had organized a canal com- pany, had elected his father-in-law president and himself treasurer of the company, and had built twenty-three miles of the canal. Several New York- ers held the canal bonds, the stockhold- ers had the canal and “Stuttering Jim” the money. He made many financial turns, all of which indicated sharpness. One of his queerest pranks though was a plan to get to California from Ken- | tucky without paying car fare. It hap- | pened in the days when Jim was short | of funds. He was in Lexington, Ky., at the time and had been trying to eke out a living by following the races. But, as usual, just as luck seemed to be go- ing his way something would happen |in the nick of time tc make him a loser. He put all his money on a pacer. The horse was winning easily, and was only 100 yards from the wire when a flash of lightning scared the beast so that he stood stock still. Jim was without a nickel after that. He was sick and a physician had told him that he must winter in a warm climate or he would die. So it was he decided to go to California. “] sat down,” sald Stuttering Jim, in recounting his woes, “and studied hard on the problem. At last I hit upon a scheme. I went to a friend | plete. The boys had sent down a bale that owned a stunning fur-lined over- | of hay and a bag of oats. They handed coat that reached nearly to my heels.i up a package of grub and a bottle of whisky for myself. The old plug danced around like a 2-year-old. “We got him into the car and theboys kept me company until the train start- ed. 1 was glad when we pulled out of the depot, but my troubles were just beginning. 1 wasn’t a bit sleepy, and spent the next hour or two mentally calculating where I was at and where I would get off. - After paying a few bills and buying some horse medicine and little traps for myself I had just $7 in cash. I had about three days’ feed for the horse and about two days’ grub for myself, and a twelve or four- teen days’ journey ahead of me. Could I pull through on 50 cents a day? That's all that bothered me then. “It was frightfully cold that night, and the old horse threatened to fall down at every jolt of the car. This worried me, for I didn’t believe that the old fellow could ever get up again. The agent assured me that the car would go right through, but you can never tell what a railroad will do. I consoled myself with the thought that we would get part way to California anyhow, and rolling myself in my blankets I finally went to sleep. “I got out of grub long before we got to Chicago, but I could always get enough for myself. What bothered me was to get cheap food for my racer. “T didn’t get a chance to buy horse feed until the very last spear of hay was gone. We were about two hundred miles out of Chicago. It was just after sunset when we pulled up about a mile outside of some little depot. Right op- posite my car door was a haystack. I had that door open quick and away I went over the barb wire fence. I made the hay fly out of the side of that stack, I tell you. I pulled out a good armful and started back to the car. I got that one in all right, and as I didn’t know when the engine would again be ac- commodating I started for a second I was just gathering it up when one. I heard the train starting. In my haste to get over the fence I fell. The barbs ripped a slit in my trousers a foot long. 1 skinned my elbow on a rock—but the hay—I never lost a spear. I threw the hay into the car and scrambled in after it. “At Kansas City just what I feared 0US TRICK OF A MAN WHO CROSSED THE CONTINENT W most happened. The brakeman came in and said that I had to change my horse into another car. I had been afraid of this all along, and had sort of prepared for it. That morning I had taken off all the bandages and boots and rubbed the old plug’'s legs well with liniment. I bandaged him up again and every little while would waltz him around the car to limber him up, but he made some awful stumbles. I hunted up the agent and made an awful kick, but it was no use, change cars I must. Here it was broad day- light, and if any one ever got a good look at the old skate it was all off with me. I then began to register a big kick about the way the engineer had pulled the train that ' morning. I told the agent that it was nothing but one jerk after another, and the horse was lame from the tumbles he had got by the engineer jerking the train. I threat- ened to have him arrested for cruelty to animals. “The agent tried to smooththe matter over, but the more he smoothed the madder I got. Such a valuable horse as mine was not to be knocked about that way. I was afrald that my horse had been ruined. The agent agreed to run the new car alongside of mine and lay a gangway between the two cars. That helped me out, for the stumbles that the old horse made I lald to his caution in walking the plank. I kept the agent at a safe distance by telling him the horse was treacherously vic- jous, and as evidence showed him the barb wire tear In my trousers. I said that in an unguarded moment the horse had grabbed me and I only got away by tearing loose. ~I had just got all my traps moved into the new car and was congratulat- ing myself on my good luck when along came the conductor and asked me if I had a ticket. That was a stun- ner. It happened the Santa Fe had just two days before put in force an order that all persons accompanying livestock should have a second-class ticket. I told the conductor that I knew nothing about their new rules, and as to the horse all that I knew was that he was a thoroughbred; that I was to get so much if I landed him unhurt in Los Angeles; that I didn’t want to . ITHOUT A CENT. go to California, and that the buyer of the horse was to pay my fare back to Louisville when I delivered the horse. Rather than pay for a ticket from Kansas City I would leave the racer on the train and go back to Chi- cago. That was a poser for the con- ductor, for all livestock shipped through had to be accompanied by a caretaker. I carried out my bluff by moving all my traps out on the depot platform. The conductor and the agent held a consultation and con- cluded to give me a second-class ticket and charge it up on the waybill so that the owner couldn’t get the horse until he had paid freight on the horse and my fare as well. “It was easy traveling after that ex- cept for food. 1 was out of money and couldn’t beg anything in that wretched country. It's the nearest I ever came to starving to death. Iused to fight that cayuse for his hay. And what do you think saved my life? Tramps! Plain, played-out tramps— fellows working their ways along the line. I hit on the scheme watching them trying to steal rides. I found some of them had loose quarters and half-dollars. You bet it was not long before I had smuggled a dozen of them into my box car and under the hay at 25 cents for every station we passed. Talk about railroad monopoly, it was nothing to the cinch I had. And with the money raised I just gorged. I lived like a lord of provinces on this traffic of tramps, and had just $8 50 to spare when the engine whistle tooted and we pulled into Los Angeles. “After we had pulled into the freight yard the trainmen asked me if I want- ed to unload the horse that night. I staved them off by telling them that I guessed I would wait until morning and look up the owner first. I spent a good part of that night figuring out what to do. I didn’t know just how I stood as to the law. Perhaps they could pull me in for defrauding the railroad. I didn’t know. I tried to convince myself that as the railroad company had taken the horse at $1000 valuation without examination it was not my fault if he was not worth it, but that ticket business bothcred me. I didn’t know but what they could hold me for that. I concluded my safest plan was to make myself scarce. “I was up before daylight and had my blankets, boots, bridles and all up town by sunrise. I sold the whole out- fit for $10 and took the first train back East as far as a dollar would carry me. I figured that they would be more like- ly to look for me in every direction but the one I had come from. “I sprung myself a dollar for a ticket to some point back on the line. “I didn’t know where I was going to, for I didn’'t know one town from an- other those days. I got off at my depot and I tell you it looked a heaven of a place with the pretty flowers all in bloom. I wandered into some beautiful grounds where the best-looking oranges were growing I ever saw. I naturally began to pick and eat them. All of a sudden a tall, slim-built-looking old fel- low came slowly down the drive. “‘Hulloa! said he, ‘you seem to be pretty much at home.’ “I told him I couldn’t be in a better place for home, and then on the spur of the moment I told him my story. ‘Well, I couldn’t have told it to a bet- ter man. It was Lucky Baldwin. He was so tickled over the yarn that he took me up to his house, ordered them to give me a good feed, and then he gave me $25 to help me vn my way. “I thought it best to go to Phoenix. ‘While there I got hold of a San Fran- cisco paper that contained the whole story of m- trip, and how the railroad company was out just $87 50 cash by fit. They had been caught with the horse on their hands. He was only fit for the boneyard, but they couldn’t tote him off there because the law com- pelled them to properly advertise all ‘property’ left uncalled for with them. They had to put him in a livery stable and feed him till the time called for by law expired, and what with the stable bill, advertisements and charges they were out $88 50. They sold him at auction all properly enough accord- ing to law, and that pop-eyed old cayuse brought exactly one dollar, ac- cording to the official report. - ““He was a great animal in one re- spect, and I've got a great regard for him; he got to California alive and didn’t dump me, and he stood on his pegs and looked the racer he never was just long enough to fool the railroad company and so help me to reach the Golden West.”