Los Angeles Herald, Volume 42, Number 16, 27 April 1894 — THE FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOWS. [ARTICLE]

THE FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOWS.

Within the next ten days nearly all the winter tourists aud climate retugees from the eastern states, who have beea epeudint the past four months in Southern California, will have taken tbeir departure for their own homes; and to say that most of them carry away pleasant mementos of their westward voyage by rail is to utter a self-evident truth. A few still linger, balf-desirous of ssttling amongst us and "growing np with the country." It is very plainly recognisable that most of our eastern visitors, who could not bave been far from 15,000 souls during midwinter, have staid much later than usual, and that largely the result of the great pageant in tho fore part of the month, la Fiesta de Los Angeles.

Granting now that only 8000 of oar eastern visitors Buffered themielvei to be detained a week long r than they otherwise would have been, in order to witness la fiesta, that meant $r>6oo per day or $42,000 for the entire week. Add to that sum the moneys disbursed here for meals and lodgings alone by visitors from neighboring towns and adjoining counties and it it sate ti say that the fiesta was worth at least $180,000 to the city. Its cost was a trifle under $15,000 and it is safe to aay tbat next year, Mr. Max Meyberg and his confreres will not have ad much trouble in raising ' ~,000 for tbe carnival as they had in eollscting $15,000 this year. The fiesta has brought its blankets and come to stay.

But if our saltern pleasure seekers did but know it, the summer season in Southern California, especially along tbe coaat, is even more delightful than the wint jr. In the summer of 1892 there were only eleven days in which the thermometer went above 95 degrees aa against Aye days of the like temperature in 1893. Certainly those who go to Cape May, Long Branch and Rye Beach cannot find there any such delightfully cool nights in summer as prevail at Santa Monica, Long Beacb, and last, bnt iar from least, Catalina island. Since the last season, the brothers Banning, who own that lovely and picturesque island, have spent a good deal of money on a wagon road between the little town of Avalcn and the harbor known as tbe isthmus, so that visitors who do not care much for boating can take tbeir team? over to the island and enjoy a nde that is witbont an equal for pare air, tine and a good roadbed free from duat.

In this connection we wish to ear a word abont the manly snort of yachting, wbicli is rapidly growing on this coaat During the summer season, in fact from March until October, the bay of San Francisco ia daily visited by rough seas va'if a 4 iuav t frft.o6W do iT. i pieaß- , nT , T^-a-urable weather at all tbe yachts must go up into Ban Pablo and Suisnn bays, which are fiiied with shoais caaaad by tbe hydraulic mining which prevailed up to 188-. It therefore h"hooves the amateur mariner to find come place where he will be sure of smooth seas and Bpanking breezes ; and in order to get the yachts down here for the season, there Bhould be some substantial inducements offered in the shape of yachting trophies. The San Franoisco yachts are owned

for the most part by the sons of the rich men of that city, and aa these young gentlemen hive a large following of "society people," it is safe to aseume tbat a great number of San Francisco's fashionables weuld come down here to attend the regatta. The people of Los Angeiee could therefore well afford to givo handsome prizes in the contests, and theae offers would bring yachts hers not only from San Francisco but from Victoria and Puget sound as well. We commend a consideration oi this matter by thoße who realize how much the fiesta was worth ts our city.

Yea, the winter cirue nave piumeu their winga for nightß to the eastward and northward, but they are leaving beI hind a more delightful climate, in su aI mer as well as winter, than that to i which they are goiug. Let them once i experisnce the joya of an August at Cati alma or a July at Bear valley, and they 1 will see that Southern is a | delightful country at all seasons. Still, | as long aa wo play the part of host, it is | our duty to "welcome the coming and I speed the parting gu. *t," so we bid J adieu to our .. inter visitors, and remind | them that we live iv c coantiy where ! "the latch-string always iiauga on the outside." ___________

A v*:iiY clever woman in the American world oi letters wbodid not accompany the recent lemaie editorial exclusion across the continent is Mrs. F. (v. do Fontaine, whose article on tho " .aius of the South" has evoked so much criti- j cista iv Now York. It was tirst pub- . lished in the Daily Bun of that oity and copied more extensively than any article that has appeared in its ct;l;imn3 in the | past six years. The southern cilony in 1 New York, which has always beer a I largo ono sines t h e close of the civil 'far, feli into ecatacies over it, while tho Naw England element iv uiotlinin waa severely caustic and censorious about noma of Its contents. Mrs. de Fontaine comas from an old Una of Huguenots in South Carolina, and her brother, Col. John V. Moore, was killed at the head of his regiment at tiie second battle of Manassas. Mra.de Fontaine's next article is being awaitod with considerable interest, although its subject is bo far unknown. ! CoADJtroK Bish it MONTOOMZBY will be the recipient of a public teceotion at tba Htzard pavilion this evening, Bishop M irais to be congratulated on the acquisition of so able and universally aijtaomed an assistant and successor. In San Francisco, where Bishop Montgomery officiated as ehencslior to the

Catholit archbishops for ten years, no clergyman was more highly held in respect, br the communicants of his own church or those of other ehnrches for his oroad views npon all matters concerning the moral, sooial and physical

improvement of the people. His acta of henevolenee knew neither scot nor condition, and be left that elty esteemed and respected by the whole community. As the rest Of b ; s life Is to be spent in Los Angolas, where be will exercise his great power and fine organizing and exeoutive ability in the furtberauce of every good work, he will be welcomed tonight to his new field of labor with warmth and heartiness by good people of all beliefs.

At tbb Southern California Baptist conference yesterday it transpired that the Los Angeles Baptist college was in a bad way financially. It is in debt $9000, and is without financial resources or a surplus of earnings to gradually meet so large a debt. Tbe trustees bave assumed personal obligations to as great an extent as they should be asked to go. The proper', of tl d college, it sold, would probably meet the debt. Some of the more optimist o members of the conference believe that the difficult" can be tided over if the affairs of the university are properly and energetically handled, and that .lie prospects of tbe college would assnme a brighter hue if a more general and earnest interest were taken in the institution by the leading members of the ehnrch. The Baptist college is a fine property, and should net be needlessly sacrificed. Let the members of the ehnrch come to its relief, ana with the better tirms that are Sire to come this fine institution can be saved.

Mr. G. R. Jouohims, a master mechanic on an eastern railway, recently read a paper before the New York Central Railway club in which he advocated the construction of tubular iron freight cars, on the, ground that they were more durable than those built out of wood and less liable to combustion through proximity to a burning car r a prairie on tire. The writer did not ?laim that the tubular iron car was perfect, by a good deal, but that it was susceptible of improvement. The worst feature aboat it, h» said, was the inadequacy of suitable provision for the attachment of draft rigging. It is claimed that a saving of 15 to 18 per cent in dead weight can be effected by the use of iron in preference to w-od, and the experience of steam vessels with reference to drrft of water would <re far towards confirming that theory. There ore now over 1,000,000 freight cars in use, of which loss than 7000 are built wholly of iron.