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A PARADISE FOR WHEELMEN Through the Air on Cycles From Los Angeles to Pasadena Shortly to Be a Reality—Horace Dobbins' In genious Scheme for an Elevated Road for Wheels and Motor Cycles Fully forty thousand bicycles are owned and used within a radius of ten miles from the city hall of Los Angeles. In Pasadena alone there are about four thousand bi cycles. Recognizing these facts, Horace M. I>obblns of South Tasadena, an enthusi astic wheelman, and a young man of large means, came to the conclusion over two years ago that If there was a proper cycle path between Los Angeles and Pasadena, doing away with the big hills, thousands of wheelmen and wheelwomen would use such a path every Sunday to reach the line riding country towards Monrovia and the far famed Baldwin ranch at Santa Anita, as well as to reach Pasadena. This was the original idea. The next problem was how to make it possible to get such a path built. Finally it was decided to make the path a private enterprise and charge a small toll. It was therefore neces sary to build the very best kind of a cycle path to make It popular. All kinds of ob stacles were soon discovered. By elevating the cycleway the whole dis tance between this city and Pasadena an oven grade could be obtained, and the 500 feet of altitude overcome with a grade so light that it would not be felt much. To build such a cycleway a bill liud to bo passed through the legislature. The first bill was killed by the .governor when it was almost passed, for fear that a regular elevated railroad would be the result. A new bill was drawn and finally passed. Since that time work has been going on all the time, securing right of way, incor porating, surveying and experimenting in surface for the cycleway, besides a number of other details that had to be considered. A franchise through Pasadena required con siderable effort and time to obtain, but has Just been secured. A franchise through South I'asadena is now being sought, and then will come the effort to securo a similar favor from l.os Angeles. In Pasadena tho cycleway will run as an elevated railway over an alley from the heart of the city to the oar and power house of the I'asadena anel L,os Ange-les electric railway. This will bring the I'asadena ter minus opposite the beautiful Hotel Green, within two blocks of the very center of the business portion of I'asadena. From near P.aymond Hill, where former ly stood tho world-famous Raymond hotel anel whore the new Raymond may some day be built, tho cycleway runs parallel with the Los Angeles Terminal railway to the ostrich farm. Thus the elevated bicycle .path goes through Posadena and South Pasadena In ail almost straight line, and at an even grade and reaches the cast bluffs of the beautiful Arroyo Seco, where a picturesque stretch of country begins. Tho first six nnd a halt miles ot tho cycle way is to be ready for use this winter. This Will comprise* tin* 'first and second sections and brings the path to the edge of Los An geles. It also traverses Merlemount park, 110 acres of land lying on the east side of the Arroyo Seco beyond Sycamore grovo and consisting of a small mountain and a deep canyon, with timber, a spring of wa ter and amphitheater sides that should soon be converted into another "Smiley Heights," the beautiful spot which has made Badlands famous with globe trotters. The accompanying map will show the gen°"«.l direction of the cycleway, which is southwest. After striking the Arroyo Seco bluffs at Lincoln park, near the os trich farm, the right of way follows the bend of tho bluffs, except, below Garvanza, whore It passes behind the mountain along which tho Santa Fe railroad skirts before turning abruptly nnd crossing the Ar royo on the new steel bridge. The cycle way will cross above the Santa Fe tracks at this point with a high bridge, go through a hogback with a thirty-foot out and skip across a canyon at a dizzy height, and finally, with fifty-foot-high arches, again strike tho brow of the rolling slopes that there make tho east wall of the Arroyo. At Merlemount park the cycleway is a clear hundred foot above the bed of the stream, although following the bluff with tho viaduct but a dozen or so feet above the ground. At this point the big pavil ion In Merlemount park will be a hundred feet above the main cycleway, but the cycleway will fork on eaoh side of the park and paths will run up the mountain to the pavilion and park with C per cent grades. , U5" the view of Sycamore grove, which was taken from the right of way, one can get a good idea of the grand panorama to bo had from the cycleway and from the park a hundred feet higher up the foot hills. At Avenue 35, formerly known as Swain street, the cycle path will cross Pusudci.a avenue on another high bridge and fol low the Terminal nnd Santa Fe railways down l.os Angeles river 011 its way to tbo terminus at the plaza in this city. At Fllmore gale entrance to 151yslan park, the cycleway will be but two hun ored yards away on tho other sldo of the river, with a station nt that point, so that the big park can be visited or East Los Angeles easily reachetl. The cycleway can also be left at that station to go to Fnstlake park or onto the proposed Pasa dena boulevard. From the Pasadena terminus to Avenue 30 or Swain street, the right of way has been secured, the surveys made anel the bridge work plans all drawn, but the cycleway will only be built to Merlemount park for this winter, as It Is desired to complete tho remaining three and a half miles at one time, so as to connect the plaza with Merlemount park and avoid having a terminus at Swain street and Pasadena avenue for a season, as would otherwise be necessary. The cycleway will be nine feet wide, of tongue-grooved planks, laid lengthwise on heavy bridge worS. Tar and beach sand Will make a surface on the planking like asphalt and as hard and smooth. The rail ing on each side will be live feet high and slope outward eighteen inches, thus mak ing the top of the rolls eleven feet apart. PROPOSED CYCLEWAY BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND PASADENA The whole structure is to be painted green, the contract for painting the first half hav ing been already let. As the cycleway will be used as much in the evening as during the day, It will be supplied with incandescent electric lights about a hundred feet apart, while the pa vilion at Merlemount is to be a blaze of colored electric lights. From Its lofty po sition the cycle path will be visible for miles In the night, as well as in the daytime. The average elevation of tho path will be about 1G feet above the ground, the lowest elevation three feet and the highest fifty feet. The bridge across. Los Angeles river will be of steel, all the rest of the cycleway 13 to be of wood bridge work. The I'asadena terminal is to be a hundred feet long and twenty-live feet wide, of two stories, and built in mission style. Mrs. Farr's handsome little studio on Vineyard street, just south of Hotel Green annex Is to be moved, as It stands at the head of the alley and on the lot purchased for the cycle way terminal. ■ Offices and Pavilion The general offices of the California Cycle way company will be located In the terminal as well as a large establishment for rent ing wheels, with storerooms, ladles' parlor, waiting rooms, news stands, etc. The ap proach to the roadway will be an incline with steps on the side. It is proposed to build a similar terminal on the plaza in I,os Angeles when that end of the line is completed a year hence. Thß big pavilion at Merlemount park, six and a half miles this side of Pasadena and almost opposite Sycamore grove is to LOS ANGELES HERALD i SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1898 he 150 feet long, fifty feet wide and one story high, with steep Turkish roof and a roomy basement. The level ot the floor will be 200 feet higher than the bed of the Arroyn Seco opposite and 100 feet above the main cycleway. Standing as It will on Merlcmriunt. a hog back foothill which Juts out into the arroyo a broad view will be commanded. South Pasadena, Garvanza, Lincoln Park, the Os trich Farm, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, San Rafael hills, Ktyslan Park, Griffith park, Sycamore grove, Los Angeles, all may be seen from the pavilion, while over three miles of the path will be visible from the wide verandas. The style of the pavilion Is to be modified Turkish with oval ends. The main path runs west of the pavilion and a hundred feet lower, while the forks circle around east of the pavilion into Mer it-mount park, where the •swimming baths will be located as well as many other Inter esting features. At the south end of thepavlllon them will be a big cycle rack for the wheels and con veniences for making slight repairs, blow ing up tires, etc. The. general cafe will bo at the north end, with dining rooms to wards tho center of tho building. There Is to be a large parlor for the ladles, supplied with all conveniences and with large ob servatory windows, fie ld glasses, eto. The gentlemen will havo rooms In the basement where they can wash, clean up and tell stories of their centuries ad infinitum. Average Grade and Notes The average, grade, of the cycleway Is to bo about IVi per cent, while the maximum Is only 3 per cent, and that at Garvanza mountain, where the thirty-foot cut and fifty foot bridge occurs. As this Is on land owned by the company It can be cut down on the thousand feet long cut with bridges on each side. Only two and a half miles of right of way is yet to be secured and that Is in Bast Lcs Angeles for the most part, and along the Los Angeles river. The cycleway will bo supported by tolls and tho profits from renting wheels, motor cycles, swimming baths and Alerlemount pavilion and park. A small toll will be charged. Those buy ing tickets in packagers will have to pay only 5 cents each way or 10 cents for round trip, and every shareholder will be entitled to an annual pass for each share. Tin In tention is to sell of the shares to wheelmen and others who may wish to in vest In them and the pnr value of each share Is but $20. Most of the stock Is al ready subscribed for and one-third of tho total capitalization is already paid in. The stock is guaranteed by a trust company. The officers of the California cycleway are Horace M. Dobbins, president; Sanford V. Landt, vice-president; Waller R. Stephen son, secretary; Ernest H. May, treasurer; Edward R. Braley and Edward Groentn dyke. Work on the cycleway will be begun as soon as the South Pasadena franchise Is obtained and the remaining pieces of rlght of-way closed up, which will not tako very long. President Dobbins says It Is the expecta tion of the company to have the first six and a half miles and the park In operation by the time the tourists reach here this winter and that the cycleway would have been done In time for the past winter If the right-of-way and franchises had not been so hard to obtain. Condemnation proceed lngs have been avoided so far and all ob- jections overcome after much hard work. CHARLES FULLKR GATES. WARSHIPS PASSING OUT Scene Along the Water Front When One Is Steaming Out to Sea Whoever may happen to be In South street wdien a war vessel is pussing out, down the Fast river from the navy yard, is sure to be made aware of lis coming, though he may not yet have caught sight of the vessel, by the blowing of the whis tles to salute her—Oo o ! Oo o ! Oo C) !—sounded In whatever pitch tbo saluting bout may possess, in the hoarse, low-pitched roar of the ocean tug, the shrill whistle of smaller vessels and all the varying tones of all the steam crafts on the river, for they all salute. Then one would see men coming from various places and crossing tho street to stand together along the bulkhead to see the war vessel go by. Some of the people go out to the ends of the piers to watch her there, and there Is a broken fringe of people like this all the way down to the Battery, and there the sea wall Is lined. If one Is standing, say with those who are lined up by the stringplece along the bulkhead, waiting, he sees presently the ship's nose coming silently Into view past the end of the shed upon the long, projecting pier, and she passes on and by. Some-body says, as she comes Into view: "That's tho So-anel-So," and he names the ship. Ho knows her from tho descriptions he has read of her and the time set for her sailing. Just as many another man docs among those who stand there. And there may be some comment on her here and there, but the greater number simply stand silent as the ship goes by. But it is not silent on the river; it Is: Oo—o—od! Oo —o —oo! Oo—o—oo! and Oo—o—oo ' On —o —oo! Oo —o —oo! from every throat afloat, blowing greeting and godspeed from every craft to their proud sister, the warship, coming down the river, not sullen, but sedate and sm "th, at half speed, and conveying to the sense of all the greater power, as of a tiger crouching to spring. And so sho passes en, whistles blowing for her nil the time, the fringe of people alung the bulkhead melting away as she passes, except that here and there one goes out .s;ili to tin end of the pier to get a better and longer view of her there. Somebody from here says of a jaunty steam yacht coming swiftly up the river, and that has Just passed the warship close at hand: "Sho doesn't salute." lie is jealous of the warships rights, "Yes, she does," says another, with keen er or more watchful eyes, and equal thought for the warship, "she dipped her colors." Humph! Then they're all satisfied. Siio keeps on tin she to the Bat tery, Its sea wall lined with people, Hero she swings and heads south, and people stand and watch her till she grows dim. Then they drift away and back to the seats In the park, or back they came from, and the granite posts and the chains that swing between them along the Battery sea wnll thnt have seen so many people looking seaward for so many ships stand by themselves again. Hut the people who have Just turned away don't forget the warship. She goes south, and pretty soon we read of her In the papers, bombarding Spanish forts or covering the landing of United States troops— up-and-up as a Yankee ship ought to be. Then every man who saw her go out, who stood along South street and saw her go by, and turned away, perhaps with out a word, says to somebody, he says it to hlmst-if If to nobody else: "I saw the So-and-So when she passed out."—New York Sun. Too Good a Memory Put In reality the power to forgot Is one of the most valuable and helpful gifts which a man possesses. When men regret the want of vivid memory. 1 wonder and envy the deficiency of which they complain. I wish, Indeed, that I could feel sure of the power of death as an obllterative change. As to the loss t>f memory, of which the aged speak, I am most anxious. I presume, from what I hear, that men lose in time the vivid recollections ot sorrow, and that Me thuselah at 800 might havo reflecteel 1 with little discomfort on the follies, the griefs, the crimes of his youth. Even the keenest remorse would lose Its cruel edge and be rusted dull by time. If I read a book. It Is mine forever; clever or vapid, there it Is. I forget nothing. I can repeat Shakespeare from end to end. As a consequence, nothing seems to me to bo fresh or original. A phrase recalls one like It, and as life goes on I cease to get pleasure out of books or men's talk.—S. Weir Mitchell. Phosphorescent Corruption Sarah Bernhardt has a new one-act drama by D'Annunzio and had it translated Into French with the speciul intention of play ing it for the iirst time during her London engagement. The examiner of plays, how ever, unappreciativo of the phosphorescent beauties of corruption, as shown in the "Songe el'une Matinee do Prlntemps," de cided that it was unfit for public represen tation and the project, therefore, had to be abandoned. There are times when the value of a censorship Is self-evident. Cer tainly the public would have precious little protection from any ordinary managerial j sense of decency.—New York Post. | VICTORY ON LAND AND SEA INTENSE MOMENTS IN WARFARE How Women Bear the Brunt of During tho few months we have been at war with Spain there have been many crit ical moments in which men felt that they were living whole years! The landing of the invading army upon the shores of the enemy's country is perhaps the most critical time for the success or defeat of our arms. The enemy can pour in a deadly Are upon our men as they wade ashore, while they may be In comparative safety behind breast works, unless they are within the accurate range of our war vessels. In every engage ment our men have shown the most heroic bravery and steady, strong nerves, coupled with determination. When Farragut and Cushlng taught the world, in the naval en gagements of our late war, of what material our navy was made, we did not expect so soon to see their counterparts In Dewey and Hobson. For all the risks that are run by our men and the critical moments they experience, and the times when they feel their nerves stretched to the breaking point, there is un fortunately another tremendous nervous strain endured by the loved ones at home, the women. The wife, mother or sister at homo sits wearily waiting ror news of those they love—the men who are taking desper ate risks at the battle's front. With fear and dread they scan the paper to look over the names of those lost or wounded in the last engagement. The greatest calamity, the saddest picture of all war experiences is the disaster that falls upon the weak and helpless loved ones at homo when their hero is killed In action. Who suffers most deeply and fearfully from the shock of battle? Who feels most poignantly the stabs of poverty and priva tion and disease? Human life everywhere gives the answer as in an open book that all may read: Women are ever the chief and sorriest victims; the weight of?misfortune falls heaviest upon the mother and her child. Look where you will In any corner of America today and you find women suffer ing such agonies from the weaknesses and diseases peculiar to their sex as would make the bravest soldier flinch and almost hesi tate to face them. Their nervous systems are run down at a time when they need the greatest fortitude, strong will and nerves of steel to bear their burdens of care. "I believe that the sick and suffering wo men of this country," says Doctor Pierce, of Buffalo, N. V., "whether in times of war or peace, are entitled to just as much sympa thy as we bestow upon our military and naval heroes; Just as much care and atten tion and solicitude; just as high an appre ciation of their heroic fortitude and endur ance." From his earliest practice as a young phy sician thirty years ago, Dr. Pierce has al ways felt that the grandest and worthiest work In the world for a physician is to raise up the suffering women who labor under a constant burden of sickness and discourage ment and set them upon a higher plane of physical and mental capacity and healthful vigor. Among all the achievements of art! ex traordinarily successful career in the field of medical practice, that which yields him the deepest gratification Is that he has been able to cope successfully with those delicate and complicated diseases which render the lives of so many women miserable. Of all his remarkable contributions to medical science his marvelous "Favorite Prescription" for women's complaints stands easily foremost In the world among remedies of Its class. It has brought more perfect relief to suffering women, and through them has conferred greater benefit upon their offspring than any other medi cine ever invented, and probably more than all other medicines combined. The "Favorite Prescription" contains no alcohol, opium or other narcotics; no falEe or uncertain stimulus; does not create a craving for Injurious stimulants; the power it gives is the power of nature; it imparts energy and nerve-tone that is real, healthy and permanent "Last February I became sick and had a very lame and painful back and side, and 1 was entirely unlit to attend to my household duties," writes Mrs. M. P. Woodman, of East Newport, Penobscot county, Maine, to Dr. Pierce. "My back was so lame I could not lie down at night, but had to be bol stered up against the head of the bed. We called our family doctor. He gave me medi cine, but It did me no good. I became dis couraged and told my husband I was going to write to Dr. Pierce and see what he said about my ease. I did so, and you wrote back describing my case very plainly anel advising me to take your 'Favorite Pre scription' and 'Oolden Medical Discovery.' I got two bottles (one of each kind), and by the time I had taken them was well enough to do all my housework alone—which Is con siderable, as I live on a farm; and have a good deal to see to, and have four small children. I taaveiremained well up to this time (June 9th) and have not taken any more medicine. I had taken your 'Favorite Prescription' several other times with great benefit, and I think it U all that you claim. I shall always take these medicines in the future and shall recommend them to my friends. I thank you very much for your cureful attention to my case." 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"I also gave two bottles of 'Golden Medt ical Discovery' to my little girl for a severe breaking out and I think she is completely cured, us she has not had the trouble for over a year." "I will send you a testimonial of the ef fect of Dr. Pierces wonderful 'Favorite Prescription," says Mrs. Annie F. Arkins. of Stevenson (Green Spring Valley). Balti more county. Maryland. "I am the mother of five children, and have suffered very much, mostly from female weakness. Be fore my last child was born I saw the adver tisement of Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescrip tion, and decided to try It. I bought two bottles and took the medicine according to the directions. When baby was born he weighed thirteen, pounds. I had a very easy time, and I have not suffered one hour since my boy was born. He Is tat and healthy as can be. We thank you for such a great medicine. Ido not think I can say enough In praise of Dr. Pierces medicines. May God bless you, and may you live long io minister unto the sick." 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