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 292 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA from San Francisco. Other trains in 15% to 16 hours. Distance, 475 miles. Via San Joaquin Valley Line, Southern Pacific, Arcade station. Passengers on the Owl leave at 6:00 P.M. and ar- rive in San Francisco via Oakland ferry at 8 :10 A. M. Only first-class and Pullman tickets accepted. Other night trains honour all classes. Distance, 484 miles. Via Santa F6, La Grande station. Passengers leaving on the Saint at 5 :15 p. M. arrive in San Francisco via Fresno and Ferry Point in about 17 hours. Distance, 594 miles. Los Angeles and its Environs. POPULATED at its birth by Mexican colonists of the lowest breed, the reputation of Our Lady of the Angels was for well on to a hundred years that of a quarrelsome, slovenly pueblo without a saving grace not bestowed by Nature. Within the last quarter-century it has undergone redemption so complete that many-ciphered facts but meagrely define it. The number of its inhabitants is to-day thirty times greater than thirty years ago. Cleared of its slums, it boasts many brave thor- oughfares whose commercial and private edifices bear out its position as the second richest of America's cities in proportion to population. The air is charged with < fevered reports of " deals," crops, " gushers," bank clearings and building permits; streets brim with astute faces from every quarter of the continent. But bound up as Los Angeles is in material advancement, it