Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — Arthur Tuteur Writes About Things of Interest in California. [ARTICLE]

Arthur Tuteur Writes About Things of Interest in California.

We are in receipt of a good letter from Arthur Tuteur, who with his mother and sister x Maurine, is now at Oakland, Calif. He says the climate is ideal and he is comfortable in winter weight underwear. He sleeps out of doors and eats like a farm hand, and has gained 8 pounds in weight. The thermometer ranges from 50 to 56 in Oakland. Back in the country ten miles it is much warmer. Last Saturday Arthur and! party visited Frisco and took in the sights, including Chinatown. They met Chas. Q. Spitler and Firman Thompson, from here, and Homer Dobbins, formerly a high school football star, now living in Frisco. He says that every one there has their thoughts centered on the big Panama celebration in 1915, and already preparations are being made for the event. President Taft is to break the ground in October. San Francisco is the most Bohemian city in the country. The people live in the cases, and the number of these places is surprising. Vaudeville and musical entertainment is a part of most of the cases, and people seem to wait for night to come. Many fine structures have been erected since the lire, and there are a great many more under way, but there are still a great many vacant places on the principal business streets. San Francisco will probably never undergo such a calamity again as it did in 1906. The city has a perfect salt water fire system, every street leading from the bay being thus provided. By this system and from the many wells from the hills, an adequate fire fighting plant* is maintained that will make so great destruction impossible in the future. Oakland and Berkley are principally home towns and here are some of the prettiest homes imaginable. Flowers of every description on every side and with the large palm and pepper trees and the beautiful streets and l%yms, these delightful suburbs are kept in a delightful stage of beatification. Concrete and shingles are mostly used for home construction and the bungalow seems to be the favorite type. The climate is bracing and people here are real hustlers and boosters, and this seems to me to be an Ideal place to live.

Both Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Gunyonare improving from their sickness with typhoid fever and while neither is regarded entirely out of danger, they are so much improved as to be assured of recovery, If they have no setback. The Parr Odd Fellows lodge has rendered some timely aid In caring for the stricken family.