Show B BELL LL RINGS AS S MISSION l FALLS Peals as Walls of Ancient Edifice Crumble San Diego DIgo Cal The Cat The clang of or u Winter Doloro a mission be bell l which surmounts a pile of or crumbling adobe on a hill lint crest seven miles mUes distant In Inthe Inthe Inthe the back country from San Diego has been likened to the sorrowing mothers mother's cry to for l' l a crushed and broken child And Mission San Diego de do Alcala over oyer which it t hangs Is Indeed a crushed and broken en thing On a bluff bluer overlooking Mission valley val val- valley ley stands the disintegrating facade of the mission church and nul the walls and roofs roots of one or two monastic all rooms all that the ravage of ot tin tine time e and mans neglect have ha left of the once g graceful nce 1 buildings reared b by the Franciscan Fran Fran- fathers more tha than years ago figO Round Roundabout may yet be traced the adobe wall which marked marke the boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries of the missions mission's one tine beautiful ful gardens Here bud and nd t there the wall has disappeared almost c completely while at some points pointy the thc protecting branches of great tl trees CS have ha helped to preserve much of its original al sturdiness sturl l- l ness Mission San Sun Diego de tie Alcala was the fir first t permanent settlement made b by the Franciscan missionaries within the the present present boundaries of the state of California The first buildings 11 to be erected were located at nt a place called Cosoy oso b by the Indians In li It Is 13 known mown as Old Ohl Town two miles from this city Five Fire years rems after Its founding Mission Mission Mis Mis- sion slon San Diego San Diego was removed five li miles up the valley alley of the San an Diego river rl to Its present site iu In 1783 a new newchurch newchurch church church was as built strengthened etl and roofed with fth pine timber Umbel and the number num- num her ber of Indian converts approached approach d. d 1000 t n i f. f a 1 1 00 An extensive s system stem of ot irrigation I was ans begun The river was damm dammed d three miles above e the mission by a astone astone stone wall and an aqueduct con- con tC of tiling based on cobblestones cobble cobble- stones stol carried the water to the lie wide lands s of the mission T The e remains p of this waterway still can be he traced A heay heavy earthquake in the thc spring of 1803 1503 seriously damaged the buildings buildings build build- ings of orthe the mission and und it was not until until until un un- til 1808 that reconstruction was start start- ed The n new w mission was completed in 1813 1513 and from flom then until secularization tion about the year 1833 1333 an era era ela of et prosperity was was' enjo enjoyed e 1 with abundant lla lt crops and Improved health conditions condition Secularization marked d the forma transfer of the mission from the padres padres' control to that of or the thc Mexican government De Dc Alcala's buildings and grounds declined e with the spirits of ot the fathers fakers arid mi today only the few crumbling walls are arc left to tell the history |