The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-07

such charming experience to have played
Lady We're de We're and have undergone
the little tiuiter of excitement attendant
upon the expectations of what the society
editor" would say of my dress.
Mr.. Ewing and Mr.. Black, the secretary
OF the Press club, were at the depot the
| following moSning, and received US most
cordially. These ever courteous and excel
lent men were interchangeable in their
efforts to contribute to the successful en-
ioyment OF the entire party, and from q
personally delightful experience, l tender
my sincere thanks and bid them any day
welcome to Zion. That they covered them
selves with glory by the excellent manner
in which the program was carried out was
an universal expression.
MONTEREY.
We did not larry long in the big city.
Accompanied by many San Francisco
newspaper men and their wives and
friends. we boarded the train at 7:3O. AT
20 we reached Menlo Park, drove over to
the Palo Alto farm, viewed the magnificent
thoroughbreds, which seemed almost like
human being, so well cared for, so intelli-
gent and such a thoroughly patriciau air
about them that we one and all declared
Senator Stanford a king among men, and it
clearly demonstrated the magnitude OF his
generous impulses. The colts gave kin
dergarten exhibition, which was most in
terestirg and remarkable. We then drove
10 the
LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY, 6.
which is an expression of bereaved affec-
ton and memorial to the only son whom
the parents loved SO dearly. The revenue
from an estate worth $40, 900, 600 is put
aside for the maintenance of the college,
1t is non-sectarian, and boys and girls are
alike admitted. The massive and elegant
buildings Of the university are not vet
completed. The buildings are designed in
the Moorish style of architecture, one story
In height, and constructed entirely of sand
stone quarried IN the vicinity of the insti-
tuition, and grouped about an immense
quadrangle. The tessalated walks, the
continuous colorado, which grds the main
quadrangle on the inner side and sur
rounds the court, is an idea original and
beautiful. The space within this charmed
circle is redolent with the perfume of rare
eXotics employed in landscape picture.
which makes it Garden of the Gods
We then sped EDWARDS, aud found our
selves at lunch time at
HOTEL DEL MONTE,
that most gloriously beautiful spot upon
earth. The half has not been told, and
everything conducive to luxurious ease and
delightful recreation is to be found there
The grounds are beautifully designed, the
rank foliage, the banks of parti-colored
flowers, the mysterious maze "a delight to
lovers and a suggestion to more mature
minds.) The hotel is palace of delight,
and no more beautiful or graceful building
has ever been proportioned is the universal
opinion of all visitors. Its appointments
are unexcelled. Everywhere flowers and
plants abound. 1t is Just sufficiently re-
mote from the sea shore to make drive
enjoyable and diversion from the ordin-
airy routine life of summer resort The
drive of eighteen miles around cypress
point is through lovely grove and from
the time you leave the enchanted grounds
on this until you return you are in a state
Of ecstatic delight at the new glories and
picturesque scenery the drive affords you
an opportunity of enjoying.
No little pleasure was given US by the
fact that our equippages were always hand
some and the horses fleet-footed, making it
possible for US to declare the also have tn