The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-30
THREE TRAVELLERS RETURN,


MessTs. MacRae, Simpson and leach
Arrived Home Yesterday From a
Charming Trip to Salt Lake, Denver
and Other Points, Full of DelIg httul
Pictures of What They Had Seen
aud Heard.
Four North Carolinjaus attended the
meeting lately held at Salt Lake City Of
the American Pharmaceutical AssOcia
ton. They were Mr. Register, of Kick
DRY, and Messrs. John Y. MacRae, VIM.
Simpson and NJ. I. Leach, of this city.
Mr. Leach is not pharmaceutist, but
that didn't make any difference as no,
body was sick among all the six hundred
that attended the great gathering of
druggists in the Mormon City. The
three Raleigh gentlemen were delighted
in every way with their trip and treat
ment from start to finish.
Mr. MacRae, who when he was on the
Top of Pixies Peak, wrote home that
he felt "nigher heaven than ever be-
fore" is safely on earth again, and
comes back with many specimens of
mineral and other interesting souvenirs.
At the highest point of the great sum-
NIT, icicles formed on his moustachios-
which statement his friends will gladly
accept. Mr.. MacRae brought back
piece of the granite Out of which Brig
ham Youngs templ3 is built, aud says
that he never saw a hapdsymer editice.
1t is entered by an underground way,
and no one but Mormons are allowed to
enter. Mr.. MacRae said the lake was
a curiosity, and he has a sample of
the granite colored sand from the bot
tom, The lake, he says, floats man
without effort. All one has to do is
to sit and float, and there are no crabs
or other live animals to worry the
foater. The only animal in the lake is
a little shrimp which floats to the shore
and turns into fly, and these flies are
eight feet deep on the edge of the lake.
The salt-works are everywhere about,
and the water is so briny that drop of
it in the eye feels like pepper.
Mr.. Simpson spoke of the thin air at
the high altitude and that lifty feeling
it gave to the head. The guides advise
against stimulants, but Mr.. Simpson
was patriotic enough TO stick to the
usual North Carolina remedy in such
cases.
Mr.. Leach spoke Of the number of
North Carolinians out in that country,
among them, Judge Gray, who went to
Denver from Charlotte 80 years ago Mr.
Leach says the streets in Denver are fif-
teen miles long and level as a floor.
There are 30, 900 bicycles in the city, and
the women wear boomers just as if there
were no question, in North Carolina, of
the prop.iety Of so doing
Mr.. Leach sad he met during his sb
sence two god bugs only which were
among the curiosities encountered, and,
with his we'll known views on sill
yer, he was cordially received by
all. He said bis suggestion to those
Republicans out there to join the South
III its fight for free silver was eagerly,
espoused, they saying that no party ties
could hold them in the face Of this ques-
ton which was paramount. Mr.. Leach
said the expanse of the great prairie
country gave one some little conception
Of the magnificent area of this country.
Moreover, he added, "that country is
not ever called west ont there; they
Think they are east, for the Pacific is
still thousand and more miles away.
But the picture grew in color, as the
three gentlemen proceeded to tell their
friends yesterday Of what they had seen
and heard All listened with pleasure
and we're glad to see them back, safe
and sound in Rhamkatte, away from
tho naughty boomers, thin aired
heights and he false gods that lay in
the house that Brigham built.