Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-08-19
Notes by the Warside.

The following extracts from letters
written by DR.. r.. o. Blanchard to his
mother and sister here will be read with
Interest,"
Under date of Aug. LIST be writes: "Here
we are in Portland, Ore, and we are glad
OF il, for il is a very fine place and the
views on all sides are most grand aud en-
chanting. We are also being entertained
in the most elegant style and shown around
the city and points Of interest all about
here by our friend.
Every day brings with it more grand
and beautiful scenery than the preceding
until il seems as though we must have ex-
hausted even Gods supply, but at every
turn we still find something new and Won
derful.
The Yosemite is beyond description and
so is the trip from San Francisco to Port
land, and in fact so is almost everything
we have seen lately"
Aug. 9Th, writing from the Yellowstone
/ Lake hotel at the National Park he says
Chow | wish you were both with us all
the time on this trip but have wished so
more since we have been in this park. We
have had most enjoyable time and seen
such grand and beautiful scenery as only
God could have dreamed OF preparing
and for a heaven rather than earth.
To be sure we have had some long and
somewhat hard stage rides but every little
while we come to some geyser that will
spout hot water and steam from five to fif
\ ty feet into the air. Then there are boil
/ ing hot Springs all the way from as large
as peck measure to several acres in ex-
tent The water in these springs boils and
thrashes and occasionally gushes up as
high as ten feet.
We saw the Mud Geyser today in which
a dark green mud is being continually
churned and thrown up several feet. This
was in deep hole In the side of hill.
The Grand Canon no words can describe.
II is seventy-five miles long but we only
went few miles down through the best
part of it. The walls on either side tower
from 600 to $500 feet and are in the most
diginely beautiful shapes, with the entire
walls colored in brilliant red, pink yellow,
white, green and drab in all shades.
The Yellowstone river, which is large
stream, runs at the bottom of this canon
and is a lovely green shade. There are
two very high falls which are fairly awe
inspiring.
Today / have seen in the woods twelve
black bears-wild ones-some that were
within twenty rods of this hotel. This is
no bear story, but the solemn truth, and
/ have taken pictures OF two of them.
The lake in front of this hotel is the fin
est fishing ground in the world and have
seen more trout than you could put into
barrel. Tomorrow morning Mr.. Morrow
and go fishing, starting at $3.50 a. m. we
have to "stage it" forty eight miles.
When we get through with this park we
shall have ''staged it," taking the Yosem-
tie and Yellowstone together, over 300
miles.
To be sure we get very tired, but we are
all doing well under the hard work and
hav ing such a fine time we do not mind il
We are tired.
We shall stop in jamestown and st.
Paul on the way home. What yarn we
shall have to tell you when we arrive"
Writing from Champaign, ILL.,, under
date of August IA, Rev. g. w. Morrow
continues his interesting account of the
experiences OF some OF the Vermont trav
elers in California. With Mrs. Morrow he
will now spend about two weeks at her
fathers before starting for home. We
quote from his letter.
''On the morning of July 10Th number
of us started on a special excursion to Ho-
tel Del Monte, Monterey, and the famous
eighteen mile drive of which ex-President
Harrison spoke in such glowing terms.
This was indeed pleasant trip.
We stopped first at Palo Alto, the seat
of Stanford university, and visited this in
stitution. Stanford university compares
favorably with our older schools OF learn