The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-31
RETURNED PILGRIMS.
Mrs. John I. Seudder Tells
What Happened on the
Way to California.

Mrs. John l.. Scudder, who returned
yesterday from the San Francisco Chris
tian Endeavor Convention, told the mem
bers Of the Tabernacle, last night, about
the trip. She made a most interesting
ard amusing talk. She said the division
on which she travelled was scheduled to
leave Chicago at ten o'clock, the time
the Inflated Wisconsin division left, and
it was later changed to eight o'clock and
the Wisconsin division sent at ten. The
second accident near them occurred at
Colorado Springs, where a stage load of
the party was upset and one man killed.
The third and last accident occurred on
the way home, three nights ago, when the
roof of one car was burned.
The Christian E~ndeavorers along the
route were most hospitable. All the
Fasteners were charmed with the hos
pitality of the West. AT one city, where
the cars stopped for a few minutes, En-
deavorers boarded the car and gave the
travellers peaches and plums and cher
ries. One morning each person in the
car was presented with a bunch of flow
ers. These had been sent by the En-
deavorers of La Platte, which city had
been passed In the night. At other cities
bands of Endeavorers would be at the
station and sing hymns as the cars pass
ed. At Oakland the cars were met by
young men and women, who assisted the
newcomers in carrying their bundles and
valises. Mrs. Scudder told of a humor-
Gus accident that happened on the way
to California. One mar in their car left
his window open one night n wok
to find his trousers, $75 and his teeth
gone. He succeeded in getting other
clothes from his trunk and the passen-
gers raised $50 for him, out he had to
go without teeth till he reached San
Francisco.
AT Salt Lake City the Mormons opened
their Tabernacle to the E~ndeavorers and
allowed them to hold services there. This
was not such an evidence of good feel
ing. Mrs. Scudder thought, as it had been
supposed, for the Mormons did their
best to convert the Endeavorers to Nor
manism. A Mormon service was held
there in the evening and the pilgrims
were invited. The music was magnifi-
cent. They had a choir of 500 voices and
they rendere the Messiah exquisitely.
Mrs. Scudder said the welcome at San
Francisco was most cordial and hearty.
Inc meetings. were inspiring, The Ju1llOF
rally especially. She read quotations
from three or four speeches and passed
on to the Yosemite and Yellowstone.
Those wonders of nature Mrs. Scudder
wildly described. She told of the beau
tiful canyons and the high cliffs of the
Yosemite and of the geysers of the yell
lowstone. She wished that all might one
day visit the West and see the wonderful
sights that it was impossible to ade-
quately describe. She mad two pine
cones, one the length of two large pine
apples and the other smaller than East
ern cones. The large one she said grew
on a small tree and the small one on a
large tree. Telling of the size of some
of the mammoth red wood trees Mrs.
Scudder said some idea might be given
of the trunk when she said their party,
in a large wagon, with four seats, and
drawn by four horses rode in and only
the heads of the first horses were with
out the tree.
Miss Addie Scuddsr and Captain and
Mrs. A. j. Newbury also returned yes
terday. When in Salt Lake, City they
visited Brigham Young's third wife, and
Mrs. Newbury is the possessor of her
autograph, Margaret p. Young, born
lSZg.