The age-herald., 1898-08-31
Returning Travellers
Relate Experiences

The Birmingham people who are return- ing daily from their summer trips have many delightful experiences to relate of the mountains, the shore or whatever spot their outings included. Those who jour neyed to the far west and visited the oma- ha exposition have enjoyed, perhaps. the most interesting sights, and combined pleasure with instruction. They have re- turned with very glowing accounts of the exposition Those who went from Bir- mingham were very much interested in the Alabama exhibit and were delighted at the fine display made by the state. Aside from the usual exhibits that one expects to find at expositions the most popular attractions at Omaha are the daily exercises of the hfe-saving crews. The various life-savng stations in the United States have sent their crews and there is an amusing exhibit of the life-saving service every afternoon at | o'clock.
 One of the ladies in the Birmingham party reviewed the proceedings from one of the stands that line the lagoon.
 "The crowds begin to gather" she said, just before the squall is supposed to come. There is really not ripple on the calm surface of the lagoon, and one has to draw on one's imagination or from ones own experience to picture a storm at sea. The skiff, however, that is afioat on the lagoon is capszed and the men strug- gling very bravely to swim ashore So real did it seem that the great crowds look ed on breathlessly, eager for the life-sav- Ing crews to cease with preparations and go to the rescue, which finally they did in yawl. But the most amusing part of it all was bringing the men ashore. They were apparently lifeless and the rescuing crew did their part very vigorously in re- susciating them. All the restoratives that are usually used in cases of drowning were resorted to until finally the crowds are re- warded by indications that are an evidence that while there is life there is hope.
 Another exercise of the life-saving crews is the shooting of life line from the sta- ton to the center of the lagoon, where a flagstaff represents ship in distress. The life line is fastened securely to the mast and life-saving basket is pushed along the line. These exercises of the life-saving service have proven so popular at the Oma- ha exposition that the crew which does the best work will be sent over to France for the exposition in 1900.
 The interesting sights of the exposition are, however but a repetition of things of the kind the world over, and the most de- ugnt1ul part or the trip through the west Is sojourn through the Rocky mountains One of the most famous and beautiful spots In the Rockies Is the Cheyenne canon, which is so full of memories of Helen Hunt Jackson. It was here that she wrote many of her beautiful stories, and in this sublime spot a little mound of earth marked for many years her resting place. She request ed that her body be inferred among the Rockies that she loved so well, and her grave was the Mecca for many tourists. X toll up the mountain side was later on es- tablished, but it in ways affected the worshipers at her shrine. Her body was afterward removed to Colorado Springs, where 1t now rests, but the tourist who visits Cheyenne canon today is shown the spot where Helen Hunt Jackson's body once reposed, and such a nation are we Americans that the pathway is slowly be- ing bereft of any memento that would serve as a little memorial of the sacred spot.
 The tourist who avais himself of the conveniences of the "burro," as the little donkeys are called In the Rockies, is al- lowed to mount the 'burro," which the guide assures one was owned by Helen Hunt Jackson. This "burro" figures in numberless kodac pictures, and Is, with its guide, a familiar sight up the mountain path.