The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-25
RETURNED FROM
WESTERN TRIP.
Prominen Stark County Citizen
Talks Interestingly
CONCERNING HIS TRAVELS.
Has Seen Considerable Country and Is
Able to Tell About It to q Repre-
sentative OF the News
Democrat.

Able to Tell About It to q Repre-
sentative OF the News
Democrat. ....
Mr.. E. Brumbaugh, Of Middlebranch,
returned last week from an extended
trip throughout the western states and
the Pacific seaboard. Mr.. Brumbaugh
was in Canton, Monday, calling on old
friends and is loud in his praises Of the
country he travelled through, and gave
the following account Of his expert
ences to News-Democrat representa-
tive:
"During my six weeks tour saw 30
many new and uncustomary sights that
l am unable to remember many OF
them. At Chicago I took the Chicago,
Rock Island g. Pacific railroad which
took me through Lincoln, Omaha,
Denver, Salt Lake City and Sacramen-
to to Los Angeles, which was my des-
tination, If any one place was 80 more
than the others. Lincoln, Neb., is
beautiful town, and does an enormous
amount OF business. Omaha is thriv-
ing city and has some beautiful parks.
Indeed, in every city I passed
through, there were beautiful places,
some OF them with historic connections,
for the traveller to visit. And tn
cities all had substantial look quite
to be unexpected from their sudden
growth. Denver is a city which can
rival any OF our eastern cities in mod
ern improvements and in business
way, and contains some Of the grandest
residences ever had the good fortune
to see. The people are very hospita-
BILE to the traveller and feeling OF COM
radeship seems to have more sudden
growth than it has here. found the
section OF the country inhabitated by
the Mormans to be very flower gar
den of prosperity, and Salt Lake City
, Is q model western metropolis. At
Los Angeles the convention OF the Ma
tional Educational Association was be-
ing held, and there were between 20,-
600 and $4,000 eXcursionists from the
east, who had taken advantage Of the
low rates and thronged the city. In
this season of the year all Of the west
ern cities are over-ruE with sight-seers
and they present gayety quite differ
ent from their appearance in the dead
Of winter.
, "At Los Angeles I spent two weeks
and made frequent excursions out into
the surrounding country. The climate
was delightful but the change was not
beneficial to my asthma. On account
o OF the rarity Of the air, and the lack Of
\ dust and other foreign particles in 1t,
: 1t was very hot under the suns rays,
and cooler than was to be expected in
the shade. The orange groves around
there are the largest and best in Amer
lea, and there was such an
abundance Of all varieties Of
fruits that the way the people
used them seemed a sinful waste.
was loaded down with fruit to bring
! home, but | had to eat everything but
1 the oranges and lemons before reach
ed here, in order to prevent its spoil
ing.
In SanF'rancisco, where l spent about
"a hours, the temperature reached ITO
b degrees in the day time and in the
O evening went down to so or 80 degrees
= and women with fur collaretts and
4 capes and men with overcoats were q
y by no means uncommon sight. While
r in San Francisco, | visited the Golden
Gate, the Cliff house, and walked
y along the beautiful and famous beach,
/, where the sand is so clean as to permit
q men in dress suits and ladies in silks to
Z recline upon it without any injury
4 to their clothing. And, indeed, the re-
+ cumbent attitude seemed to be in favor
with the tourists
J; After this delightful sojourn in
4 southern points l went northward to
, Portland, Ore, to Tacoma, and Spo-
l kane, Wash. At these places | found
). the climate more temperate, and the
u rugged nature of the country was es-
pecially noticeable to one fresh from
the gently undulating plains Of the
south.
: | passed through Billings, where l
y met Mr.. Lemon of this city and also
:. Mr.. John E. Kurtz, who has contracted
y to teach the Laurel school near Bill
y ings for SO. so per day.
left a week ago Monday for St.
: Paul. l came by the Albert Lea
J. route in return and, from Portland, by
l. the Northern Pacific. saw seven
q binders at work side by side in one
field of wheat, and wheat in an un-
J. broken stretch Is about all you are
. able to see from the windows of the
! cars. 1t is marvellous, and exceeds the
+ widest fancies and pictures of the i'm
'' agination. Just close your eyes and
try to imagine wheat bending and
waving before the breeze as far as you
can see, and will guarantee you a
failure. l travelled 5000 miles, and
would like nothing better than to take
4 klak kv,f. In