The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-11
New York Man Completes His Long
Journey.
ENDED AT SALTLAKE CITY
BROKE THE HORSE AND BUGGY
RECORDS.
Has Been Driving For Five and a
Half Years, and Has Experienced
Many Thrilling Adventures-Shot
at, Lost and In Jail--Wore Out
= Three Buggies.

terday man who has travelled $4,000
miles in a buggy during the past five
and a half years. He has come from
New York to Salt Lake and has been
in thousands and thousands of cities.
towns and villages. Salt Lake is his
terminus. He is going TO wind up his
business here, sell his faithful horse
and try the comforts of palace sleeping
cars through Texas and other states.
This is E. j. Parrish, who travels
for New York hardware firm. He
has been through New York state. Ohio.
Michigan Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Indian Terri
tory, northern Texas, Minnesota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho and
Utah. He has visited nearly every city
and town in these states.
A Few Adventures.
II have been shot at, have been lost,
have seen sandstorms.i cyclones. have
fallen down ravines and have been in
jail, said he yesterday afternoon at
the Kenyon. Il was in jail in Utah. by
the way. However, it was not;a serious
case. The hotel at Park City was full
one night. and, there being no place to
sleep. the sheriff offered me a bed in
the Jail. There 1 remained locked up
till morning.
* Mr. Parrish sells contractors and
builders machinery and he has a box
fitted in the back part of his buggy,
where he carries models of the imple
ments he handles. His purpose in
using a horse and buggy instead of
railway trains is to reach the smaller
towns, none of which he misses. Stages
and teams away from the railroads
have been found by his house more eX-
pensive than this method. They have
had other men on such work, but few
of them hare remained so long as Mr..
Parrish.
His Long Journey.
81 left New York in May of 1884,
said he yesterday, land Travelled
through the state, then to Ohio, then
across the river to Kentucky. and
through Indiana to Michigan. Going |
back to Indiana l made Illinois and
Iowa and back again across the Mis-
sissippi to Illinois. then across it again
into Missouri. The line was then
Kansas. Indian Territory and !
Nebraska on to South Dakota, and then /
across the desert to Denver. All the /
small towns and big cities were |
reached. 1 then went to New Mexico /
and across to Utah from Grand juno |
llOI III SOlOldQO " anu " SdS-
tie Dale; then through Salina canyon
to Richfield. I went north to Preston
and Malad, Ida. and then south again
to Salt Lake.
There were sandstorms in Iowa
which almost blinded me, and once 4
saw the operations of a cyclone from
distance. Twice the buggy was cap
sized, once in Colorado, near Boulder,
in a deep ravine.
Discovered Oil Wells.
I'm the. Grand Mesa of Colorado I
discovered two oil wells that may be
l was lost there for three
Dr. four days and did not fare very well
during the time. Once in Colorado |
had the horse swim a fiume some sixty
feet across, pulling the buggy behind
him.
Last July I was sleeping with a
foreman of the Rio Grande who had
charge of a track gang near Solitude.
when in the middle of the night there
was a fusilade of bullets from the
Chinese laborers. They had a griev-
lnce against the foreman and wanted
20 kill him. But we closed all the win
lows and the doors and waited anx-
ously till morning. There was no far
her attack, but l went on at once
without learning the result
Mr.. Parrish tells of hundreds of in
,lueHlS Oh Ills TRIP, eDOuSH 10 III VOL
lines. In fact, every day he had some
lew experience which would be a story
n itself
The longest drive he made was sew
.nty-five miles from eastern New Mex
CO through sunny San Luis valley in
Colorado. He aimed to make about
twenty-five miles per day, but of course
lie sometimes went farther and often a
esser distance, depending on the towns
md cities he was to reach.
The horse which has carried him this
ong distance is of Morgan and Arab
took. He is now years old and is as
ound as the day he drove out of New
York City. He is dark chestnut or
cal with silver name and tail. This
5 the second buggy of the trip and the
bird set of wheels. which are ball
earring.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Parrish had
boy driving up and down Main street !
With big placards For Sale" tied to
he harness.
Il don't like to part with an old J
riend.'' said he. but there's nothing
lse to do. l don't think can use him
n Texas