The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-12
FRED VI. BREWSTER LOCATED
The City Editor of the Register now
at San Francisco

this trip worth mentioning until
now. | notice by the morning papers
that Sunday was a sockdologer back
where you-all are. Well, Frisco was
so cold that Tom and had to stay in
our room to keep warm and then both
caught cold. Tom wore his over coat
all day and went to bed in the after.
noon to keep warm. 1t is too infer
nally cold here and we leave tonight
for Los Angeles.
We had great luck coming out. In
western Kansas we struck rain. We
stopped a day at Colorado Springs.
Saw Tom Mcclure and Mark Gillian,
both looking well. The fo~mer is
planning to become mining million
aire. Mark is getting fat and looks
we'll. We left the Springs over the
Denver q Rio Grande, dropping off
the standard gauge at Salida and TAX
ing the narrow guage across Marshall
Pass and through the Black Canon of
of the Gunnison. The scenery is
superb and Tom began to realize
what mountains are.
AS we had our fishing apparatus
along we dropped off at small
town" intending to take the stage
over to Pitkin where we thought T.. f,
Davis (of Iola) lives. The stage
driver said he didn't know Davis and
people said that fishing was better
where we were. So we secured room
ut the home Of the section boss-the
only building in the town except the
depot. You may imagine Toms as
tonishment. Then we went fishing.
The Gunnison head waters are re-
puted to be fine fishing and did look
mighty good We worked indus
triously and | caught six, three good
ones and three small ones. Tom got
none and quit in disgust The season
was little early and we learned later
that we should have used worms in
stead of flies.
We caught the morning train and
rode to Salt Lake City. There we
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arriving we ran across Mr.. Hatch,
who travels for the lola Cement Com
pany out there. He was with local
travelling man and we didn't do Il
thing to that town. Salt Lake has
close to 100, 600 population. half Nor
mons, and is one of the wickedest.
fastest towns on earth. We did the
Salt Palace, the Mormon Tabernacle.
Saltaire, the great resort on SAT-
Lake. 1t is "a sporty old town, pretty
as a picture and well worth visiting.
Then we came on to Frisco. The
theatres, Chinatown, the Preside,
Sutro baths, the Clin House and
beach and the shipping on the water
front have proven very entertaining
This town has population of $50, 900
and Tom and have agreed that 300,-
900 of them are pretty girls peaches.
The white skinned, red-cheeked kind.
But as none of them know us it is
simply tantalizing and we leave with
out regret. II is n great dress parade
town. Every afternoon and evening
there is iamb on Market street for
miles of swell-dressed people. TIE
women are unquestiOnably handsome
and know it. They wear automobiles
or frrs and look mighty fetching,
Friday night we took in prize fight.
Tim Callahan and Joe Bernstein
fought twenty rounds to draw.
Then John Root, of Chicago, and
kid" Carter, of Philadelphia, fought.
1t was a CORY, brutal affair and | con-
TESS made me sick. In the fifteenth
round when Root was laying TO land
his hundredth blow on the bleeding
nose of Carter, whom he had twice
felled, in order to knock him out, Car
ter, in a last wild, blind fury landed
on Roots stomach and out went Root.
Carter could not find his seat he was
so dazed and blinded. ! don't want
to see any more.
One of the features of our trip is
Toms appetite. He never eats butter
and half starved while we were hitting
lunch counters for sandwiches and
coffee. l hardly see how he lived
through it for we found butter on
everything Here we have Jared better
and cheaply.
We intended taking a steamer from
here to San Diego but find they do not
run to suit us. So we will go by rail
to Los Angeles and test Toms sea
legs on a ride out to Santa Catalina.
an island of the coast.
Tom stood the bathing suits better
than | did. But have yet to test his
nerve in putting one on and prancing
half-nude down the beach before 900
, people, | look to see him balk.
Yours coolly,
, f. w. BREWSTER.