The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-11

MANILA, August %.
will begin where I left off, with the hope
that what write will be as interesting to those
who read it as it was to the writer
We reached San Francisco on July 10, and as
the Thomas" did not sale until the 23d we had
time to see the sights. Powell went down to
Santa Cruz to visit his cousin. while Fisher
and l prepared to do the town. Sutio Baths
and Cliff House are the most interesting. In
those baths water is brought from the sea each
day and heated to the temperature at which
bathing is pleasant Diving boards, chutes,
swinging rings and a complete museum make
up the apparatus for bathing and pleasure.
Cliff House owes it's celebrity to its location
1t is built on high rock which juts out into
the sea. At its base the Pacific Ocean dashes
it's breakers into foam and nothing but sea and
sky meet ones gaze as far as the eye can reach.
On Sunday, July 21st, went to the Golde n
Gate Park The whole city seemed to be out
men, women and children. They played ball,
ran races, and romped on the we'll kept grass
plots. The band played the whole afternoon.
The park is just simply beautiful beyond de-
scription. Palms, ferns, banyan trees and flow.
eff every variety birds of various colors, and
fountains were all about; two museums, an av-
iary and fish ponds all added to the beauty Of
the whole. All this was delight after seeing
poor old droughty Kansas. 1t was so cold that
overcoats and furs were worn by the people
with comfort We landed with our light cloth
ing and were only too glad to don winter
vesture.
On Monday we went down to the dock to see
the big ship that was to bear us across the sea.
draws 30 feet of water. is 1853 tons displace'
ment, and is capable of carrying 900 people
aud merchandise galore. Out at sea she looks
like moving city. notice was printed that
night in the city papers that all passengers
should report by 9 o clock the next day. wish
you could have seen the dock that morning
passengers, hack drivers. baggage men and
army officers in inextricable confusion. Great
lifting cranes were hosting trunks by the half
dozen and lowering them into the hold. On the
second and third decks the quartermasters as
sistant was assigning bunks to the new pas
sengers and staterooms on the first deck to the
womtn. At exactly IL o'lock noon, with great
hoarse scream, mid the cheering of those on
the boat and the tears and cheers of those on
shore, the ship pushed out into the bay and
turned her nose toward the open sea. Some of
the teachers had friends on the shore who had
come to tell them goodbye and many of them
could not resist a few tears for a voyage of
5000 miles is not always passed in safety: and
we who had no friends on shore thought of
those 1000 miles away. The passengers were
varied. Indeed, nearly every college in the
United States was represented, and a member
was there to stand up for every state in the
Union. They we're of all ages and sizes, NOR
ally, physically and utellectually-school
ma ans grown gray in the service, grave old
plodders, gay young friskers, seuate matrons
aud giddy maidens One teacher did not
rive on time and was brought out to the ship in
a government launch.
At O'Clock pm the Thomas" passed the
Presido and the government prison on an is
land at the entrance of the bay, and began to
roll heavily in the great blue waves of the Pa
cihc. DAVID f. CARSON.