The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-18
A DELIGHTFUL JoURNEY.
Return of Mir. and Mrs. Elbridge I
 Howe from Winter Trin.

Return of Mir. and Mrs. Elbridge L..
 Howe from Winter Trip.
 Mir. and Mrs. Elbridge L. Howe and children arrived home Tuesday, having had a delightful trip to California, and returning in the best of health They stopped at Salt Lake City on the way home. Salt Lake is fairly pretty city, with few fine residences, but very poor streets. The tabernacle was visited. In coming from San Francisco, the journey to Salt Lake City was made through 42 miles of snow sheds, the snow being fifteen feet on the level. They lost their train and stopped at Colorado Springs for few hours. They encountered blizzard at Chicago. California; said MT. Howe, lis grow ing fast,' He went to Pasadena and stayed there a while. The residential portions of that city and at Los Angeles are very fine. We visited the orange groves at Riverside and at Redlands, where we met a great many New Ha- ven people: and took trip to Santa Catalina Island, stopping at Avalon. At St. Pedro. which is the seaport of Los Angeles, we went fishing in it's clear waters. The boats are 75 feet long with glass bottoms, so that you can see way down to the bottom of the water. The fishing is pretty good. At Palo Alto the Leland Stamford university was visited. It is wonderful institution, beautifully ! located, with fine buildings. The courses -are open to any young men and women, fTifi0T1 ora e-ix h,1x, dred pupils now attending. David Starr Jordan is president. The memo rial chapel is especially grand, costing $1,200.0OO and $2O0,00O more is to be spent upon it. The "Angel of Sorrow 7 of which MT. Howe has a picture, is a grand work of art. This college and the mausoleum are erected in memory of the father and son by Mrs. Sanford. The son died in his sixteenth year. He had often expressed the wish that he could help educate poor boys and girls.
 Fine hotels are all through Califor- mia. San Francisco is a hustling, pros gressive city. We visited the Union works. saw the battleships in construc- tion, and the cruisers Milwaukee, Cal ifornia and South Dakota They are each 55S feet long, and wonderful boats. The streets are so steep that only grip cars can ascend them. They are paved with cobble stones, between which the green grass was growing. The penny is unknown, five cent pieces being the smallest coin denomination in use. Nc bills are used only silver and gold. The people are very hospitable doing every thing to make their friends have good 1 time. Los Angeles has a most elegant electric street cor service. with 200 horse power motors on each car. The city and suburban systems are magnif- icent, reaching out to all adjacent towns and shore resorts within radius of + or 15 miles, and running frequently al the rate of a mile a minute. They sell 10 tickets for $1. .0O or single fares for 1E cents. The children enjoyed themselves and were greatly impressed with the grandeur of their country. But the whole family would rather live east than west, and are glad to be home once more. as are their friends who missed them; but we are glad to have them so we'll and spared the cold, try ing days of this winter.
 Mir, Howe has many fine views. an6 will not soon forget his pleasant winter ltriD.