Smyrna times., 1904-05-18
LETTER FROM RICHARD M. COOPER.
CheSwOld Citizen, One of Wilmington COnfer-
ence Delegates to General COnfereuce,LOs
Angeles, Writes of His Travels.


ence Delegates to General COnference.LO
Angeles, Writes of His Travels.
Los ANGELES, CAL, May THE
section of the Pennsylvania special
train for Los Angeles, California, con-
tanning the Wilmington Conference
delegation, moved out of Broad Street |
Station at L p. M, Wednesday, April
27, forty minutes late. There were
six sections of which ours was No.
and our car letter "N." " last but one of
the sections. The sections moved in
regular order and at Harrisburg our
car was filled up by part of the Balti
more delegation and friends, and part
of the delegation from Central Penn
sylvania Conference. Those occupy
ing berths in car ''N'' were Chief JUS
tice Lore, Drs. A. S. Mowbray, W. F.
Corkran, G. S. Baker, and Mrs. Baker,
H. P. Cannon of Brldgeville; Miss
Mary Cannon of Dover; Rev. A. STEM
gle and wife, and ]. E. Ellegood and
daughter of Salisbury; Col Albert
Gisk and wife of Preston, and G. w.
Collins of Magnolia, and r. M. Coop
er, all of Wilmington Conference.
Additions at Harrisburg: DIR. Luther
B. Wilson and son and Prof. John S.
Robinson of Baltimore, and DR.. j. A.
of a book on "Perfect Love-" and a
preacher of that doctrine at Camden
Camp-meeting many years ago, and
his wife. In other cars of our section
were noted men such as: DIR. j. M.
Buckley, editor of the christian Ad-
vocate. Prof. Mcintyre, of Dickinson
College; DIR. Evans, of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Conference. DR.. Mon
roe, for many years secretary of the
General Conference and in charge of
the Conference roll and other matters
pertaining to the work of the present
Conference, and others.
/ Met By Former Dover Newspaper Man.
No incident worthy of note occurred
except a slight cripple to section g.
which put us in its place, till we
= reached Chicago, Thursday forenoon,
: about 10 o'clock where we were met
r by our old Delaware friend, H. w
t Cannon, formerly editor of the Stat
It Sentinel of Dover. Our stay was pro
: lOnged by the delay in placing oul
n sections on the Chicago and Santa F.
d road. About noon we were unde
j. way and moved on uninterruptedly
d crossing the Mississippi at For
IS Madison. Night overlook us befor
D reaching Kansas City, but a numbe
e of us stood on the rear platform of tn,
3 train and saw the long bridge spanning
,e the Missouri river as we were crossing
l. it and viewed it as best we could b.
% moonlight, the ground flooded an
D. devastated last summer by the flood
}. that swept down upon the city. A
t. this is letter of incidents, will al
DO tempt no description of the countr
10 through which we passed. W
er passed from the fertile fields an
le homelike farm improvements of cas-
er ern Kansas to the plains of more c
N less desoateness, which continue
ed for about 1900 miles to near San Bel
g. nardino. After reaching these val
IS, plains we were on the lookout for th
nd praire dog, the jack rabbit and th
on owl, which share the ground in con
as mon through this section. Befol
he leaving home we were promised thu
re prairie dogs we're as plentiful as blacl
he birds in March. The writer saw b
ss- three, and others favored with bett
ch eyesight saw not more than dozen.
"a At the Orsnd Canyon Of Arizona.
is Our tourist schedule promised
ed land us at the Grand Canyon of Al
zona at p. m. Saturday, which is
Gated at the termini of a spur ro
leading from Williams to the Canyo
yas a distance of nearly sixty-four mil
law from the Atchison, Topeka and San
ad- Fe road; but instead of p. m.
av Saturday it was 10 hours later, Sund
,rv morning. Amazing wonders and a
nat noying troubles began at this plaC