The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-04
HOWE'S TRAVELS.
Sailed Today From San Fran
cisco for Orient.
Describes Impressions and Ex-
pressiOns at Canyon.
WILL BE TWO FRIDAYS.
Days VIII Double Up on the
Pacific.
Some Sleeping Car Figures of
Interest Given.
WILL BE TWO FRIDAYS.

left the Grand Canyon this morn |
ing with regret. It is not as highly |
.oolored as represented in pictures. but |
IN other respects you will find It more
wonderful than you expected. Nc
Cures magazine lately printed a
series Of pictures of the Grand Canyon |
They were so highly colored as to be !
.carieatures. The coIoring in the yell
lowstone Canyon is very much more
decided than in the Canyon of the
Colorado, but in immensely, there is
no comparison between the two They
say no one is ever disappointed in the
Canyon OF the Colorado If this is
true, no greater compliment can be
paid the great show place.
c. A. Brant, manager of Ell Tovar
hotel, interested me. Although born
to this country as a boy. His first
work was peeling potatoes in hotel;
he has remained in the hotel business
ever since. Brant had about as poor
a start as young man can have, but
he is now manager of one of the no
table hotels OF America admire
clever men; that's the reason I men,
ton c. A. Brant.
Everything about FL Tovar suited
me except the chandeliers in the din
ing room and in the smoking room.
These chandeliers are log squares
swinging at the end OF log chains. The
hotel was designed by Charles Whit
tlesey, the artist-architect of Los An
geles. I admire his genius, but can
not agree with him as to chandeliers.
The architect has combined in admir-
able proportions the Swiss chalet and
the Norway villa.
At Williams. Arizona, I first saw an
oil-burning locomotive. Oil is cheaper
than coal, and there is no smoke. The
oil, of course, comes from California
not very far away from here. I also
saw another new thing at williams:
/ two shaving cups in a BARRIERS case
/ bearing the same name. While being
shaved at Williams, 7 amused myself
/ by looking at the cups in the BARRIERS
case. One OF the cups was marked:
ED De Forrest. No. II Another cup
was marked: ED De Forrest. No, 81
Are there three Ed De FORESTS at
Williams, and does No. 2 shave at an
other shop?
At Williams, I saw a typographical
error on freight car. This sign was
tackled to a car: For eating house
supplies: return promptley to Kansas
( City I never before saw a mis-
spelled word on a railroad car.
Arizona undoubtedly has a favora bic
climate for consumptives, but imagine
! they find trouble in securing accOmmo-
dations. A hotel proprietor told me yes
terday that he received letters every day
from persons suffering with throat
trouble" They never call it anything
else-and he advises them not to come to
/ Arizona, although he knows consun1p-
tives find Arizona a blessing. He SAYS
he does not want consumotives as
guests. because other guests object to
them He has gone SO FAR as to induce
two physicians to give him a written
opinion that consumptives should re-
main away from Arizona.
At the Grand Canyon yesterday. while
L was sitting with a number of others
on the rim of the great gorge, a discus
sion arose as to the distance to the river.
Finally one man said: Il can walk to
the river in an hour" TEien he walked
away. He must be a trained athlete"
another tourist said. The man who talk
ed like Jack Silliman and looked like
Jim Challiss replied; mo, he isn't
trained athlete: he's a talker."
I'm afraid these ntters are not very
good. You are familiar with the old
saying that a man should keep a letter
a week before mailing it, and then burn
It. / feel that way about the letters /
nave already sent. And 7 am not at
all certain about the figures have quot
ed Many OF them were obtained in
the smoking rooms of Pullman sleepers
and this information while as entertain
Ing as a magazine article. is apt to be
unreliable.
On the sleeping car on which this
is written is a father and mother with
hve noisy children. The father and
mother are, at this writing. sound asleep
and the other passengers are taking
care of the children. Their berths are
or course, near mine, and I fear trouble
tonight The children are entirely ne
elected by their parents. When not
asleep, the parents read The parents
are rather nice looking people, but the
children. because Of neglect look like
Immigrants. A man went through the
car Just now, carrying one of the small
est Of the children, and amusing it by
1T will be your turn next" he said to
me, as he passed. I couldn't do any
thing with a baby. now. I am out of
IpIactice-Iny youngest is nineteen; when
ents.
The one-two-three shows never die,
ana they travel everywhere. At Ash
TOOK a turn on the platform, while
passengers were changing for Phoenix.
Away up in front saw a truck load
ed with Uncle Josh Spruceby' bag
gage.
Last Thursday night. when I reach
ed Hutchinson. Kansas, the time
changed. and we lost an hour. To
night, al Needles, California, we viii
lose another hour; tomorrow morning,
Il Will be o'clock at Needles, and 8
clock at Atehison. This will con-
tinua, as proceed westward, and be-
tween Honolulu and Yokohama q
queer thing viii occur; we viii have
two Fridays in succession. Friday No.
. 1 will begin in the usual way. and
/ continue twenty-four hours; then
Friday No. 3 will begin and continue
tWenty-four hours.
The oldest Of the five noisy children
on the Pullman has been hanging
around me, and trying to look through
my valise. Two Of the smaller ones