Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09
A Csllesc Girls Excursion

A College Glrl's Excursion
The following is a porti IL of
a letter received from Miss
Nellie Mac Allister, who is at
tending "The Western College
at Oxford, Ohio:
Dear Home Folks: have 50
much to tell you about our trip
to Dayto | don't know wheth-
er | can give you an idea of
what a good time we had, but
III try. Our special train of
five coaches left Oxford at 8 a.
m. 1t was decorated with blue
bunting, the Western color. Of
course we had a fine time on
the train. We got to Dayton
about 9:45. 1t isn't as large or
busy as Omaha, but it's SEEM
ingly q very nice city. Quite a
crowd of us went shopping,
some to the public library until
10:45. Then we all went out
to the National Cash Register
factory. The grounds are beau
tiful. The buildings are SO
clean, light and airy all through.
We were taken around liz
groups of a dozen or so. Then
Pres. Patterson gave a short
talk in the lecture room. He
isn't much of a speaker, but it
was good. We saw the first
cash register, on down to the
present. Then we went over
to the large dining room, where
all tie employees eat. There
are very many round tables
each to seat six persons. Be
fore we had lunch, a man whom
Col. Patterson met on his trip
round the world, gave a short
address on health, diet, etc.
When Col. Patterson went
abroad he weighed just 80 lbs,
and this man, by a course of
exercises increased his weight
SO lbs. Col. p. was so inn
pressed with his ability that he
brought him home with him,
and the employees are given
such exercises. Twenty-four
young men came in and went
through a lot of exercises. We
then had lunch. At each place
was a pretty menu card and a
beautiful white chrysanthe-
mum. We had a very good
lunch. The girls who work at
the factory get their dinners
for Is cents a week, and the
men for seventy-five or one
dollar, according to their salary.
Col. Patterson does such things
because he says people work
better if they have proper food.
There are many clubs in con-
nection with the N. c. r. for
all the different departments,
even for the janitors 81 of
Ethem-and the porters. There
are cooking, sewing, arithmetic,
and in fact all sorts Of classes.
After lunch we had our pic
lures taken out doors and then
we went back to to the audit
orium, where we were shown
many sterioptieon and some
moving pictures of the differ
ent clubs, etc, of the concern.
We saw quite a good many pic
lures taken on Col. Patterson's
trip abroad. Then we went out
to his summer home, Gar
Hills" 1t is way up from the
road and up q steep hlll, TOO,
1t is a beautiful place. The
house is three stories. There
is a very wide porch clear
across the front, with dozens
of cane seats and Morris chairs.
tits certainly fine inside. The
furnishings are elegant but
simple. 1t isn't plastered, of
course, and the woodwork is all
Flemish Oak. There's a fire
place in every room, | think.
We were tyken clear through.
The bedrooms are all so pretty
and each has a private bath.
Mrs. Patterson is dead; there's
a girl, ten, and a boy thirteen.
Their rooms are very nice. The
rugs are all so heavy and soft.
The servants quarters are fine,
too. The guest room, where
countless noted people have