The daily tribune., 1905-02-04
uOTkS PROM CALIFORNIA.
Flosence Girl Tells Her Experience
oa Coast.

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Store 10 in receipt Of . letter from
Mis- Bertha Pride il this city On ex-
tract of which might be Of interest
to the people OF Florence Il 10 -
follows;
'I reed the book since We have
been here and there being 20 many
Spanish or Mexican people here ani
our going throeSb the ;'Old Mission"
and all mad. 10 SEEM ~ much more
real. One day during holiday ~eek
our friends who always go with us on
our trips and ourselves went on sn-
other picnic on Mission Hill about
town and We stopped 1t the Mission
and one OF the monks took ne al
through; it was = climb up in the
towers. but We got there and tho view
WAS fine from there. He showed rs
. rawhids bed like that which 10
spoken Of in "Romoua" which AL
lessandro" made for "Filipe' while
he Wa sick. And there were 20
many Indian relics and curios. But
one Of the greatest curiosities was n
piano which wa, brought from Ger
many; it Is 100 years old and 1t took
two years to get it all here. 1t being
brought few pieces at . time. and
there were . lot OF old parchments
and hooks; one Pible printed In l645.
They have . big book for visitors to
register il they want to. and Of
course we did. Then he took rs cot
into the garden where ne said there
were 1000 Indians buried. OF course
they are piled one on top of another
and gone to dust long before this. and
there 10 a big vault where the "Hoiy
Fathers are now buried. A part Of
the building was used for . fort dor
ing the war with Mexico. suppose
. great many of the Indians who are
buried thre were those who lost their
lives defending 1t for the Indians
who had become Cathol,cs were of
the staunohest kind; and = great
part Of the building IL built Of the
stones which the Indians carried on
their backs. one by one. The rest
IL Of adobe. 1t is an awfully big
building: don't know how many
rooms. know there we're great
many we didn't get to put our dirty
feet into. nor will any other Protes.
tapt; and then the Sacred Garden is
another place where only the Catho-
lies get to go. swiped . piece Of
evergreen from . tree in the garden
for q souvenir and then lost it; so
much for swiping; take warning.
"Well, we went on and finished the
day and our lunch up on the hill;
we had . great sine. And the next
day We got rig and took the mount
ain drive down TO the coast at Car
pentina. The folks who had never
been over the mountains much
thought they were grand, but they
I'D hAr A.v krv ,<S he
the old Rockies. o. the drive was fine
and 80 also was the scenery. especial
ly when we could soc the ocean in the
distance. But Mary and enjoyed
the ride home better. for ws came up
along the coast and that was the first
time we had s.en the sunset on the
sea; 1t looked like . great ball Of fire
dropped into the water. That day
We built q fire right on the beach
and made our coffee and nesrly
made ourselves sick eating we were
so hungry. We were played out after
those II ips for several days but We
went down to the beach here an
other dav and / didn't do q thing but
catch q live shark. Now what do
you think of that for fish story. and
I brought it home tool Well. it
was ti,usly: had searched all day
in vain tor some pretty shells and
things and was looking in bunch
of kelp that had washed up and
spied shark q egg. which was not all
dried up a. most Of them are when
| found. They are about 81 inches
long and rather fat. When Wa get
home and was looking at it we saw
what looked like round ball to which
WAS attached q live baby shark. This