Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-15

N. H. Bennett, washington News as
socintiOn.
Six Of the foremost Washington cor
respondents-the men who help to molo
the nations opinion from the press
gallery, got new inspiration IN SouIn-
ern California yesterday.
They arrived at the Alexandria short
Iy before / o'clock yesterday morning
and spent the day in doing Los An
geles" and they did it as none others
than newspaper men could do 1t. AS
the guests of Senator Frank P. Flint
they went over the city in an automo-
bile and later were entertained by the
senator at luncheon at the California
club.
The writer's have been attending the
irrigation congress at Boise, Idaho,
where they received theoretical know
ledge of irrigation. Yesterday they
had it practically demonstrated 10
them.
The men have been continually to-
gether since they left Washington a
month ago, but the party broke up here
yesterday afternoon. ;.
In the hotel lobby they 'got together
and had a final half hour talking over
some of the experiences on the trip.
Modest Dick Talks
Richard E. Little the war cores
pondent who made a record for him.
self in the late Russo-Japan war, was
not at the congress, but he was the
center of the group yesterday
1--WE ran into him In San Francisco
and we just picked him UP and brought
him down here" said Charles Smith.
He's the man that has just come
from New York to San Francisco in an
automobile"
Tell us about it, Dick" and with a
little persuasion from the rest of the
party, Dick told"
Dick Little, as he is most often
called, is six feet and half tall ana
not much more than one-sixth of that,
broad. He is big and awkward and
speaks rather haltingly until he gets
interested in his subject. Then there's
nothing to it but the story.
1.-THE beginning of our automboile
trip dates back a long way and 1t
originated with Ywanskaiki, the Chin
ese governor of Ohili, the next province
to Manchuria. Chris Hagherty, the As
sociated Press correspondent and
We're there together and we met Ywan-
skaiki. He is one of the foremost men
in the reform movements in China
and to my mind the greatest foreign
statesman Like many Chinese, he
was much interested In all things
American. The American bicycle had
made a hit in China and the phono-
graph as well. The attention was be-
ing turned to the automobile and
Ywanskaiki had a French machine.
The distances are so great that it Is
difficult to travel In northern China
and Ywanskaiki conceived the idea
that the automobile might become
solution of the problem. He asked us
to investigate when we returned to
America and let him know what we
thought of American made machines
for long distance travel
Decide to Test Machine
1--WE mentioned it one day to a men,
ber of the Buick Automobile company
and the trip across the continent to
test the machine was proposed to us.
ION August 16 we left New York
We came down Broadway with the
machine in perfect trim. The lamps
were lighted and every bar glistened
There was a chauffeur in the car and
two others were sent on by train to
relieve him at various points along the
route. Everything went like clock work
for little while, but 1t was not to be
trip of unalloyed joy. We had our
first accident before we were out of
New York and before we arrived In
San Francisco last Sunday we had
done some hard manual labor.
"All the time we kept going except
when the machine went into DITCH
or a washout, and then we got out pick
and shovel and dug 1t out. n
I'm Ohio and Illinois there were
cloudbursts and In Omaha we ran of
bridge, smashed the machine badly
and the chauffeur was thrown 10 the
ground and remained unconscious for