Arizona republican., 1906-07-01
A PHOENIX GIRL
 IN OLD BAY STATE
Amid all the Enjoyment Arizona is
 UppermOst.

Lowell, Mass, June 24-(Special cor respondence of The RepubHcan.)-It seems but yesterday since the excur- sion of June 9th left Phoenix over the Southern Pacific. We will not forget that trip soon; il was so pleasant and we seemed such an amiable lot of folks from the first to the last. It was the first time l had boarded a sleeper in Phoenix and traveled without change to my destination. I have always dreaded the changes at Maricopa and Ash Fork. but here we are already living in Greater Phoenix. We all felt it as we entered our berths and bliss fully slept l for one did not know when we hitched to the Golden State Limited. had no thought of change until l should arrive in Chicago. The next morning after breakfast in our own dining ear We spent a couple of hours in the observation car. Such comfortsl The latest magazines at our disposal writing desk, stationery fur nished by the Golden State Limited great easy chairs. an easy swinging motion of the cars, and, just to think of it. we were to arrive in Chicago Saturday morning, We seemed to have the right of way making but few stops and travelling on schedule time We were a happy lot. with our sleeper full of Phoenix people.
 We had been given such a splendid send-off. A host of friends, it seemed the half of Phoenix. were at the sta ton to bid us goodbye and wish us a safe journey. MT. and Mrs. Bicknell with Vera and Helen; MT. Landis to see that everything was right and everybody happy. Young people ga lore. for Miss Grace Andrews and Miss Carrie Christy were bound for long summer in the east, Miss Andrews for Chicago Miss Christy to meet her brother at West Point. l looked all about me at fathers and mothers, hus- bands and wives, brothers and sisters saying good-by to their very dearest and best I had none of these family ties tugging at my heart strings but down in my innermost soul l too had stirIings deep and loyal, for to me had come quietly and generously demon strations of love from several sources and l was going away feeling happy and glad to be d child of Phoenix.
 We had eight youngsters with us. but not cross or crying baby in the lot
 A baby three weeks old, one seven months, a four and a five year old, and so on. Some said they were so good because the Phoenix kindergar- tener and the trained nurse, Miss Olson. were aboard but that was only one of a whole lot of reasons. A spleudidly equipped sleeper. good
 porter and the fine spirit and enthusi- asm of q Phoenix crowd; the babies had a dozen mothers and we all took turns. one afternoon We made paper dolls for the children, another after noon a man with a violin came in and played for them and they danced up and down (mostly down) the aisies. One Of my Kindergarten mothers had put me up a fine lunch box, so each afternoon at five we had a party, the children and l.
 Here is our crowd. as l can remem- Der: Mrs w b. Lawrence and dauEh- ter. the Misses Andrews and Christy, Mrs. Victor F.. Satterdohf, MT. and Mrs. Claude Berrymau and baby Elizabeth, Mrs. sam Easterling and Catherine land Lawrence. Miss Leah Olson, Mrs. Peter Edson and daughter Hope Mir. Verne Elliott Mrs. J. F. Sergeant, Mrs. J. C. Deviue. Mrs. J. F. Kelly and baby of Mesa. MT. and Mrs. W. D. Caine and two babies. In the drawing room were MT. and Mrs. J. Roland and family.
 After the days travel through the desert we had a day of Prairie cOun- try with great stretches of green fields and then the hills of Missouri. At Kansas City the greater part of our crowd left for St. Louis and other points to the south. We arrived in Chicago on time my cousin meeting me and taking me to her home in