Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-13
Quite a Colony from Utah's Me-
tropoIis Is Making Long Beach
Its Headquarters.
sToIcs IN A DINING CAR.
Some Incidents of Torrld Trip Across
The Burning Sands of Great
Nevada Descrct.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Long Beach, Cal, July io.--It might
have been the intention of all the oc-
cupants of the 16 ears which filed out
Of the Salt Lake depot last Saturday
night 10 make Los Angeles the end or
the journey at least temporarily
after the ride across the desert In cars
threatened with spontaneous combus-
ton from the suns rays--nearly all of
the mob OF passengers filtered from
the southern metropolis TO the beaches
as quickly as conveyances could be Sc
cured. This, of course. excerpts the
teachers who were doomed by the omni-
present convention to n temperature
which rumor placed somewhere be-
tween l04 and log.
There was a royal reception await
ing the delegates, however. and all tho
other excusionists at the hands Of the
committee Of reception, which board
ed the train some miles out from Los
Angeles with baskets OF oranges which
We're showered upon the passengers.
Others OF the commttte waited at tho
depot and lent splendid assistance in
giving addresses, locations, and so
forth.
Salt Lake, of course, was we'll repre-
sented in delegates--and not few of
these will spend the remainder OF the
summer on the coast, Among the To-
| cal delegates, Supt. Christensen was Il
| conspicuous hgure--especially on the
| train. where his stoical attitude in the
| baked car sections-or at the door
| of the dining car waiting his turn at
| the twenty tables where 16 carloads of
passengers were fed-was as inspiring
as that Of the nobest and bravest of
| gladiators awaiting a death struggle
| In the arena. Horace Cummings was
another thrilling suggestion of the no.
| BILE Roman-though OF the Christian
martyr type rather than the resolutely
| defiant.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Irvine were
among the Salt Lake excursionists who
win spend the summer at the beaches.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w, Currie and family
came down. for q months stay at Los
Angeles and the near beaches.
Miss Vera Sjodahl. daughter of Editor
| j. Nj. Sjodahl OF the News" is Il vis
tor at the Kimball's pretty cottage.
| 1901 East Second street, Long Beach,
the guest of Miss Quincy Klmball.
| Mrs. Anthony Godhe Is here with her
| children, and has a -ehafn,ing cottage
] on Ocean avenue--a street on the edge
I of the sea--where one can sit on the
| rear porch and cast stones into the surf.
| Occupying the double house with her Is
Mrs. Mary Godbe and daughter. Mrs,
Brooks. who is here for the summer
with her children.
Mrs. Oliver Green is visiting Mrs.
Anthony Godbe at Long Beach
Miss Gwen Knowlton Is here for a
two weeks stay with Mrs. Godbe.
Mrs, Melvin E.. Cummings is expected
to arrive shortly from Oakland for u
stay of several weeks. Miss Gladys
Cummings and Shelby Cummings are
already here and Mr.. Cummings is ex-
pected later.
Mrs. Will Clawson is spending a short
time at Ocean Park
Another Salt Laker at Ocean Park is
Mrs. Serge Stenhouse. who Is visiting
Mrs. Fannie KILLER.
Mrs. Murray Godbe and children have
cosy cottage at Long Beach for the
summer.
Mrs. w d. Nebeker is a Salt Lake
excprsionst who will spend several
weeks between tho city. Long Beach
and Ocean Park.
Mrs. w. I. Lewis is visiting friends
here In Long Beach for an indefinite
tino.