The Newtown bee., 1907-08-09
Across the Conti-
 ncnt.
MRS $. A. NOE, FORMER
 LY OF SOUTHPORT,
Writes About Her Trip.

Long Beach, California. July 24, 1907. To the editor of The NewtOwn, Bee, | last communication to your paper. believe it was then understood that when I reached the Pacific coast l was to send you word of greeting. Fl It is now three months to-day since left friends and Connecticut and while in one way it seems quite long time, yet the time has not gone at altogether a snails pace with me. 1 am almost at loss to know how to write but think perhaps to some of my friends count of my trip across the continent may be of interest. So will go back to | April 24, when in company, with my | sister-in-law, Mrs H. Cutts Slie of | Derby, I left Connecticut, for a years l stay in Southern California: We left port, met few friends and then took | | train for New York where we were metl | by friends who were also enroute for California. refer to MT and Mrs Conn.,, and who for few years resided in Monroe, Ct.. where they still have warm friends. I shall have occasion to refer to them again later. We left New York from the West Shore at p. m., and the next morning. Thursday, the 18th, when we awoke found our selves passing through the British Do
 minion. 1t began raining in early morning before light and continued for a time. We passed through some fine farming country, being very level and smooth and where the fields were di- vided in many places was done by using the roots of trees which had been dug out in clearing up the land and really making quite an effective fence as we'll as utilizing the roots. We enjoyed the Canadian scenery. About g. 30 a. m. our train was slid aboard float to cross Lake Erie to Detroit and so quietly was it done that we had been moving over the lake some minutes before was convinced we were really moving. We were about 20 minutes crossing the lake. Here we changed cars for Chi cago, which place we reached at ' o'clock and nearly an hour late. Here we were to take a tourist sleeper for the remainder of the long journey.
 Our train was due to leave about Il D. m. While in waiting we visited the dining room and refreshed ourselves with a cup of tea. Wrote and mailed postals to friends left behind and at w little beds and I was asleep before the train started on it's journey and slept well enough to awake comfortably re- freshed with spirit of thanksgiving ir my heart for journeying mercies.
 1 will at this point say that when we were going from Detroit to Chicago, there started with us one car full o1
 shriners enroute for Los Angeles
 To those who are familiar with the or
 der of Masonry this will need no ex- planation. They all passed throu gf our car at lunch time to reach the din
 ing car. may refer to them agair
 later. Our route lay over the North
 western to Omaha and Union Pacific viz Denver, Rio Grande, Southern Pacific 7 and down the coast from Oakland tt ss s Los Angeles.
 It will be useless in me to attempt 2 anything of an accurate account of tht
 journey. First will say our conductor.
 were pleasant and our porter, though > shade darker than ourselves, was
 gentleman in every sense of the wort r and won the respect of all Our trail e on leaving Chicago was composed O
 IF cars. Our car while not crowded l. was comfortably filled and composed ;. of very pleasant class of people ant
 we were. like one big family neighbor
 ly and social and always ready to ex
 tend any courtesy possible as we jour neyed along. We saw thousands upol
 thousands of cattle, horses and shee,
 and was reminded of the words .sthe cattle upon a thousand hills are mine. ,