The daily sentinel., 1908-03-19

In a recent issue of the Daily
Miner-Transcript, of Nevada City,
California, the following article. en-
bodying letter from Mrs. Emma
Wadsworth, the well known Grand
Junction woman, appeared and it
will be read with keen interest by
Grand Junction people:
Mrs. A r. Wadsworth of Grand
Junction. Colorado. and her daughter
Ida are spending a year in New York
City Mrs. Wadsworth was born and
reared in Nevada City, leaving here
some sixteen years ago with her hus-
band and children for Grand juno
ton. She has become prominent in
Colorado because of the interest she
has displayed in club and society af-
fairs and the interest she has taken
in local and state politics. She has
been one of the foremost Republi-
cans of her county, being for a long
time secretary of the Republican
county central committee. She is
the president of the Rebekah Assem-
bly, of Colorado. In the work of
promoting the growth and beauty
of her own charming city of Grand
Junction she has been one of the
leading spirits ever since she settled
there. With all her activities as
public woman and her great business
capacity, Mrs. Wadsworth has proven
herself a model wife and mother, and
her beautiful and hospitable home in
the isolater metropolis of that belt
of the great Colorado plains is an
idea and most happy and delightful
domestic establishment.
In the course of a private letter,
written under date of January goth
from New York City, to a Nevada
City relative, she tells this interest
ing story:
I'VE are having fine weather.
There was snow storm the day fol-
lowing Thanksgiving and not an
other flake till day before yesterday,
when foot fell. although the ther-
mometer was not very low. Such
weather Is a great surprise to us.
We have not felt the cold at all. We
have had considerable rain. The
winter seems to have been designed
especially for us Westerners and for
the many poor people who are out
of work on account of the financial
stringency.
"While shall enjoy my year here
more than / can tell you, ! should
not care to live always in this strug-
Cling, surging. ever-hurrying mass
of humanity where each is for him
self and the devil takes. the hind
most: where the small matter of
knocking over and trampling under
foot of human being would not
deter the crowd a moment in its on
ward rush, and where indeed you
could not stop in the congested
streets if you would, but would have
to swing along with the tide. half
of which is made up of foreigners
with one out of every four Jew.
despite the subway. the elevated
and the surface cars, you are in luck
il you get a seat in any of the cars
except during the middle of the day.
1t is the common rule for men to
keep their seats and for late-coming G
women to stand. A few times my
gray hairs have won for me the
courtesy of seat, but the girls get
no such favors. I have felt each
time a man arose to make room
for me that he was Westerner,
and in fact their bearing and words
made me quite sure of it. I tell
you. I am proud that l hail from the
West. and I am infinitely prouder
of our Western men.
''But with all the drawbacks here.
there are so many advantages, so
many things to do and see, | rejoice
IN having come. 1t takes a great