The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-12-04
MISS sATTERLUND's oBsERvA
TlONS.

Miss Hilda Satterlund, who is now
an attache of the general land office
in Washington, "a II of the North
Dakota party at the launching of the
new Dreadnaught, the war vessel
North Dakota-and in a personal let
ter writes interestingly about some
of the side events of the trip and her
first trip to Boston and New York.
Begging Miss Satterlund's pardon,
without leave the Tribune quotes a
few paragraphs for the edifcation of
her many Bismarck friends:
81 had 2S days of leave due me and
thought I had better use it and now
would probably be my only opportun-
ity for seeing something of Boston
and New York, which l would want
to see before going west again. And
then too, 1 wanted to e some ramil-
lar faces, and it certainly did seem
good to see the North Dakota people.
I left here a week ago Monday morn
ing, taking the day trip to Boston in
order to see something of the coun-
try. At New York, or rather Jersey
City, our train a. put on a boat
and taken around the water front of
New York City up Harlem river, a
trip of about an hour and which was
a fine chance of seeing that part of
that wonderful city.
What a busy place that harbor is,
with it's ferry boats, freighters, and
even ocean steamers, and those sky
scrapers were certainly a great sight
as we'll. I reached Boston at eight
o'clock and went to the Vendome Ho-
tel, where I was told the North Dako-
ia party would be. Tuesday morning
they arrived, and the first n I saw
face looked good to me. MI. and
Mrs. Hellstrom kindly asked me to
join them, and l was with them at
the launching. The North Dakota
people we're treated fine in every way
had a splendid place to view the boat
and everything. 1t was a wonderful
sight to see that huge boat slide down
the ways into the water, with a hitch,
a sight I shall forget. That
through the kindness of MI. Murphy
Of jamestown, I was taken around
with Mr.. and Mrs. Hellstrom by a
friend who had a fine large touring
car, and we were shown the city.
Tuesday night about twenty of us
took the boat for the night trip to
New York. Spent four days there.
Mr.. Currie of Cando took Mrs. Page,
Mrs. Parker of Leeds, and I, out in
a large automobile one afternoon to
see the city, and we certainly covered
lots of ground, and then wound up
by going down Broadway and into
Wall street about five o'clock in the
evening just when the streets were
most crowded. I never had so excit-
ing a ride before, the driver was an
expert and would shoot the machine
through the narrowest of places; we
were called down several times by
policemen for driving ~recklessly, and
we had the corner of the top of the
machine torn off by a street car l
hardly expected to get back to the
hotel whole. Went to the theatre a
couple Of times, visited the Metropol-
itan Art Museum, and went into a
number of the large stores-in fact,
/ feel that I saw quite a little of New
York City in the, short time I was
Returned here last Monday,
Mrs. Page coming with me, and /
acted as her guide while here. We.
called on Mr.. Jermaine. the Minnea-
polls Journal ma who arranged for
her see the President. Mrs. Page
said she talked with the President.