Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-05
TELLS OF TRIP TO WEST
Mrs. ]. E. Aughe Writes Letter to
The Bee.
LOS ANGELES CHARMS OMAHAN
Incoming Flowers and ocean Plunges
Help Make Life Enjoyable for
Resident Of This City Visit-
ing in California

ing in California
How nlsasant a trip to California Is at
this time OF year and how pleasant Call
fornia is after the trip Is ended. Is de-
scrbed in a letter to The Bee by Mrs j.
r Aurhe. who. with her husband, is in
the southern part Of the Golden state for
a month or more. Mrs. Aughe writes:
REDONDO, Cal, Oct. ITO my many
Omaha friends and readers Of The Bee
Mr.. Aughe and myself left Omaha OCTOBER
Is over the Union Pacific In the thlrd sec
ton Of that great excursion. Next morn
ing found us at Cheyenne for breakfast
We had a pleasant party OF Omaha people
IN our sleeper. Mr.. VIII White and mother
Of Eighteenth and Corby streets; Mr. ana
Mrs ". White, wife and daughter, G.
Marian. Elder Mclean and Mrs. Mclean
omaha pioneers, Of Twentieth and Maple
streets; Mr.. and Mrs. w. Powell and
daughter. Miss Fern and Master Robert,
and six other Omahans.
after a cool ride through the lovely
wild mountain scenery Of Wyoming, we
had supper at Rawlins, wyo., and at $3.50
Sunday morning we spied lovely Salt Lake
and pretty farms and gardens. Arriving
at the city. we found we had missed the
San Pedro train by two hours, so we took a
street car for the First Methodist Episco-
nal church, Just in time for the morning
service. The pastor, who, after Installing
the officers OF the Epworth league, intro
duced Mother Potter, president OF Utah's
Home Missionary society. She gave a
good talk OF how they were caring for
frontier people in the mountains and dis
tant points. She then introduced Mrs.
Jane Bancroft Robinson, national president
OF the Women's Home Missionary society,"
who was on her return home to Detroit
from the national convention at Los An
Eeles. At the close we had a dinner at a
Japanese hotel, and then walked five
blocks, ten Omaha blocks, to the great
Mormon tabernacle, where we listened to
several old-time Methodist hymns and
solos by 800 trained voices to the accom-
paniment of the largest pipe organ In the
world. There was an address by a young
elder, a returned missionary from Holland
and also a sermon by an older elder from
the Book Of Judges. Thousands Of RESI-
dents, as well as travellers, attend this
two-hour afternoon service.
I'VE walked to the great Union depot
the finest in the west, where we took a
midnight train for the coast. No purer
air nor clearer, sweeter water have VIC
found anywhere than in Salt Lake City.
"Awoke Monday morning in the sage
brush OF southwestern Utah and all day
through there, and the rocky region of the
Sierra Nevada mountains and through the
six great tunnels. Supper time found us at
Les Vegos, New, the great silver mining city
and a lively little place. Tuesday morning
at daylight we we're at st. Bernardlno,
Cal, and in the midst Of the beautiful
orange groves, what a contrast to the
rocky region of the night before! Here
we Parted company with Mr.. and Mrs,
White and daughter, who have gone to
Redlands TO live.
AT $3.50 we were at our destination, lively,
busy. great Los Angeles, and our friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Syas and daughter,
Miss Mae, formerly Of West Amber
Omaha, were at the depot in their double
carriage to meet us. Then a pleasant
drive OF three hours through the busy
business section of the city and the resi-
dence district and lovely Magnolia cemetery
wnere geraniums and fuschia's run riot over
walls, fences and houses, some six &c
eight feet high. The magnolia blooms
shed their sweet perfume on all sides.
1--WE reached their flower bedecked hom'
at 1880, had lunch, then rested till mex
morning, when Miss Mae and I picked
twelve varieties of lovely double roses be
fore leaving for a month stay at RedondC
beach, twenty miles distance, where they
and we went to take advantage Of tn
fine ocean baths, mackerel fishing and fin
air. Mr.. Aughe, Mae and 1 take tn
ocean plunge daily, while Mrs. Syas take
the salt baths at the great bathing house
the largest in the world.
''Redondo Beach is a great port 70
passenger steamers from San Francisc
and other coast cities. We saw the cit
Of Topeka and Santa Rosa come /
Saturday loaded with passengers for Lo
Angeles and Pasadena, winter resorts. Thu
is also a great port for lumber from Ore
Kon and Washington, hundreds of lumbe
steamers coming in Sunday. We were In
yited TO a baked fish dinner at Mrs.
Simpsons, formerly Miss Mabel Boyer c
Eckerman and West Side, Omaha. w
walked there, twelve blocks, throug
eucalyptus and palm avenues on every sid'
At D. M, we left on the electric car fC
Pasadena, ten miles north of Los Angelo
TO spend a few days with our old neigh
bors, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Bartlett, S
long residents OF Forty-second and PacifI
streets, Omaha. They have a handsom
seven-room bungalow on Franklin avenu
literally covered with flowers. There al
three fine orange trees, one lemon and w
fig trees, one large English walnut TIRE
which has borne bushels of walnuts tn
year. .
Tuesday morning we returned to Ii
Angeles and took advantage Of going
the market for fruit and vegetables, while
we got. for a small amount, especially II
fine large Malaga white grapes, six poun'
for Is cents. We shall probably rema
at the beach here at Redondo a mont
before going to Pasadena or Gervanz
where / win work In a private sanitariu
through the winter. If the following wee
does as much for Mr.. AS health, and min
too, our hope win not be in vain
Yours truly,
MRS. ]. r. AUGHE."