The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

Glacier, British Columbia, Sunday, July 25.-(Special orrespondence-) )-After winding through snow capped mountains and past waterfalls all day, rising in long loops around the Cougar mountain, the Elks' Cotton States Special arrived In Glacier today at half past 15 o'clock, Canadian Pacific time.
 We have climbed to the foot of the H. lecillewaet Glacier, one of the grandest in existence, and our party Is of the opinion that it has today witnessed more beautiful scenery than during all the 6O00 miles of travel since leaving Birming ham. With the fir trees, the maple and the dense foliage making everything green about us. and the snow peaks for sky line on every side. while the pea green water from the glacier rumbes down in a winding cataract past our feet, the Elks have the whiff of the mountain air in their nostrils and are standing with ant1ers high and eyes wide open in sur prise.
 The special bade goodby to our own golden west at Seattle yesterday board ing the steamer Victoria. and spending the day in ride down Puget Sound. up the Pacific coast to Victoria, the capital of British Columbia and to Vancouver, the Canadian shipping port. It wac q perfect trip, the boat steaming along smoothly, and no one suffered the slight est inconvenience. Long Tardy nearly fell over the boat rarl trying to catch a seagull while Gloomy" Shields took the seat of the presiding officer at the parliament house in Victoria, and called upon the subjects to come to order in the name of the King
 We left the land of "get up and git"
 with a score of cheers for gold lumber,
 grain and climate, but we had a secret feeling that it was after all rich mans
 country. and that it is cheaper to live
 in old Alabama. This little secret we
 confded iiberally 10 all the people in
 Seattle we happened to meet.
 Before leaving Seattle a young lady from Mississippi who is on the train, ac- cidentally ran into her long lost brother who had been given mp for dead more than year. It happened providentially that they walked the same street. and an aged mother and a sorrowing father were made happy down in Mississippi a few hours later
 When we awoke this morning the train
 was speeding over the Canadian Pacific and we had at last turned toward home The trip will be made in seven days with several good stops
 Passing along ahe edge Of Lake Shu swap for many miies the party crowded at the windows and rnarveied at the beautiful colorfng of the season The train then took up the course of the Co., lumbia river, and during the afternoon reached the climax of our journey upon entering the Eelkirk mountains through the narrow gorge of the rlecellewaet river. where the track wound through and
 above deep canyons, and the little river danced and fro1icked now under the car : wheels. then thousands of feet beneath giving strange effect as of s1<v be- low caused by the pea green coiorfng rom the mud of the glacier. We have today been able to gather an idea of inc enorrnity of the lumber trade in l this section
 lt would be impossible to ses~r4he I the wonders that were witnessed Al. fbe ! irain doubled back and forth as it rose
 toward the summit of Sir Donald. or th. 1 surprises Of the tVo-rnne fraD fo inc | great glacier Of much 1ess fhe rnaenfe-
 cence Of the sfsnf. which creens down l the mountain sf rhe rate oT a foot every
 half century. sparkiin0 white in inc -un- l2ht and in It's fs-Ires pale blue as our | Indian sky
 1 We spend inc night here. not dsrfng 10 1 move st night. fearing f,1e Ioys or a sira1e l rnile of the way through the Canadian 1 Rockies. More and more 'y the Queen
 and Crescent railroad being consra.uIat. ed unon the Itinerary it mapped out
 for the 1reafe.' frin ever nnjieA or,f o-
 Tho goiifh. snH the guoeesp'ui manner ,r
 which Y is heinz handled by John Wood | who is in charge. After 2 day in F.
 Paul and one in Chicago. fIe special VIII reach hefne Sunday CT Monday.