The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-30

III dark; / get rather tired sometimes
but ] am feeling fine-neyer felt bet
ter IN my life and eat to beat the
band-some days | have only Two
meals aud some days four, according
to the amount of tramping We do and
the time We have.
Wednesday we spent the day al
Long Beach and to me, the sight vas
wonderful-the long extent of coast
line with the rolling ano dashing of
the foam capped waves was a delight
TO one from so far in the interior
where a freshet ON the Nemaha bot
toms furnishes the largest body of
water near us. II wasn't long before
| joined the hundreds of surf bathers
and had the time of my life. But you
should have seen me the morning
after-sun-bnrned TO a finish, and 1t
a painful loo, l don't enjoy that
part, though n coat of tan is the
proper thing here.
The city is beautifully decorated
for the Elks CONVENTIONAL in purple
ana white. one large store has a frieze
of mission clocks, pointing the hour
Of eleven. The clocks are white trim
med In gilt and purple, and at night
they are so brilliant it is dazzling.
One store has in its window
an old stray elk, lost in a snow storm
The artificial flakes of snow are
blown by electric fans under logs, and
makes n very realistic storm. An
other store has an old mission built
out into the street, with old bells
that toll every hour. In the window
of one hotel are three live elks and
there are elk heads in very nook and
corner available.
Thursday morning was their first
parade, they called 1t a massed par
ade. The Los Angeles lodge led,
then came New York lodge No. L
then Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and
SC on. Every city that had a delegA
ton present was represented-each
in some characteristic uniform. Gin
cinnati delegates wore golf suits
Boston wore Pilgrims attire Spokane
colonial suits. and so on, but | think
Santa Barbara was the best, they
wore brown monk gowns and had an
old mission made of flowers-it GER.
tainly was splendid.
Then in the evening was an cleo
sric parade. consisting of fifteen
floats-each one seemed better thar
the one before-they called 1t a cir
Gus parade as each float was an ami.
NAL. fearfully and wonderfully made.
To me Ii was a great pleasure for ii
was different from anything | ever
saw.
On Friday came the regular Califor-
mia flower parade, that was beautiful
beyond my power of describing and
] wouldn't have acted as Judge either,
as the one that appeared to me the
most beautiful of anything | ever
thought of, didn't get first prize--it
was a touring car decorated with pink
sweet peas, not one spot of the auto
but was covered with the flowers and
the ladies in II wore pink-it certain
iy was dainty and pretty as one can
imagine. Another was trimmed in
bamboo sticks and Japanese flowers.
the color scheme was rather elabor-
ate and the ladies wore kimonos.
There were a great many very pretty
mes as you will know when | tell
you the parade vas three hours in
Rassing--the length of it was the on.
~ marring feature As you world for
get the ones passing before-and be-
sides one tires of standing so long
This is surely a land of flowers as
was illustrated by the number used
in the decorations for the parade, yet
you couldn't miss them from the
numbers on the lawns and about the
beautiful homes of this most beauti-
full city.
Sunday Uncle Franks folks, Uncle
John and | went up Mt. Lowe, this
is a delightful trip to take. The
mountain is 1925 feet high. the first
half of the trip up is made In a car
that climbs an incline of sixty-two
degrees. it seems like it is straight
arp when you are in the car. 1t is
not a cog road but is operated with
a cable, when you reach the top OF
this road you take a trolly car and &C
a long way further up-in the as
cent they go through places so a
row that there seemed hardly room
JH the car. There is a circular
'hridge way up in mid-air, that makes
a complete circle, it is the only on
of the kind in the world. The engi
neering on that road is wonderful
anyone interested in that line of worl
should see it, for it is marvellous tt