The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-18
OLD FRIENDS WHO MOVED AWAY
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My dear Mr.. Trego: We beg to ac-
knowledge receipt of your circular
letter received some little time ago,
and as you. in behalf of our friends
and acquaintances of Blackfoot have
been kind enough to inquire regard
ing our general welfare, very much
appreciate this opportunity OF assur-
ing them that we are still very much
alive.
1t will be five years next April
since we left Blackfoot bound for
San Francisco, the primary reason
for the move being my desire to take
up the study OF electrical and insur-
ance engineering.
In due time we arrived at our des-
tination where | at once entered
we'll known engineering school, and
later accepted a position with the
Fire Underwriters Inspection bureau
of the Pacific, which is bureau
maintained jointly by all the fire in
surance companies operating on the
coast, with its main Office in San
Francisco, and branch offices in all
the larger cities throughout the west
ern states as far east as Salt Lake
City, it's primary feature being to
promote better and safer building
construction, and in various other
ways to reduce the general fire haz-
ard from an insurance engineering
standpoint.
My work was very pleasant, and /
also continued my studies at evening
classes until that eventful morning
of April 18th, 1906, when after be-
ing practically shaken from our beds,
we found ourselves on the street, our
home pile of smouldering ruins and
all our worldly belongings contain
ed in two small suit cases. This,
however, did not in the least dis
hearten us, as We had health and
youth on our side, and after five
months of the strenuous times fol-
lowing the big earthquake and fire,
part of which time we lived on the
street and in the parks, and stood
in the bread line with thousands OF
others and received our rations, L.,
still in the employ of the bureau, was
sent to Los Angeles, to fill vacancy
in that office. Here we lived very
pleasantly for eleven months, being
near my people who reside at San
Diego and my sister Bessie (now Mrs.
D. F. Lewis) whose home Is at Holy
wood, short distance from Los
Angeles.
Our stay here. however, was not
destined to be long one, for just
as we were beginning to enjoy life in
this land of sunshine and flowers
was again transferred, this time 10
Seattle, to take charge of the North
west Coast division of the Bureau 3
AFFAIRS, and at which place we have
since remained.
Our travels and experiences since
the scenes of our childhood,
and the place in which we spent so
many pleasant years have been quite
varied, and yet we have thoroughly
enjoyed them all, and we are now
very comfortably settled in our own
home, the enjoyment of which is
made doubly great by the PATTERNS
feet and ceaseless prattle of our little
Frances Louise.
No one living in Seattle any length
Of time could help but be booster
for this wide-awake progressive city.
which in few short years has chang.
ed from a mere village to a city of
three hundred and twenty five thou
sand people; a city which is sur,
prising the world with it's great I'M
dertakings, and which, with its mag
nificent harbor, its pleasant and
healthful climate, and the unsurpass-
ed resources of its surroundings, is
destined to become, within a few
years the metropolis of the Pacific
coast.
Again thanking you for the oppor,
tunity of greeting our many friends
in and about B1ackfoot through the