The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-06-24
From the Wanderers.


They Write About Former Milbanl
People.
Continued from last weekly
On our way to San Francico,
at Palo Alto station we had the
pleasure of meeting George and
Clarence Wood. The former has
just graduated in four year
course at Stanford, and the
latter has just finished at San
Rafael preparatory school. The
young friends of Ben Hawes will
be interested to know that he
has just finished his junior year
at Stanford in a scientific and
mining course. Miss Nina Van
dervoort has also Just grad uated
from the normal school at San
Jose.
Upon our arrival in San Fran
cisco we were taken in charge
by Mr.. and Mrs, w. S. VanCott,
(ihe latter will be mem bered
oy the earlier residents of Big
Stone as Mrs. G.. F. Welch.l
Through the kindly hospitality
and many courtesies of these
good people We spent a most en-
Joyable week IN this interesting
city, the metropolis of the Pacific
coast, the entire business portion
and great part of the residence
portion of which was destroyed
by tire in the earthquake of 1906.
The Frisco people always speak
of this disaster as "the fire.
rather than the earthquake. As
we came to view the extent of
the district that was laid waste
by this calamity, and the utter
dissolution it must have caused,
TO say naught Of the loss of life,
nothing bu: admiration can be
expressed for people whose
courage and deter mina,ion to
rise superior to their misfor-
tune have resulted in the build
ing up Of greater San Fran
cisco from the ashes and debris
Of the former city. This has
already been done so complete
that 1t is only here aud there
that reminders of the great dis
aster are. still visible ia .he form
Of ruined walls and open spaces.
The magnificent harbor OF San
Francisco bay could afford an.
chorage for the fleets of the
world, and great ocean traffic
passes through the ':golden
gate as the entrance to the
harbor is called-a traffic that
must enormously increase with
the increase of foreign trade
with Asia and the far east. The
people of Frisco are expecting
to have their city recognized by
the government as the place for
holding q worlds fair celebra-
tion at the completion of the
Panama Canal five years hence,
aud the selection would be a
most fitting one in every way.
Our journey homeward was
started at San Francisco, and
frcm there to Portland we were
tlcketed for boat rioe of some
700 miles. When we selected
this route in preference to
journey by rail, we did 1t with
the best of entions, mis-
glvings, as we had some uncanny
on a previous
occasion when we had selected d
water route. However, two of
our party had voted for the
ocean. "the dear old ocean you
know, and in a moment of
weakness we yielded to the voice
te mptresses-we never could
Withstand the wiles of feminine
art, and the pleadings of inno-
cent youth united to the
persuasive voice of matronly
wisdom were too much for US
and we again fell an easy victim
TO female persuasion, as the de-
|lght OF an ocean voyage was
pictured to our untutored mind.
Before embarking kind friends
had made a number of sugges-
lions for our comfort, and to-
ward off sea. sickness. A few
IT these preventatives were that
We should supply ourselves with
omons for sucking purposes,
eat sparingly, drink no soup or
other liquids-keep the stomach
full-eat heartily OF solid food,
drink q little beer, etc. The
prescriptions OF our various
doctors were so divergent that
after some meditation we con-
,luded TO folio Y the line o. least