Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-12-26
Pattons Are Resting at Winslow
Arizona, on Trans Continental Trip

4 one that for our comfort ana all
free gratis. So II has been In every
town since we left there. In some
towns the business men provide reg
ular camp houses for tourists. even
furnishing fuel to heat the house.
i It Is really to the business mems
i interest for who is going to let such
q place 60 by and camp on the plains.
Albuquerque is interesting in many
respects. Here are business men
with stiff silk hats rubbing elbows
with cowboys in leather boots and
red neckties and Indians dressed in
feathers and blankets and the Mex
lean with his large hat. together
with a fair sprinkle Of Japs. Jews
and other foreigners. One walking
along the street hardly knows wheth-
err he Is in America or not. ] believe
could spend week sitting on the
street and listening to the different
"gab" OF the different people. This
is one town where 1t is best to throw
your prejudices to the wind and eat
| with foreigners. With the American
we paid 80 cents for sausage, pos
tatoes, bread, butter and coffee. For
rs cents we ate with an Indian and
got beef steak, chicken on toast,
potatoes, bitcuit, bread, buns, sauce,
beans, carrots and butter. There Is
a Chinese restaurant that they said
beat this but we didn't visit him.
There seemed to be SO many new
houses going up in Albuquerque al
together 1t Is a lively place Tne
Harvey house, the Hotel Alvarado
"a one of the most striking hotels
have ever seen. 1t is made of peb-
BILE dash with small paned windows,
tiled roof and large verandas. we
intend to go to Ell Paso from Al
buouerque. We sent a telegram to
a party who used to live there bus
received no word at Albuquerque so
we ran south as far as Carthage
we're we had received no word as yet
and our California friends who we
got in with before we reached Al
buquerque begged that we go on
with them. AS 1t made 1t a great
deal more pleasant to have the two
cars together we didn't raise much
objection. Carthage is a mining town
and like most mining towns they
have a decided dislike for automo-
bilists. They use the street as
dump pile, throwing their tin cans,
nails, tack, ETC., into 1t. Here was
our first tire trouble. We ran into
an eight penny nail and punctured
out tire. We put in a new tube
and that is all the tire trouble we
have had as yet.
That was the first day that sand
ever bothered us. We had one hill
to climb that we had to try two or
three times before we got up. II It
had not been for a sharp turn about
half way up the hill we would have
made it all right but we had to shut
off speed to make the turn and kill
our engine. We tried again and kill
ed It again. Then we tried once
more and made 1t all right.
We crossed the Rio Grande river
on the railroad bridge at San An
tonic. After we passed Socorro we
got onto another government road
until we reached Magdalena. On
most all the roads there is some
work done. The states of New Mex
leo and Arizona have bonded the
states to make this ocean to ocean
highway one of the highways across
the continent. Thev expect to have
It completed by 1918, When you
strike government road you have
a straight road. One road we travel
ed over we saw 1t over a mountain
twenty miles away. The gap didn't
look like you could sliu your hand
down between the hills, but when
we got there there was room enough
to get through but when we were
in the cut we felt mostly small.
will leave you in Magdelena now and
It is showing SO we might as well
go to sleep and see what tomorrow
is like.-Mrs. Leonard Patton Win
slow, Ariz.