Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
Writes Impressions Of Eastern Cities.

three thousand miles or more from
home thought l would write a few
lines to my home paper, as this is
my first trip outside of Oregon, Cali
fornia and Washington. | have seen
many cities of interest to me.
l bought my ticket October at
Medford, Ore. to New York with
stopover anywhere going or coming.
After leaving Portland my first stop
was Salt Lake City, where l took a
sightseeing car and saw the beauti-
full city. l went inside of the world
famous tabernacle. The simplicity of
the building first impressed me, but
as l surveyed the long rows of seats
and the tremendous vaulted ceiling
and learned of the scenes on the
walls, the vastness of the place grew
upon me and inspired mingled feel
ings of solemnity, awe and admira-
tion. The tabernacle is shaped like
our Chautauqua building in Ashland
and is a remarkable piece of engi-
neering. The arches of lathe-truss
construction are put together with
wooden pins, there being no nails or
iron of any kind used in the frame
work, the building being erected be-
fore any railroad reached Utah. The
tabernacle was planned and erected
by Brigham Young at cost of $3,-
100000. He certainly was a genius.
The large pipe organ aside from the
building cost $25O,OOO, which is
played every day from 12 until l
o'clock for the benefit of visitors and
is blown by .10-horsepower electric
motor. The tabernacle seats 5000
people and we could hear pin drop
at distance of 200 feet away. The
great temple took 40 years to build,
at cost of S4,OO0,0OO, and visitors
are never admitted, the guide saying
it was to them what Solomon's tenn
pie was to the sincere Jews, a holy
place devoted to sacred ordinance.
He said, 1--WE perform here mar
riages and baptismal ceremonies and
sacred rites, some of which are for
the dead"
From Salt Lake City l went to
Denver and took sightseeing car
and saw the beautiful city. Every
house inside of the city limits is built
of Colorado stone or brick and GER
tainly shows it's immense wealth, and
the air seemed so pure and light, and
the cleanest city l have seen on my
trip.
From Denver my next stop was
Buffalo and Niagara Falls, which is
beautiful sight to see, but when
we get a trolley car line around the
rim of Crater Lake and the Anna
Creek canyon (Which | have visited
twice. the scene will far exceed that
at Niagara Falls.
My next stop was at New York
city. Just before going into the city
the train goes into a tunnel under
the city and comes out in the new
Grand Central depot in the center of
the city, and when I arrived there
it seemed to me l had reached the
Holy City.
l got into a taxi and went to the
Martha Washington Hotel, which is
only for ladies and is run by ladies'
and is certainly a fine place for a
woman who is travelling alone. 1t is
a twelve-story building. l thought
when l arrived in New York city ]
would have a pretty difficult time to
get around alone, not knowing a per.
son there in city of over 100000
people, but to my surprise | found
the streets all running north and
south and the avenues east and west
and is the easiest city | have ever
been in to get around in. took in
a sightseeing car and saw the homes
of nearly all the millionaires of New
York-John D. Rockefeller, the AS.
tors, the Vanderbilts, Morgans anG
many others. Saw General Grant.
monuments; two hotels, one that ha.
$500 rooms and every room alike
and one has 1000 and no two rooms
alike. l also took in some of the
large stores and went to the Wool
worth building, which is the TALES
building in the world and looks to bt
about a quarter of mile high, anC
is not yet completed inside and is 81
stories high. l made a special tril
to see Wall street that we read 81
much about, and to my surprise
found it to be little short, crooked
narrow street, but almost every build
ing was bank. But | suppose it il
the largest financial street in tn,
world. On Sunday 1 took my frs
ride on the subway car. Rode 70
miles under ground, came out at tn
Brooklyn bridge, went over to Cone,
Island, took in all the amusemen
PAGES l could, took ride on tn
merry-go-round and took boat bacl
to the city. which was my first rid