The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-03-06
Letter From Judge John T.
Adams

To the Editor
OF the Julesburg Grit Advocate.
My Dear Mr.. Dobell:-
If you will allow me space in
your good paper for writing short
letter to my friends and acquaintance
in Ju!esburg, in regard to my trip
across the great Ocean to Hamburg
Germany l would be glad to take this
opportunity of writing same.
left New York January 23rd, 8
O'Clock A. NJ, after three weeks
stay in the great City of New
York While in the City l visited a
great many of the important places.
Madison Square Garden where Harry
Thaw killed White. Grants Tomb On
the beautiful Hudson. and think they
could not have found more suitable
place if they had hunted the world
over. Grant and his wife lie side by
side in the tomb. 1t is finished with
most beautiful marble on the inside;
there are memorials from every State
setting forth his praise. The flage
his army captured, his uniform, his
sword and many other trophies of the
war are to be seen. saw the VOL
worth Building; the tallest building in
the world; $50 feet. or 55 stories high,
and was built from 5 and 10 cent
sales.
was also in the Museum of Arts
and saw some wonderful scenes. One
German Scene that Morgan is said to
have paid $50, ,OOO.0O for; also many
scenes of Christ, from his birth to his
Qualification: there was about 600 of
them, all most beautiful scenes. To
tell you all saw in the Museum would
take many pages.
= Nfr. Mifliken and / attended service
at Trinity Church. 1t was very beau
tiful and interesting, but all formal to
me. was also in St. Paul Church,
where Washington worshipped, and
sat in his pew for few minutes, and
thought if he could only see what
since his time: what great and nigh
ty Nation had grown from the thirteen
States, for which he had helped to
gain their Freedom and lnaepen-
dence.
New York is a wonderful City, Brook
lyn and New York have six million in
habitants: Brooklyn two million and
New York four million. 10000 people
cross the Brooklyn bridge every day
and there are three subways, whe! e
the cars go under the River. In ore
of the subways under Broadway. l
counted fifty stores. This may not be
news to some of you, but it was Won
derful. The building srom above, eX-
tend below the subway.
Thursday morning. my daughter, her
husband and Eizcbeth went with me
t, the Steamer, The Kaiser Augusta
Victoria, over in Hobohen, where |
took passage for Hamburg. At nine
clock sharp the ship let go her an
chors and moved magestcally out
through Long Island Sound to the
great Ocean. While we were leaving
the Dock the band played God be
with you till we meet again and sew
-eral other nice pieces. We had most
delightful trip, water was calm and
quiet almost all the way. | would
watch the great waters for hours at
time, and it would remind me so much
of our wide stretches Of tableland We
were four days out before we saw q
a schooner, and it drew much atten'
ton. u bonght pair of fine glasses
in New York and they were in great
demand from that on. =.
F, Cherbourg was our first landing ano
that was in France. There was quite
a bunch of passengers iisembarket
there, bound for Paris, France. | re-
.ceivedS letter there from Mr. Stelov
saying that they would meet me II
Cux Haven. Our next landing was a
South Hampton, England. There re
ceived another express letter. saying
for me to send telegram if | wa
well (for they expected me to be sea
sick). sent the telegram and the.
met me at Cux Haven, S5 miles from
Hamburg, where we took train TO
Hamburg.
The Inspectors cane onto the Stea
mer at South Hampton; all our bagg
age was brought onto deck and inspect
ed. They got me for one box of Cand.
and one box of cigars. Ignorance o
the rules caused the trouble. l wa
like George Washington, couldn'