Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-10
HAVE TRAVELLED MUCH
MIR. and Mrs. +. ID. Black Visit Her
Parent, Prof. and Mrs. g.
H. Gilmore.

trip to the Bermuda Islands, followe,
by vending their way along the At
lantic coast Visiting Philadelphia
and other cities) and taking in" tn
Mardi Gras at New Orleans. Tn
''Mardi' is an institution peculiarl
itself and very religiously closes it
exhibitions on Shroye Tuesday to re
pent-one might, perhaps, almos
say of its volatile doings-durini
the Lenten season
Mrs. Black is the second daughter
of Professor Gilmore of this city, anC
an interview we had with her at thC
Oregon Hotel disclosed many inter
esting facts and incidents in hel
travels both at home and abroad
With her husband, Mrs. Black made
an European trip, during which she
took in" Gibraltar, Algiers, Egypt
and the Holy Land escaping the ter.
rible volcanic eruption only by few
hours, that laid bare southern Sunny
Italy, few years since. A little
later they visited Rome, Florence
Berlin and Paris, and, crossing the
English Channel, gauged "Old Lon
don" and other British centers of
commerce and historical association,
to the very core.
Mr. and Mrs. Black are both lib
eral supporters of the Young Mems
and Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations in Seattle, and, with the
view of ascertaining how the under
world comports itself both abroad
and at home, did Berlin, Paris,
London and our own New York city
by night in a disguised fashion, to
learn the true inwardness of actual
facts. Travelling is very largely a
matter of "eyes or no eyes," and
Mrs. Blacks eyes and keen observa-
tion are of a sort that have very de-
cidedly led her to conclude that there
is only one New York city, and GER
tainly but few Ashlands of the Ore
gonian type, on this sublunary globe
German nation is great in the pro-
duction of material things and that
there are very few unoccupied
spaces throughout the Fatherland
where Made in Germany" is not
conspicuously displayed to tell the
story that in business point of view
at least we are or want to be strict
ly in it,"
One of the curious incidents that
occurred during the travellers pass
age on the Nile was the manner in
which, by a happy provision of ma
ture, the crocodile is comforted, at
sundown, by number of little birds
on the banks of the river cleaning
out the barnacles $50 to speak, that
have accumulated while in quest of
food during the day. The monsters
most beseechingly expand their ca
pacious jaws and the little birds do
the rest When relieved of their su-
perfluous cargoes the crocodiles
sound the note of alarm and away
fly the little birds thoroughly re-
galed and prepared to make another
visit next day.
Mrs. Black plucked flowers from
the supposed tomb of the Saviour
and trod reverently on the sacred
spots of the Garden of Gethsemane.
She brought water both from the
river Jordan and the Dead Sea to
find resting place in her Seattle
home.
Mr.. Black has been a greater trav-
eler than even his wife, and, in turH
with his three boys, has visited
China, the Philippines, Japan, Homo
lulu, the Panama canal, Cuba and
Mexico, and while in the island of
Jamaica took an auto spin, and on an
oyster road, entirely around the
coast, a distance of 4S0 miles.
Mr.. Clarence A. Black of Detroit,
Mich, and Santa Barbara, Cal, was
a visitor to Ashland on Thursday
and, like his brother (Mr. F. Black
thinks our city to be pronouncedly
sit" as "a home, scenic, well-watered
and health-giving community.
AS a fact in the history of oul
great and glorious republic" it may
be mentioned that Mr.. c. A. Blacl
married the only daughter of Mr.
John c. Winslow, who in the dark
est days of the nations history" fur
nished the entire means to enabl
the clever inventor, Erickson t.
equip and fit out" the Monitor,
that smashed up" the "Merrimac
which for a while menaced ever
northern interest.