The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-08
CROSS CONTINENT
 TRIP WELL TOLD
 BY LOCAL WOMAN
Entertaining Diary of Pic tureSque East and Wild West In Detail by Mrs. c. w. Flagg Who Accompanied Her Nieces to Los Angeles.

recently accompanied her grand l nieces, the Misses Bernice and Adehne l Angeles, where they will reside for a
 time with their mother, writes enter I taininEIy of the trip to the Bridgeport I Evening Farmer, as follows:
 Ed. Note.-It will be noticed that
 the letter is descriptive, having been written in sections at odd times dur ing the journey. as various scenes
 from the car window impressed them selves upon the vision of the writer. Dashes show these breaks.
 road. Sept. 2e-1
 ssWelI here I am on my way to California Left Jersey City two hours ago, about IA o'clock. The scenery is commencing to be very pretty We have just finished a. nnes dinner in the dining-car, and have just crossed the Delaware river-We are getting into Pennsylvania now, passing by the Lehigh River.-aoon
 we will be at Mauch Chunk where they say the scenery is very beauti- full
 lLater.) We are now passing the Switzerland of America-Have just turned a curve the shape of a shorse- shoe It is certainly, beautiful through here e I can easily imagine
 myseIf in Switzerland.-We have Just passed the mining districts which was very interesting but I wouldn't live in any of the places. They look so bar ren and desolate. The houses all look alike and dingy. shall have lots to tell the children when get hack about the coal breakers and the {Taines-Ita getting on towards six o'clock and shall have to close now.
 Sept. 2T---sfH Have been travelling ev- CT since 1850 a. m, on the Grand Trunk Railroad. Can't say as there, was anything remarkable about 1t. Have just arrived in Chicago shall he obliged to wadt hours-that will
 make 1t 10 o'clock before we leave for Los Angeles.
 Hast night was the drst time ev-, er slept on sleeper and it was some experience I can tell you had the ] the lower berth and every time the, train stopped awoke and looked out
 of the window to see where we were.
 We could not see Niagara Falls be-
 cause 1t was too dark. Can't say that like the sleeper.
 Left Chicago last night at 10. We all were very tired by the time the train was made up. We didn't any I of us sleep very good the night be-. when we got on the Santa F'e train
 we went right to bed as the sIeepers were ready for us. We allsslept very good and when we awoke were miles
 away from Chicagp-raised my cur
 tain and looked out on q beautiful sunrise coming up over big prai- rfe. never saw such a beautiful one before Tho horses grazing in the 1 fields made silhouettes against the
 sky and then as we rode along saw
 lots of pigs and sheep, black. red and
 white, and lots of corraIs where they I keep horses
 We are still in Kansas-Ab bout
 midnight we cross the state of Color It. There will be lots we shall miss I as we go through at night--Just pass
 ed a big herd of cattle.
 I Sept 29.-Since we left Trinidad, about o'clock this morning. have been passing through what they call travelling through miles and miles of nothing but hills and plains which fconsist of green pine shrubs and yell low sand. Once in a great while you see settlements of mud houses occu- pied by MeMcans. They look more like Indians to me. How any one, can live in such places can't see. It seems so strange to be so many miles from civilization for such a. long time. Everybody is threading tomorrow. We will be in the desert all day and part of the night I tell you am beginning to think this is some ride. guess shall be glad when I arrive at Los Angeles One more sta ton after this will be Santa Fe---to- night. They stop 25 minutes for sup per.-We are now about the middle 1 Of New MeHco-tI1e sun Is getting pretty hot
 am NwoRdering what 1t will be to- morrow when we go through the des- ert when the car is full of white dust. Sometimes I feel funny when think how far I am from home and have got to go all over it again to get back to old Bridgspo ort, but enjoy every
 minute looking at new things.
 Tonight they stop 1AIbuquerque that's where the Indians come on.
 I am getting used to the sleepers and sleep very good in them, but will be glad to get into a big bed again.
 We have just passed by the Indian 1 reservation called "Elata''-about 100 Indians of all sizes came up to the train dressed in gay colors, Some of the young men were fine looking as they laughed and showed their white teeth. Some of them young Indians beg for cigars. We all waved our handkerchiefs and they laughed and waved our handkerchiefs and they 1 laughed and waved back. Isdont know the name of the tribe but will find out.-A man has just passed through the car said they were the San Do i mingo tribe. Their reservation is a, funny looking place, little low houses made of mud, looks as if they might be very dirty-They said the tribe had been off hunting rabbits.
 Sept. 3o.-Wen have been through some grand scenery to-day. When I awoke this morning I found myself in Arizona, and for miles and
 miles we have been riding through ranges of mountains on both sides of the train, covered with pine trees. Sometimes they look blue, sometimes green and again yellow. It seems funny to ride 50 miles at stretch without seeing living thing of any kind.
 At times we would stop at signal stations and every hours at Har- yey's dining rooms which are beauti- sfu1.
 have taken pictures of different places we have been through.-It is