The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-30

ted States. She has appeared in con.
cert programs all over the world. She
has established a publishing house at
Chicago. where her songs are pub
ushed, ana which return her. q hand
some Income. She is universally be-
loved where she Is known personally,
and4posstbly there is no more inter-
'esttng woman in the musical or artis-
tic world Of the United States. And
with 1t all she has a sweet serenity,
moaesty and gentleness that is. WON
derfully attractive and that mark, her
as a real genius.
On Monday. Fletcher sent word that
we must all go with him through the
mountains to- Pine Hills. where
fc - has built and: managed
a mountain resort. and he brought
his. big. seven passenger car
D the trip. With Jus was q friend
OF Mrs. Bond from Chicago, Miss Elis-
the College OF. Physicians and Sur
geons at Chicago. and she asked me
after my old friend, DR.. +, Il. smyth,
whom she used TO know when he was
taking o postgraduate. course there q
number of years. ago. And on the
trip was unfolded the most Interesting
panorama OF mountain scenery It was
ever my good fortune to look upon.
Through the valley we drove. then into
the foothills Of the. mountains. and
along wonderful roads, graded and
hewn. out OF the rock of the. mountain
side. at a cost something's Of two thou
sand dollars = mile. J. Beside deep cam
yons We drove and alongside mountain
sides covered with Wild lilac, that
when It Is In bloom makes the noun.
tathsfdes seem as IT, wreathed in the
OF campfires. Now we passed
mountains OF almost solid granite,
with Jagged boulders Of immense size
tossed here and there in monumental
confusion Here and there was pass
ed valleys with wonderful live oak
trees, mammoth in size and spread
OF leaf and limb, that are. p%srennially
green and beautiful. Here and there
We're streams fringed with crooked
n beautiful old sycamore trees. In
the higher attitudes we passed apple
and prune orchards, where is pro-
duced q splendid quality Of fruit. For
sixty miles we drove through this ,un.
ending vista Of mountain side, valley,
stream and forest, and when nightfall
came We were sixty miles from San
Diego, fifty miles from q railroad, i've
thousand feet above sea level, with
q crisp and glorious air that needs be
breathed to be appreciated, and en-
tering the pine forests at the end Of
our journey.
Far off we could see the lights of
the Pine Hills Inn, and In the. dark
ness of the night they shone with
the brilliancy of nearby stars. And
how wonderfully bright the stars are
in this southern sky. They stand out
as though they were carved in relief
upon III blue black Of the sky. Ten
miles We drove through the inky
blackness of the night, and finally we
emerged from q great mountain valley,
by a winding road up the mountain
! to the very top where was Pine
Hills Inn.
The air vas cool with a suggestion
which is built Of Oregon fr iogs.
somewhat after the manner OF III
Tovar at the Grand Canyon, q great
log fire blazed in ain, open fire place.
big enough to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
made Of rough boqlders from the
mountain side. Around this we gath
cred twenty-five Or thirty delightful
guests, waiting tor supper to be serv-
ed. And such 9 supper-ham. chick
NHs AOsAAsty NO0hCu.tf I'LL IIS8Hl. 80 NINA
beans. hot biscuits, pickles, deliciously
Drowned potatoes, manzanita jeily.
something after the taste and favor
Of our burberry and q dozen and one
things that keep appetites gave an UNI
usual relish. Outside q gentle wind
stirred the pine trees into that music
that the forester loves SO we'll. In
two immense pine trees, houses were
erected. twenty-five feet above the
ground. One OF them is secured upon
an immense limb and another swuns
from a steel; cable. So If you desire.
you may sleep. in tho tree top like a
bird. and swing gently back and forth
with the breeze. ~,
After dinner we talked q, little, and
told a few stories and read a little
from Foley's Boys and Girls and 9th.
err books, and had an unusually de-
ltghtful evenins-for me-up there on
the top of the mountain. Although
we had never seen any of the guests
before. we were all like one great fam
lily in five minutes, and there was a
forgetting that there was any world
at all of of this mountain top, and
fifty miles away from q railroad.
lii the morning, we started for War
|ner's Hot Springs. another institution
managed by Fletcher, and when there
had g bath in sulphur water, OF de-
tlctous softness and refreshing quality;
This country much resembles the
country around Hunters Hot SPRINGS
in Montana. And after the bath.
Fletcher and I rode over. to q dam.
part of a water project to dam up the
mountain waters Of the San Luis Rev
river, create q lake covering four
thousand acres. and send hundreds Of
millions of gallons of water through
tunnels. fumes and bitches. to San
Diego. The cost of the. project Will
be several, millions. One tunnel being
cut through a granite mountain is
eight hundred feet long and another
400 feet-nearly a mile. But water
Is what they are after, and expense
is nothing. And part of the project IL
to drop the@water some eight hundred
feet. and create electrical power that
will. light San Diego and7all the,towns
in the valley.
We had lunch by the roadside. whom
our party reunited, built q campfire
and cheated, coffee. and shortly after
noon we were on again, on the way
back o1s6AJr Diego. For. we had 4
dinner engagement that night. ana q
theater party to- tee ;6othsrn aud Mar.
lowe. But the fates were against us..
For hardly had we gotten started-
when we had. q blowout. That wss
repaired and ;tnfthalfs In hoursw0 had
another. And then we had another.