Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-14
Mary Louise West Writes
Interestingly Of Her Trip
to the Exposition
Dear Juniors:

am going to tell you Of my summer
trim We started Tuesday. the lhn =.
Nav. We started from Abba. we "eiis
through Iowa, Nebraska ana part u
Colorado and from there on we sa"
the beautiful scenery. We saw Wohoel-
FL colored rocks, snow capped noun
tains, mountains with their UPS coT Maa
ed with clouds. We saw rock calleo
"Elephant Rock" It was washed away
40 that it was formed as an elephant
Also we saw the mountain OF the
"rJo,v Cross. 1t was cross on h1gn
mountain filled with snow. we saw
yellow silk growing. One beautl1ui
thing was the Royal Gorge. It Is two
extraordinary high walls with rive,
running between them and tho railroad
track. There Is an occasional path run
ming along by the water. There IS a
big desert about two or three nunoreu
miles long. We saw all OF this KIND OF
scenery. In Salt Lake City we saw the
Tabernacle which IL 4 large church. It
is put together with pegs. 1t mas no
nails in it at all. We saw the Mormon
Temple. We could not see 1t inside pc
cause It was no. open to the pubic.
FROM there on we went to Los Angeles
where my Aunt Lena lives. She has
little girl four years old. We had a fine
time there. We went to the most beau
toful parks. There were small lakes
ana flower gardens. Echo Park has
two hundred and eighty acres IN II.
We went to see these beaches. Venus
and Long Beach. We did have hne
time. I got the most pretty shells. we
always had a ten mile street car ride
and we were in the city limits too, and
there were such pretty little homes:
Some were brown, green. red and all
sorts of colors. They had climbing
vines, roses. palm trees, popples' ger
aniuns and bushes Of flowers that
look like snowballs. They are pink.
can not think of their names. We stay
ed at Aunt Lena's five weeks. Then we
went to the Panama exposition We had
200 miles to CO. We started Saturday
night at o'clock and got In San
Francisco at / o'clock next day. we
rot our dinners. My aunt and uncle
went in search Of rooms. We got them
and the next day went to the expos1-
ton. We saw beautiful sight. 1t was
''The Tower Of Jewels" 1t shone like
diamonds. At night it was the prett1est
for the search lights were thrown on
It, It was all red and the Jewels We're
wonderful. We saw the Palace or F1ne
Arts! It was beautiful too. 1t had a
large dome which had an orange color
ed top. There was beautiful statuary
standing out around 1t. Inside of II
were wonderful paintings and statuary
There are buildings on exhibition fol
machinery, agriculture, transportation
food products Others were Hawiian
Y. w. C. A. There were the Swedish
French and italian buildings which
were very pretty. It had wonderful
carved furniture. paintings, tapestry
and statuary. We saw the Chinese
building. 1t was queer. 1t has points
sticking out all around the roof There
wasn't much Of anything there excep,
carved furniture and Chinese orna'
ments to sellI bought some and they
are very pretty We saw Aviator Smith
fly. He was fine He would dip in the
air right over the bay. We heard the
greatest cornet player in the Worlc
play There was little train that wen
all around the exposition grounds. We
saw wonderful fire works. There were
search lights all colored to represent
the northern lights. We saw large APP
pies. fruit, flowers and wheat. We saw
lovely corn from Iowa and wheat. too
We saw pretty gardens Of yellow ant
purple pansies. The zone was place
Of amusement. We were there Two
months Our trip home was the same
as going out.
Mary Louise West, age IL,
925 w. Fourth ST., OttumWa, IL.