The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-10-15
FROM CALIFORNIA.

My Dear Lawrence County Friends;
/ was requested 10 write "A letter To
our Dear Big Sandy News" by my
Louisa friends, so each and every one
could hear from me, and ! was TO give
brief story Of my trip, which was an
adventure to me, and probably would
have been To quite a few OF my friends.
on September II, 1915, my sister
Margaret Mr.. Bowling and myself
went to Cincinnati. Had nice time
and saw lots Of new things, We spent
a joyful two weeks visit with our rel
atives and friends at that place. Among
the many interesting places visited at
| Cincinnati | viii mention only one,
that being Of special interest to me I
refer To Eden Park We. the Jones
| family. prize this park very much.
for our dear grandfather built the
"Elsenore Tower" which is the en-
| trance " the park and the famous
| Water Tower. In this park beautiful
green houses are located and at the
lower edge You can look upon our
| Kentucky Hills, which seem. Ike
| Home, sweet home ..
on September 25th we boarded the
train for our future home in California.
| At s p. IN. we arrived at Chicago, H.,
the largest city we have seen. We had
a hours stop here and saw the beau
tiful Lake Michigan large hotels and
hne homes. Also other things too
numerous to mention. At II, p. m we
went to our train aud took our births
so as to get good nights sleep.
We passed through Omaha, and then
| Lincoln. Neb., the home OF william
Jennings Bryan Monday morning we
arrived at Denver, Colorado, and had
three hours stop, Here We breathed
| the purest air that we ever ha saith
| ed and this came off the snow Of the
Rockies, We toured tn city of Denver
and saw many interesting features !
learned that it contained 100000 peo-
pie, most Of whom were tourists and
that it was called the queen CITY Of
the plains. This is a famous convention
and tourist center, They say they can
| boast Of clear bracIng air and 800
days of sunshine a year They had
miles of wide, clean asphalt streets,
and there were no wooden structures
in this city. One point of interest was
the Capital building from which 200
miles of snowy range could be viewed
Others were the Courthouse one Of
our United States minis, the smeters,
public library city park and Denver
| University,
The next place our attention was
| called to was Castle Rock" 81 miles
from Denver and one OF Colorado's
land marks in the days Of old wagon
| trains across the parties before the
| time OF steam roads. This had been
washing away for centuries and was
| left in the form Of Castle, from
which the town Of Castle Rock gets its
| name Ahead Of this rock is IA grand
view of Pixies Peak for 81 miles Palm
er lake Is SO miles south of Denver and
was formerly called a divide. very
significant and appropriate title, AS on
the crest of this summit the waters di-
vide, flowing northward into the Platte,
| which empties into the Missouri and
Southwark into the Arkansas, as II
winds it's way into the Mississippi.
| This lake was named in honor OF Cen
eral Palmer the protector and builder
] of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail
i road, recognized as the most beautiful
scenic line in the world Another i'm
portant feature just few miles ahead
is the Elephant Rock" the most re-
markable freak Of nature in the Rock
les Natures mysterious forces have
| fashioned out of a rock a gigantic like
ness of an elephant, which Is SO true
to life as to be actually startling In
realism and one might imagine its
| having been transplanted from midas
| mngles. Now we have come to Col
orado Springs, and we took a drink OF