Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-17
POMONA SECRETARY'S TRAVEL TALK
Miss Alice A. Bishop Described Her Trip Exposition
H. O. Daniels, Middletown Expert Told Changers How
to Make Success of Daiyng Committee Appoint
ments By County Changers.

| by the Santa T'e Railway company "a
the head of Bright Angel Trail, $3.50
feet above sea level in this desert
region where no water is to be found
for 125 miles. Imagine running an
immense hotel, powerhouse, laundry
etc. and caring for $50 horses and
mules which are used for the trip down
the trail, with no water nearer to US
than New York
But it can be done. for here at the
canyon water is brought by rail from
Del Rio Spe, 125 miles south. 1t is true
the Colorado river, ESQ feet wide, is
foot of mile deep canyon and no
equipment has yet been devised for
pumping water from this depth.
But l must leave the Grand Canyon
and take you on to California When
say California l think Riverside. II
any Of you have been to Riverside and
the Mission Inn you will know why.
1t was here we first saw orange groves,
palms, magnolias pepper trees, lemon
i and acacias, which threw our party
into ecstasies. We took our first auto
ride up a mountain here at Riverside.
| Out of the 80 autos which met the
train to take us for the ride, hap
pened to get into a Ford and you'd
! hardly believe it, but that little old
Ford rambled right along up the side
| of Mt. RubidouX on high gear. l don't
know which feeling predominated in
me, admiration of the beautiful piano.
hundreds of feet below, acres of glossy
green orange trees being the most
picturesque part of it, or the fear that
our little car would not keep the track
as it whirled around and around the
mountain on a narrow road with moth
ing to prevent our topping over the
Il side of the mountain. Here in River
side is the famous Glenwood Mission
Sun. If you have studied the history
of California you will remember that
| Franciscan
monks. These monks came up from
Mexico 100 years ago to plant mis-
sions and convert the Indians. Ebert
Hubbard says: There was a line of
these missions skirting the coast from
San Diego to San Francisco, just a
days journey apart These missions
were a refuge and a home for the
worn traveler-he could stay as long
as he wished and pay what he could
afford, and when he went away he
took with him the blessing of these
men of God, and if they served man
kind and made the world better, were
they not truly men of God? This no.
tel is built and furnished after the
general style of the mission. Its mis-
sion is to serve mankind and benefit
humanity, and surely if one of those
good old monks could drop in here he
would think he was in Paradise. 1t
was planned and built by Frank A.
Miller and has always been managed
by him. 1 think this is one of the
famous hotels of the world, for it is
certainly the most unique. 1t is an
immense modern hotel, yet it is called
the Inn of the Bells" for it has a
collection of 300 bells-it has n muse
um chapel ana art gallery, and every
where is the peace and quiet of
monastery-yet it is in the heart of a
busy city. 1t is said while the mama
ger was in Europe once getting curios
for his museum, he asked someone
for ideas for his hotel. This man, not
knowing who he was. told him if he
wanted to get any novel or excellent
ideas for a hotel he ought to go to the
Mission Inn, Riverside, for there was
the most wonderful hotel he knew of.
As much as I'd like to stay with you
| in Riverside, we must continue our
travels along the coast. When We
reach San Diego, in the extreme south
ern part of the state we will stop to
attend the fair there. How does it
happen" you inquire, that California
had two Panama expoSitions in one
year," When the question is answer
ed it becomes plain that this is the
most natural thing in the world, for
California never does anything by
halves. These two expositions were
both national eXpositions, but the
San Francisco was official, and hence
received a much larger appropriation
from the federal government, and of
course had to adhere to the formula
which governs international eXposi-
tons brought into existence by the
| United States congress. San Fran
cisco celebrated the opening of the
Panama canal, thinking of what it
| would mean to the country and the
world, but San Diego celebrated the
opening thinking of Southern Califor-
mia and San Diego, in other words, she
did it to boom her end of the state. In
some waN s 1 preferred it to the other
J larger exposition. The grounds and
! the vegetation were not only wonder
fully beautiful but it was surprising
how they could have been made so in
so short a time. But they told us
some Of the trees had been trans
planted and when we learn that there
are 365 days in the year of perfect
growing weather we don't wonder any
more. One exhibit was five acre or
ange grove SO cultivated that one
| portion was in bud. another in bloom
and others in every stage of bearing
! fruit at the same time. Another in
teresting fact in regard to climate
the sun shines on an average of $50
days year. 1t sounds ideal, doesn't
itP but l tell you although I haven't
> tried it for $50 days, I have tried the
land of perpetual sunshine enough to
know it isn't ideaI-it's monotonous.
Someone spoke of not seeing any
MAN answered: "Oh, people don't die
out here" No replied the Yankee.
they dry up and blow away In the
exhibits at this fair, everything and
everybody was in motion. not a single
shelf Of canned or bottled goods was
to be seen anywhere. We hardly knew
how to spend the part of a day we
had, for 1T was so interesting to watch
the Navajo squaw weaving a blanket
or the man from Ecuddo making a
Panama hat, or stay a while in the
Ceylon tea garden to see the growing
tea plants and their culture. We lin
gered while to hear the concert on
the pipe organ out of doors and to
I Wa he nnIr 1F - liz
eons-so 1t seemed--as they f1uttered
over the visitors, eating from their
hands, resting on their shoulders and
heads as gentle and tame as If they
were someone's pets, and so they were
the pets of all the visitors.
But our train is ready to take us on
to Los Angeles. A stay in this city
means a visit to Santa. Catalina Is
land and its wonderful marine gar
dens. Here we scramble for seats IN
the glass bottomed boats. say scram-
bled and that expresses our move
ments most of the time in our trans