The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-07-27
SEEING THE EXPOSITION
And Taking Side Trips Keeping the Yer
monters Busy.
San Francisco, July l2, 1915.

cold, dismal morning. So foggy tina
water ran from the roofs OF building
quite fast. About like late Novembe
morning in Vermont. All the rest o
our party except myself are at the ex
position grounds. / visited the arm.
barracks, was shown through all tn
apartments of both, men and officers
kitchen, dining and sleeping apartments
There Were no soldiers in the building
at the time visited 1t. II seemed to b.
in care OF persons not wearing uniforms
The soldiers, who were all California
militia, were having dress parade to
day on the exposition grounds. They
said they were expecting 500 Illinois
militia at the barracks tomorrow. Every
man wearing United States soldiers Of
navy uniform enters the grounds free
! when he sees fit and they blow in a LOT
OF good money there.
This afternoon | looked over some oi
the devastation caused by the earthquake
and fire, that had not been repaired OF
built up. The streets were in waves
such as we find on some Of the clay Ver-
mont roads in the spring of the year,
There are lots of vacant houses placarded
ITO Rent" Saw one square almost un-
occupied and not a great way from the
| fairgrounds. Fireworks this evening, but
do not care much for them.
Wednesday, the l4th--We visited the
Exposition yesterday, with the exception
of Clarence's wife, who went to visit her
sister in Oakland. Attending the fair
continuously, day after day, is hard
work, much harder than crossing the
country by auto In crossing the con-
tinent, you are continually seeing some
| thing new. So you are at the fair
grounds, but you are going on foot TO
see them, unless you have a small Tor.
tune you want to expend and then you
would see only the outside of the build
ings. They have every kind Of convey
ance imaginable. The most used vehicle
is wheeled chair for holding one or
more persons, and propelled by electric
ity from storage batteries. Anyone who
has never seen one can learn in two
minutes to run it anywhere on the
grounds. The person or persons who hire
the car run it themselves.
Another mode of conveyance Is dou-
BILE settee or settees, on rollers, drawn
by Ford car. One Ford car viii draw
settees containing 100 people all over
the grounds Then there is a miniature
railway train operating on the shore OF
the bay, probably two miles long. A
small engine and about a dozen cars,
and it seemed to be pretty well patron
lied.
The show Is simply immense. To see
il intelligently in all its bearings would
take three months.
Wednesday night, July live
thought we would rest day from visit |
ing the fair, so we boarded clectrics and |
all went to the Golden Gate park, which |
is a park by itself about two miles dis |
tant from the Golden Gate. The park is |
some over half mile wide and extends |
from the ocean east about two and one
half miles toward the neart Of the city. |
Nearly all kinds of trees, plants, shrubs
and flowers known are grown here, eth
er in the open or in greenhouses. We
found bananas and almost all other kinds
of fruit growing in the open. We visit
ed the buRaIoes--probably 100 of them
here-giraffes, all kinds of bears, deer,
moose and even kangaroos and beavers.
All seemed happy and contented in their
captivity. Ponds of water, with all
kinds of fish, even gold fish, by the
thousand. The first building we entered
was a museum of natural history, an
tiques and most everything else. We
)rofitsbly spent about two hours looking
Them over. We were not able to view
,ne- half the sights of the park in one
lay. They say it is regular Coney
sland every day in the year. There was
certainly something doing the day we
we're there.
We boarded the electrics and came
lome about p. m, ate supper as usual
L restaurant, and part OF our crowd
vent 90 the exposition in the evening.
Generally the largest crowd at the ex-
POSITION is in the evening; not much
rowd on the grounds in the forenoon,
Isually.
Advice-Persons coming TO the fair
rom the East or South bring all the
lothes You have with you, for you will
eed them in San Francisco in the month
( July surely. But il Is different here
I Stockton or in the San Joaquin val.
y. Il IL quite warm here to-day, 40
egrees in the shade-the hottest day,
hey say, 30 far this season.
got a letter to-day from Dix, from
movies He said they were just about
. start for Los Angeles. In the letter
e inquired II he did not leave his sweat
i here At Clsrence's. ] wrote him that
e did, but thought be did not need IL
here, as be could sweat enough there !
ithout Il.
After looking over the United States
int and postoflice at san Francisco yes
lfday, We procured berths on a steamer 1
Ia landed here IN stockton az a. m. /,
'-day. Pound lots Of letters from east /,
n friends and copies Of The Times con-
lining three installments Of my letters
them.
t;30 p. m.l-The Liberty bell has '
opped here Al stockton and We are all :
out 70 start for the parade. e
stockton. Ialy IS. 8
When left Of writing yesterday. ] !
ID We were just about 20 start for the
pot 20 view the reception stockton was
give 20 the Liberty bell. The people
Stockton and vicinity turned out en-
asss. ] did not stop 70 count them, Of
4 to-day's paper SAYS there we're 30tyo BE-
opie in ATTENDANCE.
To-day ne visited the new sohoolhouss an
- are building IN thls ward. II j. two =,
aries high bit there are no stalrways a.
thf huiH.nr Al walks from unt =.
~ % angfhsr ere ineliued planes. The ~
iFRruunds orcupy about one acre. and
? third ~ d ID covered 40 the children "
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