The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-09-11
MY EXPOSITION TRIP.
Extracts from letter to home folks.)

We arrived here safely Sunday night
at 10 o'clock, after six days of travel
on the "choo choo." Found ST. Fran
cisville about the same, only we are
going to have a new bank "a perfectly
safe" one, they say, and also a new
jitney Several people have bought
cars. Every one seemed so glad to see
us, and of course that made us feel
good It's still pretty warm here but
as the nights are cool we can stand it
better We are glad though, that
school does not begin until October,
for we are pretty well worn out from
our trip, and, too, the weather will be
more pleasant.
Oh, we had such a lovely trip 1t
would take year to tell all saw and
then could never find "fne" enough
words to express it so you could half
way see it as we saw it.
We left Denver on Thursday morn
ing after going to Lakeside, most Of
the parks and by the museum, and had
to go back through Colorado Springs.
Our train only stopped there few
minutes. We went over territory We
had gone over before until we reached
Pueblo. There we branched out into
the good old Rockies again. All around
us were snow-capped mountains. They
looked so good, for it was rather warm
on the train. After travelling about so
miles winding and winding in and out
and around mountains we experienced
our first mountain storm rain and
hail. But, fortunately, it all cleared
away just before we reached the little
mountain town where they put on an
open-top observation car so we could
see the Royal Gorge at a better adyan-
tage. This was too wonderful to de-
scribe You just have to say it's
81 anu anu lSI II otOp dI IudI' HOI
about 80 miles we went through this
deep, deep cut in the mountains-as
high up as you could see there were
these jagged rocks. 1t looked like they
extended to the skies and we we're only
tiny dots at the bottom. Some said
afterwards you could see the stars, but
/ was too excited forgot to say that
the Arkansas river, now grown very,
very narrow, was struggling along by
our lefthand side. There was just
room for the river and the railroad
track between these great walls of
rock. They say an automobile road
ran along the sides and tops of some
of the mountains, but I'd think it would
be awfully dangerous. STILL we were
in great danger, for they said some of
those large, jagged rocks were liable
to fall on us at any time. This was all
in Colorado Also GlenWood Springs
and Tennessee Passive very inter
esting places. Glenwood Springs is a
fayorite Colorado summer resort. All
here we had three large en-
gines-then lost about two hours time.
Then we got into the great desert
which stretched from somewhere about
Tennessee Pass in Colorado to the fer
tile Utah valley in Utah. Even the
desert was wonderful to mel suppose
because l had never seen one before.
Three hundred miles of nothing but
sand, sand, with a few ,lonely-looking
little houses now and then; no animal
life except a few jack rabbits now and
then darling from one clump of sage
brush to another and a few wild horses.
Just think what little water could do
for that vast waste of country. When
you get to see little green here and
there, oh how good it looks
When we entered the Utah and Salt
Lake Valleys it looked like Paradise
to us. Here the view was very pretty,
as the railroad made several horseshoe
loops to avoid the steep grades, They
raise most everything in these valleys.
It's great dairy country. We remain
ed one day and night in Salt Lake City.
and we would have enjoyed it more if
it hadn't been so hot. They had winds
right off the salt beds, but the drinking
water was good and cold as it was from
the mountains. While here we heard
the Pipe Organ Recital which was
given at noon. 1t was the prettiest
music | believe | ever heard. At one
time this was the largest organ in the
world, but ! believe it's third in size
now. The tabernacle in which it is, is
a wonderful thing. 1t is so constructed
that the acoustics is out of the ordi-
narA It's very large and one can
stand at the altar and rub his hands
together drop pin or whisper and it
can be plainly heard in the back. So
during this recital not a whisper was
heard and about 10000 tourists were
there. When theForganist played Sc,
vance River it sounded as if there
were a choir of about 900 back in the