Connecticut western news., 1915-02-18
CROSSING THE COUNTRY
Observations by Miles L. Blodgett, of
 Falls Village.
(COntinued. ,

Iowa railroad conductor ana HIS IanlIy. His name is Cline. They are making the trip to California, up the Pacific Coast and back home by a northern route His road, the Santa Fe, issues such pass yearly. Our company has been added to for MT. Clines' son, who is a civil engineer for the Santa Fe, has joined us and as he knows the town we-are in good company. He tells us we had better see the moving pictures and take in the dance at the hall which is to come off later, and as far as l know no one in the company is going to say no to anything of this kind, cer- tainly not the writer.
 It will be time for the moving pie ture show as soon as we can go to the hotel and scrub up, and we are very anxious to miss nothing for we are all out for fun and Williams seems to be the place to have it.
 I am sorry to have to leave so soon. We have been to the moving picture show and are on our way to the dance hall, but as we have little time before the train leaves for the Canyon our time at the dance will be very limited.
 There are lively lot of young peo- pie here at the hall and have made the rounds and met people from every state except Connecticut. The music is good and from the young women here know there is going to be good time. | have just had a'dance with young lady who tells me she is from Michigan. like Michigan more now than ever before. The last waltz for me is over and we find ourselves in the car started for the Grand Canyon. One takes the sleeper at Williams and can sleep in the car until eight o'clock the next morning if they desire, as that is the time for the train to start back to Williams.
 We are going to get up at four o'clock, or as early as we can see, go and have a look at the Canyon, and get back to the train ill order to catch the Il o'clock train going west from Williams. So you see we expect to see lot for little money and not lose any time at it. FrOpl Williams 10 the Grand Can yon is seventy miles and the car fare is five cents per mile, but the train ser vice is good. We had intended to get up at four o'clock, but it is an hour later, we are out of the car on the ground and started towards the Can von, which is but little way from where the car stops. The elevation here is high, the air rarified and one feels fit for most anything. The mountains around us are covered with immense big pine trees, but I guess it will be some time before they are cut for they are protected being so near the Canyon. The ground is covered with pine cones and have picked up some as momentoes of my visit to the great est of natural wonders.
 The Grand Canyon of the Colorado is the most interesting place 1 have ever seen. The mind would have to be very imaginative to describe its wonderful beauty, or it's terrible magni- tude, and as stand looking down in to this vast gorge, my mind wanders, utterly unable to conceive what my eyes behold. Up and down, across, be- low as far as eye can see, one behclds what it has taken nature millions of years to make. and the facts of history fade and are nothing.
 Did the river, which we see miles below us, run on top of the ground as other rivers do, or did the earth just split, and let the river down until it looks like ribbon in the debths be- low? There is more history here than could be found in all the books in print, for this is an open book to all who see, her. How beautiful the Can- yon is; yet how terrible. How soft NT~ paint like this. - T Across this chasm. the distance seems a mile or two, it is nearer thirteen. Houses in the valley below look like bird cages, and the path along which the traveller wends his way to the river below is but pencil mark. The Can yon is seventy miles long, and at it's bottom flows the Colorado River, a muddy looking stream, apparently about the size of the Housatonic. The distance from the top of the Canyon to the river following the trail, is seven miles, but it does not look to be over a mile or two. This is fine morning to view the Canyon as the atmosphere is clear and the sun is shining brightly. Ones memory could never fail to re- SpOnd UO the images made Dy the falry castles, the gorgeous temples and the tumbling ruipspf many countless ages, for as far as one can see, these var iegated, myriad colored natural tenn pies stand out before the vision in eter- nal grandeur. It must have taken na- ture a great while to pile up mount aims, and then turn around and whittle them out to depth of three thousand feet, and stranger still it seems, as water was the agent that did the work and also that took the debris hundreds of miles away, depositing it on the plains below
 The air is so high here that it is bur- densome to many causing the nose to bleed, but we have experienced no trouble in this line. We'll prepared food can be obtained at the hotel or at Bright Angel Inn, and food tastes good this morning after having walked four