The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-08-13

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10 the time we left there, the 18th OF
July, 100000 people had visited the
fair and the attendance, we were in
formed, was increasing daily. Some
of the concessions on the Zone, the
amusement street, have closed, tenn
porarily ut least. The fair visitors
are not spending any great amount
per capita, as they do not seem TO
have it to spend. In the first place,
trip from here to the coast is rather
expensive. and by the time the visitor
gets to Frisco, he or she must econo-
mize in order not TO go broke before
starting back home. Living is not
high on the coast, if you look up the
proper places, neither are hotel rates
excessive. You can get good room
for a dollar day. The weather, es-
pecially at Frisco, is rather disagrea-
BILE, and an Overcoat is by no means
uncomfortable, especially during the
evening. The best concessions to visit
on the amusement street are "Old
Mexico" " "The Panama Canal" "Crea
tion' and the reproduction Of the
"Grand Canyon" these are the best,
but there are any number of others
that are well worth your while. The
admission prices to these attractions
are from 10 cents up to 80 cents for
the very largest. South Dakota has
very creditable exhibit very nicely
arranged in the agricultural building
1t is credit to our great state.
There are many wonderful and in
teresting sights and exhibits to be
seen at this great exposition, and il
would be foley for us to attempt to
comment on them in detail.
We took stroll through Frisco S
China town and the famed Barbary
Coast. China town did not appeal to
us as any very wonderful sight and
the Barbray Coast is said not to be as
tough as it once was, but there is
plenty of misery to be seen there, and
you can readily see to what depths
the human being will fall in order to
gather in the sheckels of the weary
wanderer and sight seer. If one is
looking for lewd, low rand degrading
entertainment he can find it at Ffis-
co.'s Barbray Coast. When making
this visit it is well to'leave your NOR
ais at home and lay modesty on the
shelf.
We left Frisco on Tuesday the 18th
on our hOmeward Journey, embarking
on the good ship President" for
Seattle. This gave us tifty-Six hour
ocean voyage. AS soon as we passed
through the Golden Gate we encount-
cred a rather ehoppy sea. and as the
day grew older the sea got rougher,
and we were told that it was the
toughest sea they had encountered
for long time. The old Pacific GER
tainly was not very pacific on that
day. Perhaps ninety per cent of the
passengers were indisposed, but the
next day it calmed down, and we had
a very pleasant voyage from then on
to Seattle. Some Of the best meals
we sat down to on our entire trip
were served on that boat, but some
how they were not always enjoyed by
tho passengers as they might have
been. On the ocean voyage we saw a
number of whales and porpus Some
of the whales were immense fellows
We landed in Seattle safely on the
night of the 10th.
There the SchriHers were having
one great big time. They were just
getting ready to break up, and they
were having all kinds Of fun with
serpantine confetti, bands paradeing
autos paradeing and pulling off all
kinds of stunts. mere we met A. A
Ricks Of Murdo, who%was attending
the big Shriners doings, 'and enjoyed
chat with him. We also saw Mar
shall's band of Topeka, Kansas and a
bunch of Jayhawkers having parade
all by themselves, which looked rath.
er naturel to We Editor.
u We left the next morning for Port
land and stopped there for few hours
before continueing our journey tC
Salt Lake City.
, Sixty per cent of the labor in Wasl
, ington and Oregon, we are told, is en-
ployed in the lumber industry, ant
. on account of sharp Canadian cOmpe
, tition, this industry is very inactive
There is large amount of unemploy
ed labor on the coast at this time
, and eople are complaining consider
} able bout business conditions i'm {
; general way out there, considerabl!
, more SO than they are in the middle
western section.
4 We arrived at Salt Lake City Sun
. day morning and there listened 20 ;
2 recital i'm the Mormon Tabernacle
saw the Temple and the house occu
r Mod NV Rripam Yor nos fayOrite wife