Morris tribune., 1915-08-13
baseball diamond The stadium is constructed entirely

baseball diamond The stadium is constructed entirely
of cement
Then there is the civic centre which they are build
ing at San Francsco-a spacious square with city hall
and court house, state building. library and a
great auditorium the four sides and a wide mall
connecting this with Market street. which is the
artery of the city and ali the other streets dia
gonay. The city auditorium will seat four five
thousand people in the galleries, which extend around
the large open floor In this hail. by the way, attended
July 14th celebration by the French residents of
the city of the 126th anniversary of the Fall of the Bas
tile. The celebration utilized for the raising of
funds for the benefit of the wounded French soldiers and
the various methods which used the coin
and the which attended the efforts Of the ladies
would make the members of the----( (deleted by
censo) Ladies' Aid appear like amateurs An admission
fee charged then the ladies sold you official badge
then you checked hat then another lady sold you
books and another dance programs and another pencils
Then they went thru the ceremony of "honors to the
fag'' and lady sang America and God Save the King
and another the Marseilalse after which two bevies of
girls carried outstrecthed French flags about the hall
and the simply rained in After that, everyone
that could find room and knew how danced. Everyone
talked French-or at least tried to revive his rusty
knowledge of that language This civic center of San
Francisco is part of the plan Of the city in rebuilding
after the earthquake but that city resident refers
that great destruction as "the earthquake" but
''the fire.
Canada is country 'at war; and for that reason
people fear that there may be difficulty in
travelling in that country, yet such is not the
On entering the country. Inspector will ask you
if you American citizen and that's all there is
to it, But finds plenty of evidences of the fact
that the country is at On the day that l took a
steamer fromVictoria Vancouver, there number
of young going away to enlist and the whole town
cut, and hand-shaking band playing, whistle
blowing bell ringing and shouting and tumut you
heard The young fellows who had just enlisted
civilian clothes but distinguished by small English
flags in their hats They seemed to be only who
appropriately SOBER and we'll they might be- They
bound for Vernon, where 10000 young from that
portion of Canada in training Any person you
meet in Canada has number of relatives and friends
at the front number of the employees of the hotel
where stopped in Vancouver had already gone and the
bus driver told he was veteran of the Boer war and
expected go In the windows of the stationery
displayed neatly of sympathy
to send to friends who have lost relatives in the
On the bulletin churih which attended
had gone front and copies of letters giving
of this killed that wounded One bulletin reced
the exploit of of the clergy who had enlisted in
running through German with his bayonet and cap
turing German officer at the point of empty revolver
all of which seemed bit out of tune to Even the
it was summer time, the psws we'll filled, and one
could feel the war in the solemnity of the service
AS index business conditions. l was struck Will
the that the weekly church publication hac
which supported it, has fallen off much because of the
war.
When returning home fell in with rancher from
Nelson c., who had disposed of his farm and
paying his way back to England to enlist in the
engineering corps He had seen service in the South
African under Captain Swinton, who write
of the battles under the of Witness
has already had two nephews killed in the war; bu
seemed to regard it just Of the chances of
he also should 'go out When considered what life
to this man, and the folly of its sacrifice
tried to multiply it by several million war as means
of settling international difficulties failed to have any
charm for me-
Vancouver looks like any American city, but Vctori
is typical old English city set down on the western
coast, and like Fe far the south takes pride
distinctive architecture and seeks maintain it. Th
houses built in the English style. and the ground
surrounded by fence heGge SO that in orde
to anything from the street, ride in hig
tayho in order that he may look the hedges Side
walks in the residence section built only side