Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-06-18
Contemplate western Trip

Mr.. and Mrs. Jed Dubois aud their
two year old daughter will leave Wild
wood next Tuesday morning over the
Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short
Line railroad for California to attend the
annual meeting of the National Ed1-
torial association, to be gone about a
month. They will go over the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad from Phil
adelphia to Chicago. In the latter city
they will join the association party a1d
travel over the Santa Fe route, leaving
Chicago in-a special train On Wednes-
day evening, June %, at nine O'Clock.
The special train will be used all the
way to Los Angeles, frequent stops
being made enroute. The first stop
will be Topeka, the capital of Kansas,
where the party is scheduled TO arrive
at moo on Thursday and spend u
hours, during which time the entire
party will be served with dinner and
given an auto ride about the city. AT
seven in the evening of the same day
the special is due at Hutchinson, Reno
County, in the southern part of Kan
sas, where an hour will be spent for
luncheon and q ride about the city,
which has q population OF Is, 200.
After an all-night ride through Kansas
and eastern Colorado the special is due
at Colorado Springs the next morning
at 7 o'clock, where several hours will
be spent, including a visit to Colorado
City and Manitou. An outdoor break
fast will be served at Stratton Park
and the National Printers Home will
be visited. This is the Pixies Peak and
Cripple Greek district. Thence north
ward rs miles to Denver, where the
the afternoon and evening of Friday,
June %, will be spent. Denver's won-
derful mountain park system will be
visited by autos, and up Lookout
Mountain to Genesee Pass. A noun
tain trout fry will be servedalong oneof
the beautiful mountain streams at 6
O'Clock In the evening, and then a
couple Of hours spent at the great Inii-
an Pageant. The last stop in Colorado
will be made at Trinidad, in the SOUTH
ern part of the state, at 6 O'Clock Satur-
day morning, June 26, where a tempt
ing basket breakfast will be taken on
board the train and a glimpse taken of
the "Coal City" of the Rocky Mount
aims. Besides all this the citizens of
Trinidad, population 10, 1000, promises
to have a message for the editors.
Santa Fe, 5000 population, the capital
of New Mexico. will be the next stop,
where the party is scheduled to arrive
early in the afternoon of Saturday,
June 26. Proceeding southwark so
miles the train is due at Albuquerque
at 7.15 p. M, the largest city In New
Mexico, population ii 900, said to be
up to the minute in all modern achieve
ments and thoroughly Am~ericanized.
Three hours will be spent in Albuquer-
que, leaving there at 10 p. m. Saturday.
Sunday wilibe spent on the brink OF
the earth's scenic wonder, the Grand
Canyon of Arizona. This chasm is
fifteen miles wide, over a mile deep and
said to be colored like a sunset. Leav-
ing Grand Canyon at 7 o'clock Sunday
night, Monday morning, June %, will
find the party travelling through
Southern California. To the afternoon
OF that day the party will be the guests
of the cities of San Bernardino, Red
lands and Riverside, arriving at Los
Angeles at $50 o'clock Monday even
ing, where the convention will beheld.
The San Diego and San Francisco ex-
positions will be visited. Mr.and Mrs.
Dubois expect to return home by the
Northern Pacific route
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