The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-18

Point you can al least call on the
! eesNier n The ~ Toyar.
A Suicide Point Is provided for
those who don't care 20 go back
by way OF the desert
At Williams where We get Oacb
ON the main line after leaving the
Grand Canyon. Ne are 100 miles
from the Moki Indian reservation
and Just about the same distance
from our Pullman reservation.
During our brief stay in the Can.
yon. dining cars have been dlscoV'
cred on the Santa Re, and our prln-
cipal industry is no longer getting
out for meals At the Harvey hotels
Which makes VS. think Of that
small town where the leading occu-
patton is going home 20 dinner from
the movies.
Having had extended experience
With subscription wood in our early
youth. we didn't sidetrip for the
petrihed forests
The Painted Desert OF Arizona
does the exhibition al san Diego
full justice.
The Hopis have weird dances
which are really dramatiEed prayers
for rain. There is possibility that
they included Michigan last sum
mer in their Flute and Snake dance
petitions which are said 10 have
great power over the rain gods,
Flagstaff hasn't any, but II boasts
the Lowell observatory upon a near
by hill where II hopes TO locate
the canals on Mars before T. X.
claims he built them.
Colorado. We pass a section gang.
on their hand car, at Los Cerrillos.
First chance we ever had TO see
Mexicans at their handdrawn
work.
The origin OF station names is an
interesting study. At Lamy, y NJ.
We saw a noble red man wrapped
up in his blanke; and sleeping
soundly on the brick pavement in
front OF the station-"NoW I-amy
down to sleep etc.
The santa Re must have been
named on the spur of the moment
Santa Re itself is not on the main
line.
We come within ll.3 miles OF
Rocky Ford which is about our av-
erage in picking OUT ripe ones that
are also sound and OF good flavor.
The Kansas temperature Is up TO
81 degrees without the use OF alco
hol
There is a sun clock made OF
III HI it, eeAhle=teHes- ;he-statit4f4
lawn at Dodge City, showing both
central and mountain time. Il
would keep a gang OF stone masons
busy doing the alteration work upon
such tmepiece in Detroit.
We are getting again into the
region Of vet rivers the Illinois
Missouri and Mississippi all making
IL necessary 70 use the bridses over
them
In California, Arizona and New
Mexico. the streams remind one of
the poetic youth VINO made vain
search Tor The Falls Of Lodore
A native 10 ahonl he maize known
his passionate que,y exclaimed.
why. man. you're si,,ins on Elm
What's ,his-the Grand Canyon
Of the Colorado again? Nay. it rs
the Grand Cholera Cure OF BE Chi
cago-tne drainage canal
In building his rev trade route
to the Mississippi they removed a.
397 904 cubic yards Of dirt and left
IL where It Fell
This Is interesting TO The porter.
who is removing the same amount
from the trans-continsntal pas
sengers; bur instead OF letting IL
accumulate he whisks it hriskly
upon passengers who got on at Kan
sas City
One OF the baneful effects Of
the war Is the double duty borne
by the barber. who is also the as-
slstant baggageman. All II requires
IS a complete change OF blouse al
each station.
We would never have discovered
his double life IL he had not be
come excited as the California Lin.
tied whistled for the next station
and inquired: "what'll you have
on your face-suitcase or samprt
trunk"
Everybody comfortable here" in
quires the Michigan Central con.
ductor az he lifts the last coupon
and the accompanying contract
Which reminds us that in 1000
miles OF travel we haven't encoun.
tered an instance OF incivility on
the part OF trainman.
They are slow 10 anger and
plenteous In patience even when
travellers are not using the soft
answer that turneth away wrath.
A dining car IL class IN geo
graphy. You can always run the
state song, for instance, on the
nsh scales. Barracuda and sand daos
---"Californis the Golden" White