The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-08
SEEING AMERICA FIRST.
By Fred {. Kelly.

By Fred {. Kelly.
For the third time now since / left
the Atlantic coast | have set my
watch back an hour, making grand
total uf three hours gained Tor my
own use, to do us ! please with II /
could just arrange TO stay out here
uermanently / would have added
three hours TO my life. But before
long ! must return and lose my three
hours still, must try to be cheer
fu What would | do with my eN-
ira three hours II | had them Like
rs not / might waste them doing
something silly and profitless. Ike
taking mud bath, or listening to
Ford stories So what would the
hours avail me-
Yesterday NJ the Grand CANYON |
fell In with delightful chap 10y the
name Of Way who * the kind NJ ma
terial that Charles Dana Gibson.
Richard Harding Davis. ana owen
WiNrr should dote ON Way Is the
chief government forest ranger for the
Arizona district conterIng at the Grand
Canyon He has Gihsoncsquc feat
ures, wears his somhrer0 and rides
his horse with nm mir that one rarely
sees I'm picture hooks. aud is VI the
stuff that heroes. soldiers VI fortune,
aud such folk wound ho well 10 be-
made of
The reason scraped mp an nc
uuaiutancp with Way was because
had heard about little jaunt he
made from the Grand Canyon to
Michigan and return, and wished TO
find ont II the story was true It
was Way was born In Alpena Mich,
which is town twelve hours north Of
Detroit. aud a right considerable dis
taurr from Arizona 4 year or SO ago
he wished 10 70 back to the home
town Tor little visit. hut he dreaded
giving ny his open life and housing
himself FOR seevral days In rail
way coach So he simply rode his
horse from Arizona to Alpena, Mich
He had been riding so regularly that
he knew about what he aud his horse
,oulu 40 ana NE estimated that the
irlp Noulu lahe MN Ihree months
When he made It. II occupied three
months aud one day over
And how do you suppose Way made
the journey back 10 the west2 BY
canoe. les all alone IN = small. sized
canoe ne went from Alpeha, Mich, To
uhlNeS'oh' ieN..Irohl hlpeha 10
! 'h'rago, a"hg 'h' 'nores OF the
u,en' Lakes iheh'e uoWh TO the
hlSS'N1'ppl 10 New Vrlealls ana from
there "lohg the gu't coast TO Calves
l"'I Anu NJ no l'he uurlhg MS SOIL.
'"'N Journey 10y hulNto''k ana canoe
was way h"ren WIN himself. l insist
'uul amy man VINO 'oulu 90 that
N''houi getting urea OF ms own com
p"lN rs preul mu'h oi q teller
\ WINE az" why was stationed IN
NeN mexico. tue OUTLOOK Is ralher
ior''rn ln most OF ihat state ana
way dlnh llhr u
'bul' %l7 ne never complained.
because W ! lhlnk NJ the people who
nave 10 i've III New YORK city aud
other places grea, deal more forlorn
than New Mexico Just Imagine living
III New YORK apartment where your
only We" Is brick walI-knowing all
the time that there are places out here
where one can slt on his doorstep and
see 100 miles
| asked Way f-he had ever heard
OF anybody coming to the Grand Can
yon ana lelng disappointed In IL He
SAID he had, occasionally, he said, a
Tourist wiz express surprise that the
canyon Isn't bigger and wider. one
cannot conceive what any human
brain might picture IN anticipation
thAl could exceed the canyon Itself .