New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-18

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seeing trip through Seattle, during which
they inspected the navy yeard. and the
United States Battleship Charleston,
and the West Virginia, the party con-
tinued on to Portland, the City of Roses.
From Portland to Frisco, the trip was
made by boat, which excels train travel
ing in every way except the unfortunate
tendency to miss meals. Fair weather.
however, was allotted to this trip and no
one suffered the agonies OF NAL de mer.
From Frisco they went directly to
Palo Alto where they visited with the
Robert Wilke family. Returning to
San Francisco, on August second, DR..
frltsche attended the sessions of the
National German-American Alliance as
special delegate, and spent the week at
the exposition, and in visiting the
hospitals of the city.
On the return trip, while crossing the.
Valley, DR.. Fritsche en-
countered some genuine middle Cali
fornla weather, served right hot from
the frying pan. He says that his Their
mometer in his vest pocket registered
1O1 degrees.
At Salt Lake City the many sights
occupied the day, the most interesting
probably being the organ recital at the
Mormon Tabernacle which is given
every noon. The tabernacle is so con-
structed that a person can hear a pin
drop two hundred feet distant. From
Salt Lake the route led through Denver,
Where on account of the congested travel
stop OF only three hours could be made,
through the Royal Gorge and Tennessee
Pass, Colorado Springs and other beauti-
full scenic spots of the wonderland of
America. From Pixies Peak, which is
l4,lOO feet above sea level, DR.. Fritsche
says one can see almost the whole of the
state OF Colorado on an especially clear
day. The party took in the Cave of the
Winds, riding up there on burros, little
animals that are cross between pony
and jack rabbit with the disposition
OF a Georgia cracker; then paid visit
to the natural soda water springs at.
Manitou, and the Garden of the Gods.
Returning to Mankato, the party were
met by DR.. Stricken and VIM. Fritsche,
who brought them home by auto.
John Kierzek, of the high school facul-.
ty, was another to take the poet-philoso-
piers advice to ''go West, young man., ,
and therefore last June he decided to
find out for himself whether it was really
so that the earth, sun, moon and stars
revolved around New Ulm as the center
point of creation. Armed with few
and the abundant iron-clad
nerve which he had accumulated coaching
basket ball during the winter, he shook
the alkali of New Ulm from his feet and
turned his footsteps toward the setting
sun. The trail led through Grand
Forks, N. Oak, where he made short
visit at the home of his parents, then the
Great Northern landed him for flying
birds eye inspection of Glacier National
Park, the beauty spot Of the world, fill,
Of magnificent glaciers and still more
graft; he continued on his
way to Spokane, a thriving little inland
city which apes at Fifth Avenue, New
York, and boosts for itself with the
glorious abandon of Barbary pirate,
then to Seattle and Portland. From
Portland the Great Northern boat took
him into Frisco. He spent week alb
sorbing the wonders Of the exposition,
lodging green goods men and rubber
neck wagon drivers; and then set out
Southwark for the land of milk and
honey and graft. Los Angeles and
Pasadena especially took his cratic
fancy. There in the land of day dreams,
sunshine and sand feas he spent another
week, taking day off for a trip to the
San Diego exposition and Tia Juana,
Mexico. After last parting look at
the Pacific, he started on his return trip
through Salt Lake City and Denver,
taking the route which has already been
described in the account of the Reineke
and Fritsche trips. He returned August
third, with enough energy to dish out
The precious sugared pills of knowledge
% his eager and expectant pupils for
another ten months.
The H, L. Beecher family returned
Sunday night from trip which covered
the same route as that taken
by the editors. The only difference
that the Beachers went via Salt Lake
City after visiting Denver, Colorado
Springs and Manitou, and later took the
railroad route to Portland from San
Francisco. In other respects the points