Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-28
Trip to California.

by Rosalie Hertz, 1886 South Seventh
Street Omaha Aged II Years. Red Side
For a long time we had been planning
TO go to the exposition at San Francisco,
and at last the happy time came.
Some friends Of ours took US to the
depot. We started on Tuesday, June %,
1915. and after a long and tlresome ride
of three and a half days we arrived at
San Francisco.
Everything was very pretty, especially
at the exposition. There were moving
pictures In nearly all the state buildings.
For instance. in the New FORK state
building they had pictures OF the main
occupations of New York. we went to
the exposition about thirteen times, all
together
Another day we went up to Spring VAL
ley lake. That is the lake that supplies
San Francisco with water. We went there
in an automobile. The roads there were
very good up in the mountains. but as
they were very narrow / was a little
afraid, as / thought we would fall down
the mountain. The scenery there is very,
very pretty with the mountain in the
distance and the lake below But must
90 on, for If I were tell all the things /
saw l would fill up this whole page.
We stayed at San Francisco about
three weeks, and FROM there we went
down to Santa Cruz. We also had good
time there. One day we went up to Big
Basin and the scenery there was a little
like that up at the lake, but this was
even prettler, although It was not such
long ride. for it was ninety-six miles
TO go back and forth from the lake; but
at Big Basin it was only about thirty
six miles back and forth from Big Basin.
We had a picnic here and had very
good time After lunch we all went into
the forest. The trees were very, very
biz around and one of them was called
the Father of the Forest, another the
Daughter, and another was called the
Mother tree. 1t was hollow inside, so
children could play in it. l would not
mind to have playhouse like it. for 1t
was pretty big.
A long time ago there was a large fire
there that burned many of these trees
down. The mother tree was made hol-
low by this great fire. There was also
another tree that was hollow all the way
up, and this was called the chimney tree.
There was still another tree that was
called the animal tree. because IL you
would look at It a certain way it would
look lite the head OF some animal, such
as the lion, bear, etc ALI this was made
b. nature. We also went up to the Big
Trees and many other places there. l
went in bathing in the plunge quite a bit
there, but was just in the ocean once
there, as 1t was too cold for me.
From Santa Cruz we went up to San
Francisco again to see the German pa
rade II was so long I got tired.
We went to Santa Cruz again. and from
there we went down to Long Beach and
Pasadena and many other places in au-
tomobile. That is the place where / went
i'm bathing so much in the ocaen, as the
water was very warm there We stayed
there for about two weeks, and from
there down to San Diego. to the other
exposition but I think the fair up at
San Francisco was lots prettier than the
one down at San Diego.
At Frisco they had those large
searchlights. only these were different
colors and then they would play them
on the statues-sometimea blue. some
times green and also many other colors
When they were played on the Tower OF
Jewels, the most beautiful thing at the
exposition, 1t would make II look even