The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-09
TELLS
OF THRILLING
ADVENTURE

One chapter OF Julian Streets lively
| book OF American adventure. Abroad at
| Home describes hair raising motor
! ride in winter over narrow mountain
roads In the Rockies back OF Denver. MIR.
street makes the reader feel keenly the
| alarm which nc himself confesses to hav-
| Ing felt as the car climbed up and up
1 upon the narrow. tortuous ledge. bucklng
! successive snowdrifts and Slowing pre-
carlously near the edge. Below. looking
like map. was the town Of Golden. Col.
ana as the author gazed downward
through several thousand feet OF clear
mountain air he kept recalling q certain
building with sharp pointed tower, sug-
costing skewer. Even when he had
reached a height at which the tower was
no longer visible he was unplcsssntly con-
scious or It's presence far below, and he
felt that II the motor skidded over tho
edge he would 20 hurting down and be
impaled upon the point
The chapter leaves the motorists in the
mountains. their car deep in n drift and
the problem Of turning around and maxi
Ing tho descent unsolyed.
81 have been reading Abroad at Home
aloud to a tired husband and three young
people aged 20. is and To-" lady in
Englewood. ~ j., recently wrote to MIR.
street. Our deepest regret Is that we
have finished the book which has given
us 50 much pleasure and amusement But
thero is one thing VIC must know about
How did you and Mr.. Morgan aud tho
Denver gentlemen get down tho mountain
In Chapter MIMI? You took very easy
way out OF this scrspe In your book. hut
We must know how you turned around"
This Is Mr.. Streets reply:
NY DEAR MRS -: number 81
other readers have written 10 ask me for
an end to Chapter XXXI AZ matter Of
fact did not tell. In tho book how that
ride terminated. because ! could not bear
to- Even now 7 can hardly bear TO think
Of II. However. when readers are sum.
ciently interested to write to me about ~
feel It my duty 30 explain. We all stood
In the road. knee deep in enoH. while the
chauffeur performed this dangerous feat OF
turning BY backing ana nlIing in the usual
manner Sometimes his hind wheels would
b. within a foot or 80 OF the edge. when
he had the car headed back We ali cot
In fancyinr the danger over But It was
not. Hardly bad we started down when
upon a sharp turn, we skidded, and in an
other instant we're nyinE through the air.
We fell thousands OF feet. number OF
thermos bottles and an excellent lunch
were ruined. tn. car vas reduced TO a mass
Of junk and all OF Us were killed.
when 7 have Informed some people Of
this terrible accident they have not he
lieved II. That. to me. 10 the most pain !
ful part Of II all, for I was brought I'd |
to tell the truth, the whole truth and |
nothing but tho ruth-that is. practically |
nothing
However the artist In me rts.s superior !
to the man. ana though We we're killed |
am glad Of It. for had We got safely
back to Denver the episode would have !
ended tamely, and what 10 death compared
With snti-climaI:
was impsled upon the point Of tbs |
tower am there yet do not look very |
nice. but so far they have been unable to |
get me down and bury me. although they |
hope to be able to do when the weather |
10 more propitioue.
Trusting that this explanation will Be |
satisfactory, believe. me. yours sincerely, |
JULIAN STREET.