The Dickinson press., 1916-09-23
FORMER DICKINSON PASTOR
ACCEPTS CALL TO FLORIDA

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family, formerly of this city but now
located at Fl. Lauderdale, Florida,
| will be glad to read a letter that was
! sent to friends in Larimore and Dick
inson, and Rev. Morrison promises
that others will follow.
This is September one, and we are
"somewhere in the Atlantic" ocean,
! off the coast Of North Carolina. The
good ship-all ships, l learn, are
called "good," regardless of their
age, color or previous Cor presently
condition-"Somcrset" is bearing us
southwark on the briny deep.
Our trip to St. Paul was without
noteworthy event, except to confirm
me in the previous conviction that
! sleeping cars are misnamed. They
! should be called Gears to spend the
night in" l think an hour Of fitful
doing constituted the whole of the
operation usually denominated sleep,
so far as this writer was concerned.
Even that short period was
what painfully ~interspersed with a
| pair of small but vigorous feet, from
Beverly who occupied the foot of the
berth. (She claimed to have spent a
| very pCdCC1ul dIlu CoIl1llS l1SllCs
No breakfast till we boarded the
burlington" train and were flying
out of St. Paul down the historic
Mississippi. The scenic view On this
route was good, but a trife monoton-
Gus. Ten miles of the river gives
all the variety that three hundred
miles furnish. Our party voted a lack
of confidence in the Burlington"
considering that it had been vastly
over advertised. 1t was abominably
noisy, exceedingly dusty and the
single day coach packed to "%s(t)uffi-
cation !" It has proved to be, thus
far, the most wearying portion of u
journey.
Carried across Chicago after dark,
we saw very little Of the "Windy
City," The only thing that left a
vivid impression on my mind was Ed.
V. Prices big establishment, with it's
huge sign "Who's Your Tailor" loom
ing up as we trundled by.
The Baltimore & Ohio train was
quiet and cool. The sleeping car
really proved to be one, and the din
ing car service very good, but a trife
skimpy in supplies where compared to
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific. =
The weight of our distinguished
party proved too much for their effete
eastern engine, and broke it down.
This lost us so much time that they
annulled the train at Pittsburg, and
| allowed US to remain over night, en-
loving a day ride from there to
Washington. The scenery over this
part of the trip was perfectly grand.
The whole party watched the shifting
scenes among these abrupt, tree COW
cred hills, with their sheer d%eclivities,
and cloud capped SUBMITS. The road
followed a tortuous stream and was
frequently ~punctuated with interest
ing tunnels.
Washington was a charm! Big
and beautiful We climbed the mon
ument "a la e%levator), explored the
Capital from the Dome to the cellar,
peeked in on the Senate in session,
but quickly came away after listen
ing a few minutes to a very prosy
speech from Senator Reed Of Mis-
souri,.
We called at the White House,
but a very pompous chap in a uni
form, whom we felt sure could be
nothing less than some foreign lord,
informed US that Mr.. Wilson was
unusually busy settling the railroad
strike, and could neither see us nor
return our call. This disappointed us
very much, for we had several sug-
gestions to give him concerning the
strike, as we'll as some advice con
nected with the coming election. We
feel sure that he will live to regret
this high handed way Of treating
some Of the sovereign people! He
will never know what he missed in
not seeing US ,
Baltimore is said to be a beautiful
city, but you can't prove it by US:
All we saw was warehouses, colored
folks, heaps of decaying vegetables,
teams, goods and mammoth ships.
There are,r no doubt, portions OF the
city that would greet our nostrils
with odors like "Araby the Blest,"
but we didn't happen to find 'em
A very striking and pungent mix
ture delivered its effuvia to the at
mosphere, composed of one-third
colored folks mixed with automobile
gas. one-third decaying matter on the
beach left by the receding tide, and
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tar.
Amid the rollicking songs of negro
~stevedores, our vessel got under way
about 2 a.. MI, while we were asleep
in our staterooms. They had adver-
tised to sail at 7 p. M, but the
quantity of freight delayed them.
The vessel is a beauty and very COM
fortably furnished. The meals are
fine. the service courteous and cheer
full. Down the Chesapeake, all went
lovely. When we struck the ocean,
however, the delightful sway Of the
boat had a very peculiar effect upon
ones interior economy. Things one
had supposed he had seer the last of,
many hours before, suddenly reap
peared. Articles to which the pas
sengers had chung with great delight,
they now seemed unusually anxious
to get rid of.
Only two of our party appeared at
e,,rpor, tho root waro slowed in their