The log cabin Democrat., 1916-02-10
CO-ED. TELLS OF INTERESTING JOURNEY TO SAN FRAN
 CISCO.
WRITES THREE ARTICLES FOR THE BULlDOG
IN THIS ARTICLE MISS AL BRIGHT TELLS OF HER TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO AND THE EXPOSITION.
TO SAN FRANCISCO,
"All aboard"

"All aboard
 One must undergo the same experi- ence through which I passed to fully enjoy the words "All aboard for a train which is to start with you on a journey so much sought after. At 40 on November 10, these words at our home station sounded like music Ito me.
 After planning my return trip and meeting the "A other sponsors, again the words, "All aboard" at 3:1O p. m. at the Rock Island station and we entered the train from which we should not leave again until safely landed in San Francisco. All are fa- miliar with the country from Little Rock to Memphis. After one-hour wait in Memphis and welcoming an- other sponsor to our party we were again aboard and on our way to Kan sas City, arriving in Kansas City at l9 a. m. After short stay here we were bound for Denver.
 Soon after leaving Kansas City we entered a new world to me. Going, going, beholding nothing except un- dulating plains from which no doubt millions of bushels of wheat had been harvested. No people, and apparent ly no houses, here and there great flocks of sheep with their shepherds. Occasionally we flew by small houses in which all the inhabitants had evi- dently housed themselves from the cold. Though the day before we had | left the sunny, warm climate of Ar kansas, now we were vieing with each other seeing who could wear the most clothes in order to stay warm. Through all of western Kansas and eastern Colorado as far as the eye could see, one beholds nothing except wheat fields with not single tree nor hill to break the monotony. No wonder pictures of modern farming implements with dozen of horses drawing them are found in every geography. When so few people were seen I remembered that in my books I had read that one man with the modern machinery could cultivate many acres. We arrived at Denver at a. m.
 Much have we read of the wonders of Denver, but we yet have not read all of the wonder of the great western metropolis. Even the railroad track winds so that you may take birdseye view of the city as you enter. Den yer, a beautiful and progressive city, l is about twelve miles east of the foot hills of the Rockies. West one can see 200 miles of the main range of the Rockies, north Longs Peak, south Pike's Peak, both of their summlts crowned with perpetual snow. Den yer is properly located to deserve the name "The Vacation and Convention 1 City Of America.
 After leaving Denver new scenes came continually. AS we passed Castle Rock and Elephant Rock, the land marks in the days of the old wagon trains, I remembered what my grand father had said of the beautiful nat ural scenery of the west. Castle Rock, having been wasted away for centuries, is left in the form ot a large castle. Elephant Rock IS the most remarkable freak of nature Tn the Rockies. When you look upon thls wonder you might imagine great elephant from India's jungles has just been sent over, so real is the like ness. Both of these are near 30 miles out of Denver.
 When I read of divide in the geography I little imagined that SC soon I would seen the Palmer Lake the point where the water flows north ward into the Missouri and southward into the Arkansas.
 When our train pulled into Colorado Springs a pleasant surprise awaited me. Mr. Stubbs and family were there inviting me to see the country from their new Hudson. For lO miles wonder of wonders in the Royal Gorge. When one is in narrow pas sage 30 feet wide and 2,627 feet hlgh he needs but a narrow lid to be buried alive. To ride over mountains look ing straight down into space IS a strange feeling, but to be swung be- tween heaven and earth while being pulled by a powerful "chu chu' one feels his dependency. In this great gorge is a hanging bridge suspended parallel to the river by immense steel