Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-01-08

route was closed for the winter by
a twelve-foot snow fall.
Entering California at Napa
Their first far western visit was
at Napa, California, with Mr.. Sib-
ley's sisters who We're little girls
like Maxine when he last saw them,
and now have homes and families of
their own. His mother, whom he had
not seen in seventeen years, met
them at Napa, and after week
spent in visiting and touring through
the beautiful Napa valley, they
crossed San Pablo and San Fran
cisco bays into San Francisco, and in
company with Mr.. Sibley's mother,
visited the exposition there.
Seeing Lick Observatory
From Mr.. Sibley's mothers home
at San Jose, they took many inter-
esting trips through the surround
ing country. The mother when a
teacher had been a great student of
astronomy, and it was Mr.. Sibley's
pleasure to be the first to take her
up Mt. Hamilton to Lick Observatory.
A more thrilling and interesting trip
could not be imagined, ascending as
they did from a comparatively low
level, to 4,2O9 feet in the fifteen
miles. The ascent was so rapid and
the road so winding that Mrs. Sib-
ley became positively seasick. The
view from the summit was beauti-
full, looking down as they did on the
mountains below and the valleys
filled with white clouds. After
tour of the building and listening to
splendid description of the obser-
vations that are being carried on
there under the direction of the Uni
versity of California, it was night,
and the great telescope was opened
and the visitors were permitted to
look through it at the various con-
stellations while the resident as
tronomers assisted and offered infor-
nation to add to its interest.
The Giant Redwoods
The giant redwoods were seen at
the Great Basin and Santa Rosa was
visited-the home of Luther Bur-
bank, the flower wizard.
From San Jose they took the coast
route toward the South, visiting the
old Missions along The Kings High
way and taking many pictures of the
beautiful old Spanish Architecture
A tour was made through the one at
Santa Barbara, the only one of the
Missions which has never been abon-
doned but is still occupied by the
Fathers.
Reunion With Relatives
Several days we're enjoyed in and
around Los Angeles visiting cousins,
and on Thanksgiving Day a reunion
of aunts and cousins was held at the
home of an uncle in Santa Ana. From
there Long Beach and other resorts
were visited and then the last stop in
California was made at what Mr.. and
Mrs. Sibley both refer to with so
much enthusiasm, the San Diego Ex-
position.
San Diego Exposition.
1t was much smaller than the one
at San Francisco but the architecture
and landscaping were so perfect that
it seemed more like vision or a pic
ture, than a reality. This Exposition
had been in the hands of one of
Americas foremost architects, Mr..
'Bertram C. Goodhue, and not only
were the buildings perfect in color
scheme and design, but every walk
and retaining wall, every garden and
every vase, every spot no matter how
secluded, and seemingly unimportant,
had been carefully studied for effect
here, indeed, man and nature have
joined hands in creating a spot that
is unequaled by anything else in
America. Such a protest has been
made against the buildings being
RACED at the end of the season that
the announcement has been made that
the San Diego Exposition will con-
tinue during the coming year and
great hopes are maintained that at
least a portion of the buildings will
become permanent.
Starting Back To Palisade.
Leaving San Diego on December
2, the family started on their return
trip following what is known as the
National Old Trails Road, SO called
because it follows the old Fremont,
Santa Fe, Daniel Boone and other
pioneer trails, and is one of the best
marked coast to coast roads in the
country. In Eastern California the
party crossed the Mohave Desert and
one night, rather than travel so late
in order to reach a ranch house, made
use of the army cots and blankets
which they carried, and slept on the
desert.
Over Mountain In Snow
Some fear had been entertained
that the road over the San Francisco
mountains, which reach their great
est height at Flagstaff, Arizona,
would be closed by snow as it usually
is early in December, but no snow
was encountered until reaching the
summit, where the eight inches of
snow did not in the least interfere
with their progress, and after five
miles they ran out of the snow alto
gether and with the exception of
snow storm on Christmas Eve in
Ohio, no more snow was seen until
nearing Syracuse, New York.
Seeing Arizona Petrified Forest