The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-06-16


miles from its base to the summit.
When we visited this peak we started
on our Journey at 500 a. m. and reach
ed the top at 900 p. m. This was the
most trying Journey | had ever had in
my life and in mile one grows very
tired winding around. IL looks at the
top as IL you were looping the-ioop.
Mt Lowe is just 70 the west side OF Mt.
Wilson and its attitude il 5000 feet. IL
has an electric railway and cable in
cline from Pasadena 10 Echo noun
tain, with wonderful panoramas out
spread as the ascent is made. Beyond
Echo mountain the electric road wends
its way to the picturesque Alpine Tav-
ern 5000 feet above sea level. The sum
init of Mt. Lowe, a 1900 feet higher is
reached by trail and bridle-path. The
view from the mountain side by day is
superb, but no less magnificent at
night, when the great city below Is
seen outlined by its multitude Of lights.
Just at the foot of these mountains Is
Altadena with its fields OF peoples in
bloom which present sight worth go
ing far to see.
on Easter Sunday we visited Santa
hNalpit Vil tlAC iHA&hitN
OF Catalina is reached from San Pedro
after only two hours OF safe and usual
~ pleasant steaming. This is resort
with an individuality OF It's own.
The shore Of little Avalona Bay
sweeps around here in a graceful curve
and its waters are as calm as those or
a fish pond and indeed II is no more
than big fish pond. with its dart
ing minnows and great sea monsters.
Swishing over submarine gardens
you may view this world under water
from the glass bottom boats Ii is a
fairy land Of fragile beauty and the
water is as clear as the atmosphere.
Fishing in the deep sea near Santa
Catalina is a world-renowned sport
While we were out in the glass bottom
boat a man from Norway dived 100
feet with his mouth open for three
minutes, and brought back UP ava
Iona shells. This man has been diving
since he was six years old. After being
in the glass bottom boat we took a
motorboat and went around the islands
two miles to the Seal islands and here
we saw from ten to fifteen seals, These
are the only seals south Of Alaska
on our way to Kentucky we saw
many interesting places. One OF these
was San Antonio. Texas. Historical as
sociations render this place doubly in
teresting In marked contrast TO the
towering sky scrapers. reminiscent Of
the days when San Antonio was the
capital OF the Syanish province OF
Texas, many OF the old time adobes are
L.. 81 he. - la
in the heart Of the city, an intrepid
band OF 1872 Texans withstood the at
tack of 5000 Mexican regulars in March
1886. When after IL days the Alamo
came to its glorious fall, not one of the
defenders remained TO tell OF the siege.
Remember the Almo-" rang out as the
watch word of Texan liberty. AT Beau
mont large oil fields are located. The
inches river here is wide and deep and
dredging operations by the govt will
soon make Beaumont a seaport
At Sulphur, La, there are immense
beds of sulphur believed to be the most
extensive in the world.
Through all the cities and towns OF
Louisiana are oil fields with large oil
refineries. Rice is grown at Crawley's.
The mills turn out over half a million
bags OF rice each year. At Jeaneretle
is the old Gribbenberg plantation,
typical Of slavery days,-''Befo de
wah." Now we are fairly in the sugar
bowl Of Louisiana. For over 100 miles
we see sugar mills on the sky line and
pin glympses OF the mansions OF the
planters. All along here the drainage
of swamps is rendering more than a
million acres tillable. About IL miles
from New Orleans at Avondale, the en-
tire train is taken aboard the largest
steel transfer in the country and trans
ported by tugs across the Mississippi
river.
We arrived at New Orleans Sunday,
April Goth. l forgot to mention we left
April q. We had stop over for the
night so it was well spent. This is
very old town, rich in its record Of the
past New Orleans traces back into
history to 171S, when 1t was founded
by Jean de Bienville. Along the levee
here are piled the countless bales OF
cotton. the sugar barrels, the bags OF
rice and all the other products sent in
from a tributary country as vast as an
empire.
The Gulf Of Mexico is 107 miles from
New Orleans had always thought
New Orleans was located on the gulf
and probably quite few others be-
lieyed it. After leaving New Orleans
we came almost due north to Memphis.
All along the way were fields and fields
OF strawberries just beginning to ripen,
so the negroes were kept very busy
picking. From Memphis to Louisville
we go northeast through western Ken
lucky. In the blue grass region hard
" any one could believe Kentucky had
as much beauty as it really has. AS
my father said, y have always heard
California was noted for its beautiful
sunsets, but they can not equal those
we saw in old Kentucky at our old
home place on Lick creek" OF course
most every Big Sandy reader knows
all about Kentucky, so it would be use
ltss for me to fill up the good little pa
per with more. and as my letter is get
ting TO be rather lengthy | will close
with the best OF wishes for the future
success of the Editor Of the Big Sandy
News. / remain.
MRS. ]. f. BOWLING,
Lookout, Ky.