Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-14
A " olderful Tri }
Across the Continent
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Great Wonders of the New
World, viz: the beautiful snow
capped Rockies, the wonderful
Yellowstone Park, the grand
Canyon of Arizona. Pixies Peak,
the great Salt Lake, the Golden
Gate andIthe fruit ladened valleys
of California, literally the land
that flows with milk and honey
We boarded the Chesapeake and
Ohio, No. 5, through train at
Staunton, 22l miles from Old Point
Comfort, its starting point, at 7 81
a. m. for our long western journey
through Clifton Forge, Covlngton
and many other smaller towns in
Virginia. then through the beautl-
full West Virginia hills of poetic
lore, past Hawks Nest, kanaWha
Falls, Point Creek, Charleston and
Huntington. and the numerous
other little towns where the blazing
fires and endless columns of smoke,
bv day and night tell Of the re,
markabIe business activities going
an in one of the richest mining and
lumber regions in the woIld.
Passing on through the grand
/ Did Alleghanies with their lovely
sun kissed tops, thickly forested
with the most valuable timbers and
clothed in the most luxuriant for
age where thousands Of sheep and
cattle range throughout the lovely
summers, we finally reached the
New River with its awful wilder
ness and matches grandeur and
ever changing panorama scenic
; beauties
) We soon lose ourselves in amaze,
nent when we reached the wond-
rlul blue grass country of Ken
;uckv. famed for its fine horses,
beautiful women and sparkling
'nrint juice" You meet refined
people in leautiful homes, and fee
like taking off your hat and enjoy,
ing the real thing.
The scenery along this entire
! rnute is NEST enhancing surprising
in variety, beauty and grandeur
ANYTHING this side of the rocky
E mountains.
Language is entirely inadequate
to convey a perfect conception Of
the wonderful grandeur and subj
: nifty of this most beautiful Of
natures handiwork.
Where nature smiles .-
One hundred miles,
And troubles are no more.
We finally reached the rich fertile
lands of Ohio where much can be
seen and learned of interest to the
{ agriculturist in the clean produc
h rive farms and beautiful homes
} We pulled into Cincinnati at 8
! As. and stopped for the night, hav
ing covered 444 miles the first day
, We we're SION in an automobile
( with our grips and babies, (noI
necessarily our own but in oul
care) and were at our hotel safe
and .uund. Fare, Boss; So co.
Great B"elzebub! We snorted
,lew our nose and bit our lips anc
thought of warmer climate as We
!; coughed up the dough and made
our first little speech.
After hot supper and a ramble
through the town, we said our lit
tie prayers and went to bed to
+ dream of loved ones back at home
{ After visiting more of the places Of
interest next morning, we boar dec
the 9 o'clock train for Chicago. The
day was beautiful and passed very
pleasantly with a jelly crowd Of
tourists. Passing through many
places of interest and seeing the
beautiful homes and the COLDER
fields of corn and newly sowec
wheat fields stretching far back II
the distance we soon reached the
windy city where the Colone
threw his hat in the ring' anc
exploded a bomb in 1912, anc
where 4 years later he will be the
choice of a re united party. One is
lost in the giant street canyons. as
h. looks to the tops of the mighty
,wering sky scrapers and watch
es its busy street life as they rush
70 and fro. after the mighty dollar
II is the National Convention City
# America and the coliseum, with
seating capacity of II $40, can
b ,as, it has held more national
C INVENTIONS within its walls than
any other building in the United
ST t IS. Here in the fall of 1887.
while seated on a curb stone on
Vanburen street with his other
chums, half drunk, Billy Sunday
tells us, ''he arose, told big com
p Mons he was through with life
OF shame and went to the Pacific
Garden Mission and found peace
and happiness "
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