The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-16
SOUTH RANDOLPH
E. D. Camp Receives Another Letter
from George Hogan.

! beoiSe hoSaI, native OF vermont,
who has been East on trip, just ar
rived back at his home in Portland, Ore,
and wrote as follows to the Camp fam
lily:
| i intended to write you the first Of
| the week, but when night came l was
either too tired or too busy. Have had
lots to do since | got home week ago
this morning. | believe it was from New
Orleans that | wrote YOU last, so
will commence there. Left that city
IN the evening and next morning woke
up near Houston, Tex, and say, there is
some fine farming land through that Sec
! ton, big fields of cotton and corn. For
/ miles and miles the land is as level as
| your. kitchen floor, and where it was
not ander cultivation. bands Of cattle
were grazing. 1t had been raining and
| all yegetatios was green and growing
The whole country looked healthy and
prosperous.
Later in the day it did not look so
| fine, for we had reached the desert, and
desert it was until we reached Califor-
MIA. Through Arizona, it was fearfully
| hot and dusty, whole lot worse than
anything you saw or experienced in Ne
vada.
! Near the border, we found squad or
company of soldiers guarding the bridges
and those we talked with were praying
for the day to come when they would be
relieved. The only things that really in
terested me- in New Mexico and Arizona
were the cactus and mirage
| arrived at Los Angeles on Sunday
morning and found it most delightful
| city tthis was my first visit there) hunt
ed up some Portland people who are liv-
ing there and had a most delightful
time; went to Pasadena, San Pedro,
Long Beach and all over the city Mrs.
Busch has closed her gardens at Pasa-
dena, so we could not get to see them.
The natives did not speak very respect
fully Of her for doing it, as they seemed
/ to consider it spite work on her part in
revenge for the country going dry. She
was supposed to be in st. Louis closing
up her big beer plant there. Some Of
the streets there are very pretty, being
lined with fine homes, surrounded by
beautiful lawns and yards, filed with
orange, magnolia, palms and similar
trees and all kinds of flowers Beauti-
full city to visit and might be to live
in when you are millionaire.
Long Beach is the Coney island of
the Pacific coast the year round, and
there was a big crowd there the after
noon we were there, in the water and
! along the beach, all enjoyment, or pleas
ure, everybody happy
Left Los Angeles at a. m. via the
Coast line, which passes through a very
| productive part OF California before
| reaching the coast and then for 1876 miles
| il follows the shore line Of the Pacific.
| afFording a fine view of the ocean from
the car window. We passed through
Santa Barbara and saw the homes Of
some of the milionaires and some oil
1 wells and then over the mountains, ar
| irving at Del Monte Junction about 7
p. m, where we first began to feel the
| cool air and from there to San Francis.
| 90 an oyercoat was none to warm. Ar.
| rived at the big city at l0:45 and after
/ getting located and something to eat, I
could NOT resist the temptation to take
| a stroll down Market and out Kearney,
| which | did and say, was as much at
| sea as | was on the east hill, for the only
| familiar landmark that | could locate
| was Lotta's fountain. The Chronicle
| building and the Palace are both in the
same place, but they do not resemble
| the old buildings at all The city still
shows many scars from the fire and
! earthquake in vacant lots and ruined
walls.
When / was in Washington I visited
| the Corcoran art gallery, which | have
| always understood to be something
/ grand, but / did not think much of the
exhibit there, and supposed it was due to
my ignorance of art. II seemed to me
| that there was too much sameness to ev.
erythiug, and here in Golden Gate park
| | found an art gallery that will discount
| Corcoran's two to one, in my estimation
A gift to the city from NJ. Fl. LeYoung
Of the Chronicle. | spent nearly five
hours in the gallery and adjoining mu-
cum and was loath to leave then. Both
are filled with many most interesting
pictures, statues, tapestry, from all over
the world and fine collection of arti-
Giles, depicting the early history of San
| Francisco and California.
"The trip from San Francisco to Port.
| land, 775 miles, seemed the longest OF
all, two nights and one day. 1t rained
| little near Mt. Shasta, but otherwise the
weather was fine and we had a grand
| view of the mountains. Near Chico il
was very warm and the farmers We're
| threshing and up on Shasta there was
quite bit of snow.
California has good roads in the
cent IA btIf in he pprfh 4hnrn al
to be about three or four inches Of fine
dust in the roads, to judge from the dust
following the autos. In some places in
Alamaba | saw paved roads, but most
of the way they seemed to be about as
nature and the wagon wheels had left
them.
Oregon is now building and paving
road from Portland to the California line
and California has just voted big bond
issue for roads, so it won't be long be.
fore the Pacific highway from north to
south will be finished,
went to work on my old job Tuesday
morning and found a whole lot of new
rules and regulations to learn and more
work to do We have always had fore
man and an assistant foreman and the
two men holding these positions have
not agreed for at least five years and
have been expecting that one or both
would be let out. About the time I ap-
piled for my passes, the assistant fore
man applied for passes to Wisconsin, via
Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
New Orleans, and was to leave a week
after did. About three days later his
wife came down with the smallpox and