The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-19
IN I22i STATES ON Y
AUTOMOBILE TRIP
Lyman E. Holden and Fam
lily Visited Many Inter-
esting Points
VARIETY OF CROP
CONDITIONS NOTED

posite Situation Prevails in South
Dakota-People of New England
Best Provided for.
When interviewed by a representative
of The Reformer this morning, L. E.
Holden, who with Mrs Holden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest V. Barre and R. II. Mes
senger returned Saturday from an cx-
tended automobile trip in the West,
gave an interesting account of the trip,
which covered 1873 miles and took
them into % different states. During
this time they were 75 days on the road.
stopping at all places of interest and
remaining several days at some of the
more interesting points.
The party left Brattleboro June 5,
going by way of North Adams into New
York state, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
where they visited at Wilkes Barre
with Mr.. and Mrs, Lyman Fl. Howe.
From there they proceeded to Gettys-
burg, Hagerstown, Md, and TO Wheel
all through the steel rolling mills, from
which Holden & Martin buy goods and
from which concern they secured passes
before leaving Brattleboro. Leaving
Wheeling they continued on through
the state of Ohio, into Kentucky, where
they visited the famous Mammoth
Cave, also stopping in Louisville.
| Their next stop was in ST. Louis,
from which city they went to Kansas
City, driving west through the state and
on to Colorado Springs. They remained
there a week and during that time yis-.
tied all places of interest, making a
"trip in their automobile TO the summit
of Pike s Peak, which is over $4,000
/ feet high An interesting feature of
the trip up the mountain was the fact
| that while the water appeared to boil
in the engine, one could put his hand
| into the water, as the altitude is so
high that it is almost impossible to
bring it to boiling point of heat. 1t
is said that it would take over an hour
to cook an egg, soft boiled, on the sum
nit of the mountain.
! Leaving Colorado Springs, they next
visited Denver, where they remained
1 four days and spent some time in the
Rocky Mountain Park and Estees Park,
which is a government reservation.
Continuing on to Cheyenne, Wyoming,
they found conditions in this state not
as good. Due to the lack of rain every
thing was drying up and the farmers
were selling off such of their cattle
which had not already died from lack of
water. The crops were in a pitiable
condition, due to the dryness. The OPP
Iposite was true in Kansas, where the
crops were immense and everything
was flourishing. While touring through
Kansas, they covered 200 miles a day.
Yellowstone Park, which was the
farthest west that the party Travelled,
was the next stop, and here they re-
manned seven days amid unexcelled
scenery.
The return trip was through Mon
tana, which, except in the low land,
where irrigation can be carried on. is
terribly dry, to North and South Da-
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here
they visited several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. James Pullen in their home in
Fond -du-Lac Mr.. and Mrs. Pullen for
merly lived in this town.
The conditions in Montana and South
Dakota are just opposite. In Montana
the farmers, on account of the dryness,
will not be able to get their seed back,
and in South Dakota there has been so
much wet weather that the wheat is
rusting.
From Milwaukee they went to Chica-
|. go, not stopping long there on account
of the trouble in the city with the Ne
groes A visit to the Mishawaka
Wooden Mfg. Co., in Mishawaka, Ind,
of which Dunham Brothers Co. of Brat
tleboro are the New England agents
proved very interesting, especially be-
: cause of the local interest. In Detroit
: they were shown through the Packard
+ automobile plant, Mr.. Holden owning
z a ear of that make, which he drove
during the trip.
Mr.. Holden kept an accurate account
: of gasoline used on the trip and found
that a gallon would cover little over
nines miles. He states that fhe hote
t rates IN the West-are- eheaper-fhan they
e are in the East, for the same class OF
!. hotel, and the farther west one goes
!. the cheaper the rate. He also say:
d that in his opinion, and from his ob
lservation, there afe no people in th'
United States that are so well fed anc
: clothed and so well situated, every
= thing taken into consideration, even L
: social conditions, as the people of thu
/ New England states.