The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-30
Makes Visit to
Bonnie Scotland

Santa Fe railroad agent here, but now
holding similar position with the
company at Trinidad. in which he in
closes an interesting account of trip
made to Scotland by his son. Ken
meth. who. with a number of other
Canon City boys. ID member of the
Red Cross ambulance corps of the
United States army base hospital No.
20 at st. AIMS Road. Tottenham,
London, England He says:
Il will try and tell you OF my won
derful trip and the delightful expe-
fences I had on my recent fdr.eugh
In the north. On December 13 l left
Kings x station on the Flying Scotch
man and arrived in Edinburgh at $50
o'clock Monday morning after a long
and tiresome ride. After engaging a
room at the American welcome club |
proceeded TO see the sights OF Bonnie
Scotland.
Il was fortunate in getting into a
party and went through the old castle
at Holyrood palace have mailed
you some postcards TO show you what
beautiful place it is. After lunch
we took a tram to Carlton Hill and
saw numerous monuments there to
famous men of the world. We were
much surprised to find a tall shaft
dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and
one to President Wilson.
'T like the Scotch people much bet
ter than the English. and | have a
faint idea that should like to live in
Scotland. at least. spend summer
w. a
in understanding the people in the
southern part OF the country. but
when we got to Aberdeen our troubles
began. We remained two days in
Edinburgh and then took car to
Queens Ferry. This town is near
the great Firth OF Forth bridge. in the
vicinity of which most of the surreu-
\ dered German navy is anchored. We
next boarded a train and went to Aber-
deem Here we stopped at an Allied
Y NJ c. A. and at O'Clock tea met
about 20 Americans who belong to the
Gordon clan. They looked like real
Scots with their kits and jauriy tams.
! These fellows were delighted to show
us around. and don't think we had a
single moments rest while there. We
went to see the Brig O'Dee. Brig
1 ODon. the world-famed fish market
and many other interesting places
which l will tell you about when
get home. From there we took a train
to Sterling castle where we spent q
| few hours roaming around in dun
geons and royal dining rooms. We
then started for Glasgow. where we
..a "a
is n city of more than 1000 900 peo-
| pie. and think thore is more husi-
ness done within the radius of few
blocks in the commercial part OF the
town than in all OF London
The next morning we Joined a
| party for Loeb Lomard. We took the
train at bannockburn. which Is about
20 miles from Glasgow. and there
boarded a steamer for Iversned- Here
we had dinner at q large hotel. There
were two nurses from base hospital
No 33 in she party. and we had quite
a time talking about hospitals and c..
experiences in them After dinner
our guide took us for a climb on Loeb
Lomand. and to the head of Loeb Kat
rine. On the way back we visited
Bruce's cave. where he hid while the
English army was looking for him.
This Is where the spider taught him
the lesson of persistency. We then
returned to the steamer. which took
US to Kilburn. where we boarded the
dinkey train for Glasgow. Tho hills
were covered with about an inch OF
snow. which added color to the hills
Many people go wild about the seen
cry here. but the mountains are Just
rs pretty In Colorado.
THE next day. Sunday, we went
down to the shipyards and aicng the
docks. We were aboard several sub.
marines and went through the Ger
man U-boat 80.
There is n very fine tramway sys-
tenn In Glasgow and we made good
use of It. The fare for a soldier is a
ha-penny. Sunday is a poor day to
see anything OF Glasgow as every
thing is closed up. You will be sur
prised when l tell you that the res
taurants do not open on Sunday. so
We had to return to the club for din
ner.
Deciding that we had seen enough
OF Scotland for one time we took
the train for London town Monday
morning and reached our destination
that night. Tuesday I spent the day
bathing and getting my clothes in
readiness for Christmas. We were
provided with a swell dinner and had
everything from soup to nuts. had
just received my Christmas presents
SO opened them up and we had
cnke to finish on [ wished that IL