Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-11-05
MiddIeburgh Editor
isesAshIand Eats

Wellington E. Bassler, editor of
the Middleburgh, N. Y, News, has
the following to say of Ashland in
describing his western trip with the
National Editorial Association, at
the time they visited the Northwest
in August:
The men of Southern Oregon who
hay had the National Editorial Asso-
citation party under their charge for
the last two days on the trip to the
never to be forgotten Crater Lake,
finished their share when they deliv-
cred us into this beautiful little city
of Ashland which nestles confidingly
against the bosom of the green Siski-
you range. Here we are in the hands
of the ladies of Ashland. And most
capable hands they have proven.
Slightly tired and more than
slightly dusty from the automobile
trip from Crater Lake, we found
practical Ashland awaiting us with
hot bath tubs for all and swims in
the soft sulphur water of the two
Natitoriums of the city.
Then from the regreshing baths we
were taken through the tree lined
streets to Lithia park, park which
has become one of the prides of Ore
gon. Here nature has been given
full sway and with the cooperation
of the hand of man sixty acres of
over huge granite boulders from the
very heart of the city. In the back
ground loom the lofty Siskiyous and
Mount Ashland, capped with perpet-
ual SHOWS towering above Ashland
creek, a sizeable stream of pure
snow and spring water, tumbling
over huge graniteb oulders from the
mountain above down through II
miles of canyon which opens into
Lithia park. 1t is a park which
finds a way into the visitors heart.
Many cities have larger parks, many
cities have beautiful vistas of shade
and green. but nowhere has old
Mother aNture presented more per
feet specimen of her handiwork for
the enjoyment Of man.
In this park we found water every
where. from the springs. gushing
from some subterranean stream
which has found outlet on granite
cliff, and tumbling and falling over
moss-grown boulders.
In a dark cavern, aptly named
"Satan's Sulphur Grotto." is found a
sulphur spring. Soda water hollis up
in a big spring under rustic shell
ter and under a like shelter is found
the famous Ashland Lithia spring
for which the park is named. This
Lithia water is said to equal in me-
Gicinai value that of the famous spas
of the European resorts. Everybody
mixed their drinks freely without
disastrous results.
After our ramble over the park we
were directed to tables laden with all
manner of good things. Great bas-
kets of fruit-peaches, plums, pears
and apples took the place of flowers
on the tables which were set on
green lawns amid flower beds ga
lore.
That dinner: After the long ride
from the lake appetites were enor-
nous but there seemed to be an in
exhaustible oven somewhere from
whence an unending stream of plat
tiers OF chicken, mashed potatoes and
gravy. string beans. hot biscuits, and
other good things poured forth. Sal
ads. relishes, jams, marmalades,
fruits-but why try to enumerate the
good things? No wonder the men
of Ashland wore that look of pride
when they said, "The ladies are TAX
ing care of dinner for u.s." We are
told that every item served by the
pretty girls of Ashland was pro-
duct grown or manufactured in Ash
land.