The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1919-03-14


the Casino before the gambling started
We had guide Who took us all around
and explained everything, paid our far.
es and for our dinners and we paid him
Is francs. 1t was veil worth it because
he knew the ropes and could parle
French. It would take me all night to
try to tell about the Casino so wont.
We went all through it though, saw
all the different tables and rooms.
They are all fixed up so rich with their
tapestries. carved woods. statuary,
paintings and decorations in general.
In the auditorium they have big or.
chestra that plays all aay long for the
recreation of the gamblers. In one of
the rooms there was painting of q
cherub on the ceiling and no matter
where you went, it always seemed to be
looking at you. The carpets we're inch
es thick and even though there were
perhaps three hundred people in there
when ! was, there was no sound of
walking at all
We then went over to the Cafe de Pa
ris, where. the outside gamblers stay.
It is some place and it is also furnished
lavishly. The cheapest room to be had
there is sixty francs q night. 1t has
two tunnels that connectit direct with
the Casino so the people will not have
to go out of doors to get there.
We then went over to Monaco and
saw the Princes yacht, palace, church
and museum. He is quite scisntist
along geological line, and has made a
life's work collecting this data. The
museum is really more of an aquarium
than anything else and he has every
variety of fish known, from an octopus
to horse fish. 1t was sure interesting
but we had to hurry away. 49,.
We came back to Monte Carlo and
took a walk through the famous terrac.
es and gardens of the Casino. The
whole thing is just an example of what
building with absolute disregard to
cost will do.
| We then took the tram back to Nice
and over to Mention on the Italian bor-
der, when there we got into "sea-going"
hacks, as we call these carriages, and
drove out along the quay up to the bor-.
der, we could just cross into Italy but
that's all. The guards were there to
stop us. 1t was very pretty up there, as
the line is very deep ravine over which
an arch is thrown. 1t is about $50 feet
from the bridge to the ravine bottom.
This is bare outline of our trip, but 1t
was wonderful. got quite few cards
along tie trip and also have five franc
chip like they gamble with. so I have
q pretty good souvenir I think.
The day before Xmas we had big
show in the for all the little kids of.
Nice, and they were sure some happy
gang. There were 1872 of them as they
took them into the auditorium for the
show, they gave them. each whistle,
you should have heard the roar. After
the show they were all given candy,
cookies and some sort of present.
The Y was all decorated up with 3 big
tree too. Xmas was sure a great day
for US and one I will long remember.
I had just>as good time as possibly
could have away from home. I've told
you that We all put infiye francs extra
for feed and they sure gave us one too.
We we're to all sing for them first so we
went down at $3.50. The tree was all
lighted up and believe there were a
million candles on it, placed as it was in
front Of q big mirror it looked to havei
twice as many. I had not till then had
much Xmas feeling, but that tree sure
fixed me up. We sang quite few war
songs for them and the Star Spangled
Banner and they sang the Marseilles for
US. The tables were fixed up pretty
decorated with mistletoe. holly and
orange blossoms.
Here is the feed; the bombe glacec . |
Ii Wilson means ice cream Wilson style.
which was the browning feature Of the
dinner and was sure q dandy. The icel
cream was brought in on ! great silver
platter on which was . cake of ice, THE
tbsse was covered with Xmas green's and |
orange blossoms and roses, lighted With
small electric bulbs, on the ice was an
other. platter On which. was tho ice cream
10 two large cone shaped sections with
81 American and French flag decorating
them, over al was ashandle, wrapped il
red white and blue ribbon. The whole
represented and looked much like, 81
ship. u was as cute . contrivance asl
IS have ever seen. We surely were y
happy bunch. II wss Hitting oonclusion)
|5to 90 excellent vacation.
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