Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-24


deur Of this wonderland where pre-
historic unheavals of the earth playl
ed havoc with the landscape, but
everyone happy and carried away
with the picturesque beauty of Colo
RADIO Springs.
The train was scheduled to resume
it's western journey at eleven this
morning and the delegates were fish
ing out of grips and suit cases their
goggles for the ride through the
program of Rocky mountain thrillers.
FORMER GEORGIAN TAKES
PARTY TO PIXIES PEAK
BY ROGERS WINTER
(staff Correspondent of The Journa1.)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Mon
day Night, June 21.-While the
eWstern Union operator was ticking
off these rambling remarks con
regular Georgia delegates to the
Frisco convention. the delegates
and the writersWe emerging from
their berths for moonlight ride by
automobile to the top of Pixies peak.
These remarks were written before
the trip started. If the writer sends
no more and searching parties are
sent out to find the regular delegates,
their relatives and friends will be
seasonably accurate in guessing that
they fell off the side of the mountain.
But Bill Mcbride. erstwhile citizen
of Cedartown, Ga, whose present ad
dress is Colorado Springs, and whose
lucrative profession is the hauling
Of visitors to the top of Pixies peak
in his trusty touring car by the light
of the moon, or without moonlight,
as the case may be, assured us be-
fore departing that he had been on
the water wagon for five years
steady. and further assured us that
the tree tops would catch us if we
went overheard on the dizzy climb.
Further than that, he made it known
that he was going to take particular
in view of the fact that they hail
from the state where he was born.
Monday was day packed full of
sightseeing for the Georgia delega-
ton. They spent the morning and
the afternoon observing sage grass
and wheat and prairie dogs across
the state of Kansas and half of Col
orado A reward was offered any
body in the party who would find
tree with the naked eye or with
Judge McMath's field glasses fetched
from Americus, but nobody saw one,
although they scanned some six hun
dred miles of unobstructed land
scape.
Kansas and Colorado are intensely
interesting for change. They look
like the prairies of south Georgia
with their trees stripped off and the
land turned to grass, with this big
exception, that south Georgia lands
are Uttered with swamps while these
western plains are as dry as dust.
Felix Jackson, who went to the west
when somewhat younger than he IS
herds of cattle for several years, ex-
planned that the interval between
drinks in Kansas is often very long,
as much as three years. This may
have had something to do With the
Kansas prohibition laws. Whenever
the train stopped in Kansas and some
bold member of the party imbued
with the spirit Of a pioneer would
get off to look around, Mr.. Jackson
would warn him that it is against
matter what. All Of the delegates
got through the state without COM
plications with the constabulary.
Startling Switch in Scenery
Six hundred miles of unbroken
prairie was a good prelude for the
stopover here where the scenery
switched with startling suldenness.
in Kansas was Hereford steer or
a flock of steers every>few hundred
miles, and they weren't big enough TO
make it necessary to turn curve to
see around them. The Kansas steers
were taking their time with their
figured out that there was no neces-
sity for gobbling up the grass.
There was enough in sight to last
them a while. A million steers eat
ing grass a million years wouldn't
more than fray the edges Of the Kan
sas plain.
Suddenly in the west rose the
Rocky mountains just in time to
persuade some members of the dele
cation that they hadn't lost Their
way and got involved in an ever
lasting sea OF sage gras a ano et
searching for tree in the plains and
began to watch the mountains march
ing towards the train as it slowly
climbed the heights of the Colorado
table land.
FroHcsome Mountains
Certain gentlemen engaged in their
usual pastime in the drawing room
dies, could not understand the pecu-
liar behavior Of Pixies peak and 9TH
ers. They were under the impress
sion that the Rocky Mountains were
fixed and immovable and that only
the train occasionally turned wheel
But the more they tried to find the
mountains and keep an eye on them,
was exasperating. First they would
appear on the right of the train,
then they would nimbly leap the
track and exhibit themselves in a
frolicsome manner on the left of the
train. The drawing room gentlemen
finally gave it up and returned to
their interminable and fascinating
pastime Of guessing the identity of
the cards in the hole. Locking the
door behind them they requested the
other members of the party to call
them out when the mountains got
still and went to roost for the eve
ming.
A Hereford steer was big enough
to attract attention on the Kansas
plains. Even a prairie dog doomed
on the landscape. But the pre-hls-
toric dinosaurs would look like an
ant in the Garden of Gods. Nature,
it seems, began at Kansas City and
miles and piled up everything here in
one place. The plains are over
whelmingly and terribly empty, but
the landscape bereabouts in Colorado
is overwhe Nningly and terribly full.
not to say crowded. Three hours of
arriving in this beautiful city spread
out in a valley through which ran
the trail of the forty-niners, who
drove their prairie schooners across
the continent in search of gold. Bill
Mcbride, the aforementioned native
prising drivers of sightseeing autos.
did not wait for the train to pull
into the station. They met it in the
outskirts and organized their par
ties on board the cars, and what they
showed this aggregation of unterri-
fed Democrats from the Empire
State of the sunny south was a gasp
ing plenty.
Inspiration Points
McBride's party included Charles
S. Barrett, national president of the
Farmers union, and Mack tried tol
outtalk the distinguished chairman
Of the delegation. 1t was not long