New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-01-26
WRITES OF TRIP
THROUGH WEST
MISS ESTHER HERMANN TELLS
OF INTERESTING SIGHTS
IN CALIFORNIA.

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IN OTHER STATES ON
PACIFIC COAST.
In a letter to New Ulm friend, re-
ceived here a few days ago. Miss Esther
Hermann Of this city, who left Mime
apolis, November q, with people from
Fairfax for trip to the West, writes
very interestingly of the sights they
saw en1 QUITE, as well as in several cities
of California, Washington and Oregon.
She is spending the winter at Long
Beach, Calf.
First Snow in Montana.
We left Minneapolis November a, =
writes Miss Hermann. From there
we went to Seattle, Wash, where we
spent a few days. The houses here
are mostly allbuilt right on the ground,
without any foundation. Seattle is
not as clean city as I thought it
would be, for most of the people burn
soft coal. We had our first snow in
Montana. The eastern part of Wash
ington is mostly sand and sage brush.
While there we were to Woodland
Park, which is very interesting. Lake
Washington is also very nice. There
were shouse-b boats on. this lake, in which
people live all year around. Were to
see the canal locks between Puget
Sound and West Lake; also visited the
University Of Washington campus
grounds. The forestry building there
we all enjoyed. Queen Anne Hill is a
hill from which one can look all over
Seattle. There is 42-story Smith
building in that city.
See the Mountains.
Portland, Ore, was our next
stopping place. Had our first glimpse
of Mount Rainier and also saw Mount
Good. Were to see Washington Park,
where there is museum and geological
gardens, Portland had many roses
in bloom. Here we also went to see
a forestry building, but the one at
Seattle is the nicer of the two. We
took in the Columbia River Highway
Drive and surely enjoyed it. At the
end of this Drive we came to the Vista
House, built of white marble at cost
Of $4,000.
Meet Other Wayfarers.
eve travelled only during the day
time, so that we wouldn't miss any
thing. Our next two stopping places
were Roseburg and Ashland, Ore, two
:small mountain towns. We picked up
a lady from Illinois and man and his
wife from Ohio, so we were seven and
always had a big time. The couple
from Ohio is down here at Long Beach
also. Here we saw Table Mountain
and Mount Shasta The latter is just
grand wonderful big mountain OF
fine white sand, and when the sun
shines on it, it looks majestic.
Oranges, Palms, Rice Fields.
Kennat, Calf, is where we had to
stay over night as there had been a bad
wreck and we couldn't go any further.
This is a small town in the copper
mining district. Leaving Kennat, we
saw some wonderful colors in the rocks
along the banks of the Sacramento
River, and on our way from there to
Sacramento saw OR first orange
trees, palm trees and rice fields.
Rain Every Day.
At Sacramento we remained only a
| few days, and during this time it
trained every day so we soon left again.
Were out to see the capitol building
and grounds. On the latter is planted
Ia tree from every country in the world.
A museum is also located in that city.
| We spent week at San Francisco and
had rain every day, but also sunshine
every day. This is a very damp city,
being so near the ocean. Every time
we were out to tie ocean, it was very
Wild. Before going to Oakland, city
near San Francisco, we took trip on
the ferry-boat Dalons, the largest in
the world On this ferry-boat we
crossed the Sacramento and San
Joaquin Rivers. At Oakland we took
the ferry and crossed San Franciso Bay
to San Francisco. While there we
went out to Golden Gate Park, made
of shifting sand. A museum, an art
gallery, Dutch windmiIls and Nor
wegian vessel were the interesting
sights we saw there. Twin Peaks was
another trip we began, but it started
to rain, so we had to go back Mission
Dolores, founded in 1776,g was very
nice.
Visit Army Headquarters.
We were to see the Preside, Ut. s..
Army headquarters in California. This
is also the place where General PERISH
ing's family was burned. Ocean
Beach, Seal Rocks and Cliff House all
were very interesting. Seal Rocks
are rocks ways out in the ocean on
which the seals lie to sun themselves,
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