Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-01

Wearing COW puncher's sombeeros and riding in fivyer that had been stripped for action and covered with stickers booming the towns through which they passed, Armand Beauregard and August Kruck arrived at their homes in Taftville, Wednesday evening at 5.So, after a two years trip, which took them into most Of the states of the Union. The welcome the boys got was the, kind that Taftville usually hands, out to its sons who return after many months of absence, and all day Thursday, their car was surrounded by youthful admir- CTS, who stood with ears open and mouths agape to hear of their adventures in the distance west. e
 The car, despite the territory 1t has covered, didn't seem the least road weary and when MT. Beauregard step amount of pep. It looks, however. she was slightly weather worn, but said one by-stander. ''Who wouldn't, be after months without being under. cover" The boys had named their craft the Bear Cat" and her name was emblazoned cn the body, while the hood bore the boast. Coast to Coast. California to Counec' ticut."
 The equipment carried included reg tular campers outfit, but as the epaca was limited It had to occupy very lit tie room. The top conveniently provid- ed space for camera and a blue book and also served as a rack for hatchets and other utensils as campers generally find useful The canvas which covered the top was crowded with addresses 9! people whom the boys had met along the route and who begged them to send Fthem a post card from Ett.e old Con1ec- ticut.
 MT. Beauregard exhibited a y&lise full Of pictures, taken with his camera and developed and printed along the. routa Most of the views are remarkably good especially those taken in Yellowst 0ns National park. It was his hobby to pHr- chase a view of certain geyser oI waterfall in the park and then attempt l to photograph the same spot from tas same location : When seen on Thursday, MT. Beaurs. gard was exhibiting his pictures to h,s many friends, along, with handkerchiefs leather pillow tops and various othel souvenirs which he had purchased in In. dian encaInpments in the southwest When asked to give an account of his trip. Mir. Beauregard said: ''We left here for Worcester, Mass.
 
 for Detroit, by way of Buffalo and Can ada, and from that city we moved on tc Chicago and Kansas City. We had orig inally decided to get work in the harv. ! est fields of Kansas, and we had no diff culty in locating work near Dodge City iwhere We worked for two months Farm ] ing in this part of the country is car ried on on stupendous scale. SPrac tically all the work is done by tractor a tractor drawing fourteen blows. Tae1 we moved up into the northwestern par of the state where we found employmea for two months more.
 When the time came for us to loci elsewhere for work we purchased an Au tomobile and campers outfit and hit ou i for Oklahoma, then on to Texas, Nev rived in Los Angeles.O California Tn roads across our southwestern states ar
 nothing more than ruts through the san,
 in dry weather. and ruts through tn
 mud in wet weather. You simply get> f
 a rut and stay there, or, if you don. like the rUt you can try your luck a i making a new one.
 After blowing through 95 miles of sand
 we found sign at one point informint us os two ways we could reach a certaiI
 city where we had hoped to spend n night. One sign read A miles, the oth4 | IT miles to a felry, which was directl
 across the river from the~c city which va i our objective Naturally, we took u. 17'miles route, and found to our dfsmaI
 that the ferry was not running. You ca.
 picture us standing on the bank, ar.
 gazing at Needles, California, only
 few feet from us; yet 5s miles away, fo
 we had to retrace the r miles we .ha
 just come and take the 42 mile route te sides. At the river we found a iare
 touring car in which two women wei riding They too had been fooled h
 the ferry sign, and what. was worst