Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-11-02
Graduate of BarabOO High School
With Class of 1912 Is a Nurse
at Long Beach
WRITES INTERESTING LETTER
TO PARENTS OF A TRIP
Visits Yosemite Valley And Also
Sees Some of the Oldest Trees
In the World

Gladys Apker, a LaValle girl, who
graduated from the Baraboo High
school in 1912, now is a muse in Long
Beach, California. She served Is
months over seas as a Red Cross
curse. She was chosen as a delegate
to a University clinic in California
not long ago. She recently returned
from a trip TO Yosemite which she
said was mos: w,ld Err ul. A letter to
her parents in Ia yll.. reads in part:
Now I'll try and tell you something
Of the trip to Yosemite but it was all
50 wonderful that it VIII be hard to
give even an idea. We went from
Berkley to Merced by train which
wound its way slightly w grade on
through the canyon leading to the
Yosemite itself and to a town called
ri Portal The ride was beastly hot.
but nevertheless. pretty The forma-
tion of stone all along the way vas
most wonderful, and we could see
from the windows where excavations
for gold had been made also the loca
tions of two producing mines. The
train stopped in the section of the
old Forty Miners and the remains
OF the first bank in California was
pointed out.
Met at Station
We were met at the little station
Of FL Portal by big busses from Camp
Curry where reservations had pre-
viously been made for Us. The drive
10 the camp was fourteen miles and
just at the pretty and cool time oe
day, between six and seven o'clock in
the evening. Almost at once we we're
in the valley with those great peel.
pices on either side of the road. many
of them almost perpendicular. The
one known as FL Captain has on .he
two sides facing the road. 16l are.
we passed Bridal Veil FAILS. Vernal
and Nevada Falls and then very near
to cam0 Yosemite Falls.
Room Seats 7s0
Though The lining ~oom seats seven
hundred nd fifty at once. we went
outside to the campfire program. A
girl whom I met in the bus on the
way to cap VS. o')na 50 We asked
for a cent togeth r and stayed to-
gether most OF the time. The pro.
gram consisted OF orchestra music.
violin solos, soprano solos. recitations
and funny songs At nine O'Clock they
seems completely surrounded by these
high walls and on wond ags he" ora
came in and will 2 GU. Tile "a m
itself is 4200 feet above sea icve, auf
one OF these points, thought not tie
highest, is more than 1900 feet h.ga
and directly above the camp. From
this point at o'clock every even NJ
falls the fire, at this time a man at
Curry calls Hello Gallagher" and if
all are very quiet the answer can be
heard Of Hello" Camp Curry Then
Camp Curry says, Let 'er go CALI
CHER, Gallagher lets her go and every
one stands with stretched neck and
fascinated eye, the violin and piano
playing very softly the while watching
the fire drop over the precipice TO a
cliff 1900 feet below. II looks like
myriads of exploded sky rockets in
shape of a waterfall On Monday we
went with a crowd and a guide for 3
fOrenoOns hike We went to Mirror
Lake and went early enough to see
the sun come up over the peaks and
that time of day the lake is a mirror.
in every sense of the word. The guide
took US through an old Indian cave
and had US back at camp at 1870 for
dinner.
Visit Yosemite Valley
The next day we two walked down
to Yosemite village and then TO a
place called Happy Isles. which is a
wonderful spot and l do hope my
pictures come out good. That after.
noon at $3.50 I said farewell TO camp
Curry, and went on my way up tc
Glacier Point, the place from which
the fire is dropped. BY road it is 9