The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-22
City of Frisco Beautiful
at Night He Says
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! ~4S-ASA''SNN S-h go
that there are some streets in the
/ city that an automobile can't
climb. There are no subways
that we could see, no elevated
railways, only the surface cars and
motor buses. There are motor
buses in almost all the bigger
cities in the west.
! We spent considerable time in
/ the city trying to find some rela-
/ tives who, we found later, didn't
! live there and then located the
| ferry. We waited something like
A. minutes when it finally locked
and Jam of 80 automobiles and
trucks came off. 1t took about 80
minutes to cross the bay. The
city looks very pretty at night
from the ferry boat.
We tried to find a camping
place near San Francisco but
learned that the city did not have
one 50 kept on through Berkeley
and San Pablos finally stopping
for the night in a vacant lot not
far from the city of Richmond. 1t
was about 1000 p. m. when we
stopped and our mileage was 1898
from Los Angeles.
We cooked our supper of pork
chops, boiled potatoes, bread and
had peach pie for dessert. We
set" up camp that night, put on
clothes instead of undressing and
turned in. 1t was about the cold
est night of the whole trip. Fris-
co is as cold as Los Angeles is
hot
Our total mileage at Los Ange-
les was 1865 and at Frisco
4246.5.
Wednesday, August 9th we
really were headed for home. Our
last view of the Pacific was from
the ferry boat while we were
crossing from Rodeo to Vallejo.
Near Vallejo we saw the auten-
nae Of the Mare Island Radio
Station.
As we left the coast it began to
get warmer, until when we were
in the vicinity of Sacramento it
was uneomfortably warm; the
same dry~heat that we found near
Los Angeles.
At Sacramento we found the
%elatives we were looking for in
Frisco, but were in such hurry
that we spent only about three
hours with them and then headed
for Reno, Nevada.
At Auburn, Calf, we saw one
Of the Mallet type locomotives
with 1G drivers and the cab on
the front end. believe the
Southern Pacific Railroad uses
this type the most. We did not
see any along the coast or be-
tween the coast and Sacramento;
only in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains.
At a store about 10 or IS
miles from Auburn a tame raccoon
tried to prevent Mr.. Steward from
getting water for our radiator He
put his paw over the faucet and
souirted water all over the place.
Then after Mr.. Steward succeed
ed in getting a can full, the coon
tried to knock it out of his hands.
That night we camped in the
mountains not a great ways from
Truchee Pass.
We started out the next morn
ing about 900 o'clock and did a
lot Of climbing on about Is pei
cent grades. About five miles
east OF Emigrant Gap, we went
through some snow sheds. These
are places where the railroad is
housed in so that trains can get
through when there is snow in
the mountains. Truchee Pass is
open to automobile travel only
three months a year for the same
reason.
The railroad runs through snow
sheds for about 80 miles along
the trail we followed, Uincoln
Highway. Near a place called
Soda Springs, we were held up
for about three-fourths Of an hour
by train on siding waiting for
another train. The Southern Pa
cific police took advantage of the
situation to check up on number
plates as there was a stolen car
headed that way.
At he summit of Truchee Pass
the elevation was 100 feet. The
Sierra Nevada Mountains were
much more rugged than any we
had been over and the grades
were much sleeper. Just after we
came through the last snow-shed
we began to climb down hill in
low and with our brakes on. 1t