River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-07-19
VIM. E. HAWLEY WRITES
OF TRIP THRU THE WEST
Continued from page one)

at Grand Canyon. The sccnry here
is so beautiful l would not da to try
describing it. The two falls of over
| 200 feet deep with coloring of every
description are by far the most beau
tiful scenes in The Park.
All of the time spent in the Park is
at an altitude of over 700u feer aid
many of the roads have to- have the
snow shoveled off of them in the
line stove to warm up the tent, put
al! our clothing on, cover up with
four heavy blankets and then woke
up in the morning half froze.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday we
spent at Old Faithful Inn, very
wonderful place. The geysers are
surely wonderful formations and tn,
clear spring water pools, hot and
cold, with every color in the rainbow
are very beautiful.
We had no idea of spending such a
long time at this place but luck
seemed to be with us for the Presi-
dent was also there during our stay.
He arrived there Sunday morning
and everybody was busy with their
cameras taking pictures. A few
minutes afte his arrival the secret
service and Government officials an
nouced that the Pres. and Mrs. Hard
ing would receive people. l had
rather good luck; out of 1000 people
| was third in line to greet the
honored | am sure Pres. Harding
with the capable assistance of his
wife are gaining many votes for they
are friendly and very pleasing 20
meet. My pardner had friend who
was clerk at the Old Faithful Hotel
and he was kind enough to offer US
ticket to the dining room, so that
evening we hao dinner at the table
next to the President. In the even
ing big dance was given in his honor
which we also attended.
Sunday morning we left the Park
by the way of Mammoth Hot Springs
and drove as far as Livingston. Mon
day we spent restocking our supply
and drove as far as White Sulphur
Springs on our way towards SHELL
| BY. Tuesday we had a wonderful
| drive as far as Conrad, Mont,
twenty-six miles from Shelby. On
tkis trip we passed over the Little
Belt Mountains, which are all cover
ed with wonderful pine trees under
| the government supervision. Reali
z, q chat Shelby would be te,r.bla
state of affairs We camped at Con-
rad, planning to leave for Shelby
the day of the fight.
Shelby and the Fight
Wednesday morning, July 4th, we
started for the 'cow town" of Shelby
| enc month ago town of 1000 people,
| July 4th city of over 10000 p ople.
| / wish | could describe the town for
you. 1t was a sea of people, with
| tents everywhere and small W. oden
shacks where people were supposed to
| live but | think they just existed.
| The town compared similar to any
| small town full of concessions of all
kinds, dance halls, wild west shows,
bands, aeroplanes and everything pos
| sible to take your money. On our
| trip to Shelby the road was just a
| cloud of dust. Cars passed on the
average of one a minute from every
| state in the Union. On our arrival
we planned on putting our car in a
parking space. We asked the price
and were informed it was two dollars
| for the day so we decided to take a
chance on having it stolen and left
it on one of the side streets. Moth
was taken from the car. In fact the
order of the crowd was splendid and
nothing out of the way happened that
we could see.
We arrived about 1880 and started
looking for the tickets. We asked
everyone and they all informed US
that tickets would be scarce. After
looking about for some time l was
forced to take a $55 seat, the best one
on sale, BUT paid $40 for it and my
seat was in the fifth row. My part
ner waited until the last minute be-
fore the fight and the crowd pushed
the gate down and they rushed in, so
he sat in the ninth row for nothing.
The management of the affair was
very poor and the arena, made to
hold 10000 wa not over one-third
full.
You have all read of the big fight