Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

coyote sounded plaintive through
the night. The next morning
Drought us to Les Angeles. After the
nome of Pomona, the character
whom Helen Hunt Jackson made the
/ centre OF beautiful story in the
book Of that name, had been passed
. hollywood was visited, where we
chanced- to see a part of a picture
in the making.
| In Los Angeles a stop was made
| az the rooms of the Automobile Club
or Southern California, which is
| housed In a very attractive building
the centre of much activity. Here
we were furnished maps and data
| Tor our trip across the country. With
our tent pitched in camp at Santa
Monica several miles from the city,
the fast electric line was made use
or TO convey us in town over Sun
day. In the morning we were part
OF the large audience filling the
auditorium Temple and listening to
the splendid preaching of DIR.
Brougher. There We met DR.. Birney
;. Hudson, formerly pastor in Port
land, Maine.
In the afternoon we were among
the five thousand who attended the
meeting at the beautiful Angelus
I temple where Mabel Mcpherson has
IN a night built up this great church.
again In the evening we were in the
tnrong that occupied seats in the new
and handsome edifice of the First
Methodist Church. there to listen to
an interesting address (sermonlike
IN oharacter) by William Jennings
| Bryan.
! Leaving for the return trip a stop
was made in Pasadena at the home
of Mr.. Ware, brother of Mrs. Dunton
OF Randolph. We arrived in San
| Bernadino as the circus was ready to
! leave town, it being one of the many
towns in which We found this same
circus appearing. Two miles from
town we found one of thesbest camp
sites we have been at. From here
our course was northeasterly over
Cajon Pass and on through the
Mojave Desert to Barstow for the
first night, COTS the second and
Kingman, Arizona, the third and
last night on this more intense
| desert country as we were given to
! understand, yet. we had hundreds of
| miles of barren country before us.
.. The heat of the desert proved in
tense, but happily we had stopped on
| our way out Of Los Angeles before
some booths made to represent huge
oranges, and there for quarter
bought a bushel of oranges which
while travelling over the parched
sands Of the southwest. One is
caused to wonder at the choice of
abode on the part of those who here
! and there find their habitation on
/ these great wastes of sand.
AS We approached Oatman, Ariz.,
most interesting and picturesque
! formations of cathedral and dome
shape characters appeared before us.
To-
mining activities were in evidence.
I, We cannot forget the best rootbeer
We drank anywhere found in this
town. A five-mile climb brought us
to the summit beyond Oatman, and
| like descent brought US to 4 plain
stretch which we judged to be eight
miles but proved to he twelve.
AS one rides along through these
great stretches numerous carcasses
| of dead cattle are seen, while those
alive lack proper nourishnent. No
doubt while this'is the cause of death
for many, lightning has been the
| grim slayer of others.
| AS we approached Williams a con-
| trast to the desert heat was met with
in the chilling blasts which came upon
| us. 1t served to lower the tempera-
ture to the freezing point After
camping on the hills at Williams q
| short ride was taken to Flagstaff
where a fine camp was enjoyed and
! the warmth of burning logs at night
prepared the campers for the en-
joyment of a good nights rest.
- From this town a return was made
! the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
1 might be reached. Great ruts along
| this sixty mile stretch of road made
| Slow travel, causing darkness to
| overtake us before reaching camp.
| Morning called for the necessary
| water supply which was secured for
| the sum of twenty five cents at the
| railroad station of the Sante Fee sys-
tenn, to which point it is hauled After
| breakfast a short ride brought us
| to a view of this amazing spectacle
| of natures matches sculpturing.
Looking for ten miles across a vast
! chasm a mile deep to where the river
| flows the onlooker is treated to an
| indescribable wonder of formation
| and coloring which is looked upon
! from many angles along a reach of
| twenty miles or more.
After another night at Flagstaff
a visit was made to the Cliff Dwell
ings. These homes of original
Americans are caves in the sides of
! the mountains on either side of a
! ist over narrow path of the noun
| tain side high above the stream De
| low.
Rough travelling was to be our LIT
| with many another tourist for the
next two days, for the ravages &c
| recent floods had washed ont lGads
| and torn away bridges. Befole max
ing camp at Winslow streams Were
| forded, pitted roadways were travers-
| ed in the dense darkness as the
desert afforded no place suitable to
| camp; and in the course of events
/, bag was lost from the car.
, Holbrook was reached after ford
ing the Colorado River, where we
| chose the Gallup route instead of
the road via Springerville! About
thirty miles beyond Holbrook we
turned off the main road for visit
| to the Black Fortified Forest This
forest is reached along very steep
descent over a slippery trail. After
,, reaching the top again with a fine
souvenir the climber found he had
taxed we'll the powers of endurance.
This days riding was not at an end
until the toughest of roads, and
greatest testings of the car to cling
to the ground while tilted at an
extreme angle were experienced, as
well as climbing entertainments all
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