The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-29
Miss Holt Tells OF Trip In Original
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 Nothing tame about this trip writes Miss Katherine Holt, who Is making a trip through the west, in a letter to her mother last week. "A cloudburst last Sunday and now we are held up on our way to Cody by a landslide in the canyon ahead of us. Last nights train isn't through, and they tell us that we. will be here for few hours yet-um'
 T am snatching a few minutes to write you, while Miss Tommy has gone into the station to phone some friends who are living here. Sunday afternoon, while Miss Tommy was with her friends. the Dombeys, Mary Ellen took me on one of the Denver mountain trips and everything was lovely until we came To a place where we couldn't get through on ac- count of the cloudburst. Our big red bus was but one of hundreds of cars held up s far ahead as one could see, and soon, as far behind. Our driver took a long detour and thus managed to get in on the road again, ahead of a few hundred cars, and then passed everything on the road, trying to make my train for me. It was quite a thrilling ride, but hopeless for we were still about 10 miles out of town when my train was pulling out. He tried his best but you can reason with cloudburst, and as l told Miss Tomrgy later, it isn everyone who can have an alibi which Is written up on the front page of a big newspaper like the Rocky Noun tain News, next day.
 'It gave me an extra day in Den yer, and I was lucky that 1t wash | some place like Podunk where l nap pened to miss a train.
 Monday morning we went out to the museum, which is new since we were here last, and enjoyed 1t, es- peciallv the collection of Japanese art obiects. including inlay work. intrl- cate carvings, exquisite vases, ana quaint old snuff boxes. They nave unite A collection of stuffed mamma and birds Fortunately, we were Il entire agreement with them to the feasibility of passing up the rep tiles.
 we came back to Denver proper for lunch and had it at the Business and Professional Women's club. we met the manager, Miss Starbuck, ana looked around their quarters me Denver girls went in deDt to lHe tune of s1O,O00, but 1 like our club room best 1,o,-
 "Every trip I've taken around Den yer has ended in a storm with nall stone included or something eqQally as exciting. They surely threw threw things at me in that town. My purse got soaked on one trip, but we had the bus take us py the station, and in the hour peloI train time I dried out my Dag ,,har %,eT contents. bought some anlo@ @ classes in the station, and following g inc advice of the "Perfect Behavior hook included the Atlantic Monthly in my purchase of magazines rtow ever. perhaps l counteracted IL pS Life and Judge.
 q am so glad these western tram are oil burners as it relieves one G, |. the cinder nuisance. We had ehousn cinders from Memphis to Kansas Ci'S to do us for the entire trip
 "Marv Ellen and I broke all traI- ,c laws for speed talking sunday We dined at the Manhattan natloli, ally famous cafe, whose proprle'o,, wiiled 1t to his employees "ho h"' been with him for years. ss,,e eve saw the museum or bu ,l LIai' p,,i tronhles near his grave on LOOK
 "rn Casper. whom should we TUT i,.o hut Earle Burwell and his wlIe who used to be Lena Weinners, Central Park neighbor. car. eyer eye, get stranded in a desert "l'io" "' neetIng some one I know o
 Later cards from Miss Holt tell O. O, a visit to Grand canyon and hike ol 1900 feet down the United Sta{fs tS, trail, which she says is montn ..ta =, exercise, but worth it to get the NieM of the falls below, and of the trIt from Geyser Bay to Old FalthIul, u Prismatic lake and Turquoise pool
 Miss Holt, who is one of the mos, nonular and best loved members oi the Business and Professional Wom. ems club In Birmingham, is spendllnl 2 her vacation touring the, west Wltr Miss Zennie Tomlinson, also mem. Der of the club In "stoh. park they joined the five girls iron the club who are "flivvering throu6N the west.