Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-01
Girls Tour
To Pacific Coast

would fill q good sized book, Alice,
He.en and Kathleen Caulieid, of 2S0
Mcclellan stI eet and Jane b. Smock,
of Red Bank, N. j., returned home
Monday night after four months and
a half of travelling through practi-
cally every state from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast.
Having no object in mind. other
than a sightseeing trip five girls, the
fifth being Miss Mary Nivison, a
relative of the Caulield's who lives
in Elwood, Ind, left this city at 9
o'clock on the morning Of June 16 in
a light Ford suburban destined to
reach California or bust
The first stop made by the ad.
Venturers was at Gettysburg, Pa
where they visited friends for several
days. They then ventured to Mary
land and after visiting several places
Of interest in that section of the
country crossed into Pennsylvania
and thence to West Virginia. From
this state the girls toured through
Ohio to Elwood, Ind, where one of
the party, Miss Nivison, was drop
ped from the ranks at her home
there, as her vacation from employ
ment lasted but three weeks. a
short stay was made at this place.
After preparations for auothar
jaunt were made the girls set out
again and next visited Illinois. Very
little time was lost here and a jump
through hat state brought them to
st. Louis. Mo-, where a week was
spent with friends.
TI1o etofa of Iynrgae Ntya fI,o -
place reached and after hating for
a few days to visit places of histori-
cal interest the four girls next tour
ed to Colorado. Colorado Springs
was visited and then a trip to Pixies
Peak was made. In all of the west
ern states the local people
tered many hardships. some of which
halted them from their journey for
several days, but none stopped their
progress for any great length of
time.
When Pixies Peak was reached,
the oliver" which had stood the
test through some of the toughest
roads that Il tourist would even think
of comi"S in contact with, was
abandoned ard a hike up the noun
tain was made. At s o'clock in the
evening the start was made for the
climb and the top was reached
shortly before three the following
morning. Luck was with the girls
on this venture. as day broke Just
as they were about to descend the
p~recipice and the sun rose for
the first time in several weeks
Yellowstone Park. in Wyoming,
was next set out for by the tourists
n here many hardships and thrill
ing adventures were met with by
them. For a distance of about $50
miles. through thick forests. miles
of swamps and rainy weather the
little four cylinder auto carried the
local people through the praries,
where roads were washed away. over
mountains where the heavy rainfall
had dug steep bitches. which many
times caused them to detour or turn
back to seek better trails, until final
~ during the early part of August
they reached Montana.
From Montana. after a short rest,
the Ford, laden with its heavy camp
iiiS outfits and souvenirs from every
place of interest that had been reach
ed. hummed its way through a thin
strip of Idaho to Washington. Ore
gon was the next place reached and
here also a few stops were made.
Over another string of mountains
which also held within them many
difficulties was the next move of the
adventures. On their start for Cali
fornia the girls were warned by
hundreds of people of the hangers
encountered by tourists through the
mountain passes. Highway robbers
on the route to the big cities of Cali
fornia were as thick as flies. they
We're told, and it was only a 1ife's
risk for girls to venture through the
valleys and prairie land there.
The Caulfeld's braved this. how
ever and without being stopped on
their journey from Oregon across
the mountains reached the big cities
OF the motion picture country fer
their last stop west.
The return trip was not quite as
hazardous rs the first, although they
~Journeyed further south, and touch
ed the states OF Nevada ana New
Mexico. on their tour east. In Ne
vada heavy rain storms. thai wash
ed away bridges filled lakes to over
flowing, washed away roads ana IN
this way tnclT progress was halted.
at II time beng stall cd in water
and mud up to the hub caps for sew
eral hours.
In Oklahoma the situation was al
most tho same as that in the other
states and -four days were lost in
one city because of the floods.
Through Kansas the girls toured TO
st. Louis, Mo, again and then fol-
lowed tho same route they had taken
from this city to that place on the
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