The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-01-09

| Mrs. JOnn P1arf ST, Il. SeNCNll ST.
left recently for Lac, New Guinea,
where he intends to enter the mis-
Isionary service for the American
lutheran Church.
/ The first leg of his trip by rail
broad to San Francisco, where he
larrived a few days ago. Charles
describes his trip in the following
letter, which he asks The Journal
to publish because he was unable
ito write personally to all of his
friends here:
iDear Friends
The train was on time Sun. Dec.
i8, We left Columbus at 8:45 and
Preached Chicago at 4:30. In Chic
ago we were held for just few
ihours. In this time we were able
to look the city over. At 8:l5 our
,train pulled out of the Chicago
lstation, travelling toward San
Francisco. At present the train is
taking on passengers at Grand
Island, Neb. AS the train travels
farther west we see the gentle roll
ling plains gradually growing in
to the foothill region of Wyoming.
Travelling on into Wyoming, we
get a birds eye view of Wyoming's
gigantic mountains. After leav-
ing Wyoming we entered Utah.
Here we are able to see, beautiful
Salt Lake, from the train. Huge
hills surrounding the lake and are
lowered with snow. The morning
sun shining on the snow magnif-
les the colors like those of a rain
bow, after a spring shower. These
beautiful eolors are quite sight
F.! for any nature lover. The train
travelled on at about miles an
hour as it crossed a bridge built
over the lake.
The train travels on into New
ada. For miles and miles one
doesn't ever see a house. The
/ houses are far and few travellers
on the Nevada prairies. The sun
sets early in this district. It's 4:30
Nevada time and the sun is rest
ing over the snow capped mount
aims throwing ray of beautiful
colors on and around the mount
aims. An aqua blue borders the
tips of the mountains, blending
into a lovely lavender above it.
The mountains are full of colors
mainly pink and orange blending
very nicely AS the train speeds
on, the sun is hiden by the
mountains and a gray snow fall
scene takes the place of the lovely
blended colors. We enter the dark
gray atmosphere of a mining
town. The train slows down for
j just a few seconds and then speeds
on toward San Francisco.
Darkness sneaks up on US and
as ! look out of my train window
/ see nothing but darkness about
me. AS time flies / again look out
of my window. This time | see the
moon coming up in the distance.
No artist could paint such a beaut-
iful picture. The moon casts a
beautiful orange glow all about
itself. The dark clouds roll by the
moon giving a hazy cast about it.
AS the train takes us closer to
our destination / look out of the
window and see a maze of lights
in the distance. My travelling COM
panion informed me that we would
soon be entering the arch of the
notorious city, of Reno.
We passed through Reno and on
through the Hi Sierra Mountains.
1t is dark now and the visibility
is very poor. A l look out of my
train window | could see nothing
but mountains covered with snow.
The moon was high by now and
one could see a wonderful sight
from his window. 1t wasn't long
before l found myself asleep. l rose
early the next morning as we
stopped at Oakland at ZOO to catch
a ferry to San Francisco. We were
busy getting things in order and
saying so-long to our travelling
companions. We entered the ferry
and it wasn't long before we were
on our way across the long stretch
of water between Oakland and
| San EraOciccO For thp first tiToa
l saw live sea gulls by the hund-
reds. This was quite an occasion
for me. Looking out of the window
| could see Treasure Island and
and in a distance I could see Al
catraz. On reaching San Francisco
we were greeted by the Pastor of
that town. and then taken to our
Hotel.
My travelling companion, Mr..