A TRIP TO ST. LOUIS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8114, 8 November 1904, Page 2

A TRIP TO ST. LOUIS.

IX COLORADO.

THE MARVELLOUS GRAND CANYON.

(By "F.H.H."i

On Sunday, 18th September, went for a walk up Williams' Canyon, and in the afternoon took car for Prospect Lake, and this (6.35 p.m.) finds me on Santa Fe train again on my way to La Junta (pronounced Yunta), where at 10.35 l pick up the California, Limited, on my road to Williams'. Here on Moniay night I take the side line for the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The remarks at the head of the leaves/ of your "folder" say it is "the greatest rift in the earth's crust!" "A railroad to the rim!" "217 miles long!" "13 miles wide, and 6000 feet deep!" "Most sublime scenic panorama in the world!" "The great round world has nothing like it!" "Easily accessible every day in the year." "Titan of chasms and painted like a flower!" "An inexpensive side trip." Well, we shall see. Whilst there are notices warning people of the danger of getting in and out of trains and cars when in motion, yet. there is no penalty for doing so, 1 and people are allowed to kill themselves if they wish to, so the result is that you see people risking their lives in this way , at every station I was glad to see' that Sunday was observed at Colorado Springs, all the shops being closed on that day. The high 'altitudes affect people in different ways, and some not at all: the most fashionable result is nose-bleed. So of I've had this several times. Hay feyer or nasal catarrh is also prevalent in dusty places, and J'ya suffered from that disagreeable sensation pretty considerably. I had a night on the California,,, Limited, the fashionable train of the t^anta Fe. It is very up-to-date, carries nothing . but Pulhnan sleeping can, and only tuns serai*weekly from Chicago to, San Francisco. It also has a dining car, and serves meabi a la carte, a bar, buffet, smoking room, library, writing tables,, observation ear, parlor far ladies and children, and gymnasium. Above your ordinary first-claw fare, you must pay 3 dollars a day (and for any portion of a day) extra for your sleeper, or you