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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 49. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1906. 
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ACROSS THE CONTINENT, 
Descriptions of a Trip from Boston to San 
Francisco and Return, 
[The following is taken from notes made 
by Thomas D. Connolly of Beverly Farms, 
on a recent trip to San Francisco. — ED.] 
No. 3. — New Orleans to the Rio Grande. 
We left New Orleans this morning 
at 11 o’clock and after one hour’s run 
were held up for about thirty minutes. 
The Southern Pacific railroad starts — 
here, and we notice that the engines 
burn oil instead of coal. We are right 
in front of a lot of negro shanties and 
a negro has just come along with a 
dead coon which he has caught in a 
steel trap. He hung the coon up on 
his piazza. 
The negro shanties are built on 
posts four feet above ground, as the 
lowlands are overflowed. In front of 
each house a dug out with one paddle 
is tied to a post so that when the water 
comes they can go from place to place. 
We just rrrived at Hangbury on 
the Mississippi and the train has been 
hauled in two sections onto a large 
steamer called “Le Grande.’ The 
other side of the river is called Avon- 
dale; it takes forty-five minutes to 
cross. We passed through large areas 
of low flat country very fertile, and on 
which grow the best sugar cane that 
the South produces. Also there are 
large timber tracts of swamp cypress 
which wood of late years is used con- 
siderably in the North. Frenchmen 
do the cutting. 
The negroes along here are very 
prosperous looking. They plough the 
land with four mules for each plough. 
The Spanish moss hangs on the trees 
in long strips to the top and palm 
trees as plenty as ferns in New Eng- 
land. 
We notice at one station as we pass, 
“San Francisco 2448 miles.’”’ Each 
station gives the distance from New 
Orleans, also that ot San Francisco 
and the elevation. 
We have just crossed a Bayou which 
runs up from the Gulf of Mexico and 
the place is called Morgan City. On 
both sides of this Bayou are large 
oyster canning factories. 
When we arrived at St. Charles, 
near the border line of Texas, the 
familiar sound of the frogs was heard. 
It is a joyful sound to us who dwell in 
the North, that at last Spring has 
come. 
We passed Beaumont, the oil district 
of Texas, and arrived at Houston at 
lam. It was raining hard and very 
warm, making us think of our April 
weather at home. 
We arrived at San Antonio at 8 
o’clock Sunday morning and the train 
made a stop of two hours. We feft 
the train and found two large engines 
and fifteen cars on the same. 
We hired a carriage and drove all 
over the city, visiting the Spanish 
Cathedral of San Fernando, where we 
found:-the Mexican, Spaniard and the 
American attending the same church. 
We viewed the historic Alamo, where 
Davy Crockett, Houston and others 
held their own in a battle with the 
Mexicans until all were slaughtered. 
When the Mexicans gained entrance, 
all of the Americans were dead. 
San Antonio is a very beautiful city, 
and here you see the old missions that 
appeal so much to everybody, and 
which were made famous by the writ- 
ings of Miss Helen Hunt Jackson in 
her ‘History of the Missions”’ and 
in her ‘“ Ramona.” 
We are now off for El Paso. We 
look out and see the mesquite tree, 
cactus and the live oak. We can see 
the cattle feeding and the picturesque 
cowboy attending to them. His lasso 
is tied to the pommel of the saddle, 
ready to stop a stubborn steer who 
may start the whole herd on a stam- 
ede. 
We reached E] Paso at 7 o’clock in 
the morning, and had four hours there 
to visit the different points of interest. 
We crossed the border into Juarez, 
Mex., where there are three historic 
bells hung by rawhide in a tower, all 
that is left of an old mission. At 
Juarez every Sunday there is a bull 
fight, and we saw the remnants of the 
previous day in the shape of four bulls 
and a horse which were killed in the 
fray. 
It is remarkable just in the short 
distance of a mile or so, to see the 
difference between the United States 
and Mexico. There are plenty of 
Mexican and American custom house 
officers on the line, and exery person 
is asked the question: ‘‘Have you 
anything on which you should pay 
duty?” The saloons are small shops, 
and are open in El Paso even if it is 
Sunday. All the American stores are 
closed, and you see the Mexican 
lounging in front with his cigarette 
and wide sombrero hat. 
Around each station through Texas 
and Arizona one can see a number of 
black pigs picking up whatever they 
can find around the diner. They are 
very tame and go under the cars and 
cross the tracks unconcerned of dan- 
er: 
: We get back to our train, and we 
are off, climbing up gradually. The 
elevation at El Paso is 4000 feet. On 
both sides of the car cactus is all 
that can be seen. There is mesquite 
wood, sage brush and sand, and even 
a goat would starve on it. 
We have a very pleasant party with 
us on the train. Some are going to 
Alaska, some to Mexico and others to 
Japan and China. We stopped at a 
place called Spofford where a Mexican 
vender is selling tortillas at five cent- 
avos each. Wenext came to Del Rio. 
The Southern Pacific here runs along 
the Mexican and United States bor- 
der. There are United States custom 
and regular army officers at all sta- 
tions. The men and women have all 
the colors of the rainbow in their gar- 
ments and’ head dress. The chimneys 
of the houses here are of clay mixed 
with hay. The adobe buildings are 
built of clay and after it is put on the 
sides of the houses are marked off 
very carefully with lines, and look 
much like broken ashler. 
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