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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 2. NUMBER 4. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1905. 
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. 9. — Salt Lake City to Boston. 
Salt Lake is a beautiful city and 
has fine public buildings. The Mor- 
mon holds the balance of power. 
Salt Lake is 90 miles long and 43 
miles wide, and one can see vast 
quantities of salt in sacks piled up on 
the shore. Tom Kearns, a former 
United States Senator, and his part- 
ner, Keith, are the owners of the 
Silver King mine, near Salt Lake. 
They have an income each month from 
this mine of $50,000. Kearns gave 
»85,000 for an orphan asylum here 
and $25,000 for the new Cathedral. 
We boarded an observation trolley 
Car, visiting the Mormon Tabernacle 
and Assembly hall. The Tabernacle, 
which was designed by Brigham 
Young, is built oblong, 250 feet in 
length and 150 feet in width, with a 
dome-shaped roof. There is not a 
post in it, and standing in one end 
one can hear a pin drop in the other 
end. It seats 10,000 people, and has 
20 doors 9 feet wide. The building 
can be emptied in four minutes. The 
organ in this great building cost 
$100,000 and has 5,500 pipes. There 
is a choir of 500 voices, all the talent 
being gratis. A Mormon is compelled 
to give 1-10 of his income to support 
the church. From the ceiling of this 
great building to the floor it is 70 feet. 
The Assembly hall holds 2500 people. 
They obtain their converts mostly 
from Sweeden and Germany. 
One of the mountains near Salt 
Lake is 13,200 feet high and another 
11,300 feet. Brigham Young, the 
founder of Salt Lake City, had 19 
wives and 52 children. Elder Smith 
had 42 children. The Mormons have 
large co-operative stores, their own 
bank, and even publish a newspaper. 
No one outside their church is allowed 
to go into their temple, where they 
marry and baptize and hold religious 
services. The treasurer of the Mor- 
mons isa man by the name of William 
B. Preston. They have 22 public 
schools and 369 teachers in Salt Lake, 
outside of the Mormon schools. 
We returned to our car, and started 
for Denver at 3.30 p.m. on our trip 
through the Rockies. The scenery 
is very beautiful, and we noticed the 
little cabins of the lonely miners who 
are prospecting and trying their luck 
in search of the yellow metal. We 
kept ascending all night and the next 
morning, till 7 o'clock, when we 
reached Tennessee Pass, 13,240 feet 
above sea level. A great many per- 
sons on their way to Colorado, suffer- 
ing with consumption, meet their end 
at or near this place. As regards this 
high altitude, its effect on some peo- 
ple is very marked, such as a difficulty 
in breathing, and ringing in the ears. 
I did not notice it at all, but a young 
man near me was so affected that he 
became very much excited for want of 
air, and to cap the climax had a heavy 
hemorrhage of the nose. All that a 
person should do is to remain as quiet 
as possible, for the least exertion will 
soon show itself. Tennessee Pass is 
240 feet higher then Leadville. 
We then begin to go down, and 
every once in a while passed switch 
backs. In case the engineer should 
lose control of his train, he is thrown 
on this track by a switchman, and as 
it ascends quickly, it soon comes to a 
stop. As he approaches these switch 
backs he is obligcd to give four long 
whistles, signifying that he has his 
train under control. If he’ forgets 
this the switchman simply throws him 
on to the switch back. 
We passed over the Royal Gorge 
bridge, which is hung up in the air, so 
to speak. This bridge has heavy steel 
trusses, built like a pitch roof; that 
is, the ends of steel rafters are fas- 
tened into the sides of the gorge, and 
through these rafters immense steel 
rods hang down. They are fastened 
to steel stringers, which support the 
bridge underneath. The Arkansas 
river rushes and roars down through 
this narrow pass. | 
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail- 
road was formerly of narrow gauge, 
but it is now standard gauge. They 
simply put in a third rail, and it seems 
funny to see both narrow gauge and 
standard gauge cars running together 
on the same freight train. Through 
all this wild and picturesque country 
you see smelters, coke and charcoal 
burners. 
We reached Colorado Springs, a 
beautiful spot, and here is the famous | 
Antler’s hotel. You start from this 
place to go to Pike’s Peak, which can 
be seen plainly, even to the summit 
house on the top. 
We continued on, and_ reached 
Pueblo. After leaving Pueblo we no- 
ticed the prairie dog, which is the pest 
of this part of Colorado, and when the 
train passes along he scampers for his 
hole. The government has tried 
everything imaginable to get rid of 
this little fellow, but nothing up to 
the present time has been found. 
Once they obtain a foothold in your 
land it is of no use to try to get rid of 
them. The only way to do this is to 
flood the land with water. 
We reached Denver at last, and 
took a trolly ride around the city. It 
is the capital of Colorado and has a 
fine State House. All its buildings 
and dwelling houses, even to the little 
cottages, are built of brick, and such 
beautiful colored brick, too. It would 
make an Eastern architect excited, the 
colors seem to blend so well. In all 
the little paths in Denver one can see 
the invalids sitting out on settees. 
Denver is 6,000 feet above sea level, 
and is a beautiful city. 
We left Denver at 10.30 p.m. and 
when we awoke next morning we were 
in Nebraska. The land is so level 
that as far as the eye could reach we 
saw little cottages, but large and well- 
equipped buildings for holding their 
grain and cattle. We passed through 
Lincoln, near the home of Wm. Jen- 
nings Bryan (the sixteen to one candi- » 
date for the Presidency). 
All day long we rode, and at 2 p.m. 
arrived at Omaha, noted for its stock 
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