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No. 4 9
T h e r e is N o L an d L ik e O re g o n and O n ly O n e W illa m e tte V a lle y
How Wm. Bressler
In Boston an accommodating bailiff
fo r a fee o f $5 each took the boys
M o n m o u t h M a i d e n V is it s
Saw America First ! in
a"d ,h_owf ,tfccmthe
sights o f the New England metrop-
olis. By a little inquiry they found
In 1902, when Wiliam Er.-ssler they could go by boat from Boston
was a business man o f Moro, O re -; to New York and from there to
gon. he received a letter that led Philadelphia and Washington, the
to unusual experiences. His cor- capitol city as cheaply as straight
respondent was a man in Boston, back through Chicago and this they
Mass., a perfect stranger to Bress- did. And they saw many novel
le**, who enclosed a brand new one sights,in those eastern towns and as
dollar bill. It was a sample, he an incidental saw the fleet o f oyster
wrote, o f "green goods” which he boats plying their trade in the
was manufacturing and which was waters o f the Chesapeake.
in
so close to the original that it defi­ Chicago Mr. Bressler stopped at a
ed detection. He had more o f the wholesale house, got a trunk and
same material, he wrote, and would filled it with goods fo r his shelves,
sell $500 worth o f it fo r $200, enough to make up the baggage
which as a chance to get rich speed­ lim it. In due time he was home
ily, was as good an oportunity as again with over $200 left o f the $300
anyone could expect to find. Mr. which he received in Boston as
Bressler examined the greenback mileage and witness fees.
•—w w v w . .
and satisfied himself that it was
remarkably like the original/ so 1 Florence Heffley who is touring
much so that he susoected that it Europe this summer w rites from
was genuine.
Paris, of some o f the places she has
So he took his pen in hand and visited. She le ft Portland June
indicted an epistle to the gentle­ first and traveled the Southern
man in Boston, Massachusetts ask­ route to New York, spending sever-
ing him fo r more samples. The one al days in Washington, D. C. and
dollar bill was a "jim dandy” he other places o f interest. She sailed
w rote, and if the fives were as from New York June 21 and landed
good he was tempted to invest. in Plymouth, England going from
However he wanted a sample o f the there to France.
Miss Heffley
fives and promised faithfully to re­ writes: " W e landed at Cherbourg,
turn ft when it had been duly in­ France, July 1 and took an express
spected.
The Boston man wrote back and
seemed grieved that further evi­
dence was needed. Upon his honor
as a gentleman, by the sacred horn-
spoon o f the Siwash aborigines,
he testified to it, but send five
dollars more he simply could not.
So again Mr. Bressler dipped his
pen into ink and indicted a letter
to the postmaster and postal inspec­
tor o f the good old city o f Boston,
givin g the address o f the green
goode man and asking that he be
investigated.
In remarkably quick time he re­
ceived a letter stating that the
man had been investigated and
arrested, fo r lc, he was as slick a
crook as ever relieved an anxious
victim of his accumulated savings.
They had been seeking him for a
train to Paris, an eight hour ride.
f We through
have h the
ada Alps
cold was
duy b grand
ut thi* Bellknap is Attractive
F r a n c e , S w i t z e r la n d , I t a ly morning
VVhl,e‘we we we wished
re at M
ontreux this| Says Wm. Steinberg
so badly we
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Sunday morning we spent going and libraries and entertainments could have gone up on those awful
through the Cathedral Madeline and through the week, every evening high mountains where some o f tht
We took the train to Khiems large hotels were and what was our
in the afternoon went to Versailles
where
we saw the battle fields on surprise to find after that we were
to the old palace o f Kings Louis
No
Man’s
Land. This place was a on the electric car that wound back
X IV , X V . X V I. This very ancient
and interelting with its wonderful city o f 90,000 homes before the arul forth UP around the mountains
jt
pictures, statues, tapestries and an­ war and 125,000 people. A fte r the j until we finally got to the top
!
was
a
wonderful
sight.
These
places
tique furniture. The grounds are war only fourteen houses remained
also exceedingly beautiful and the unharmed. There are only 75,000 ¡are sq well *kept that it looks like
fountains which are many and won people here now. There is a great I tne grandest gardens or flower beds.
The people are verv progressive,
derful w ere playing, which happens | deal o f work going on to recon -
j I love it here if 1 could only talk. I
but once a month.
, struct the buildings
In the evening we had dinner at
The battle fields are sights, great expected to see a lot o f cattle here
the Hotel I .a France.
desolate streches o f land with j but so far all I see aie just small
Monday morning we left early trenches just full o f the most te r­ fields like our little garden at hone.
fo r the battlefields. We went by rible barbed w ire. The French had I There is scarcely a fence to be seen.
train to Chateau Thierry and then a great fo rt here, that was terribly What few cattle there are are herd­
rode in cars to Belleau Wood where torn up, but we went through it ed with dogs. There are a few
mountain peaks extended above the
the first Americans fought. .The anyway.
smaller
ones that have streaks o f
cemeteries here are wonderful and
Tuesday we visited a number o f
snow
on
them. Tomorrow, if it
the bodies from smaller cemeteries interesting places in Paris, the
does
not
rain
we are to go in a tal-
are being brought here fo r burial.
Louvre w here a large number o f
lyho
to
the
highest
village in Switz­
It is kept so nicely that any per­ masterpieces
of
paintings and
erland
and
eat
a
lu"ch
the hotel is
son having a son buried in France statues are collected. W e leave
to
fix
up
for
us
and
then go to
should never feel badly for fear the Friday for Geneva Switzerland.
some
wonderful
falls
in
the a fter­
graves are not being cared f o t .
Interlaken, Switzerland, July 9—
noon.
We
are
all
scared
for
A ft e r our visit to the cemetery w iSo many things happen to us that
fear
there
may
be
a
few
clouds
in
had lunch at Chateau Thierry and 1 overlook some o f them and before 1
the
sky
and
we
w
ill
be
kept
at
the
visited the museum there.
I t is fo rget I must tell you that on the
kept by the Methodists and has ma­ ocean I read the news o f the Albany hotel. The hotel is real nice but
ny interesting relics o f the war.
They have a nursery to care fo r the
babies during the day while the
peasants work. They have a school
minister and sheriff being killed not so good as the one at Montreux.
in the radio news on the boat. It There is another party o f tourists
seems remarkable that a boat at sea here besides ourselves and we have
can get the news from so far away, quite a bunch o f English speaking
“G r a n d m a ” P o w e l l T e lls ©If J o u r n e y A c r o s s P l a i n s in
ISSI
We started from our old home in
Sangamon county, Illinois, A pril 3,
1851, with ox teams. Traveling
fourteen miles the first day we stop­
ped at a farm house. A pril 5 we
reached Havana on the Illinois riv ­
er and started to ferry at noon when
e heavy rain commenced. Most of
the women were over except The­
resa and 1 and they hired a man to
bring us over in a skiff. It was my
first ride on the water. The storm
continued until the ferry boat sank.
W e had t> remain two days be
fore all were across. The next day
we had not gone far when Pa’s fine
young mare, given him by his fath-
er, was snagged by stepping on a
long time.
sharp stick and died in a few min-
And they wouldn’ t take " N o ”
utes. This was quite a misfortune
fo r an answer. The federal deputy
fo r American horses were scarce in
marshal who waited upon Mr.
Oregon and fo r several years Amer-
Bressler was soft spaken but very
ican mares were worth $300.
insistent that he go to Boston in
A ft e r the storm it commenced
person as a witness against the
snowing and freezing and fo r a few
green goods man. There was noth­
days we had a very disagreeable
ing else to do so Mr. B. accompani­
time.
ed by Sam McDonald, a butcher o f
A rrivin g at the Mississippi, the
Moro started fo r the Hub o f New
fe r iy was not running.
Heavy
England on the good old Northern
rains delayed us three days and then j
Pacific. And the round trip ticket
ail were safely landed at Ft. Madi
from Portland cost $65.
Just
¡son. There were very few settlers
think o f it. N ot only was the price
in Iowa and in the western part
o f the ticket most reasonable but
herds o f deer would cross our path,
when they arrived in Chicago a rail-
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April 22 we ramped at Grave
road man to
t em t e.v ring t jus Creek, Iowa, so called because o f
as well ta e t e
e lore and two grave8 there. I read the pencil
New \nrk ( entra imitec w ic ir w rjtjng on
board at the head o f
the Platte, we found the water high ¡The drivers had a hard time wad- were yoked in. 1 can not adequate­
and the bridg^ washed away. The ing sand all night and carrying the ly describe the steep mountains or
mer. and boys went a mile and a heavy ox whps.
even la u rel hill aud tell how the
half, cut poles and logs, hauled
The next day, June 27, McFad- w agons were let dowr. by log chains
them back and made a bridge dens stopped.
Grandma and Aunt w ith ropes and logs tieo xi behind
strong enough to haul over one Polly went to them but the rest to keep them down.
The v. -non
wagon at a time by hand. The | moved on. In a few hours they walked all the way over the moun­
women walked over. The water ran drove up with a new boy.
As it tains.
over the poles so deep we took off was the first grandson he was called
I carried Edwina, Theresa’s little
our shoes and stockings and waded j John.
g irl.
(I took her when her mother
over.
He was large and healthy but first became ill and kept her until
They swam the cattle across with survived only to reach our destina- her father married again. Grand­
their yokes on and one yoke o f cat- tion.
ma carried the baby and Jermima
tie got fast in the brush where the
August 1 we camped on Snake carried Sarah.
water was ten feet deep. Pa went river. One very hot day Theresa
Aunt Polly and Aunt Hannah
down the steep bank in waler up to (the baby’s mother) laid down in each had a babe. Mrs. Churchill
his shoulder, held to the bushes her wagon to sleep. A t four the carried her Sarah. We must have
with one hand and loosed them with wind came up cold and blew on her presented a lovely spectacle carry­
the other.
fo r some time before she awoke. ing the babys up and down the steep
There were plenty o f Indians She took a very bad cold, gradually mountains, crossing streams and
along the Platte river. May 14 we went down and died August 10 in ugly gulches, with the rain pouring
camped on a little raise. The next the Blue mountains.
down and dripping off our dirty
morning saw a tremenduous hail and
W e were a long ways from civili- bonnets.
rain storm and the ground for zation. Grandpa took the side-
We kept in good spirits and at
miles was covered with water,
j boards from the wagon, used the night would make a big fire o f%logs,
Steuben upset his wagon and the boards we had for a table for head half dry our clothes and then go to
flour and everything rolled into the and foot o f the grave and cut her bed and sleep soundly.
Strange
w gter.
He was called the best ox name and age on them with a to say it never hurt any o f us but
driver o f the party and fe lt pretty knife. This was near what is npw the baby. It took cold and never
cheap at the accident.
We trav­ Meacham station.
got over it.
eled a long way on the Platte and
When we crossed the Green river
We got into the valley September
encountered many storms.-
About in Wyoming we had to pay $10 a 3 at noon, taking seven and a half
the 27th o f May a great herd o f wagon. Each o f the old
men days in the Cascades and five
buffalo came from the river and brought their carriages thus far months and a day since we left
passed through our train,
but not wishing to pay ferriage Illinois. We started with four
The great disadvantage o f travel they le ft all three on the other yoke o f oxen to each wagon but
along the P lrtte was lack o f fuel.
side. Along here Grandpa
was got through with one or two oxen
We gathered dry buffalo chips very sicx. He thought he would to the wagon. They were replac­
those days ma e t
e t
mi es the graves telling o f the accident and made fire to cook bacon and never g et through but gradually re- ed by cows.
between New York and Chicago in
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and who the victims were. The ¡coffee. You might think the smell covered.
We went to work for something
something less than twenty hours
teams traveled so slowly that the would bother us but by that time
We passed the historic Ft. Hall to eat and had more appetites than
It seems that traveling long distan
women could leave the road; go to we minded not a little thing like July 11. A few soldiers were there money. The women worked and
ces gave people special privileges.!
places o f interest and soon catch up smells.
as well as some squaw men with In- sewed for vegetables and the men
My stars, but that limited train
again. There was a severe snow
When we le ft the Platte we had dian wives. The next day we pass- bought and killed some cattle. We
did go. It seemed like a harnessed
storm on the 29th o f A pril and I a long drive and camped at m id -1 ed American balls on Snake river filed on a 320 acre donation land
streak o f lightning. It went so
passed my 21st birthday shut up in night without food, water or grass, and passed Salmon falls July 21.
claim and built a log house in which
fast they couldn’ t count the tele­
the wagon all day.
We started the nei^ morning with-
The road through the Rockies
we started housekeeping in Decem­
graph poles. A man from Pedee,
We reached Council Bluffs May 1 out breakfast and went thirteen was a gradual ascent and
descent
wiu w
k iiii i ber, 1851.
one o f the party, grew actually sick
and remained until the 7th when we miles to W illow Springs on Sweet- but not very steep.
— From the Powell Family History.
with frigh t. As for Mr. Bressler
crossed the Missouri. The teams water river.
A few miles farther
But we found the Blue Mountains
and
Butcher McDonald f r o m
and loose cattle were made to swim we came to a curiosity called Dev- rocky and steep.
The teams were I
Moro, although they were pale
across to save expense o f ferriage, j it*« gate perpendicular rocks on jaded and it seemed cruel to goad j
W aln u t P rospects Good
around the eyes, they had ridden
When we had safely crossed we either side o f the river 400 feet them.
bucking bronchos, so^hey grasped heard the men and boys laughing.
We ferried Falls river August 21
The prospects are good fo r a ban-
high. Near the head o f Sweetwa­
the seats, braced themselves firmly
A hog that had followed us sever­ ter we came to snow on the 22nd o f and paid $5 a .wagon.
The rope ner crop o f walnuts this year. Most
and said "N e v e r again” . But they al days had ridden over on the back
June. Near this place is the con­ broke and it took until night to get o f the orchards hang loaded with
reached New York city safely and
o f a cow. We le ft it, 1 suspect for tinental divide.
over. Then we had to remain un- nuts and the warm season has been
from there proceeded a little more Mormon meat. Council Bluffs was
Between the divide and Green til morning without wood or grass. favorable to abundant
growth.
leisurely to Boston.
a Mormon town. The Mormons river is a desert forty miles long, We started into the Cascades, A u g­ J. M. MacDonald o f this city has
There they met Inspector Snow
had an inspection committee which A t four in the morning we started ust 27, wagons creaky, covers torn two trees where the nuts pull down
ah> took them in charge and in
stooped families headed toward Salt and came out at noon o f the day af- and jaded teams: the men with the limbs like a heavy crop o f ap­
the course o f time Mr. Green Goods
Lake who were insufficiently out- ter stopping only an hour fo r break- pants tom to the knees by walking ples. M r. McDonald also has a
was put'to trial, convicted, and put
We in sage brush and the women no cherry tree from which were picked
to doing something more beneficial fitted until they could supplv them- fast and to rest the teams.
a
to the ( ountry than swindling people. selves.
a
A t Shell Creek, a branch o f took a little wood and water along.
better off.
As the oxen died, cows| $40 worth o f cherries this year.
Wm. Steinberg says that miracles
are performed at Belknap springs.
It is a common sight to see a man
or woman come hobbling on crutch­
es and after a few treatments dis-
pense first with one crutch and
then with the other. This is accom­
plished by drinking and bathing in
the mineral water which comes
from the spring. A number o f
minerals are held in solution in this
water which comes from the rocks,
boiling
hot.
Sulphur, radium,
aluminum and salt are some o f
them. It has been attempted to
bottle this water and sell it com­
mercially
but
without success.
When held for a short time the el­
ements o f the water unite in a most
horrible odor which unfits it for
use. The water comes so hot that
eggs can be boiled in a short time.
Beans and other vegtables are cook­
ed by being floated in the spring.
A stream o f very cold water
comes from a spring not far away
and within
twenty feet o f the
spring, food cooked in the spring
can be refrigerated by an icy blast
that comes through a fissure in the
mountain. Popular rates prevail
at this resort at present but an at­
tempt is being made to finance a
large hotel on the spot when it is
likely the rates w ill be shot sky-
wtrd making the place out o f the
reach o f the masses.
people. How we do talk when we
find someone outside our party who
can speak English.
I have met no
one yet from
Oregon although
there are two from Washington and
oL --ra. ' m California.
I mu*: t*».
mi about the beds
here in Europe. One almost has to
have a ladder to get in or nut o f
them. They have more pillows and
in I’aris we had the moat wonderful
old gold silk comforters. Here in
Switzerland the beds are as high and
as many pillows but on top o f the
bed is a little white tick full o f
feathers for a cover. It is hard fo r
me to w rite while listening to the
chatter o f this awful bunch o f
people. Our twenty-six can make
enough noise without other help.
Tuesday-morning— I believe yes­
terday was the most wonderful day
o f all. The sun shone so brightly
and at 9 we got in a tallyho and
started on the grand mountain roads,
paved all the way. I never imagin­
ed there was such grand scenery
and such wonders., I wish I could
describe them.
We followed a
stream all the way and great HIGH
mountains on both sides.
These
were layer upon layer o f stone with
fir, spruce and alder growing where
ever they could.
The highest peak
was the Jungfrau. W e also went
to see the terrible Truemmelboc
falls. You go into a cave and out
from a couple o f holes shoots a ter­
rible volume o f water.
Even the
spray almost knocks one over.
A fter seeing them we took a ea-
ble car straight up the side o f the
mountain. It was an awful die-
tance and looked so dangerous but
we made it all right and.then took
another little electric car to the
highest village in the Alps (5,347
ft .)
Here we could look over on the
towering, snow capped mountains.
The hotel at Interlaken had fixed us
up a lunch fo r two In each sack;
consisting to 2 boiled eggs. 3 meat
sandwiches, a sack o f Royal Artn
cherries and a bar o f milk choco­
late.
Tuesday noon— W e started on the
train this morning and rode a bout
an hour, then took a couple o f
sight seeing cars and rode through
the beautiful country, rstici: like
yesterday, with good, narrow roads
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