Month: September 2019

11th – We are now speeding across the desert of Arizona. Here Indians & mesicans work on the R.R. Stopped at Winslow at 9 AM. & had breakfast. Got took for $2.75 but you can bet it was the last 6 bit meal on this trip “Experience is a dear school, but fools wont learn anyplace else”. Ben Franklin says…

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Tues. morn. 5:30 We are now at Corcoran, 272 miles S.E. of city. Arrived at Bakersfield at 7:30. Got coffee & peanut butter there. Reached Mojave at 11:10, on time. Mojave is situated right in midst of the Mojave Desert in Calif. Sept.10th-7 P.M. Now at Barstow, the changing point for Los Angeles, the fire country. We have just left…

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Sept. 9th — Ate breakfast-went to the ferries & ship dock (wharf). Saw the big ships & went thru Chinatown, a queer town indeed. About 5:30 we went to the ferries & found that the train that goes East leaves at 8:00 PM. So we made up our minds to go. Would start for home right away. Went back up…

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Sun. Morning. & ate our breakfast & took the car for the seashore. We spent the day there. We saw the Cliff house, seal rocks, seals, the ocean, the Golden Gate & the girls wading at the beach with their dresses pulled up half way between their knees & waist & they didn’t have on any drawers at all. Came…

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Sept.7th – There [in Sacramento at 5:30 am, 09.07.1901] we learned that President McKinley had been shot. Got to Port Costa at 7:30[am] & there we crossed the bay on the largest ferry in the world (train and all). 32 miles from Port Costa to City. At Oakland we crossed the bay again on a big ferry (but not the…

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Sept.6th – We bid Callie & Family goodbye & bought our tickets for San Francisco. Cost $9.80. Left Castella at 8:15 & landed in Sacramento at 5:00 Sat. Morning. At this point, Jesse, John, and Cousin Tom have worked for three months on the railroad around Castella, California. They performed hard manual labor, saw a few physical altercations, helped the…

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