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Show 0. H. MORRIS RETURNS FROM 6 weeks: tour West Coast, Panama Canal and Places in East Made Famous in Early Days of the L. D. S. Church Visited Judge D. H. Morris returned heme llonday from an interesting vacation tour of forty days, including in-cluding in addition to a trip through the Panama canal, visits through or into twenty-two states and covering between nine and ten thousand miles. From St. George Judge Morris went to Salt Lake and then tg Los Angeles, embarking at San Pedro on tjhe California, a 600-passenger, 600-passenger, four deck vessel. He left Monday at 6 a. m., May 12, and reached Balboa a week later, making mak-ing no stops en route. Balboa is a strictly American settlement and forms the west entrance en-trance to the Canal zone. A day and a night were spent in this very modern and beautiful city, with auto tours to many places of interest during the stay. Balboa houses the government govern-ment officials, the military headquarters head-quarters and practically all of the Amsrican citizenry of the Canal zone. Day and night is about equal in Balboa; there Is an annual rainfall of fifteen feet and a variation va-riation in temperature of from 83 to 87 degrees the year round. Fourth of July avenue seperates Balboa from the City of Panama, which is distinctly foreign in population pop-ulation and in otheT respects. Balboa Bal-boa is dry, Panama overflowing, and a complete national difference differ-ence exists with only the avenue as the dividing line. Starting through the canal on the morning of May 20, the boat passed through the Miraflores double dou-ble locks and the one at Pedro Miguel. In the. Miraflores locks the ship is lifted 54 feet, 15 minutes being required to fill the locks with the three million gallons of water. The ships do not pass through the locks under their own power, the government providing four monster engines called mules, two of while propel and two steady the ship. Passing out of the Pedro Miguel lock the ship enters the (Continued on page 4) JUDGE MORRIS ' RETURNS HOME (Continued from page 1) Culebra cut, known now as the Galliard cut. One hundred fifty ""Viillion cubic yards of earth including in-cluding slides, having been removed remov-ed in making this cut, much of which was transported and used in the building of the city of Balboa. mr Passing through Gatun lake the vessel is lowered into the Atlantic ocean through the three Gatun lccks, Gatun lake having been formed by damming off the Charges river, which supplies the water used in filling the locks, instead of forcing the waters of the Pacific and Atlantic into service ser-vice for this purpose. Mr. Morris was impressed with the dense tropical growth on either side of the great canal, and through the surrounding territory, it being impossible to get much of a look at the soil because of dense plant life. The California arrived at Havana, Ha-vana, Cuba, on Friday morning, May 23, where the passengers re- villained three days, taking tour's of the 'country each day. Outstanding Outstand-ing of the scenic delights was quaint old Havana with its ancient residences, barred windows, and narrow, crooked streets; all this on one side of the city, and con-strasting con-strasting strangely with the new Havana, modern to the last degree. de-gree. Here were magnificent buildings, build-ings, modem transportation facilities, facili-ties, thorough policing, etc. The population of Havana is 600,000. Apparently the main business of the city is to pluck the tourist; which the Judge avers they d expertly. Arriving out of the regular reg-ular tourist season, rooms were to be had at $4.00. Later in the tourist tour-ist season visitors will be charged $22 for the same accommodation. Leaving Havana on May 26 In a 350-foot boat they reached Key West in the evening and went on to Washington, passing through Florida, South and North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and W Virginia. Vir-ginia. He remained in Washington three days spending two afternoons after-noons sightseeing, and visiting Arlington Ar-lington national cemetery and Mt. Vernon. He found many friends in Washington and called on all members of Utah's congressional delegation who showed him every courtesy. From Washington Judge Morris journeyed to New York where three days were spent sightseeing. On June 3 he took a steamer up the Hudson river to Albany, which was a magnificent trip. A day was spent in Albany where he visited the state capitol, which is a veritable veri-table treasure house of historical relics including thousands f flags collected from those used in the Revolution, the war of 1812, the CiviL War, Spanish-American war and the World war, all of which bear their respective historical data. On June 5 Judge Morris went to Rochester, which was made' the base of many visits to scenes of interest connected with early L. D. S. church history. These included in-cluded Palmyra, the Hill Cmno-rah, Cmno-rah, the Smith farm, the Sacred Grove, the stream where early baptisms were performed and the Smith home with its old hearth under which stones the records were hidden, and the upstaiss room where the prophet received many visions. He also visited the Wjhitmer home where the church was first organized and the Book of Mormon translated. Returning to Rochester by another an-other route he went on June 5 to Buffalo and Plainsvllle, which' is the nearest stop to Kirtland. The latter place is reached by bus, first going to Willoughby, then on to Kirtland. He visited with the man in charge of ' the Kirtland temple who has held this position for many years, and noted with interest the inscription over tiie entrance to the temple which gives evidence that the law of that section had officially passed ownership of the temple to the Reorganized Re-organized ckurch during the court proceedings in February, 1830. Leaving Kirtland Judge Jlorris returned by bus to Willoughby, thence to Cleveland and Chicago, and on June 8 left for Walworth county, Wisconsin, to visit a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Dora Clark. After a visit there he returned to Chicago and left via Burlington, Iowa, for Carthage Car-thage where he visited the jail iwhere Joseph Smith was martyred, 'and other scenes of historic interest. inter-est. He then went to Montrose, crossing the Mississippi by ferry o Kauvoo. He stopped at a hotel kept by Wm. C. Reinbail whose family now owns the grounds on which rests the Nauvoo temple. From the temple a wonderful view may be had of the city. He visited the homes of the early church iami-,-lies, auiong them the Ivins and Solon Foster homes, all of which are in good condition. He visited also the Mansion house winch is now kept by a Mr. Page, grandson of John E. Page, one of the early churck leaders. Just across from the Mansion house are the recently re-cently cemented graves marking the last resting places of Jaseph and Hyriam Smith and the former's for-mer's wife. Reaching Kansas City, Judge Morris journeyed by interurban to Independence from which place he took a bus to St. George. |