Show LETTER p long deach beach cal feb 6 1916 A few lines to your paper this morning after leaving hotel dark clark in los angeles about a month ago we traveled thru thra green holds fields and hewers flowers tor for 20 miles we arrived at long desch and went to our old home of last icar car hotel schuyler and wo we found a few of our old friends of last year here I 1 must say that I 1 like long beach the best it is not so crowded tile the streets are wider and you can wal k on en the pier and it brings back to me reminiscences of my boyhood days when ichen I 1 use to lo roam around new quay qua and Abe tile the waves have the same sound and has the same same effect on the ear well long deach beach Is full of at tourists now from most every state in tile the union alaska an and d canada but I 1 think iowa has the most here every hotl hotel apartment Is 13 full I 1 have met some people here from your ziti i william jensen and his hi good wife and children also one day I 1 met my old friend P P ile he seems to be b e enjoying himself full of sunshine and looking at the bright side of everything we went erto arto the L D S meeting it was fast fi f i st meeting and wo we listen to the tes ti of the brethren and sisters and seems that the saints of long beach are good people and are enjoying tho the spirit of their religion rell 9 ion they have four missionaries iture tare with headquarters at L long ong beach they seem to be doing all they can in the good which they are engaged long beach has market day three times a week they bring vegetables and fruit from the country to this pacific park and everything seems very reasonable it seems they have all kinds of amusements here it is quite amusing to go out on the pier here and listen t to 0 different groups it Is war religion and politics the socialists have some very good speakers here their theory seems to be all right it if the government and the people well would id carry it out it would be cooperation all around the weather Is beautiful J L EDWARDS |