Show NO PUCE PLACE LIKE A ASHOUT TRAVElING HOME snORT SHOUT HILLS N. N Y PIONEERS CS F FAMILY pUI Y TOUR WESTWARD AUD IN IN- MODERN COVERED WAGON CONTAINING ALL IMPROVE IMPROVE- NOW NOW SEEING UTAH'S SCENIC WONDERS Ho W The spirit of romance lomance and adventure advent ent ure of our covered wavon wa wa- von Oon on pioneers still lurks in the minds of many Sometimes this finds expression even in this age of con crete roads machinery and thickly populated cities Twenty five years years- ago Ernest L. L Prior a New York importer of Jefferson Jefferson Jef ferson Road Short Hills Hilb h hard haard ard the call all of those top canvas days and Intermittently since that time has been responding to it Now however there is a family They too like to travel as pioneers and to make this possible Mr Prior has purchased a ahome ahome ahome home on wheels Mr and Mrs Prior and three children children chil chil- dren Mary John and Joseph are arenow arenow arenow now making a western jaunt a a la modern modem n covered wagon They have kave with them Eddie a a Ma Maplewood Maplewood Maplewood mall mail carrier who acts as relief driver His wife also is in th the party patty The trip included stops at Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan tan Wisconsin North Dakota Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana and Utah In Montana the party visited Dick Randall manager 01 of the 0 T. T O. O ranch at Corwin o ln Springs who who Wito was a sc scout ut with with Theodore Roosevelt when the latter sh shot t his first bear The itinerary also included ed d a tour tour of Yellowstone Park and a visit to Salt Lake City and from Cedar City the party will tour to Zion National Park Cedar Breaks Bryce Canyon and the north rim of the Grand Canyon Then if we have nothing else to do well we'll go home said Mr Prior The tl trip ip will take two months And maybe maybe maybe may may- be three months If its it's anything the Priors have their time The traveling home was built in Brooklyn and cost 2500 It contains four beds in the main cabin two bu butt bult It pullman fashion and there is one bed on the drivers driver's seat six feet long thirty inches wide The bus is outfitted outfitted out out- fitted with a stove a porcelain lined lined lined lin lin- ed sink with running water a toilet a clothes press an and radio set set every every everything thing to make life comfortable The Themen Themen Themen men sleep outside in a tent Mr Prior has camped in many places in the world and is emphatic Continued on Page 5 A cB LIKE TRAVELING RAVELING HOME ol- ol Lb d From Page Face 1 he i is not one to rushit rush bit another topping stopping city it to lIe He e has set up tents in Northern India as as mats matI t and the Far West odds orida he and nd his son n Mel ago 0 ars Indians and COmile 1200 some iome trip to Hudson on 1 abl Ri River r at Mantice the Indians struck gay BaY y s back alone along MM came Krs of the These waters raters followed the trail the North North- ind and d Clark k to he ruu rode on horseback the 8 Bitterroot mountains built to on River There they built fashion and swung rapids of the river the at the rate of flows f which miles iff Pe per hour They rode tid river fw fr six hundred undre dashing over over falls high I Prior is ill of the same kind r C saId taid She is chief cook dough bread blead and gas sour J hash bash have brought many bear ben into camp She knows d and ind what to feed this sort 4 that that a trip of per than staying at home t the family traveled 1800 und oed the Adirondacks in this lamping camping at t lakes and trout t an sn outside cost of 9 per pet petr perr tr r w week k And that includes f the men marl men and an occasion occasion- candy for the women women WIt tint beat bet it he claimed I and ind corn from the farmers y r cents nta a a. a dozen milk nine It and rasp rasp- i be be bad for for the picking and it nt in the streams than is isman isman man nan or beast pIe of the menu follows follower shredded t wheat stewed t and coffee Lunch Lunch chic chic chic- nd on a wood fire roast tees IDes and occasionally string lettuce per lettuce and tomato ad uj and ind butter and jam and cereal meal for the children it r r Is ii a member of the Camp Camp- of Am America rica and the Bil ds is a traveler She led the Italian and Austrian his has bas toured Southern Eng Eng- J Germany knocking hocking about the party lid Id clothes cook their own I do their own work In some aping ping trips Mr 1 Prior has ed d by bear porcupines pines ande and e has in his time shot hot all Fe American big bg game and has hasa hasha a hs to prove it it He lie has bas now nowling ling mg ing and hunts only Dy with a apor por or and his family have now i Cedar Cit City and our rep rep- i visited th them m in o order der to something about their trip r says tayi that this trip rip across an n continent has been es Interesting They F ugh the Allegheny moun moun- Penns Pennsylvania on their way j to PItts Pittsburg burg and th these se were sere found to be much muche e to navigate with a mach mach- Anything to be re found in th the t est cat roads from New NewL L his point they found Salt Lake City and Cedar anyone even a child could the grades which are to belot benot be not lot so much I the roads that to the Prior i family as it was he f says that no where In inand and 1 he knows because he hie IU all lover Over the world-has world he hech hech ch general kindness large rs IS and nd desire to help as he hethe d In the middle West and iY 17 In n the state of Utah t e he bt says lays prepared to pay pays seems Items s to want to take his e old old lady whose farm he did not lot want to charge Pin and s seemed med offend offend- ht he ilk dk SUg suggested sted he should shoud Pay p and eggs that his family t and used then when he was about finding a suitable hs the mayor of the city him him- time an and found some kome- t as suitable they ther the occasion when hen th the car mud up to the wheel we cne of tare tle city parks under the hole Ahole to city seemed to help and liS as to pay his to as cOunterfeit nY easy to get food It h Is gas the cheapest rid country to live In InIS IS as weal weil as ag the they hadn't been cus aecus Labs In every ery room the they Y leave J their home y and come an and settle the head America of the Hoy wrote rote In to OD one of his poems Damn the tall buildings Give me tall taU trees And evidently he had be begin n out In this country in the Forest because he knows The trip from New Jersey to this point took only eighteen driving days das Convenient Con camps ere vere ere found a a Song the toad road and there was no necessity necessity necessity ne ne- for being dirty because the city camps furnished not ony hot water water wa wa- ter but soap and nd on one occasion the caretaker lit Mr Priors Prior's fire tire and offered of of- him clean dl dry towels Mr Prior has lived with the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese who believe in with aswell es liS eswell w well ll as as nil ell the varying grades of Christian people Never has he found a kindlier or more generous class of helpful hopeful courageous as the Mormons he is privileged to meet meet In traveling through this part of the world world the the East Fast needs their civilization their civilization their example example it it might be a a. a different world if they were ere more generally known One thing that impressed this party party party par par- ty was not only the happy smiling faces that they met on the way but the wonderful farms splendidly farms splendidly cul- cul Truly it could be said as the great David said The valleys stand 30 so thick with corn they corn they laugh and sing sine The ground seems so fertile and fertile and so desirous of yielding up its fruits that everybody seemed to be happy and rich rich not not necessarily rich as east easterners co count nt wealth but rich with that more solid worth worth content content ment Certainly Longfellow was right when he wrote Kind hearts ar are are more mue than coronets and simple faith than Norman blood We expect in our next that Mr Pryor will give us his experiences ces and impressions of the wonderful scenic features which he will encounter encounter ter through Cedar Breaks Zion National National Na Na- Park and the North rim of the Grand Canyon Tot |