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Show Boy Scouts Send Report on Trip To Jamboree On June 22, 13 boys and a leader Glen Seegmiller, left Deseret district dist-rict for Valley Forge. When we arrived in Provo we went down to the City and County building and marched back to the train. We left Provo at 7:30 p.m. On June 23 we passed over the Continental Divide and through the Moffat Tunnel which is 6 and 2-10 miles long. We entered Denver Den-ver at 10 a.m. We arrived at North Platte, Nbr. at 7 CST. Here we were treated to a fine dinner given us by the Lutheran Lu-theran church. We left North Platte at 8:30. On June 24 we crossed the Mis sissippi river at 7 a.m. and arrived in Chicago at 1:00. We boarded buses and toured the city. We saw many of the interesting sights, after touring the city we went to the Chicago Fair. There we recorded record-ed our voices and sent them to our folks. June 25 we went to Greenfield Village. This is an old fashioned village which includes famous person's per-son's homes and famous replicas of old buildings. Afterwards we i were given a box lunch by the Ford Motor company. We went into Canada through the Detroit tunnel at 3 p.m. We arrived at Niagara Falls at 7:30 p. m. We ate breakfast at Kodak Park at Rochester on June 26, and also went for a tour of the park. We had dinner there. Palmyra, New York was our next stop and 'we got there about 2:00 p.m. We boarded buses and went to the Sacred Grove. There we had a testimony meeting. I think that all the boys can say that that was the best meeting that they had ever attended. We were given our dinner by the LDS people at Palmyra. After our dinner we visited the Joseph Smith Farm and Hill Cumorah. Grand Central station in New York was our next place of interest inter-est to see and we got there June 27 at 6 a.m. We packed our equipment equip-ment and took it to the Lincoln Hotel where we stayed. We went for a tour around Manhattan Island, Is-land, a boat trip of 35 miles. Then we got on buses and toured the city. On June 28 we visited Rocker-feller Rocker-feller Center. After our tour we went to Yankee Stadium where we saw the Yankees play the Senators. Sen-ators. The Yankees won the game 5-1. We arrived at Valley Forge on June 29 and spent nearly all clay setting up camp. It rained and blew quite hard that afternoon. On the night of June 30 we had our opening ceremonies and ovo-25,000 ovo-25,000 spectators and about oO.OJU Scouts were present. On the night of July 1 we hat: a sectional meeting, consisting of Indian dancing, singing and music. Sunday we all went to Sunday school along with the other LDS boys. There wer over 1,600 boys and leaders there. We had a very nice meeting. And believe me we are -sure thankful to our parents for letting us go on this wonderful trip. Sincerely yours, Richard Snow, Scribe |