Miss Holt Tells Of
Trip In Original
Manner
“Nothing tame about this trip,”
writes Miss Katherine Holt, who is
making a trip through the west, in
a letter to her mother last week. "A
cloudburst last Sunday and now we
are held up on our way to Cody by a
landslide in the canyon ahead of us.
East night’s train isn't through, and
they tell us that we. will be here for
a few hours yet—uni!
“I am snatching a few minutfes to
write you, while Miss Tommy has
gone into the station to phone some
friends who are living ht?re. Sunday
afternoon, while Miss Tommy was
with her friends, the Domboy>. Mary
Ellen took me on one of the Denver
mountain trips and everything was
lovely until we came to a place
where we couldn't get through on ac
count of the cloudburst. Our big red
bus was but one of hundreds of cars
held un as far ahead as one could see,
and soon, as far behind. Our driver
took a long detour and thus managed
to get in on the road again, ahead
of a few hundred cars, and then
passed everything on the road, trying
to make my train for me. It was
quite a thrilling ride, but hopeless,
for we were still about 10 miles out
of town when my train was pulling
out. He tried his best, but you can't
reason with a cloudburst, and as i
told Miss Tomrjy later, it isn't
everyone who can have an alibi which
Is written up on the front page of a
big newspaper like the Rocky Moun
tain News, next day.
