Description of a Trip to California

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Excerpt from Description of a Trip to California: With the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Delivered to the Members of the Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wis After a trip of some seven thousand miles at Uncle Sam's expense, I feel it almost a duty to give an accounting to somebody. No more appropriate body, it seems to me, could be found than the members of the N. W. Branch, to whom, upon a time, Uncle Sam owed a continuance of his existence. The trip in question was made by the National Board of Soldiers' Homes, under instructions from Congress to proceed to the Pacific Coast, and select a site for a National Branch somewhere west of the Rocky Mountains. The point of rendezvous is Jersey City. On the evening of November 8th, 1887, we board the car St. Nicholas, which becomes our home on wheels for many a week. In it we speed, swifter than the flight of a migratory bird, across the continent. Our first halting place is the Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio - the mother institution, with its four thousand members. (Magic lantern view - Campus, Dayton.) This scene represents the campus at the moment of review. The sun shines bright. The band fills the air with exhilerating sounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.