EXIRA LADY ENJOYING HER TRIP ABROAD (1927)

HERRICK, WILCUTT

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 11/30/2013 at 14:53:32

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Aug. 11, 1927, page 1

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EXIRA LADY ENJOYING
HER TRIP ABROAD

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Mrs. Jessie Herrick Writes
Interesting Letter For
Journal Readers

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The following letter has been re-
ceived from Mrs. Jessie Herrick (Jessie Louise Wilcutt), who
has been taking a trip to Europe. The
friends of Mrs. Herrick will be glad
to know that she has been thoroughly
enjoying her vacation and that she
will soon be home.

Aboard Ship Antonia,
Bound for Cherbourg, France,
Via. Atlantic Ocean.
Dear Folks at Home:

I am going to try to tell you just
a little of my trip so far. We left
Omaha July 13, as scheduled, amid
the good bye's and bon voyages which
something over two hundred of the
friends of the party, had gathered to
wish us. We were accompanied by
the orchestra from the State college
of Colorado, composed of six peppy
college boys whose music has added
greatly to the enjoyment of the party,
which I assure you is a jolly one.

We arrived in Chicago about 7:40
the next morning where I had
the pleasure of meeting my two grand-
daughters, Ruth and Frances Her-
rick. Our visit was necessarily very
brief, but hope to stop over on my
return trip for a few days.

Our trip to Montreal over the Michi-
gan Central and Canadian Pacific Ry.
was a very pleasant one, through
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Cana-
da. The Illinois crops did not look
any better, if as good, as in old Iowa.
They have lots of rain in Michigan
and Canada. Small grain looked very
fine. We reached Montreal on the
morning of July 15 in a foggy, drizz-
ling rain which continued all day.
However, it did not keep us from tak-
ing the city. We stopped at the
Windsor hotel, one of the finest places
in the city, and the quaint old Vic-
torian carriages, drawn by one horse,
which lined the streets were a curious
sight to us Americans. Montreal is
a curious mixture of the old and the
new. In the older sections the streets
are very narrow, many being one way
streets, as when cars are parked on
either side there is not room enough
for vehicles to pass. It would be a
great place for an American to get
around. In the modern sections they
have wonderful homes and beautiful
grounds. Most of the buildings are
of stone although some are of brick
and but very few frame house.

Many places of interest were point-
ed out as we drove--Chateau Ran-
zau, the oldest building in the city
and St. Helaine Island or Napoleon's
Island some call it, which is used as
a picnic ground at the present time,
La Fontaine, a beautiful little park in
which there is a very beautiful li-
brary. One guide spoke of this as the
largest park in the city and he also
told us it was a quarter of a mile
square. It seemed very small to us.
We visited the largest retail fur store
in the world and it was a place of won-
der to me. Priceless furs of marvel-
ous beauty feasted the eye every-
where.

We dined at the roof garden of the
Me. Royal hotel and went on the boat
about midnight, sailed at daybreak on
the morning of the 16th up the beau-
tiful St. Lawrence. Our first day out
was warm and lovely, the second day
cloudy and quite cool, while the third
day we were in the straits of Belle
Isle off the coast of Labrador, with
ice bergs floating about us--some as
large as haystacks.

Today, July 20, we are the second
day out on the broad Atlantic. The
water is smooth and we are sailing
fine. We have good eats, a good
place to sleep, good floor to dance
on, and the music is snappy. What
more could one ask for?

Note: Jessie Louise Wilcutt (1867-1948) was married to Julius Earl Herrick, who died in 1923.