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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1925)
i - - ' ' - ' THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 0, 1925 J i - ..'Hvv ;W t MOTORING IN THE NORTHWEST CoL E. Hofer Continues the Description of a Trip That Is Taking Him and His Party to Many Interesting Points r in Our Neighboring State of Washington ROCHE HARBOR. Aug. 3. Arrived lie re Saturday and took a run over to Friday Harbor, county seat of San Juan county, a kingdom of the sea, W marine commonwealth of 172 Islands, counting I s pot 9 of land that re main, above tidewater. Friday Harbor has stores, public offices, amusement places and Industries. Leaving Seattle there is a four hour drive to Anacortea. where the ferry" steamer carries your car and Us contents to San Juan isl and, where you stop' at a home like hotel, built nearly a hun dred years ago by Spanteh ex plorers who named it the Dellaro, the sign ' painted in old Spanish text and letters in black and yel low. " 1 We arrived in the midst of the Harvest Home Festival, observed annually under lead of Mr. and Mrs. Jonn s. - McMillin, with a four day program. , Roche Harbor has several han dred. population, and Is entirely . owned by the Roche Harbor Lime and Cement Co., John S. McMillin, president and general manager. ! He has besides, the honor and dis tinction of being a' national found er of the great Sigma Chi Greek Letter, College' fraternity, which has hundreds of chapters,, thou sands of! members and a reserve ; fund of one and !a half million dollars. " ' i . The Harvest Home ' Festival each Is attended . by. members of the fraternity from near and far. The program for August l anded with a roast suckling pig banquet, a musical and speaking; program at which- Toastmaster McMUlin. Judge Howard Ferris of Ybrk- town, Va., and President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington, distinguished them , selves.'-!'- " Judge Ferris' served on the bench In - Cincinnati - eighteen years, succeeding 'Judge Tart; He has become recognized, as the head of several large chemical manu facturing corporations In Virginia and as a highly entertaining after dinner word-wizard. Judge Fer ris was In . great demand on ; all programs as a speaker. m At 6 a. m, Sunday, the launch es of. Roche Harbor took all the guests to visit fish traps, in some of which' purpoises were playing about. A large barge had been converted into a floating' bower covered. with seats, tables and an . orchestra. Dinner was served at Johns Island. On the reiarn'trip a sapper at which ; singing and -speaking were the close of a per feet day at San Juan Archipelago As the sun went downbehind the Olympic range to the west the full moon rose out of the sea in the east. The organ played, taps 'and Rev. Major of. Seattle pro nounced a benediction as the aft erglow spread over the islands of the inland sea. And thus th ', Harvest Festival went on for four days with feasting, song apd dance. 4 The entertainment at the hands of Mr. and Mrs. McMillin seemed to have no bonds. Hotel dellaro: and the McMillin homes were open' house for hundreds, of guests !and visitors. Boats and launches arrived every hour. Some for a meal, some for a day and for the four days. The Anacortes and Victoria ferries twice a 'day each way 'supplied transportation ior many. , : , , ,., . . . , . Gideon Stolz, a pioneer Willam- ette Valleyt manufacturer, attend ed the Harvest Home and has for many years jbeen a large consum er of lime, Mr.! McMillin mada up cot beds for ten of us men in his private office. Most of them were quite stou and snored in a basso profundp, except Mr. Stolz, who was noiseless at night. He was the oldest man at the party- in his eighties and I felt proud of him.' js f p------ 'i V ' - Wonderful fireplaces had been built in the recreation courts of Hotel de Ilaro, both with an eight foot hearth and" rigged with great cranes and j broiling kettlea for roasting meat, boiling vegetables and making broth and coffee. for large; banquets. One fireplace is with overhead racks on which i whole deer: bear i or quarter o. I i fireplace is jrigged 1 to broil 100 ' ! 200 pound of salmon , at V.tii cooking. In front of one of cn fire places the evening feasts we held and 'the impressive, rite' of lighting the' fires of -' friendship, with a procession e f t he Roc..c Harbor people followed by their guesto, each . throwing a prepared faggot on 1 the roaring flames in passing. iThet procession moved to the tune of "In the Good Old Harvest" Time J" played by the Roche .Harbor, Lime Co. orches tra, with j piano accompaniment while the marchers sang the Har vest Festival song ending: ' How happy we shall be When i harvest ! comes again ! next year To see each smiling face once! more i And. friends from far and near Ye, we'll light the fires for you ,il'U- 1 ' -h Light the I fires of friendship .true, ' r' i" ' i '" - i The afternoon run from Roche Harbor to Tacoma was about 40 miles by water and 132 by motor and the following- towns were in cluded In August 3 itinerary: Roche Harbor," Orcas Island, Ana cortes, Mt. Vernon Stanwood, Everett, i Snlvanna Marysville, Everett, Bothell, Seattle, Auburn. Kent, Tacoma-r-7 a. nu to 6:30 The ML 1 Rainier park is about 75 miles (from Tacoma. The Mil waukee and St. Paul railroad goes up about half way and then on further with logging reads into the big timber. After leaving the city on Pacific Avenue, the entire drive is over a, graded and mostly paved forest road, such forest a you .have never seen before. Ehr tering the Forest Reserve you pay a fee-our party paid $2.50 and leave guns and dogs with tlie rangers until you return. ' The ; "road in (. the Reserve climbs ja steady grade front 2003 feet at the entrance to eight miles from the top where the TTisqually river Jumps into existence from the terminal of a glacier. The water ' is the color ' of ' gray paint from i the grinding of the rocks carried by the Ice in the bottom of the slowly moving mass of Ice, This gray paint colors all the western slope mountain streams down to tidewater.' It forms' the silt at Ihe mouth of. the rivers and in places mudbanks far out to sea,' where the, polypi ', breed And the i white meated halibut feed. ! Paradise valley and the mlu by .that name are . near ' the timber;, line and above .'.you hanging in, the air" is glorious' Mt. Rainier," " Across the 'canyon" stands the sawtooth peaks of the snow cov ered Tatoo&h range, with the flow er strewn slopes and brilliant gla cial . meadowa: By noon a ' thou sand tourists have, arrived and are fed at. the Inn, The whole show is on the American plan with a bablc rate of $5. 00 a day including meals.' You can go as high. as $10.00 a day. There are guidea and riding horses to. hit the trails or scale the snow peaks from; which younger; members did not refrain. "V ' '1 '" J Co!,, E. Hofer. PRESERVATIVE KILLH BEES xHOER, Germany. -Millions of Mes in the Werder district have ; sen killed supposedly fropi chem ..-is sprinkled upon fruit trees. i. the insects that were near irdaards died, t i ", .1 1 rif olenickers were obliged to ?TQif i .railroad track in reaching the id&c?. where they were to "have Iunt.ii., atn .'little. Bobby, going ahetd J ' train approaching. "Eagerly Hie shouted . to hiB fathrr who was, stilt on the track: "Ht'.rry, daddy, or ""else give, me the lunch." NAVY SECRETARY USES VENERABLE MACHINE 7 a-- f , - '. v " i. -1 : . K i'l T - NU V. N '.y,., Navy for, the last ten years nave even ror a new Packard. Although ridden in this i car and with thls'the oia Packard had been driven chauffeur, j John H. Pye, at the steering wheel. I '.Its high ceiling and long doors have grown rather old fashioned and so-John is driv ing a new and shiny Packard Six sedan limousine: which' has just been purchased for Secretary Wil bur. John had become so attach ed to the old car i because - of the care he had bestowed on it for years that he hated to give it up 175.000 miles by Pye he Insisted it was in top, notch' mechanical condition and he proved It. There are two hills in Washington which are sp steep and bo long that it is considered that any car which poes over them in high gear is in perfect condition. Pye took the old Packard out over, both test rouins the. other day. On . the Thirteenth Street hill, the most severe of the two. he started at the bottom at eight miles an hour and went over-the top. at twenty two miles an rjour. This was con sidered an unusual , performance and would have been so consider ed for even some of the trick cars Pye Insists. ! ; ' The Ananias Club: "Ain't we ever gonna have any hash at this boarding house?" demanded the star boarder. i ; 1 J j J-J. ' ' ' i-V' "liFrr.iil vatf ' 'r; "EIKER-S; r ' "W GUARANTEED. 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"The Cycle Man' 147 South Commercial Street : ! .!h-: j ' .- - - '..);';;''" i Packard announces that already more than 15,000 new Packard owners have found in their cars the most notable improve ments since the introduction of the electric starter. " These improvements are (1) the chassis lubricator' (2) the motor oil;, rectifier. Together they double the life of Packard cars. !. The Chassis Lubricator. ' - " ' i i I ; With the i exception of six pq;nte that must be oiled by, hand once every lOOOP miles, the chassis points re qiiripgj rjegular attention, 45 in almay be piled in less time than; it takes to sound, the horn. h The pull of i at ; plunger, a second' of time, and every part is bathed in oiL - How much would your car be worth today if it had no electric starter ZHow much will your car be worth two, three or four years . from today If it has no chassis lu bricator, and moto oil rectifier I These improvements, found to gether only in. Packard cars, are among the most important ever made in motor car designi While the electric starter in creased the sale of cars the chassis lubricator and the motor oil rectifier double the life of cars , cutting depreciation in half and making the Packard the most economical car in: its class to own, to operate and to maintain . jj The Moror Oil Rectifier The motor oil needs to bej changed but qnqe in. every 2500 miles. The: lu bricating qualities re pre served through acomplete- and autpmatic'purificatipn, once every hour, while, the. motor is running. The result longer life pf, parts, lower costs for ' oil, arid quietness of operatiori. F.rstjby ten years or more to protect the interests oj owners through retaining standardized appearance and in offering no yearly models, FacUardis-'noxv first to rnake it easily possible v i for owners to get out of their cars the long and desirable. -mileage life .built into them. Fred ?I -Powell 350 North High - i ''' ! . : t - ; i i Telephone 2126 T H E M A N W H! O A; S K O N. E
