The Hood River glacier., March 12, 1925, Image 4

PICTURES TRANSMITTED
by telephone
that baa been a delight, varying from and wealthy planters, owning vast in­ with coral rock of fantastic and deli
sugar cane to mountain scenery, and terests In both sugar and pineapples. cate shapes and some time was also
It would taks a better vocabulary spent gathering specimens. Oqgesion-
freak coast effects to tropical flower
gardens.
th*n mine and the words of a poet to ally pretty shells were found, but tbs
We left Honolulu at 8 p. m. on the deaeribe these places WAR. We were latter wore limited.
Another curious formation of the
Kilauea, with a calm sea, and al­ still talking of the beauties of the
though we were prepared for a rough upper gardeu we wound down along a beach in another locality is the
trip and one of the lady passengers narrow road built along the cliffside “spouting horn." A cave in the rocky
and dropped into a horseshoe shaped coast line has a small opening a short
.
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coast of fortified tierself with all aorts of pre­ bowl about 10 acres In extent, with distance from shore. The heavy surf
ventative. for seasickness, they’were
Oahu today by a trip on the Oabu not needed- At daylight We reached perpendicular walla 100 feet high, the rolls into the cave and the pressure
railroad, a narrow guage road that
Ahuhiua. the port of Lihue, .and were bowl opening out upon the beach, causes the water to spout in the air
from Honolulu along the west­ met at the pier with autos. A ride where the breakers come rushing upon from 50 to 800 feet, like the spouting
ern and northern coast, and the only . of three miles brought us to the Lihue a smooth sandy beach, unrestrained of a geyser. As the wave recedes
railroad on the island.
The road ! hotel for breakfast, after which we by coral reefs, in this Ix.wl was a the air suction through the small
rroseeo several expanses of shallow darted around the south end of the tropical setting of coconut palms and bole makes a noise like the blowlug
tideland bays that lie between the island for Waimea canyon. A paved tropical trees, banana stalks 00 feet of a born. Another freak of nature
coral reefs and the foothills, out past read for about 30 miles took us high, jungles of ferns, creepers, potted shown tourists is the "barking sands."
Pearl Harbor, the naval base, largest brougb beautiful valleys of sugar plants, curious and gorgeous flowers, This is a sand dune and when dry
under the American Flag. Then fol­ •sue and pineapples, with occasional and a whole cliffside of bougainvillaea and free from rain for a few days
lowed a large sugar plantation of sev­ {Ellipses of the sea as we came upon with two acres of solid purple flowers. affords much muim - iiioi I. A person
eral thousand acres of land, the mil .he higher levels, while high precipit- Then our chauffeurs turned Into a sliding down the sand or being pulled
of which turns out about 18,000 tons ' ous mountains to the east and north native orchestra, and we wandered by a jerky motion causes the sand
of sugar per year. Beyond the sugar furnished a fitting setting, with the through this garden of Eden until to send forth a peculiar barking
plantation la a section devoted to rice, tops shrouded in mist or < h-uds, while dusk of the setting sun began to deep­ sound.
and for four miles the roalroad runs the verdure-clad slope* were spotted en the shadows under the thick foli­
The harbor at Ahukini is small and
through the rice fields Japanese men with sunshine as it came through age.
Even the announcement of a not very well protected from heavy
and women were busy wading In the rifts in the clouds. Deep canyons cut cbickAi dinner Availing us 10 miles storms, so that noue of the huge
patches of rice beds, partitioned off In through the mountains and in the away was no inducement to hasten liners stop there, the Lurline only
squares with raised dikes. In a few isittoms will be a small str.Jm, with away.
stopping at the island of Kauai. A
of the fields they were plowing with 1 each side a mass of green, mostly
Amidst these fairy and beautiful new harbor is being dredged and a
caribou, or water buffalo, others 1 sugar cane, with a few rice patches surroundings we looked for mansions breakwater built at Na will will bay by
with horses. Most of the Hehls had or gardens around an oriental dwell­ of the owners, but only plain wooden Mr. Wllcqx, one of the wealthy
been planted, with the grain six inch­ ing. and a few bananas, papaia and houses such as are seen in temporary planters.
es to a foot dligb, while in others they other fmit trees for home use.
camping resorts, housed the solitary - The island of Kauai is the oldest in
were transplanting rice by hand in
At- Makaweli we stopped at the lords of this earthly fairyland. The the Hawaiian group, according to
the water. They still cultivate rice plantation school of the Hawaiian ladies all declared that a wife and scientists. Its craters have long since
the same as in their own country, Sugar Co. to meet Miss Jessie Lewis, family were sadly necxied by each of been extinct and are covered with
threshing the ripe grain on concrete
It is the extreme northwest
but the tour of the island was being the McBrydes to give a woman’s soil-
floors by driving horses around on
had
but a touch and a proper home to make the island of the group, with Niihau close
Chief Justice Taft administering the oath of office to President Coolidge at the Cap tol
made
on
schedule
time,
so
'
the straw. Owing to these prlmitio
picture complete.
by on the west, and easily visible.
few minutes to spare.
methods, rice culture is carried on
The port Is #6 miles from Honolulu.
Leaving the paved road we turned
' Llhal, Kauai, T. H„ Feb. 21.
only in a limited way for home con­
Oahu was the next island to be
sumption. as they cannot compete off through a cane field, with the ripe
The east and northern coasts of pushed up from the ocean floor, with
with the more advanced farming of cane towering way above the tope of Kauai are the windward sides of the Its fiery volcanoes, now extinct. Then
the cars, and so thick It would lie
rice In California.
In island and get the benefit of the trade comes Molakai, separated by a chan­
Waipahu was the next stop and Impossible to walk through it.
winds whieh blow most of the time nel of about 80 mill's, then Maui, sec­
serves another large sugar plantation, these plantations the cane is hauled from the northeast.
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________ ond in size, with Lanai adjoining, and
The
windward
which produced 40,000 tons of sugar to the mill by small open cars on a sides of all the islands are the rainy finally Hawaii, youngest and largest
last year. Being on the lee side of narrow guage track, and harvesting portions of the Island, while the lee of the group, with the only active
the island, with light rainfall, it is was under way in many fields. There sides are the barren portions, being volcano now taking a rest, perhaps
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necessary to Irrigate the cane fields, were three cars lu the party, and we more or less affected according to the for a short time, isisslbly forever.
climbed,
a
7
to
10
per
cent
grade
over
and this company spent >2,500,000 In
location of the mountains.
In the The distance from Honolulu to Hilo,
building its own Irrigation system, a fair dirt road for a number of center of Kaul are two mountain near the southern extremity of Ha­
miles,
soon
passing
beyond
the
caue
bringing the water from the other
peaks with an elevation of about 5100 waii, is 192 miles. Honolulu la 2360
side of the island by means of 29 , fields and reachlug the more barren feet. One
these mountains has a miles from Beattie. 2OM) from San
foothills,
where
the
ocegp
was
in
miles of ditches and tunnels, one of
perpendicular cliff (or pall) about Francisco and 2260 from Los Angeles.
plain
,
view
and
the
island
of
Nlhau
which pierces the Koolau mountains
2,000 feet extending from the top on
for a distance of over 11 miles. An plainly visible to the northwest. This the windward side. The clouds driven
adjoining plantation produced 28,000 island la owned by one man and used in by the trade winds strike this pall
as a vast cattle ranch. We continued
tons of sugar last year.
to climb and finally turned off the and are driven over the top, condens­
Then followed a coral plain of 14 main road at an elevation of 3600 ing Into rain, most of it falling into
square miles, with large areas of feet and came suddeuly to the brink a big marsh on the lee side of the
sisal, used in making rope nearly as of Waimea canyon. As we peeped peak, forming the source of a number
good as the Manila hemp.
Large over the edge Into an abyss 2,000 of small streams and rivers, which
areas of Mexican mesquite, or alga- feet below a view was presented not furnish an abundance of water for
In a series of tests being conducted
roba tree, as it is better known here, rivalled except by the Grand Canyon irrigation. These mountain tops are by the Bell Telephony Co., pictures of
•re scattered along the narrow strip of the Colorado. In fact those who almost constantly olmcured by clouds, the inauguration of President Cool­
between the coast line and the high have seen the latter say this is a so that 450 to 500 inches of rain falls idge, taken in Washington, D. C.,
mountains which rise dose to the smaller picture of the same scene, in this area in a year, or 40 feet of Wednesday were received here by J.
water’s edge, with frequent valleys except that the Waimea canyon ia rainfall, the wettest spot under the E. Bmithson, manager of the local
of quite large extent. Algaroba beans, painted in green verdure, a few American Flag. The slopes of the telephone company. Friday morning.
when ground Into meal, furnish excel­
The purpose of the tests is to dem­
waterfalls and part of the almost mountain along the coast on the wind
lent food for cattle. In places there perpendicular cliffs rocks of varied ward side along the coast, where the onstrate the capabilities over trans­
were herds of cattle grazing around
land is in cultivation, however, does continental distances of a new system
through the mesquite. This tree is hues.
not get excessive rainfall, but just
After 4 good look from various enough for all crops except sugar of electrically transmitting pictures
also used for wood and we saw quite
devised by the Bell Telephone en­
a little cut and corded for market. points, with a change of view in each cane, whieh requires a great deal or gineers.
Four cities are connected
spot,
favored
by
sunshine
most
of
the
We also caught glimpses of apiaries
water.
together for the purposes of this test,
time,
we
circled
the
head
of
the
can
­
on the hillsides.
Near the boat landing at Ahukini is the arrangements being such that pic­
yon, and dropped down a grade
At Nanakuli the track ran dose to through a depression covered with a strikers’ camp, a group of shacks tures will be sent from Washington,
the ocean, which we followed to our trees, and shrubs, many of them in built of old lumber, with roofs made D. C., to New York, Chicago and Ban. President and Mrs. Coolidge with Senator Curtis leaving the White House for the inauguration at the Capitol
of old tin cans. Here the striking Francisco simultaneously. The length
destination. This valley la being used
for experimental homesteads. where blossom, and came to a low rambling Filipinos with their families are liv­ of the telephone line lietween Wash­
board house built by a former mis­ ing after lieing ejected from the
Get your dinner next Saturday nt
over the vast fields on the northwest
attempts are being made to raise
sionary, but now enlarged and used plantation, doing a little work at odd ington and 8an Francisco via New
slope of Mount Hood. The cyclists, the Methodist church; cafeteria style,
cotton, corn, watermelona tobawo,
York
la
about
3600
miles,
the
greatest
chickens, pigs, cattle and small gen as a mountain home for outings by jobs, fishing, begging and pilfering. distance over which pictures have
the' pop of their motors resounding everything the Iwst.
erai farming, but the soil is poor and one of the planters. No one was at They are on government land and it ever been transmitted electrically and
along the Mount Hood Loop high Way
home, but the tours company has per­ Is a problem to know what to do
“Conie Out of the Kitchen,” Rock-
until a late hour, si>ent Saturday
not very, good. results are being ob­
mission to use it for the noon lunch with them. New recruits are being the transmission time is only seven
ford grange, March 17, save the date.
tained.
Between here and Kaena
night at Homestead Inn.
minutes.
ia
a _ delightful
spot and the
stop.
It
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brought in constantly from the Phil­
point, the extreme western point of tasket lunch
This system of transmitting pic­
The members of the Pine Grove
inch furnished by the hotel ippines, where an agent of the planta­
the island, are stretches of sand, with
tures electrically was first publicly grange declare that they expect to
was
fully
enjoyed.
Our
three
Ha
­
tions is making contracts with labor­ tested in essentially Its present form bld farewell to Friday, 13th, tomor­
places where the shore line changes
waiian driven said there were two ers. After three years each laborer
to black lava, carved into weird
in May, 1924. The present demopstra- row night with everybody feeling
shapes in many places, by the contin­ famous mineral springs near by and la given a free trip liack to Manila, tion ia in anticipation of the opening happy and ready for the tasks of the
came
beck
with
a
bottle
of
white
uous pounding of the waves.
but the strikers have forfeited this of a transcontinental picture trans­ coming season of spring work. The
liquid which they called okelahua and
mission service shortly to be an­ grange members will lie hosts tomor­
Bounding Kaena point, with its a bottle of reddish color called tea right
Near thia station ia a small acre­ nounced by the American Telephone A row night at one of a series of danc­
lighthouse, the track swings sharply root. We tried them both and they
to the east, merging onto the plain of were sure some mineral water! They age of coconuts planted for the har­ Telegraph company.
ing parties they have been staging for
The system is a development of the the benefit of the grange. All of the
Kawalhapal, once thickly populated by had a kick which reminded us of a vesting of cojtra, and has a fine crop
of
nuts.
This
is
the
only
commercial
engineers of the American Telephone social affairs have lieen highly suc­
Hawaiians, and on which the ruins of certain beverage of the long
and Telegraph company, and the Bell cessful and the scores who have at­
many native temples are still to lie which “elevateth the spirit and en- coconut grove we have seen.
Part of the coast line has shallow Telephone company, incorporated. It tended declare they would not miss
found. A weird little hut along the llveneth the heavy heart of the miser­
track bouses a Buddhist shrine, of able.” Then out came the ukele and soil or not fitted for sugar or pine­ 11 the outcome of work covering sev­ one for anything.
uncertain origin. For several miles guitar and the plaintive native songs apples and is used for pasture land. eral years and provides a simple, rap­
The Pine Grove grange has made
rows of Ironwood trees have been of our drivers, to the accompaniment Borne very good looking cattle and id and accurate picture transmitting itself popular with a number of other
planted along the track to serve as of their instruments, made happiness horses are being raised here. The system which will operate over a city and county organizations by per­
The apparatus rep­ mitting them to hold dances in their
windbreaks for the protection of complete. One man said, "What's the liest cattle we have s««n is on Kauai, telephone line.
sugar cane from the salt spray. The use of dying when Heaven is right although the half-million-acre Parker resents the association of many re­ hall.
They, too, have boosted the
ranch on Hawaii is said to contain cent Inventions by telephone engin­ other benefit dances, with the result
Waialua plantation extends for many here.”
fine
stock.
Ths
climate
of
the
wind
­
eers
together
with
standard
types
of
miles from the base of the mountain
that general boosting prevails for the
After another look from another
east and south. The town of that rim of the canyon, which we reached ward side of Kauai la cooler than telephone and telegraph apparatus grange social events. Howard's Acea
the
other
islands,
and
therefore
more
which
have
been
readapted
to
this
name is next to Honolulu in popula­ by a short trail through the thick
of Melody will play, and the attend­
favorable for stock,
The tempera- new use.
tion.
ance, both from rural and city dis­
jungle, we retraced our road to the lure sometimes goes as low as <50
The
simplicity
of
the
method
ia
At Haleiwa, two miles beyond. Is main highway and started up another
tricts, is exjiected to be heavy.
above,
and
the
natives
think
that
is
such
that
a
positive
transparency
film
one of the show places of the island. mountain road, to Olokele canyon.
very
cold.
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Is
suitable
for
transmission.
The
ap
­
Being not for from Bchofietd bar- While not as deep or quite as impres­
Mrs. Gordier Seeks Divorce
A few sugar plantations are also paratus is so designed as to transmit
racks, it is the seaside resort of the sive as Waimea, it was none the less
Following a justice court hearing
soldiers, with houses for their fam­ interesting. After reaching the brink along this coast, but there are many a picture five Inches by seven Inches
ilies and barracks for the single men. we wound around near the top of pineapple fields, some of them in in seven minutes. The picture is re­ wherein the husband was fined >1 on
Here also ia a fine hotel, where tour­ the rim on a narrow road for several small holdings. Bniall tracts of quite ceived in such form that, after photo­ a charge of assault, Mrs. Helen E.
ists can find excellent accommoda­ miles and got the thrill of our lives. steep hillsides and rolling hills are graphic development of the usual sort, Gordier last week filed suit for di­
tions. We left the train here and It was a one-track road, about eight planted to this fruit, and present a it is practically undistlngulahable from vorce against John Gordier, alleging
spent three hours while it went to feet wide, and almost the entire dis­ pretty picture, as the even rows of an ordinary photograph and is ready cruel and inhuman treatment. The
the end of the line and returned. tance one could look over the aide of pines look like a landscape garden for newspaper or other reproduction. complaint declares that Mrs. Gordier
as they cover a mound or dot a hill­ Line drawings, handwriting, and print­ Is 22 years yonnger than her husband,
Glass bottom boats make tripe to the tlie car to the bottom.
While the
coral marine gardens from here when view was grand and picturesque, we side. The winding road drops down ing can also be transmitted. As films who is alleged to have resented the1
The
the aea is not too rough or the water could not help but think what might into a ravine and then climbs over can be used for transmission while wife's desire for amusements.
muddy, the latter being the case to­ happen if our driver became careless a ridge, with a constant change of still -wet. this system eliminates the two were married in 1912 at Eureka,1
day on account of heavy rains in the or something should go wrong with view, one minute surrounded with a delay which would otherwise be caused Calif., the complaint recites.
The wife asks custody of two small
mountains, which clouded the streams the ear. One of the ladies got so field of pines, then a view of the by drying and by making special send­
boys, the division of real and per-
running into the bay.
Golf links, nervous that she got out and waited blue waters of the Pacific as we gain ing plates.
The film upon which a picture has aonal property and >50 a month all-
fishing, charming scenery, mountain for our return. At the end of the the high points.
A little farther around the east been transferred is inserted in the mony. She seeks >150 attorney's fees
hikes, etc., furnish plenty of recrea­ road was a tenant bouse sot on a
tion for the hotel guests for a stay of bench of the cliff, with a large flume coast is Hauahola bay, where a large transmitter simply by rolling it up in and >26 suit money.
bottom land la covered with rice a cylindrical Yorm. During operation
a day or weeks.
passing in front of the door, and a firids.
A number of «rater buffalo
Cyclists See Mountain
garden plot and chickens for the are used here in plowing the fields. a very small and intense beam of
oriental family engaged In taking care Where the fields can be drained, how­ light shines through the film onto a
While the morning weather with
February 20.
photoelectric cell within. The film ia the threat of a mountain snowstorm
Have just finished a day of sight of the ditch. Thia road was built 23 ever, horses are used.
rotated at a uniform speed and by threw a damper on plane of the rec-
yean
ago
as
part
of
an
irrigation
seeing in this so-called "Garden Isle"
For a mile or so on each side of means of a .screw mechanism is reationista, the sky cleared before
system which takes water from the
the road of a plantation were tall caused to advance parallel to the axis noon, and Sunday about 25 members
5 large marsh surrounding two of the
highest mountains on the island. The iM-dgea of the flowering hibiscus, mak­ of the cylinder. The motion of the of the Portland Motorcycle club par­
clouds blown by the tradewinds across ing a beautiful drive through an light relative to the cylinder is there­ ticipated in skiing and snowshoeing
fore the same as that of a phono­
the island condense when they strike avenue of flowers.
The drive along the east and north graphic needle relative to a cylindri­
these high peaks, causing an annual
precipitation of 40 feet. The large coast carried us to the northwest cal record. In this way, each minute
marsh holds the water and it is the point of the island, probably within portion of the picture in turn affects
source of several streams which fur­ 20 miles of the point we reached the the intensity of the light reaching the
nish an abundance of moisture for this day before on the west side, but there photoelectric cell. This variation in
Is no connecting road over the rugged the amount of light striking the sensi­
wonderful productive garden island.
Returning we had other surpris««. mountains. We passed numerous small tive surface of the cell gives rise to
About 12 miles from Lihue, overlook­ bays, saw small waterfalls coming a current which, through the agency
ing the sea, is a wonderful Japanese down from tlie mountains, ¡tasaed of a vacuum tube amplifier and modu­
garden of W. D. McBryde, ojien to the through several plantation towns and lator, controls the current flowing
public, where a wonderful landscape visited the Haena caves, where the through ths telephone line.
At the receiving end an unexpoaed
and flower garden of large extent ia cars were driven in on a level altout
kept up. No park in southern Cali­ 200 • feet, with room for 100 cars, photographic film is rotated under a
fornia can compare with it. It was while the narrower portion of the beam of light in a manner similar to
with difficulty that the ladles could cave was accessible on foot for half that at the transmitting end. The two
be\ persuaded to leave, but we were a mile. Tills cave was used as a films are caused to rotate at exactly
told we had more to see. On a high place of refuge in ancient times by the same time at the sending end
point overlooking the sea was. a cres­ the natives in times of war. Near control, by means of a new device
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cent shaped lookout, with chairs and here also is Hanalei bay, around known as a light valve, the amount
of light reaching the film at the re­
a dancing floor. From this point, in which are many rice fields.
ceiving end.
a horseshoe cove on the lieach could
MT. HOOD, ORE.
At the end of the road we stopped
Regarding the use of their system,
be seen the "lower garden" of Alex­ for lunch at another country place of
ander McBryde, two miles away, the W. D. McBryde, who owns and lives the officials of the American Tele­
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first one lieing called the "upper gar­ at the upper park on the opposite side phone and Telegraph company an-
den." McBryde brothers are bachelors of the island. This place is open to nounce that the extent to which it is
installed on their various long dis-
the public and the hillside, covered tance lines will depend entirely upon
with a loose lava flow, but with the demand which arises for thia type
plenty of rich loam among the rocks, of service. As has been demonstrated
is lieing made into • picturesque park in previous tests, the system is also
of ferns, Itananns. and a variety of applicable to radio transmission of
native trees. Rock walls, rock bor­ pictures when atmospheric conditions
dered walks, shady nooks and rustic are such that steadiness of transmis­
seats made it a very pleasant place sion and freedom from interference
to rest after lunch. The ocean beach can be assured..
stretches along the front of the prop­
erty to the north, and a heavy surf
rolls up along the coral sands.
TOBm WIN $1 JOT
Our chauffeur-musicians played and
sang their native melodies while we
sat In the shade or wandered through
the beautifffi gardens, a pleasing com,
binatlon to be realized nowhere else
than in thia paradise of the Itaclflc.
The beach at this point was strewn
SfflTS OF ELAND
GROUP ALLURING
PICTURES TRANS­
MITTED BY TELEPHONE
PINE GROVE FOLK
NOT SUPERSTITIOUS
Get Your Sugar Now !
We have a carload of sugar in
and until Monday, March 16
our price will be
$6.75 per 100 pounds
Cooperative Store
Phone 2161
Need Hay?
The Mt. Hood Meat Co
Is under new management, We will handle
the Best at all times
J. C. DEVIN & SON
No. 1 U. S. Inspected Steer Beef
Choice Veal Cuts
Lamb Cuts
Fancy Cuts of All Kinds
Fancy Capons
Dry Picked Hens
Fresh Columbia River Salmon and Sturgeon
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R. F. TAYLOR