The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-26

Victor H. Becknaa waxed eloquent sed
enthusiastic yesterday ia speaking of TIE
!Um1ermanS excursion from the East 10
Puget sound during July
Ten thousand notices and invitations
VIII be sent out this week At meet
Ing of the Washington Lumber Exchange
held Saturday. President McEwan ap-
pointed an entertainment committee con-
sisting OF Messrs. f. H Lewis A. 9. ker-
~. c. l.. Webb. E. W Price. Watson
Allen, Francis Rotch and c. e. Stinlson.
He also appointed another committee on
the clam bake and tie excursion TO Port
Blakeley and Por. Orchard. This COM
mittee consists OF George W Stetson.
Henry carstens. Thomas Sanders. c. <.
Patton. v II. Becknan and z. ]. Cur
It's.
Everything points TO the biggest kind
OF time. and q car load Of lumhernen
VIII meet the excursion at Spokane and
conduct the members across the state.
Other delegations Will meet the train at
different points after /. enters Washing
ton.
''One of the features OF the reception Of
the visitors al Spokane will be the car
load OF fruit and flowers that will be sent
en- as an introduction to the state and OF
some OF its resources. besides the lumber
which will astonish them after they cross
best beauty and the fruit season will he
sat its he!eht at the time the excursionists
Teach the states boundary. There
couldn't be more poetic reception ac-
corded them
AT Whatcom the people have already
engaged to give the visitors a banquet
trip 10 the lake and a steamer ride to
the canneries The same entertainers will
then bring the excursionists TO Seattle
n h1 n a in
ment committee. The ride down from
Nhatcom will be by steamer. through
the picturesque Gan Juan archipelago
The committee on the Port Blakeley-
Port Orchard excursion will also conduct
the clam bake on the spit near Blakeley.
We VIII have pIanked salmon and no end
OF cans and will arrange TO deliver the
party aN Riakeley just about the time
when they'will be hungriest. shortly after
noon. Some of the mills In the nighbor-
hood which viii be visited are to enter
tain the crowd at lunch IN novel ways
The st. Paul g. Tacoma Lumber Com
pany will give & luncheon in their mill
and have promised something out OF the
ordinary. There will he characteristics
concentration of the Hoo Hoo. and the
members of the ord9F who will come Will
be taken care OF by heir fraters, who will
meet them here.
"once on the Souna the excursionists
will be on the go. by water or by
rail all the time. and no point
of interest will be neglected Every
method OF numbering will be OBJ
served. from the donkey engine style of
logging i'm the woods to the saving Of
nine-foot logs at the mill: a glimpse OF
the Pacific ocean will be afforded: then
there will be. "A clambake or two. inspec-
ton of saw and shingie mills. smagnif-
cent scenery. informal receptions, etc.
Every attention will be paid to the COM
fort and wants of the excursionsts. and
the reception committee will be sufficient
~ large. SO that all may be
Of 1t is quite possible that
number may want to extend the journey
to Alaska and Yellowstone park. and ar
rangements to this effect can be made
with the railroads by Intending visitors.
OF course this part of II will have no con-
nection With the lumbermen here
THE Grays Harbor people are arrang-
ing clambakes. bathing parties and a
short ocean trip and will leave nothing
undone to entertain the visitors
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman. in
speaking of the itinerary'of the excursion.
SAYS:
las now planned the excursion will
leave Minneapolis on the morning of
Wednesday July 81, over the Great North
ern railway on special train. IL there
are enough excursonists in the party TO
warrant it, This will bring the party TO
the famous swltchbaek over the Rocky
mountains on the afternoon of the second
day out. thus enabling those in the
party to see the beautiful scenery by
daylight They will arrive at Spokane
Friday morning and spend portion Of
Friday there leaving so as to cross the
Cascade mountains by daylight. arriving
in Seattle about noon on Saturday sun
day Will he spent In Seattle. allowing the
travellers time for rest and to see the
sights of this hustling Western city.
From Seattle trips will be made to
Port Blakeley and other points. and from
Fairhaven a trip out into tho nig woods
OF Washington will probably he made.
The party will also take one or two cx-
cursicns on the Sound. probably roiEg as
far as Victoria, B. c.. passing through
the straits of Juan de Fuca; then Ia
coma will be visited, and after this iro-
gressive Western city has been thorough
~ viewed the party will proceed 10 Aher-
deem. and undoubtedly "ocosta hy the
Sea- The return trip will be made va
Portland. with stopover tn see this city
on the Willamette. From thence Ia
Minneapolis the trip Will he made over
the Northern Pacific railway. arriving in
Minneapolis Tuesday, August To-