East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-15

TIME TO CROSS
HAS TRAVELLED 1000
MILES DURING THE YEAR.
DIR. Roland d. Grant, Formerly of
Portland, Is Now in the Profes-
sional Lecture Field, and is FiIhng
a List of Appointments in the
Northwest-Has Residence at
Vancouver, b. c., and Claims tile
Northwest as His Home-Is an En-
thusiast and Optimist as Well.

! DR.. Roland D. Grant and wife were
passengers on this mornings train to
Portland. During the few moments
the train was here DR.. Grant visited
old friends who had known him VIII an
he was located on the Pacific coast.
DR.. Grant stopped off at Boise,
where he delivered a lecture last
night. He is to lecture at Portland
and Vancouver and will then return
to Boston. Eyes, I am a bird of
passage" said DR.. Grant, land I am
now on the wing. Already this year
have Travelled $1,000 miles, and be-
fore the year is over 1 will
cover that much more distance. In
fact this is my thirty-sixth trip across
the continent I am coming out to
the Lewis and Clark exposition 10
make several addresses and renew old
acquaintances formed during nv pas
toral work on the coast.
'I always have very pleasant rec
objections of Pendleton. You may re-
member that when Rev. J. C. Douglas
was here as a pastor of the Baptist
church 1 preached for him. and re-
member the people here as very
pleasant and cordial.
what a beautiful country you have
surrounding your city. I was struck
by the beauty of the grass-clad hills
on the reservation this morning bright
with flowers, and bathed in the glory
of the early morning sunlight. They
are a sight to arouse what is best in
one, and sight will not soon forget.
o, yes, l am an enthusiast on nature
and scenery. While I spend much of
my time in the East on the lecture
platform, still claim the West as
my hmoe. In fact, have a beauti-
full home at Vancouver. B. c. Ny lot
has a frontage of 75 feet with an out
look of hundred miles over the sun
kissed and snow-crowned mountains
that rise by the shores of the Pacific.
Portland, you know, is my old home.
During my pastorate there the white
temple was built"
DR.. Grant is an enthusiast and an
optimist. He has Travelled all over
Europe and seen its most beautiful
scenery, but he says that Europe has
no lake which can compare in beauty
and gradeur with Lake Louise, in the
Selkirks. 1t is glacier-fed, and is sur
rounded by snow-clad peaks 1900
feet high.
One of the things about which DR..
Grant is most enthusiastic is collect
ing rare and beautiful gems. He took
from his pocket a smol1y-hued cairn-
gorm from Scotland, beautifully cut
and Weighing As carats, and some su-
perb opals from Queensland, saying
as he did so, Did you ever see any,
thing more beautiful than these? I
have a collection of $4,000 gems on
exhibition at Vancouver, B. c. I am
passionately fond of natures handi-
work, and am always on the lookout
for rare specimens.
"At the exposition this summer I
will lecture on American Scenery and
the Influence of Travel and also lee
ture on Irrigation in Prophecy One
of the most popular of my lectures
in the east Is "The Mighty Columbia
'I. would very much like to stop
over a day in Pendleton, but cannot
do so upon this occasion, would
like to visit your irrigated districts
and see more OF the country sur
rounding Pendleton.