Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-23
NO swell TERlNG HOT DAYS TO CAUSE
\ DISCOMFORT TO VISITORS AT THE FAIR

IOIlldllu, June Col were HNluS
i'll the east this yeser and had friends
who contemplated attending the Port
land fair. | should give them one little
piece of advice: For men-take a
vest along; don't expect to be comfort
able all day and evening in two-piece
suit. For women-carry a wrap, and
don't wear network waists.
Now this advice is not at all i'm
pertinent; it is a simple piece of faith
erly admOnition. If you imagine that
the Portland climate is a hot one you
sadly mistaken. The only thing that
makes an easterner homesick when in
in Portland is the summer weather.
He sometimes longs for the Sweltering
heat of New York, or of st. Louis, or
New Orleans-such as he has been ac-
customed to all his life in summer
time-just TO remind him of home. He
wants to take off his coat and vest.
remove his collar, open the neckband
/ of his shirt, and sit out where he can
sweat like a stOker in a gas plant fur
mace and feel at home When in Port
| land these June days he finds the
Weather so cool that he usually wears
| light top coat if he goes out early
| in the morning or stays ont late at
night: he sleeps under double blank
cts every night during the summer.
and never gets any real sweltering
even in the middle of the day-unless
he chooses to go down in the stoke
hole of some ocean vessel lying in Port
lands splendid harbor
Compared with 81. LOuis.
OF course this makes the native and
| lifelong resident of a hot climate very
! Lomesick A man | met the other day
| had just received a letter from his
folks. who were living in an upstairs
| fat in the fashionable West End of st.
| ouis. They wrote that the weather
| was so sitting that they found ii nee
! CSSary to remove to a downstairs nat.
| For more than two weeks the Portland
| temperature, at the warmest part Of
! the day, had not exceeded 81 degrees.
and most of the time it had been from
- to 80 degrees below that figure.
| The st. Louis man wrote for his folks
to come out to Portland, the peerless
summer resort.
| People 10 the eastward who are
/ looking for some watering place where
| they can cool off, or a mountain resort,
i where eniivening breezes are the rule
1 hould consider Portland's claims this
II season. Portland is both a watering
4 place and a mountain resort, with a
i zig exposition thrown in for good
4 count II is only a hundred miles
| Som the Pacific ocean. by boat on the
Il Columbia or by rail along the banks
/ of that mighty and picturesque stream.
II Several seashoTe resorts near to the
/ mouth of the Columbia, where surf
/ bathing as fine as any in the world
i ray be had. draw many citizens and
\ four or five hours from this city 10
the ocean. passing enroute some of the
most wonderful scenery to be found
on the map When you get TO the Pa
Cifc you are but a few miles from the
site of old Fort Clatsop. where Lewis
end Clark spent the memorable winter
of 1866, and you pass through AS
toria. the oldest town on the north
| Pacific coast. founded by John Jacob
| Aston the New York fur trader whose
| descendants still own more or less OF
/ the real estate in New York City
/ Washington Irving wrote one of his
1 most interesting books about Astoria
i and the Aston fur trading expeditions
| But if il is summer resorting, rather
i than ancient history. that you seek,
the seaside places along the Oregon
and Washington beaches will satisfy
your soul. One of the fayorite coast
resorts for Portland people is Seaside
where there are many cosy little cot
Iltages. The rental of these cottages
completely furnished. is Surprisingly
! llow-much lower than the rates charg
ed for similar accommodations al
4 Long Branch. Asbury Park, Atlantic
City and other Atlantic coast resorts
!, Many families from afar have taken
advantage OF this opportunity and
have rented cottages at Seaside foI
the exposition season; they run up &c
, Portland every now and then, see the
lexnositfon and Dartfciuara in its sOcial