The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-07-06
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
How Corva1lisites Observed
the Day-Many Journeyed
From Home.

The great eagle didn't scream in
Corvallis Wednesday. and Corval-
lisites with over-heated fires of pa
triotism in their bosoms had to go
away from home to celebrate. With
the inside fires and the outside heat,
they all had pretty hot day of it.
The biggest delegation by far went
to the Cascades. The number was
$50. Those who had red tickets
went in coaches and those with
white tickets in fiat and box cars.
II was a flat car girl' said maid
en- fair, in explanation of her ap-
pearance, who sailed out in the
morning arrayed in spotless white
and returned in the evening more
or less begrimed and with sun-red-
dened nose and face as speckled
as turkey egg, and resembling it
more or less in other particulars.
HUNDREDS AT DETROIT.
Something like 1,2oo people, al
together, were aboard the Cascade
train when it reached its destina,
ton. They journeyed in nine
coaches, three fiat cars and three
box cars. Il went in a cattle car"
said one young woman who journ-
eyed in fiat car with fence, and
"no;'' it was cow car retorted
the young man by her side. The
flats, save for the exposure to the
blistering sun are said to have been
a very comfortable mode Of travel.
ing. The train arrived at Detroit
before noon, and left for the return
trip, shortly before four p. m. The
time at Detroit was spent 10 loiter-
ing about the station, in drinking
from cool mountain spring, il
eating lunch and consuming sods
pop, and by some in slowing away
Marion county beer dispensed a
the Detroit hotel.
SKIDOO AT SALEM.
Several Corvallisites saw ths
eagle bow his neck and scream a
Salem. The crowd there is des
cribed as enormous. There was
an oration by Ex-Governor Geer
In the afternoon, there were thu
usual contests and sports. There
was the much-heralded "Skidoo'
where under tent moving picture:
of destroyed San Francisco were ex
hibited, where people threw a
bigger babies and bucked a1oulette
wheel, and wherea mock court wa
carried on by the Elks, who ar
rested every Elk found on tn
street, hustled him to the cour
room in a patrol wagon and fnee
him on every conceivable pretext
! The day was one of fierce heat, ane
there was much suffering in con
sequence.
FIRE TEST AT PHILOMATH.
A large number of Corvallis pee
pie went to Philomath, where ther
was a creditable observance of tn
natal day. The orator was Rev
i, Feese of Corvallis, and the effort /;
very strong one. In fact the speecl
Is described by one who heard it a
mastery, and as the best thing O
the kind heard in Philomath ever
f At the close of the exercise risin
vote of thanks was rendered Rev
Feese for his effort. The reader c
the Declaration was Mrs. Baldwin
, of Philomath, and the music fo
3 the literary exercises was by th
} Philomath male quartette. Afte
r dinner there was tor an hour and
half, a reminiscence meeting of oil
G soldiers and old pioneers, many Q
e whom in brief addresses related ex
periences. Prof. Henry Sneak pre-
& sided.
] An interesting feature of the da
was a fire test made by the Phi1e
math Hose company of the net
Mountain Water system. The wa
er pressure there is higher than {
Corvallis being 90 to 100 pound
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