Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-06-28
GREAT TRIPS
FOR CONTESTANTS
AIaSka-Yukon Managers
To Show Them, A bout
Puget Sound
DETAIL OF TRIPS As TOLD
BY PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT
Two Days for Side Trips Arranged
for Visitors Who Are Sent
to Fair by News
papers.

Three steamer trips covering sew
eral hundred miles through the wa
ters of Puget Sound. including a
visit to the largest salmon Gamer
les in the world, great Alaska cod
fish curing plants, lumber and shin
gle mills, together with near view
of Mt. Rainier and the snow-clad
0lympics, have been arranged for
members of newspaper contest par
ties visiting Seattle this summer.
Puget Sound is the greatest body
of water in the world. and with its
bays, inlets and other attractions
offers more of the real beauties of
nature than might be found any
where on travelled highways.
Fast steamships will carry the
sightseers to Tacoma, to the Puget
Sound Navy Yard, to Anacortes, Port
Townsend and to Bellingham, COW
ering every point Of interest on this
great inland sea. Visitors to the
Alaska-Yukon-Pa Pacific Exposition will
marvel at the wonders of nature, at
the mountains, the rivers, the for
ests. Surely II is a rare combination
of beautiful things, an inspiring
highway for the pilgrims of pleas
ure.
| Two days will be required to make
the side trips already arranged. In
one day Tacoma, the metropolis of
Pierce County, and the Puget
Sound Navy Yard may be visited.
At Bremerton Uncle Sam has on dis
play some of the largest battleships
in the navy. besides submarines,
torpedo boats, training ships and the
largest dry dock in the world
The Navy Yard is situated fifteen
miles from Seattle, and is reached
by the Port Orchard Routes new
steel steamship II. B. Kennedy, the
latest addition to the fleet of mag
nificent passenger boats on the Pa
cific, and built especially for sum
mer tourist travel.
| An afternoon can be profitably
spent in Tacoma, a city Of 125. 900.
Surrounding Tacoma Is perhaps the
most natural scenery In the world.
The city boasts of many attractive
parks automobile and carriage
drives. beautiful residence districts
| and long rows of warehouses where
| vessels load cargoes for coastwise,
| Alaska and foreign ports. Arrange
ments have been made to carry the
contest parties on the steel steamship
Indianapolis, the cost of the trip to
be included in a special rate offered
for the three outings.
III The second day is a voyage to Port
Townsend, Bellingham and Anacor-
ties. This trip will be made in the
ocean-going steamship Chippewa,
and will require full day. Several
hours will be spent on shore at
Anacortes.
Leaving Seattle, the Chippewa
will steam out of the harbor, giving
fine panoramic view of Greater Sc
attic with its ten miles of water
front through quiet bodies OF water.
Port Townsend, the seat Of govern
ment activity on the Sound, is reach
ed in three hours. Near at hand are
Forts Casey. Worden and Flagler
At Port Townsend are headquarters
of the customs service, immigration
service, quarantine station, revenue
cutter service and many Other
branches OF the government work.
r. On Port Townsend Bay is situated
the immense plant of the Hadloch
lumber mills, and the lrondale iroi
J. smelter and coke ovens. The sardint
canneries at Port Townsend are alon,
an attractive feature! Arrangement
st have been made by the Puget Sount
IN Navigation Company, operating ,n'
x steamship Chippewa, whereby con
test parties will be admitted to mills
te Canneries and other places OF inter
IL est.
c. Anacortes is rightly called thu
at Gloucester of the Pacific" and her,
rn II is no unusual sight to see more
IL than 100000 salmon in u single
ds Cannery ready for packing, later I,
n be shipped all over the world, Herr
T. the various canneries have DAILY
capacity of 10000 4S-pound cases
IN This is the cycle year in the salmon
to canning business. Every fourth
e. year the sockeye, the great CONNER
o, cial food fish, appear In great mum
id bers from the depths of the ocean
4. and this is an opportunity seldom
offered tourists to gain knowledge o
a Just how the salmon are caught
o. cured and packed Tor shipment.
lr, The canning season lasts from
May to November, and every part %
he big plants will he open for IN
a spection, In Anacortes are two cod
A fish packing concerns whore til,
fish from Alaska are cured AM
packed, The by-products Of tn