Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16

have ground cloths attached, bobbinet
fronts, windows, jointed poles and steel
stakes)
-Four folding camp stools.
-Four folding cots pneumatic mat
tresses will do just as well, but they
are very expensive)
Blankets.
Ponchos.
Pneumatic pillows.
Two or three waterproof dufde bags.
Canvas water bottle.
Folding water bucket.
Folding water basin.
Two hatchets.
Clothes line.
Aluminium cooking set Complete set
of four packs inside the largest paid.
Alcohol stove. (Two quarts wood al
cohol, canned goods, bacon in glass jars
and condensed cream, coffee, sugar,
etcD
Personal baggage should be reduced
as low as possible two double sult
cases viii go on the luggage carrier
nicely, two large duffle bags will ride
in front of them, and it is well to have
a combination camp and auto tool out
at, consisting of spade, hatehet and
piclax, also a coil of strong rope 1T Is
surprising to see how easy all of TINS
outfit can be slowed on the car.
A. r. Horr. secretary of the Cleve-
land Trust company, took trip of this
kind. He describes it as follows:
ION a threatening day In July we
pulled out of Cleveland i'm our 1911
White gasoline car, carrying with us
the equipment described, The weight
of the outfit was about $50 pounds,
and none of the four passengers could
exactly be called fairies. Its load,
however, did not trouble the little car
in the least, and almost with the
smoothness of the flight of birds we
crossed Summit and stark counties into
the beautiful Tuscarawas valley.
Luncheon was eaten in a pleasant
schoolhouse yard. At Massillon we
took ON ice for the refrigerator basket
and reflled the thermos bottles. Not
far from Beach City we pitched our
first tent in a fine open road, using a
folding cot for a table and our four
little steel camp stools for dining
room chairs, we We're soon enjoying
a delicious supper in the cool evening
air.
Next morning we were up with
the sun. After a short time we were
eating the best breakfast we ever ate,
or was ii our appetites and the en-
vironment? At least, four people voted
it the best ham and eggs. bread, but
ter and coffee they had eaten in many
q day, although it was prepared on
an alcohol stove. This day we fol-
lowed tls valley through Canal Dover,
New Philadelphia, Coshocton and Dres-
den The roads were good and we
kept on our way with practically no
slip. We lunched on the bank of the
canal and at night eamped in a field
of new cut clover.
"The next day we sped through
GAINESVILLE and Newark, eating our
MONDAY meal at a Columbus hotel.
Regardless of the quality of the meal,
we vowed it would be the last lunch
con in a hotel; that our future meals
would be in the open and we kept
our vow. Thence on to Springfield
camp was pitched in a meadow some
distance back from the road, where we
were made welcome by, the owner of
the farm. 1t was as successful as the
others and the next day we spat-
tered on through the mud of Dayton
and Cincinnati, a heavy rainstorm
having soaked the roads until they
were a sea of mud.
For miles we were compelled to use
the low gear, but our sturdy car
buzzed along until 1t seemed as
though no cooling system ever de-
Vised could keep the engine from
overheatng Yet when we reached the
good roads again at Cheviot and un-
screwed the cap from the radiator, not
a drop of water had boiled away.
"We now crossed into Indiana and
the fine gravel roads gave us ideal
touring conditions. At indianapolis
we spent hot, sultry night in ho-
tel, and decided that we would not
again desert our cool tents and COM
ofrtable cots.
"The next night we camped near
picturesque old church. At Roches-
ter we. learned of fine lake, said to
be full of fish, which was about three
miles distant. and where on a clean
wooded knoll, with spring of cold
water gushing out of a messy bank
Just below, we spent two nights and
a day in a perfect camp,
Our next run took us through
south Bend and into Michigan, where
we pitched our tents on Eagle lake,
in fully as pleasant a camping spot
as that of the previous night. Here
also it rained hard through the night