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 (pneumatc mat
tresses will do just as well, but they
are very eXpensive)
Blankets.
Ponchos.
Pneumatic pillows.
Two or three waterproof dufhe 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. 1.-TWO quarts wood al
cohol, canned goods, bacon in glass jars
and condensed cream, coffee, sugar
etc0
Personal baggage Should be reduced
as low as possible two double sult
cases viii go on the luggage carrier
nicely, two large duftle bags will ride
i'm front of them, and it is well to have
a combination camp and auto tool out
fit. consisting of spade, hatchet and
piclax, also a coil of strong rope. 1T Is
surprising to see how easy all of this
outfit can be slowed on the car
A. r. Horr, secretary of the Cleye-
land Trust company, took a trip of this
kind. He describes it as follows:
"On a threatening day in July we
pulled out Of Cleveland in 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 tho little car
i'm the least, and almost with the
smoothness of the fight Of birds we
crossed Summit and Stark counties into
the beautiful Tuscarawas valley.
Luncheon was eaten in pleasant
schoolhouse yard. At Massillon we
took on ice for the refrigerator basket
and rehlled the thermos bottles. Not
far from Beach City we pitched our
first tent in a fine open road, using
folding cot for a table and our four
little steel camp stools for dining
room chairs, we were 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 it our appetites and the en-
vironment? At least, four people voted
1t the best ham and eggs, bread, but
ter ana coffee THEY ilttu Ndlcil III hlt1li y
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 field
of new cut clover.
"The next day we sped through
a.
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
along the national highway, our next
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
good roads again at Cheviot and un-
screwed the cap from the radiator, not
a drop of water had boiled away.
1--WE now crossed into Indiana and
the fine gravel roads gave us ideal
touring conditions. At indianapolis
we spent a hot, sultry night in a ho-
tel, and decided that we would not
again desert our cool tents and COM
ofrtable cots.
"The next night we camped near a
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 mossy 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 camping spot
as that of the previous night. Here
also it rained hard through the night