The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-06-02
COMMUNICATED.

ATLANTIC OCEAN Ton the Steel Pier
out of sight of land. because of foe. y
Dear Editors and Friends arrived
in Chicago Thursday noon, after leav-
ing Oroville Monday morning. Rev II.
A. Smith, OF Spokane, is my travelling
companion and room mate. Chicago
was watching Tor our advent and
promptly took us to banquet at the
! Great Northern hotel with Rev. Stone,
one of the resident Presbyterian pas
tors. and 2. cnairmen of his various
mems organizations. who meet thus
each week tor conference and report.
Mr. A. p. Murray brother was one OF
the number.
The next evening at ! o'clock we
reached Washington, u. C.. truly called
the most beautiful city in the United
states, hidden .lmOng its 100. 900 trees.
which shelter innumerabIe beaut,fu,
statues and parklets and homes and
public buildings Towering above
them is the dome of the capitol build 9
ing and highest Of all, in splendid sim
plicity, is Ihe nIOnument of our ma
tion's honored father. A walk IN it's
90 steps and back before breakfast is
the only hOmelikc experience | could
il't Nv SItdi NlOuEl vernon DIVERS
fully i13 feet above the placid Pot.-
mac.
More than 1000 commissioners and
visitors are assembled here in Allan
tic CITY. Americas greatest summer
resort. (ENerywhere from Oroville to
Atlantic, their possessions or environs
ere in the superlative degree).
The assembly meets in large hall
day the waves dash higher than we
have seen them before and fog hides
the shore. Nv" only had three quar-
terS Of an hour in the ocean today, az
the program is Get up, eat. go to
meeting; eat. go to meeting; eat go to
meeting, go to bed. But several of us
play hockey and go swimming occa .
sionally. And. say. the "eat is inn
mense' They give you half a dozen
chances each trip to decipher those
hieroglvphits IN the culinary score
card and 10 consume the result OF
your Interpretation to the obsequious
black. But the array of diversified and
unfamiliar implements of gastrOnO,nics
warfare is appalling to us of the sage
brush country. ard like David Of old
we are inclined to substitute for thent
oui tVotCu tOOlo vi pTdlTlt
attacking the Goliath of the table. q
At my table IS an NJ d. from China.
Prof. from the Philippines, Sioux
Indian preacher from South Dakota. a
Boston minister who has been as lar
west as Atlantic City, and few 9TH
ers, together with your peripatetic par
son. But these casterners. natives of
New Jersey and environs. despite their
strange speech, dress and customs, are
very like white folks after all.
Needless to say. the scare head lines
in the daily papers regarding heresy
trials here are misleading. The affair
isn't so exciting as to deserve COM
ment.
Perhaps the most significant action
SO far is the all but unanimous one
taken by both bodies for the union of
our Presbyterian church with the Ger
man Reformed church. the largest
body of Christians next to our own
holding the Calvinistic system 1t will
require two or three years to arrange
the legal phases and consummate the
union; but it's coming.
Assembly meets next in Louisville,
Kentucky.
am to spend Sunday next in Nor
ristown. \, J. Sincerely yours,
o II. NJ. COURSE.