The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-05-09

good. Clarence Gilbert and Arthur
Clarke gave an exceedingly funn,
/ black face stunt.
I The Portland Press club specia
tram, bringing l75 passengers, un
loaded here Sunday morning the largest
crowd Of eXcursionists that have eve,
VISITED the Hood River valley. j. II.
I y Neil, travelling passenger agent OF
the O..W. r. & N. Co., who made ar.
rangements for the excursion, provided
luxurious train with an observation
car. while W. NJ. McMurray, general
passenger agent. added his private car
Tor the convenience of the newspaper
men. II was in Mr.. McMurray's ear
that the Daily Apple Blossom was run
OF IN five issues. The following was
contained IN an issue submitted to the
eNeursionists just before Hood River
was reached:
Greetings, Ye Hood Riverites I"
You see we are here in force. The
Press club was mighty glad to receive
your cordial invitation to be your
guests for this day. We are prepared
to be shown Hood River at its best and
know we will not be disappointed. II
was mighty nice of you to ask us TO
come and share with you the beauties
Of the Floral Festival and the wonder
tul valley which, perhaps, more than
anything else, has helped Oregon on
the worlds map in a horticultural
way. May the unity of purpose which
always has characterized the Hood
River people continue forever as an
example of what brainy cooperation
can do for a community. You have
accomplished wonders for yourselves
and for the whole state. God bless you -
As the train pulled into Hood River
moving picture machine clicked out
welcome, while a long line of auto
mobiles escorted the visitors out over
the East Side, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Brock distributed blossoms to the
ladies Of the party. The blooms came
from the orchard of Sears & Porter.
The Press club entertainment commit
tee, composed of Joe D. Thomson, r.
h. Bennett, Chas. Hall, j. +. Mont
gomery and Capt. c. =. McCan. were
expecting but 10 guests. The news
that l75 were coming was only received
about half hour before the arrival of
the train. Consequently enough auto
mobiles were not on hand to carry the
party at one time to the home of Chas.
Hall, Eggermont, where lunch was
served the newspapermen. Because of
the lack of machines and the necessity
of making the six mile trip into the
country as soon as possible, the stop at
the orchard of A. [. Mason had to be
cut from the program, although Mr..
Mason was awaiting the newspapermen
with extra fancy apples and good roads
speeches. A number of the machines
made the trip to the top of Van Horn S
butte.
The luncheon was buffet affair. A
long table was spread on the north side
of the Hall home, where cold Hood
River asparagus, furnished by J. II
koberg, who ships large quantities of
this delicious vegetable to Portland
daily, was served with mayonaise,
The table was loaded with 1000 sand
wiches made by the ladies of the Con-
gregational church. Yama and Modo.
two japanese boys, well known in the
city, served hot coffee. J. A. Epping
and j. II. Heilhronner dispensed Hood
River yellow Newtowu cider. Extra
fancy Newtowns, Winter Bananas ard
Spitzenburgs, furnished by j. 0. Mark,
j. G. Rowland, Oscar Vanderbilt and
the Apple Land 4 Orchard Co. were
served.
Following are the names of the Hood
River residents whose cars transported
the parry:
c. r. Bone, G. P. McCan. J. II. He'll
bronner, Charels Hall, V. c. Brock. L.
o. Blanchar G. Y. Edwards, Truman
Butler, Noah Bone, j. A. Epping w. f..
King, G. d. Thompson, C. K. Marshall,
l.. H. Higgins, P. S. Davidson, Harry
7. Dewitt. c. c. Carpenter, Frank
Chandler, Ii. H. HadoIck, DR.. Il. l..
Scobie. b, +. Duncan, A. B. Shelley,
Harry Bailey, Chris Dethman, Clarence
George T. prather, W. r. Lar.
away, Cutler Brothers, j F. VolstorH,
l.. +. Clark, W. l.. Nichols, Miss Con
stance Henderson, Crawford G. Lem
mon, Willard Young.
Other committees that had charge of
the festival were: General - j. II.
Heilbronner, DR.. j. F. Watt, Noah W.
Bone, Prof c. d. Thompson. P. S. Da-
wilson, Truman Butler and Geo. r.
Castner. Decorating Frank A. Cram,
4. A. Franz and A. j. Graham. Auto
mobile-Capt. G. P. McCan. and Clar-
ence Gilbert. Portland Commercial
club lunch DR.. j. f. Watt, P. S. Da-
wilson and G. d. Thompson.
The Odd Fellows hall was decorated
Saturday under the supervision of Ma
lor j, s. Booth. who spent the entire
lay making the hall fairly bloom with
boughs laden with apple blooms and
gleam with tiny electric bulbs.