The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-06-06
OUR VISIT AS 1T
MIGHT HAVE BEEN

About 49 Hood Riverites signified
their intention Of going on the exeur.
sion 10 Portland, under the auspices OF
the Commercial club May %, and IS
more turned 10 at the depot before
train time. The crowd piled into the
two special cars which were hooked
onto the fast mail and record break
ing ride 10 Portland began. | never
saw such a busy set of brakemen.
Round the corners and curves we
whizzed, every brakeman at his post,
doing his best to keep the brakeshoes
fast to the wheels. so as to steady the
train. Well, anyway, we got TO Port
land at l0:45 a. m, Just 30 minutes
after we left Hood River, the fastest
time ever made on the O.-W. K. & N.
Co. line.
About three thousand Portlanders
met US at the train. having for an es-
cort the mayor with his staff. all
dressed I'd in rose colored silk hats,
and rose colored trousers with the reg
ulation black Prince Albert coats.
They had three brass bands, including
the Marine band from Washington,
which is to be there during the rose
festival and maybe for the Elks' con-
vention. | never heard such music as
they made, for they did not play separ-
ately, but all together, making one big
grand band. wish you could nave
heard it.
They had thirty automobiles in
which the Hood River crowd rode up
to the Multu0mah hotel. The Port
landers walked and crowded along the
streets and sidewalks, showering us
with roses : roses of all kinds, sizes
colors. When the hotel was reached
everybody went inside, filing past a
bar, suppose you would call 1t, where
every visitor was presented with a
pint bottle of exquisite perfumery,
made from roses raised in Portland.
Oregon.
On upstairs 10 the gorgeous dining
room of the Multnomah hotel, where
300 members of the Portland Ad club
were waiting for US. Upon raised
dias at one end of the large room sat
Jim Montgomery. adorned in a mag
nificent robe of rose colored satin and
a wreath of strawberry leaves, bloom
and berries upon his brow. One OF his
cheeks stuck out. as If he had a big
Spitzenburg apple in it, but it was
only the result of a violent tootbache
which had sent him to Portland ahead
| of the crowed, where he had been dis
covered and thrust into the prominent
position of Rex Hood Riveritus, King
of the Oregon apple valleys.
| Everyone crowded into the room, in
cluding the bands, which broke into
Hail to the Chief" as Jim rose to
his feet. There wasn't great deal of
speaking, but Jim made mighty good
talk on the gories of Hood River. de-
| spite bis swell appearance, and every
body fell-to OIL the lunch provided by
the Ad club, topped with the strawber-
ries from home.
From the lunch we were hurried into
automobiles and driven over the beauti-
full streets and by-ways of Portland for
couple of hours, landing at the base
ball park at three O'Clock, where a
section in the grand stand had been re-
served for US to watch Portland clean
up Seattle by score of q to Z, plac-
ing Portland in the enviable first place.
| Another hour was spent in auto rid
ing and we were landed at the Port
land Commercial club about o'clock,
where a reception was held for a half
hour, while 40 Imperial japanese wait
ers arranged the table for the evening
dinner, to which we sat down at 6 80
This was truly magnificent affair
for while we Hood Riverites only went
down in our purses at 81 a head, Port.
land had gone down in hers for 81
more and let me say that S6 a plate
will provide for a feast. Everyone
was hungry, except Jim, who could dc
nothing with it at all, but sat gaily by
and looked on. The things to eat were
so good that we couldn't get away at 9
o. clock to catch our train, as provided
in the schedule, and when we left al
1890 wondering what we were going
to do, we found the autos waiting and g
company of Oregon miitiamen drawr
up in front of the club. They told us
: to get in, mad as they looked like they
meant business, we obeyed orders
At a signal the machines started, the
militiamen fell into line and W.
started for the depot.
Arriving there, we discovered tha
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fact that if we had to leave at 9 p. m
$ we would be hurried away, and haC
seen to it that a special train was pro
vided to take us home. The train wa
I a double-header and we arrived bacl
home in less than an hour after leaving
/ Portland. The band, which had ac
; companied US, got off the train an'
played Good Night, ladies'" as we
tired but in a good humor. strolled u
the hills to our waiting families.
1t was great day-nit Taken fror
the dream of man who talks in hi
sleep.
There is one medicine that every fam
[ ilv should he provided with and especial
= ly during the summer months; viz
Chamberan's Colic, Cholera, and Diar
rhoa Remedy. 1t costs but a quarter