The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-17
FROM OAKLAND TO THE
PANAMA EXPOSITION
A description of the Trip Made By
Narylanders.

We arrived at Portland Oregon a.
m, May %. After having breakfast.
at Hotel Benson, we were given a trip
over the city by the Chamber of Com
MERGE
Portland is a very interesting and
hustllng city. LAUNDERING is the princi-
pal industry. The residential part of
the city is fine. Here we met a num-
Der Of Marylanders, among them was
King Wilson who came to Portland
from Allegany county and is now one
OF the leading attorneys of Portland.
We left Portland at midnight for
Seattle, Washington. arrived there at
Z a. m. After breakfast at Hotel Ben
son, we were given a fine motor trip
over the citysss.by the Chamber of Com
merce. All along the line we find them
boosting for their city. They seem to
think they live in the best city in the
world. In the afternoon we were
given boat trip across Lake Washing
ton. Seattle, it seems, feels the effect
more keenly of the depressed business
conditions of the country than some of
the other coast cities.
We left Seattle at $50 a. m. Tuesday
May % for Victoria, B. c., arriving at
I2:3O p. m. After lunch at the famous
Empress Hotel, we were given a Tally
do trip over the city. This is a very
nice little city, situated on Vancouver
Island, and before the war broke out
mad population of about $4,000, of all
natlonallties, since then about 25O0O
left the city. You can imagine how
this would effect city of this size.
Everything is very quiet and the whole
city seems to De in mourning. At one
time 1900 soldiers left here and out of
that number, it is said, all have been
Killed and wounded, but about 1000.
The next morning we visited the Hall
OF Parliament, which is quite a build
ing. We left Victoria at las D. M,
Nav 26, for Vancouver, had a verv de-
hghtful trip through Lake Georgia.
We came by boat all the way from
Seattle to Vancouver. which CITY we
left by rail Wednesday evening at $50.
We are now passing along the Swap
Lake which is 80 miles IN length, and
right IN the Cascade mountains. The
scenery is fine and a very nice bright
morning. We can look out of the win
dow and see more snow capped mount
aims. This was one of the DAYS we
spent looking at the picturesque scenery
of the Canadian mountains. it's lakes
and rivers. About 23O p. m, we
came to the Canadian Rockies, which
Tor mountain scenery, far excells any
thing we have seen on our trim. The
many high snow covered peaks certain
" presents one of the finest views in
the world. With US is a party who has
Travelled through the Alps in Switzer-
land and he says the Alps look like toys
compared with the Rockies and had he
known there were such mountains in
this country he would never have gone
abroad for scenery.
At Field Alberta" the train stop
ped III minutes to give US view of the
hrst glacier we saw. Here the snow
stays all the year, and last winter at
one time was 8 feet deep. In all they
had about 40 feet of snow.
We reached Lake Louise 10 D. m,
where we cDpnt tba p;rb+ ~ +Lo botoI
and yesterday in sight seeing. leaving
Lake Louise as $40 and arriving at
Bautf 1880 p. m.
The setting of the sun in the snow
capped mountains last evening about
p. M, certainly presented beautiful
sight. At 9:l5 p. M, we could read
paper without light and it gets day.
light at 2 a. m. So you see one who
works from daylight until dark can get
in long day. We are now at the IA
nous Bauff Springs Hotel. After
breakfast we will take a sight seeing
trip and do some fishing before leaving.
l forgot to mention about the cub
bear we saw at Field, that had just
been caught and put in a box and
brought to the station for sale and was
sold to lady in Minneapolis, MINI.
Just before our train arrived, we were
told that about 20 miles from this place
there were seven bears killed in the
past week and that Teddy" was book
ed for hunt here IN October