Morris tribune., 1915-08-13
FROM THE RAMBLER's NOTE BOOK.

Between San Francisco and Portland may
journey by boat if he prefers and make the trip in
quicker time than by rail- There advantages in
land-lubber sticking to the rail route, but l
foolish try trip and did, and have lost
all desire try another For real happy time,
would much rather sit the bIeachers with the mercury
1O2 in the shade and the home team losing
The steamer did go to Portland. but landed at
FlaveI, near Astoria. The Columbia and Willamette
deep streams that will float any ocean-going
sells, but steamers have such difficulty in getting
the bar that the trip up the river has been abandoned
Portland is the "City of Roses and while the
at their best during june yet this flower in all
its varieties still blooms profusey anou the city
at this There is much competition the time
of the annual festival to shall obtain the prize
for the most beautiful The prize this year
won by display roses all varieties grated wild
tree.
Another peculiar thing about Portland is that there
alleys in the blocks, and large quanti
ties of wood piled up the boulevard of
better place pile it. The citizens did like the
prices which the private dealers in wood charged them
sold at SIS. 90 cord.
The big thing to be seen at Seattle and Tacoma is
may prefer The Indians called mountain Tacoma
Tahoma, something like that, and the early settlers
adopted the name, which 'nourshing breasts, "
aludes the milky colored which flow from
the melting glaciers and water the rich valleys below
named the mountain in honor of Capt Rainier
and this adopted the early maps and so OBJ
tanned general adoption. The people of the two
towns will explain all this to you in much detail but ask
them if they the mountain and the majority of
them will tell ycu that they have not-the people of
Tacoma and Seattle quite human Living in full view
of its capped magnfcenes they may it gisten
il the morning fade from view in the pnksh
Election of the evening and yet never have travelled
along the road that leads through the towering frs and
cedars where the mountain rises from the pan and
then by the circutous trail along the mountain side past
great waterfalls along the brink of shudderng chasms to
the camp at the line, where visit the age
old glaciers reve in the be uty of the heather the
Indian paint brush and the avaan che daisies growing
the edge of the fields view the tumbed world
of mountain and valley which stretches out in endless
variety below. What they call this mountain I do not
care as long l have it.
One becomes tired of seeing cities because there is
much sameness about all of them. The residents
always you to this building that park wher
have already hundreds of buildings more imposing
and dozens of parks beautiful. With few excep
tions cities all look alike with their big buildings vel
kept streets and artificial parks It's the country which
presents ever-interesting variety.
There few things in every city, however,, tina
we'll worth seeing and of these is the stadium
Tacoma. Here is an immense amphitheatre built afte
the Greek style and it will furnish seats 900 people
and half again as many find in it. Within th
track for he)d ant
there also plenty of space for either football field