The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-07-23
DR.. v. ]. BOONE HAS
RETURNED FROM
THE EAST
TRIP HOME VIA THE PANAMA
CANAL WAS OF GREATEST
INTEREST TO OUR
NOTED EDUCATOR
Spent Eleven Days Most ProfitabIv
at Biggest Fair World Ever Seen
Eastern General Educational Board
Well Pleased With Work and Pro-
gress of College of Idaho.

Bringing decidedly encouraging
news Of the business outlook in the
East. DR.. W. ], Boone returned Satur-
day from his trip to Rochester, N. Y,
as delegate to the General Assemb-
ly of the Presbyterian church.
Dr. Boone returned by way of the
Panama Canal, finding that he could
take that route for 500, including all
expenses, against a mere railroad fare
OF SIS on the train
On board the same boat were the
noted Ben (Pitchfork) Tillman. and
Mr. Howells, erstwhile of Jordan Val
ley, who is enjoying a l0,000-acre con
cessIon from the Panama government.
DR.. Boone while in the East visit
ed the General Educational Board and
teels very encouraged at his reception.
The Board was unusually impressed
at the showing made by the College
OF Idaho, especially at the fact that
without any of the helps in the way
OF night schools, summer schools, big
preparatory departments, etc, the
! college is maintaining a very credit
able collegiate department, and is be-
ing run with practically no floating
trip East in November, at which time
he expects to be able to conclude ar
engagements that will insure a stand
ard college for the next year.
DIR. Boone said that the cities in
terested primarily in manufacturing
were full of healthy activity. Mills
were being run to full capacity and
practically no unemployed were to
be seen. In New York conditions did
not seem to be so good.
1t took sixteen days to make the
trip and DIR. Boone says that largest
desert on the globe is not on the land
but on the sea, for days they saw
nothing but the sky overhead and the
sea beneath. Going down from New
York when about the West Indies he
went on deck at the blowing of the
whistle at noon and he stood under
the sun without casting a shadow.
The trip was not bad, even under
the equatorial sun, as a cool breeze
was always blowing.
1t took eight hours to pass through
the canal. The vessel he was on was
nearly 600 feet long and about 90
feet across and was carrying all the
freight that it could. There were many
vessels passing through the canal.
Panama is a beautiful country-one
perfect panorama of green to the tops
of the hills The country was rolling
and had no mountains like we have
here and it is fast filling up with
Americans who are setting out large
areas to tropical fruits. The weather
is very uniform at no times does the
he Col hi - L.
never keen known to go above SO.
There are no mosquitoes or flies there.
The vessels are lifted by series of
locks. 1t took just six minutes to
pass through one of them-one min
ute to enter and four to fill and one
minutes to get out When they came
to the lake which was about 80 miles
long, the vessel went at full steam,
but in passing through the Culebra
cut, about two miles long. it took
some four hours, the movement of
the vessel being scarcely preceptible.
1t takes two locks to drop them into
the Pacific, the first being a drop of
thirty feet and the second one 90 feet
The natives of Panama are not very
enegertic people-banannas and fruits
growing wild. clothing required next
to nothing. But the incoming Ameri-
cans are changing all this.
In the Pacific the north star can
just be seen above the horizon, but
the Southern Cross is up some dis
lance about the horizon. They lost
sight of it somewhere along the coast
of California.
Dr. Boone spent eleven days at the
Panama Pacific Exposition. 1t was
the greatest show he had ever seen. He
states that everything is truly marvel
Gus. The people of San Francisco are
not trying to hold their visitors up In
fact room with bath, which costs
nearly everywhere else $3.50, can be
procured in San Francisco for ST. And
rooms at private homes with fine ac-
commodations for from 50 to S. per
week. And good meals can be had
there as cheaply as anywhere else. If
enc wants to spend money, however,
he has every opportunity to get rid
of it.