Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-15
CYRIL'S AUTOMOBILE
 GETS HIM INTO TROUBLE

James Cody of the N. c. Co., has received most interesting letter from Cyril Wood dated San Francisco, December 1, in which are recounted the experiences of the Wood family since leaving here for the Outside last summer They spent twenty-two days on the Yukon river packet Susie, and it re-
 uired thirty-seven days to make the journey to Seattle They are living in an apart ment house in San Francisco, which, Cyril says is somewhat different from our Alaska quarters. To get along with others in the house 1t IS necessary to wear rubber tired shoes and to put muffiers on the kids" '" The automobile slang Is the result of CyriPs having become the owner of Buick Six, :" and he tells of his interesting experiences as the navigator of that craft on the crowded San Francisco streets, where, on Market street alone, there are more vehicles than I ever saw in Iditarod-and that's going some"
 It is natural to expect that when man who has been in Alaska as long as Cyril has goes Outside and becomes the captain of a powerful automobile that he should exhibit natural antipathy to speed cops" and be constantly in trouble for exceeding
 
 Lis Iditarod friends had read that he had been arrested for fast driving they would have been neither shocked nor surprised. But he unblushingly tells Mir. Cody of having been ignominiously haled before the police court for the unromantic otfcnse of leaving his machine in too close proximity to tire hydrant To put it mildly, his friends are chagrined And here is how he relates it :: "As you may imagine, 1 have had sev eral experiences My first real experience was in getting arrested. This happened on Market street, and the charge was for leav ing the machine within twenty feet of a hydrant without someone in charge to move away in case of fire A tag was placed on the steering wheel instructing me to show up at the Hall of Justice the following morn ing It was in this trouble that one of my real friends appeared-Louis Hagencamp, tionary purchaser, who is quite a political boss here I stated my trouble to him and he accompanied me to the Tombs. l appeared before the sergeant of the police squad for my preliminary examination and was introduced as MT. Hagencamp's friend from Alaska It was then the sergeant asked me if I knew Jack Hilliard of Eagle replied in the affirmative and he said The son-of a-gun hasn't written to me for three months Then we had nice little visit and while talking he tore up the complaint card. He also forgot to even read the ordinance to me. Sufficient to say know hydrant five miles away now. pass them up for blocks before parking my car"
 He tells of the fair and it's wonders, and says that most of the attractions on the Zone were "rot" He was particularly struck with the spoilers, however, and espe- cially with one who harangued the crowds in front of an attraction known as ''The Artists Models Dream"
 MT. Wood reports having a fine time on his vacation, and that Mrs. Wood and the children are in splendid health. Little Cyril, he says, remembers everyone in Idit arod, and "even the dogs names" That young gentleman also has taken kindly to automobiles as mode of transportation.
 Mir. Wood sends regards to Iditarod friends and speaks of his coming trip over the trail to Iditarod in the spring.