Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-18

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the temperature was 100 in the shade
and they told us that a few days be-
fore it was 104. After leaving the
ranch we we're travelling along about
| % miles an hour when we saw a
machine coming toward us and when
we got closer we saw a pennant in
| front of the machine reading "Hilo,
| Hawaii" SO we kept in the middle Of
the road and hailed them, feeling
sure that there could be no one from
Hilo that we did not know, and it
proved to be Mr.. E. N. Holmes and
family from Hilo. He gave US his
experience on his travels, and Mr.,
Lewis told him of our troubles, and
We passed along, to meet again four
weeks later crossing the ferry from
Oakland to San Francisco.
We came to the improved Califor-
mia state highway about 3:45 p. m,
and had good earth road into Red
ding, arriving there about s p. M,
and we found it very warm. 1t had
been so for the past two days and
was around 100 degrees when We ar
rived, but had been 1T during the
day.
l forgot to mention that we saw
the nature man in Portland who was
In honolulu some two years ago,
looking just about as he did while
down there, whiskers, bare feet and
all.
Left Redding about 11:3o a. M,
passing through some very level
farming lands, and some of the fruit
trees were drying up, especially the
almonds and by or near the little
town Of Orland we saw our first and
only alfalfa meal factory.
The state has built some immense
concrete bridges along the old state
road but abandoned them when they
relocated and built the new highway.
At Willows we saw our first Dia.
mond Match Manufacturing Co. And
right through this same Glenn com.
pany we saw large acreage of water.
grown rice, large barley fields, and
there was also a cattle loading cen.
ter. We passed by little towns with
names like our local people in Homo
lulu, Macy, Hershey, Davis, Winter.
etc., and the warehouses by the sta.
lions were filled with grains to over
moving as there were piles Of grain
outside the warehouses.
We passed several rabbits and
hares that had been killed by autos. .
They are in the road when the auto
comes along in the night with their
lights turned on and Mr.. Rabbit gets
where the light is the brightest and
stays right there until overtaken by
the machine. In the same county we
saw some large pig ranches with al.
falfa as the main food.
Just before reaching Woodland in
the Sacramento valley, we came to
our first large grape orchard, simply
loaded with unripe fruit Before
reaching Sacramento we came to the
Causeway bridge, some five miles in
length, about two miles of filled
ground and two miles of concrete
bridge with two-inch pipe on the
side. The bridge is not very high.
just high enough to be clear of the
water In winter time We arrived at
the Sand hotel, Sacramento, about
E3O p. m, after a very hot Journey.
The next day in riding about the
city we saw Mrs. Robert Estes and
Emma Rose, and she got in the ma.
chine and we had a nice little visit
with her. Mrs. Estes was leaving
two days later for New York to visit
her sister, Anna
This same evening, Tuesday. July
II. while we were having dinner, our
attention was attracted to the door
Of the dining room and there stood
our big Chief McDuffie, who was sup
posed to be on his vacation but had
word from Honolulu that some one
was wanted and could be located at
New Castle, some 80 or 40 miles out
of Sacramento, so the next morning
with an officer of the police depart.
ment we started in Mr.. Lewis ma
chine for New Castle, but the man
was not there, and as far as the de.
tectiVe could learn had not been there
for months.
We travelled over the Lincoln high.
lay on this trip and passed over
several miles of concrete road, and
then We would come to three or four
miles Of very poor road and then
more miles of concrete, so we asked
the officer that was with US the whv.
He said that the people in. author.
ity left these bad stretches 80 that
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