Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-21
news OF SPLENDID TRIP COMES BACK
FROM THE {. H LEWIS AUTO PARTY
Story Of itinerary From Honolulu to Vancouver and Seattle
Many Honolulu Friends Met Already and Everybody in the
Party Having Good Time -

! ley at $40 p. m, the sun still two
hours high. and arrived back to where
we had left our autos In due time, and
right here is where our confidence IN
Mr.. Frank Lewis was destroyed. When
| our party got out OF the cars. the
station agent stepped up to Frank and
asked him IL he or any OF the party
! had lost O diamond, and Frank said
NO" missing a chance to be wearing
a nice diamond. We arrived back ar
the Vancouver hotel around 1880 p.
m, after q very pleasant journey. One
1T the members Of the party recfted
the following verse for the benefit Of
our guide OF the day before. Mr.. VIII
henson:
They sing the glories of the man
behind the gun,
And the books are full Of stories Of
the wonders he has done:
It's rather thrilling as the flag Is
waving high,
And you sort O. want to boiler as
the men go marching By,
But when you are In a strange land
On dear old auto trip,
It's fine to have a friend that win
give you the straight tip"
Honolulu Friends Meet
The party left Vancouver for Ever
EFT Monday morning about 1880,
| arriving there about o'clock, after
passing over some beautiful stretches
of road-some just road, and some
everywhere, and farm after farm with
their fine dairy cows and family or
chards OF cherries, apples and straw.
berries and blackberries. While the
party was out picking some Of the
wild blackberries, who should come
along bat Mr.. and Mrs. Cheatham.
and little Mr.. Cheatham with his 1T.
tie bucket Of wild blaekberries, on
their way from Seattle to VancouYer
to catch the Makura for Honolulu.
Talk about living in clover. Ger
tainly the farmers and their cattle "a
Canada and on the American side 0f
the line are living In clover.
Everywhere We have been SO FAR.
the buildings and trees and the stumps
Of the trees have been plastered with
signs, such as white Rose Lafd. z
tHardeman's Better Hats for Men.
"Albers Oats for Miners, -, aNo Water
Soap, Sight Draft SC Cigars aStark
Piano., Feed Your Horses Hay.
Hotel Barker" ''Mademoore lee
Cream" Stop, Dance and Forgef
Your Troubles" Spend Your Fourth
Of July in Everett" $4,000 Men
Wanted for the Army" '.Mico. Mlco
Grease" "a. B. Newell, Real Estate.
The only thing which seems to Be-
missing is something boosting the
Islands.
Accident to Surf Rider
The only real ACCIDENT that we had
up to the present time was the break
Ing Of the arm off the surf rider on
Mr.. Lewis machine. ss
On our arrival at Everett we found
"paystreak fair" going on very
much after the style of the show a
Aala park during last carnival: In
fact, there were several OF the people
that took part In the Aala park amnse-
ments In February last at Everett.
The two little girls joined together,
the -Newlyweds, and the regular bark.
ers that made so much noise during
the carnival. -
The party left Everett at 1906 :.
m. for Seattle. We first visited
salmon cannery, but the same was not
working, it being little early in the
season. So we moved on to the Wey-
erhaeuser Timber & Wood Co min
and saw them saving logs Of Wash.
ington fir, weighing around fifteen
tons, four and five thousand feet of
good salable lumber in one log.
Soldiers Guarding Mill
Two mills Of the company turn out
threefourths Of a million feet Of luu1-
Der per day or two hundred million
feet q year. The machinery handled
these immense logs about as easily as
a man would handle lath. The capac-
? ity Of the mill is ruled by the labor
market; labor Is very scarce, as the
i. W. W. people are causing lots OF
trouble and something less than
year ago labor riots around this mill
caused the death Of seven men.
against only one man getting killed
In the lumber business in the past
seven years. At the present writing.
the soldiers are guarding the road 70 E
the mill
The refuse burner Of the mill IL 100
feet high and A feet In circumfer.
ence.
On Concrete Highway
The entire thirty-three miles from
Everett to Seattle is along the Pacific
Highway, and paved with concrete or
brick.
Yours truly,
ONE OF THE PARTY.