The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-07-11
ELLISPORT

patronized the past week.
DR.. and Mrs Appleby and fam
lily have rented the Woods cottage
for the balance of the season.
Mr.. w. L. Lewis and Mr.. w.
COghlan were guests of the Marsh
family over the week end.
DR. and Mrs .Torlief Torland
ard little son, with Mrs. Torland 5
parents Judge and Mrs. c. Z.
Claypool, are at Heimdal, " their
summer home at Ellisport.
Miss Gladys Gowan was married
in the Plifany Episcopal church,
Seattle, on June 25th, to Mr.. j.
w. Park. They are spending the
summer here with Mrs. Gowan in
her new cottage, which they have
named REST Awhile. " Mrs.
Gowan has been seriously i'll, but
is gradually recovering, altho still
on crutches.
"A visit to the electric light plant
and telephone Office at Center
gives one new point of view,
which may relieve the visitor and
be a good investment morally
for the plant which ha s in so
short time become necessary
to the business welfare Of our Is
lands. When the slight goes oui
at most inconvenient seasons
when the power suddenly quits
work in the midst of our bread
baking or tea-making, or other
electrical operations which we
knew nothing at all about only p
few years ago, we are apt to
have several kinds of compton
fits, And then when we find thai
the telephone has gone on strike
and we cannot call Central, >"
to find what the matter is, or ex-
press our opinion of the concern
we are obliged to settle down with
the calmness of despair, for no
kind of aft will avail us anything
if we can't get Central" "
And when the watcrworks goes
dry, as ours did in EIlisport at
the same time that everything else
stopped, we We're reduced to the
old-fashioned, simple life of tai
low candles, hand-hauled spring
water and common wood fires,
built ont in the yard, because our
water connected ranges would
blow up if we used them-and
no telephone
Well, we severally and indi-
yidually expressed our opinion
of our water works personally
because our waterworks are
near by and we can reach it on
foot.
Then we got one-horse ride
TO Center and visited the electric
light and telephone plant
our viewpoint was changed. We
found that the electric light plant
has troubles of its own which il
can p tell over the phone, partly
because no one would listen to il
anyhow, but largely just then
because it had passed through a
season Of fire, which was miracu
lousy quenched by three girls
armed only with peanut cups and
a dribble OF water from not
very nea + faucet. These tele-
pAone girls are real heroines ac-
cording to our new viewpoint, for
with their peanut cups, and not
a man in sight they saved the Is
lands electric plant from burn
ing to the ground-and saved us
from the Inconvenience of doing
without its most valuable serv-
ices for weeks instead of hours.
But heroines do not talk of their
deeds, even over the telephone.
and it needed a good look at the
charred remains Of the electric
switchboard to show us that we
might have been immeasurably
worse off than we were but for
the quickwitted girls III the tele-
phone Office. We think the Is
lands owe a vote of thanks and
plenty of peanuts to Miss Estelle
Hofmeister, Miss Cleo Cheney and
Miss Gladys Wilbur. the Young
ladies in the telephone office.