The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-07
TO PACIFIC COAST
ON CAMPING TRIP
DIR. and Mrs. Hamilton and
Son, John, Leave by
Automobile
MUCH EQUIPMENT
IN SMALL SPACE
Everything Necessary for Preparing
Meals and Living in Comfort, with
Electric Lights and Cool Water Sup
ply-No Trailer Attached.

Electric Lights and Cool Water Sup
ply-No Trailer Attached.
With Niagara as their first objective |
in an automobile camping trip which |
return, DR.. and Mrs. Fremont Hamil- |
ton and son, John W. Hamilton, left |
this morning in their Dodge fvepas-
senger touring car, planning to pitch
their tent wherever night overtakes
them. They plan to be away four
months, sleeping and preparing all their
meals outdoors, the object Of the trip
being primarily for the benefit of the
health of the doctor, who has given un-
firing service to his large number of
patients, and his son, who was critically
i'll several weeks with typhoid fever
about three years ago. Mrs Hamilton
asd son plan to alternate in driving the
car
Leaving Niagara they viii head for
Mclean county, Illinois, where Mrs.
Hamilton has relatives and where al
Middlebury college chum of the doctor
lives. They plan to reach Bloomington
in about two weeks. Thence they viii
20 TO Chicago, Milwaukee. Minneapolis
and will reach St. Paul about the first
week in July. In northern Minnesota
they will see relatives of DIR. Hamilton
and then return to st. Paul BY the
second week in July they expect to visit
Jenner II. Chamberlain and Mrs
Maverette Fisher, formerly OF This
town. at Aberdeen. s. d. Their itinerary
will then take them to Yellowstone
Park and other points of interest in
that section, thence to Spokane, Seattle
and Tacoma, Wash, and down the Pa
cifc coast. Mrs. Hamilton expects TO
attend some of the sessions of the ma
ltional body of the Order of the Eastern
Star in Seattle the latter part of July.
The itinerary of the return trip has not
been planned out.
| The camping outfit comprises bag
wall tent, seven by nine feet, with
| n threefoot wall, one spring bed, two
air mattresses, three chairs, a small ta-
| bic, two burner gasoline stove, cooking
utensils, and other paraphernalia, in
cluding two sets of fishing tackle, a
rifle, small shovel and hatchet.
| The tent is made of heavy waterproof
| canvas with floor of the same. 1t Will
be set about four feet from the auto
mobile with fly of tent over the ton
neau of the car, giving an alleyway be-
tween the car and sleeping portion of
| tent which may be shut off by a drop
curtain and fastened at the bottom in
such way as to make the sleeping
fportion insect proof. In this part also
there is a small window, covered with
mosquito netting, on either side. The
tent poles are made in two sections
Joined by eight-inch ferrules. The tent
was made by the Athol Manufacturing
company.
Two comfort beds with air mattresses
and air pillows and quilted blankets
which will be used on the ground by DR.
Hamilton and son, and spring bee
with cotton mattress like that furnished
for the air beds, and blanket. make W
the sleeping equipment of the outfit. The
spring bed, which will be occupied by
Mrs. Hamilton, is suspended inside tn,
car, the spring being taken from a coucl
, hammock
Electric light is furnished for TIL,
tent by means of a connection with tn,
electric motor in the car and cold wa
: ter always is at hand, an Egyptian wa
4 ter bag of 20-quart capacity bein.
hung on the rear of the ear. The bas
: is filed at the upper right corner, AM
: there is faucet at the bottom. The bai
$ is made in such a way as to permi
Il evaporation through small leakage, thu
4 keeping the contents cold and the hot
4 ter the day the colder the water.
h The two-burner gasoline stove
e equipped with an oven. There also ar
/ two frying pans with folding handles,
/ baking tin and nest of three alum
g mum kettles They also have three graz
= ite iron plates from which to eat, mes
of six white enamel drinking cup
n knives, forks and spoons, and coffe
F pot A small black tin trunk contatir
e cans of flour baking powder, sugar, sal
It etc. and a bread trunk contains brea,
q cooked meat, or other food,
n Two collapsible camp chairs. co
y lapsible easy chair and a collapsib
n sewing table furnish the dining roo
\. equipment.
d When the party left Brattleboro a
three were clad in khaki. The men
,f business suits and Mrs. Hamilton s be
ter clothes were packed in trun
Each also was equipped with a rubb,
II coat.
A trailer in which to carry the cam
ing outfit2 No. 1t all rides securely (
the left running board of the car.
which three iron braces are attaehe
= The spring bed is placed over Il
ID braces and between that and the 81,
IS Of the ear the equipment is packe
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