New Britain herald., 1921-06-24


 a detailed account in the accompany ing article. The upper left picture shows the party ready to start on the trip, the queer little cars also being shown. The upper middle picture is Japanese wayside temple and the upper right shows MT. Bishop and his fellow tourists: The lower pie lures are taken from the boat as it neared the famous mountain. --===--==---=-=-= ---.----.--==-----..=:---=. horses, and from there we rode to Subashiri, where the automobile was waiting to take us to Gotemba. Ar rived home, we did not get over that trip for two full weeks, we were so sore and chafed from the unusual ride in the saddle.
 Last Summers Trip.
 Now for the trip we made last summer. There were three couples in the party. MT. A. who is the rep resentative of the U. s. Steel Corp, and his wife; MT. and Mrs. B. (Bishop); and MT. c, who is the rep resentative of the Crucible Steel Go. of America, and his wife. We planned six days trip, and we had to take food enough to last us for the journey; and as we had to travel in first class train and we expected to stop at one or two good hotels, we took some good dressy clothes with us besides our mountain and tramp ing clothes.
 For food, we took three fried chickens, six loaves of bread, can of butter, a can of coffee, sugar and spices, six pounds of sweet chocolate, and various other good things to eat. and I put in two pounds of excellent prunes, very much to Mrs. B.'s dis gust and protestations. To her sur- prise, however, the prunes were very popular, and to her still greater Mir. and Mrs. A. brought along like quantity. The pruncs were uncooked, and they are a real good confection when eaten just asI they are boxed for shipment. Our supply of food was typical of what the others brought with them.
 We left Yokohama at 9.1I a. m. on July S1st, 1920, and arr<ed in Co., tcmba on schedule time. While A. and c. were getting the baggage out with the aid of Red-Caps, I rushed ahead and secured two automobiles to take us and the baggage to Su- bashiri. We had lunch (here it isl called tiffin) at a Japanese place where they served foreign food, such i as it is, which we ate with a good deal of merriment. As soon as MT. | A. and C. had purchased four kongo- que for themselves and wives (we had our 1918 staffs with us), we boarded the automobiles and started for Subashiri.
 At Subashiri we put up for the night at the Yoneama hotel, a Japanese place, so we could get an early start the next morning for the top of Mount Fuji. Before retiring for the night we made arrangeme ents -hree goriki, or mountain guides to carry our baggage to the top of Fuji and thence to Yoshida. After leav- ng instructions to be called "early Mother dear" we reclined on our n one room and the gentlemen in mother room.
 Hotel Accommodations.
 The Yoneyama hotel is a two story building with one portion of it ex- ending back at right angles to the . ront portion or the street. It was ir his part on the second floor where we lad adjoining rooms, which arel cached by narrow balcony runningI long each side of the building. Now Japanese hotel is always a very 1 loisy place at night, and this one : vas no exception to the rule. It is Japanese law that all houses must ( 'e closed up tight at night, and for his purpose all dcorways Ne p:c- l5cd with sliding partitions, which. vhen put in place, make a Japanese cuse look like :; barn without any InLows in it. About twelve o'clock heard Mir. C. talzing loudly to sorn"- ooy and at the san tiG.e I heard Ir A. Choking With suotheredl , tuSlter, and tht rattle and clatter z { the thin woode1 outside shutters , 'hi':h were being put up for the 2 ight Several times T heard AIr. = lilirG to somebodv to make lcssl f oise, tut on the whole I had d good t issf.tG sleep ani rest. {
 Party Cali d Early. Ire next Glor sing I was the first V ne up, and as the outside shutters ' ad been taken down at daybreak nh stored away for the day just 1s Was stepping GU. on the balconY.