Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-07-27
AUTO CAMP BOOSTER
GIVES SUGGESTION
FOR IMPROVEMENT

has an expansive smile that sweeps
over a face tanned by the sun after
many miles of travel before reach.
.ng Ashland. The camp has tbs
best accommodations of any that
have been in since leaving Oklahoma
In fact, we like it so well that we
intend spending a few days OF real
vacation here"
Mr., Delhle IS a constructive boost
er. There is only one place that
can compare to the Ashland camp" "
Mr. Deihle said THAT is Cajune
Pass, in California. Cajune Pass Is
forest reserve. but by reason OF
its natural scenic advantages, priv
ate interests, clubs. organizations
and business houses of nearby towns
have taken an interest in the place.
They have donated about 100 cemeN
tables, round in shape. and with 4
lirge cement base. for the use OF
campers. The tables are not overly
expensive and are much more slightly
than wooden ones. In the center
of each table is an iron tablet desle-
nat 'ng the party or parties who DON
ated the table. Various business
houses have profted largely in an
advertising way ny this means.
WOmen's clubs and organizations we
with each other in the placing OF
the tables in suitable locations in
the park. Each table seats four and
] believe, costs about S3j Why
cant the same scheme be carried
ont in Ashland"
Gone are the slOw-moving vans,
the moth-eaten wagons with their
worse mOth-eaten Steeds, the canvas
covered prairie schooners. The tour
ist of yesteryear has been relegated
to the limbo of oblivion with the
advent of the flivver and the paved
highway
The modern gypsy Is here,
Ashland g the clearing house for
hundreds of tourists each day at
this time of the year. And these
tourists are in class by Them
selves.
California or Canada bound. they
are pouring over the highways Of
le Northwestern animated, good
natured, Goth-like hoard, rowing OF
eye, cheerful OF countpnance, and
amiable Of disposition.
In vehicles of all sorts they come,
from touring cars with neatly ar
ranged cases containing baggage to
big cumbersome bodies mounted on
"llivver" chassis, n which whole
families live day in and day out, and
fl rom whose windows the eager faces
CT children peer and from whose
sides float string loads of var col
Ored wash"
No weather can deter them. no
HI rdship can cast them down. They
are out for good time. Some par
ties have been on the road for
others have Just started.
In the auto camp here license tags
from as many az thirty states have
mingled their colors and their COM
b nations of numerals. Along the
drifting smoke betokens
the presence OF campers along mean
dering creeks and besides cool riv-
ers.
They are going somewhere.
Where? They don't know.
Were seeing the country" they
say. We've worked hard for years
and now we're taking our vacation.
IFS a great life"
II Is no uncommon sight TO see the
Duny radiator of cheap car putting
steam through the water vent as the
Duny engine beneath the hood bot
les vallantly to hurry along a barn
Ike tonneau with a family OF a
iozen.
The carmaradiere OF IL ALI
ooh, dad, look, there's the peo-
Die we saw near Yosemite" a youngs-
er will cry. Or.
Hello, folks. Haven't seen you
since we pulled through Fourth OF
luly canyon. How's tricks?" Or, !
"By George, we'd sure been out
Jf luck il you folks hadn't loaned ,
rs that gasoline there in the desert. "
The whole northwest is preVaded .
With the spirit of the modern gypsy.
Md here. where their Mecca seems
o he. the long lines OF them stretch !.
,ack into the middle western plains.
ID into the mountains OF Canada or
lown into the rice bottoms OF Calf.
ornia.
LONDON, July 26.-Sinn Fein
paders intend TO inform Iloyd