Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
In The Far Northwest

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bay. Just across the sound one can
see the given walls of the Federal
prison on McNeiPs island. Now it
was from there Roy Gardener, that
famous bandit recently made his SEN
sational escape after sealing the
walls and swimming across three
miles of very cold water to the main
land and freedom. These waters are
inhabited by the deadly octopus and
man eating shark, but a man of
Gardeners type will try anything
once.
One mile east of Steilacoom stands
the grand buildings Of the Washing
ton State Hospital for the Insane. |
did not like Steilacoom however Its
very conveniently situated | must saw.
l lived in Tacoma. No / didn't have
any money in the defunct Scandinav-
ian American Bank when it closed its
doors there last winter. l was afraid
OF banks and I never have found it
inconvenient to carry all my demaso
in one pocket of my other pair of
trousers, and it's so handy don't you
know. No bother at all.
Puget Sound is the play grounds of
the Northwest. They have the best
concrete, brick and gravel roads I
ever saw, and I've been building roads
for fifty years. There is two fine
highways on either side of Puget
Sound and the Straits from Victoria
B. c. ito Olympia, Washington two
more grand scenic highways that fol-
low the winding banks of the Column
bia River, the Mississippi of the
Northwest from Astoria on the coast
four hundred miles inland through
northwestern Oregon and across
Washington from north to South,
There is a great Park ito Park high
way from Yellow Stone Park west to
Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, then
south to Portland and San Francisco,
The tourist will find fine national
camp grounds at convenient distances
on this route and open air furnaces
where number can do their cooking
at the same time, wood and water
furnished free gratis.
Mount Rainier, the monarch of the
Cascade range, is on this route 60
miles from Seattle, the metropolis of
the Northwest. A few years since the
government built grand drive or
parkway for over a mile up the rug
ged base Of that mountain, erected 4
large hotel or inn, built a number of
s6s.sy Apars = =
OF the tens Of thousands of tourists
that during the summer months visit
that great natural wonderland. Old
Bald Top, as the people of that coun-
try affectionately call Mt. Rainier,
stands 14,444 feet above sea level or
more than two and one-half miles
above the highest point in Baton
Rouge, and has its perpetual snow
:orges and jagged ravines, 50 beauti-
ully portrayed by the imaginative pen
# one of our great American poets
Far in the west there lies desert
land, where
he mountains lift through perpetual
snow their
'ofty and luminous peaks down from
their jagged
'avines the gorge like a gateway op-
ems passage
Jude to the wheels of the emigrant
wagon" ."-Longfellow.
Mountain scenery and light air is
Il very fine but one cannot live on
;. tried it once for two weeks
Drty years ago in the San Juan
in Mexico and remember
got very gaunt after two weeks of
nat diet. l was just about as VOL
ptuous as the running gears of an
1igator gas with about the same
numerical outlines. It is said that
ills are ever green far off, however
on can take it from me that old Lou
'iana has them all cheated when it
ones to matter Of soil, climate and
generous, .hospitable people. I am
wing EZ at home 104 Pike St. and
hen the state or parish need my
ervices lam always ready and will
,g to help build few more good
Dads.
Respectfully yours,
E. E. GARRIGAN,