White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-11-21

the coming year, is now promised one
Of the most unique, picturesque and
expensive out-of-door pageants that
has yet been offered the American
people. Its possibilities are not linn
tied and it's setting will be alluring
and bewildering in variety.
The title already selected at meet
ing held last week in Olympia, is the
Pacific Wilderness Olympiad," and
the proposed pageant will be made
fitting in every respect to the name
selected. No date has yet been sug-
gested for the event, but this will be
appointed for such time of the year
as will offer visitors the most delight
full period of visiting the last great
wilderness remaining in the Far
Northwest.
In every respect the Pacific Wilder
ness Olympiad will be made worthy Of
it's name. 1t is proposed to present
to the public of the United States a
review of the earlier conditions of the
Olympic Peninsula, staged in the
midst of natural surroundings OF
mountain, forest, river and sea, which,
if possible to equal, cannot be sur.
passed.
To Picture Pioneer Days
Early outline of the pioneer efforts
in logging, backwoods games and
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part taken by the Indians of days be-
fore and after the advent of the white
man; the daring feats Of the men and
women who worked wonders in over
coming the wilderness, will be repro
duced, and games of skill will figure
extensively. 1t is also proposed tc
throw in full measure of the mard
gras and present-day joviality, which
will win public approval. The sur
roundings for all will be the forest
) and mountain Businesses of the Olym
pic Peninsula. The enormity Of the
district included is little appreciated
but it embraces all that great country
north of Grays Harbor between Puget
Sound and the Pacific Ocean, and its
northern border is marked by the
,, Straits of Juan de Fuca from Port
Townsend Bay to Cape Flattery-the
extreme northwestern point of the
United States proper.
Various annual entertainments have
been staged by other localities Of the
West, conspicuous among them the
Pendleton Roundup and the Walls
Walla pioneer pageant. These events
have become more than locally promi
nent, and today are appreciated fal
beyond the boundaries of the territory
directly interested.
In the past the Olympic wilderness
has enjoyed no more than local ap
probation; it's isolation excluding its
beauties and grandeur from the eye
other than those whose daring and
physical endurance permitted them to
draw near But conditions have
changed and are changing part
Of the Olympic Highway completed
during the past few years has to lin.
tied extent made possible easy ap.
proach to the Olympic country. 1t
has had a tremendous effect in at.
tracing automobile travel during the
summer, but at best it has been a
one-way route. The average traveller
or summer tourist cares little to make
long trips back and forth over the
same route; he demands change of
scene, and the early completion of
the Pacific gap of the Olympic High
way will supply this deficiency.
Site to Be Selected
One Of the most important parts in
putting on the Pacific Wilderness
Olympiad will be that Of the selection
of a site sufficient in area, affording
the natural surroundings for a page
ant Of the kind, and situated so it will
be available to the thousands of visit
ors who will naturally be drawn to
this part Of the United States. The
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