Evening star., 1939-10-29
The Travellers Notebook
SeribbIings About Box Tower Carlton Concerts,
Collecting Odd Names, Standing in Two
Hemispheres and Southern CoIifornio's Calendar

visitor easily can straddle 1t, with
one foot in the Northern Hemisphere
and one foot in the Southern. But
don't attempt it without topcoat-
it's cold that high in the Andes.
The Highway Department of Mex
leo has announced that the link in
the Pan-American highway south
from Mexico City to the Guatemala
border will be finished and open 10
traffic by the close of the year 1910.
At Suchiate, the Mexican terminus,
the international road will connect
with the paved highway of Guate-
mala that leads into Guatemala City,
mountainous capital.
The Italian Line announces that
sh!p-to-shore messages via radio,
suspended with the outbreak of the
war, again are permitted. Messages
also may be sent from ship to ship.
Miss Georgia Englehard has re-
turned to New York from her llth
climbing season in the Banff-Lake
Louisa section of the Canadian
Rockies, bringing her total of con-
quered peaks in the region up to
about 300, including 80 first ascents.
With a Chicagoan and Ernest Feuz,
Swiss guide attached to the Cha
teau Lake Louise, she scaled fear
some Bugaboo Spire 00,250 feeD,
which has been rated by Konrad
Kahn, world-famous guide, as the
most difficult in all Canada. Some
idea of the thrills of the dangerous
ascent can be read in her words:
Knowing Kain's opinion of Buga-
boo Spire, We expected no cinch.
And we found it far more treach-
erouS than we imagined. From our
base camp, where we left our pack
horses, we back-packed over a rough
moraine of 1000 feet and made
camp high above timber line. Next
day we ascended 1000 feet of steep
glacier, then up another thousand
feet OF rock, arriving at a series of
sleeper and sleeper pitches, topped
by smooth granite with few holds
for feet or fingers. After scaling a
dozen such pitches we stood within
$50 feet of the summit. We scrambled
up a steep chimney to the base of a
15-foot wall broken by three hori-
zontal cracks, just enough for the
fingers but not for foothold. The
top of the wall was smooth, with
no anchorage possible for the first
man, and 3000-foot drop below.
The leader, Ernest Feuz, made s.
foot jump from the top of the wall
onto a downsloping slab equally
holdless landing on it for a calcu-
lated slide of yard, where a small
crack stopped him and kept him
from falling the 5000 feet. We fol-
lowed suit and then climbed the
ridge to the summit"
Southern California s calendar of
events for November includes: No
vember l., reopening of the Henry
E. Huntington Library and Art CAL
lery, San Martno, free to public.
October % to November 10, candid
camera contest, China City. Los An
geles: prizes for portrait, landscape,
still life, comedy, action and other
classes of candid photos taken in
Chinese settlement (prize pictures to
be shown November 11-18). Novem-
ber 4, series of free illustrated lee
lures on Indian, Southwestern and
California subjects open at South
west Museum, Los Angeles, continu-
ing each Sunday through March.
November 2-5, Southern California
flower show at Pasadena Novem-
ber 4, Turkey day at Ramona, in the
San Diego County turkey raising
area; costumes of turkey feathers,
parades. contests, outdoor dancing,
crowning of queen. November 4,
Fiesta of the Nations, Balboa Park,
San Diego. featuring music, dances,
costumes and food of foreign ma
tions. November II and II. two
day Armistice celebration at Hunt
ington Beach, with parades. vaude-
Vile, dancing, carnival, fireworks,
'49er camp. November "a. Santa
Claus Lane Parade at Hollywood; i;
official opening of mile-long Santa
Claus Lane from Argyle to La Brea
on Hollywood boulevard; elaborate
Santa Claus float, creating artificial
snowfall, presents Santa Claus and
court of movie stars: Santa Claus
float parades street nightly through
Christmas eve; double lane of
Christmas trees and other illuminat-
ed decorations. November "a, musi-
cal salute to Santa Claus at Long
Beach; so bands, drum and bugle
corps open Christmas season. No.
vember % through December,
Christmas tree lane, Balboa Park,
San Diego; 100 rare melanoxylon
trees decorated with colored lights.