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Show ELLIS FRKED TELLS TALE OF LONG JOURNEY BY AUTO, WITH FISH STORY l1".?, N - f Ml rourti.- t.rWeHtei,, Oanadur ThU rVad "emla'abrnptly 'lirthi" Padflir"ocwnT Mr veJ'I p. y l,,"lt f Mte H In n vory Uitoriwtlug and ulrtureHnua p,,t. View No. 2 iiliown he,. lf,Ir, r W a',d V'"V Ut (ra",, cn,,yo" of ,he Colorado In Arizona. Mr. Tree,! wn glad to rmt dt" af, ",U'lS ,rM U" AMn- rl'"l"r0 No- 3 18 Mr- rrPftJ' fav,,rlt0- 11 "''l'"1" hl.uolf WaBl,lng rou 7 i U""U Pfl"' V1"w No- 4 8,v, a f,Ur lrt" of thB "tutor enjoyed by Mr. Frond m wv ',),. , m ffonted ml"8 protortlon exrept during sovora atoriiw, when a lartie ciuivan was atretched T.Z, , UUm,obllt' ,1,,,t rirtura No. S Klve a fair ldoa of the vant KtrotclioK of doort encoun- r1 "Artaona. Uio u.omul it. tlie center of th picture bolng the orator of an oxtlmt volcano. A i.-'Ji , Warship and Riot Are Incidents Inci-dents in Trip; Great Desert Des-ert Is Crossed. WITH 104 days of prn.-tioailv Uilv uiftorin aud with his ?p"lon; .'; r rep Uteri m: Irs. Kllis vd of the V:ed Furuituro company believwi he has set a new r-vard in tuotoriiij;. con-fiderin con-fiderin the nature i'f tbe trip aud the eondit ier.s o; riii's aud weather on co'.iutered. Ad'iiLi to the- orM mi!tv which the see i'imeteT on M r. FVet-! "s ear registered at tbe eioe of the trip, th pra.-t:oall v '.' J miles hv t3t which the t rip in eluded, nearly S '0'. mile wer c o ns u m mated in this circle tour of weTii a'a'-en. l.av.nj; Salt 1-a.ke C ;tr April 19 in his Pierce-Arrow . nr. Mr. freed and a companion hea'leii north through Idaho to Portland. a::d from Portland ihe drive was ma to Seattle, thence to Vancouver, B. C. At Vancouver the car wai shipped and Mr. Freed and his companion took the boat to Victoria, di.era hark ice at this point and driving the car miles north of Victoria, which is as far as the road ntends, the road ending here in the Pac'.f.' o-eaJi. Cloudburst Occurs. After driving back to Victoria the car w-as ?h:pppd and the partv apain embarked f'jr e-attle, from which point Mr. Freed started outh for San Kran-c.sco. Kran-c.sco. iif re occurred, howevor, the first misa-i venture of the trip, and 220 mi5e south o Sat lo a terri 5.- fdoud-burt fdoud-burt o-?curr:, whiib forced Mr. Pre-ed to turn ba.k and ship his car from Seattle to San Frarris-'o aDd take the trip down the coast by boat. At San Franfisco two wwkj were spent enjovinf: the world's exposition. After two weeks at San Francisco Mr. Freed motored to Los Angela, whence he started across the great desert stretch for the firand Canyon of the Colorado in Vrizona. Between Los Angeles aad the pouth rim of the Grand canyon in Arizona lies no doubt the worst stretch of desert in the T'nited States, there bo-inc bo-inc practically 6rf miles' of this desolate deso-late wa-ste. and Mr. Freed states that even when traveling in an automobile this is a terrible trip. Sun-scorched Desert. It took five day to negotiate this desert, and the average temperature for each day was 130 degrees. All the traveling on this desert was done at night, and they slept, or tried to sleep, in the coolest places to be found during dur-ing the davs. Mr. Freed states that he came "back with a mighty respect re-spect for the hardy pioneers who braved these- stretches with the slow-crawling slow-crawling ox teams or trudging along with a pack mule, and he can well realize the truth of the stories where human bones were found bleaching under un-der the Bcorching suds of the desert. After having enjoyed the well earned pleasure of viewing the magnificent mag-nificent Grand Canyon of tbe Colorado Mr. Freed and bis companion returned to Los An&fHes, then back to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and from San Francisco to Salt Lake City via the Lincoln highway, having completed a circle of nearly 800O-miles. Mr. Freed said: Although manv incidents occurred on the trip which required a cool head and a steady nerve, about the most exciting experience wo had on our trip was in Victoria, in which cirv we happened to be during the anti-German riot. Witnessed a Riot. We were glad indeed to stay in onr hotel, for the city went mad and brickbats, clubs, canes, and even firearms, were freely used in the melee. So terrific was the rioting that the Htv was placed under martial mar-tial law for three days. Another very interesting sight, Sarticularlv at this time, was the -ritish cruiser Kent, which ateamod into the harbor at Victoria while we were there. This is one of the British war vessels which participated participat-ed in the engagement with the German Ger-man fleet off the coast of South America, in which the Germans were defeated. To those owning motor cars this might he of interest: My Piorce-Arrow. Piorce-Arrow. with all equipment for traveling trav-eling and mvaelf and friend aboard, weighed HOi pounds, and for the entire trip we averaged nine and one-half miles to the gallon of gaso line. Though at times the rwidri w ere almost im yn: ble, and wo met all the cotidit touM tt.nt the crosscountry cross-country to-.iriM i- liable to find, I never had the slightest in of trouble trou-ble with mv engine, and the- only repairing of any nnturo that was necessary on the entire trip wan to fix three punctures and three blowouts. blow-outs. I Ptartcl out on this 6"N mile-grind mile-grind with se en Mre. and bv juggling jug-gling these I returned with the snrne seven that 1 started out with. Some "Fish" Story. And, by the way, 1 can't fi n i I: this p t ory v. i t h o i-1 telling n ' 'Ji h yarn. ' Although we stopped at many place? to enjoy the excellent fishing that is to be found throughout through-out niot of the staten we traversed, the mot remarkable trout tithing I have ever sen was encountered at Vancouver inland, where we trolled in on of the lake for big trout. In this Inke we found not onlv the lake trout and the Mackinaw trout, which fbound in Ftah, but we found a specie which w a new to us, which th native called the " Dolly Varden " trout. Well, to make a long Mnry short, I myself caught t wentv-seven trout averaging better than iourtrt'n inches long, in thirtv-five thirtv-five minutes, and nnr of my friends will tell you that I am no fi'-her-nian. The trip was a great deal more interesting, inter-esting, and no doubt a ni;u li more severe tax on bof h driver and car than any transcontinental tour could be. on account ac-count of the fact that practical'y every mile of it lav thrnrgh the verv heart of the great Rnckv mountain range, where road.i, even at best, cannot jo-i-blv be too good. Vr. Freed ? tales, however, that it was a trip of a li fet inie and t hat he would iirt have missed it for the wnrM. Immediately ui-on his arrival in Salt Lake at the finish of the tf."6S miles, Mr. Fred ran the Pierce into tbe shop for inspection and the car was found to be in perfect condition in every respect. |
