buildings and a fine hot -1. 
”'einc-S:iay mbrning we ran across the Clearwater am up , 
the famous Lewiston Srai.e to the. rin* The rim ^.s about t -o rules 
from Lewiston mi POOO f> et above it md w fc j alee the olimb in 10 
miles and the curves and loops -ould drive a snake to drink* Bit 
the roadbed is -s smooth as a floor and th grade easy and the 
wit- wonderful* v 'e aim no- on the Spokane highway through the 
wheat fields of the P louse ulis. great rounded hills of wind¬ 
blown volcanic ash round which they plow in a spiral to the very 
tops. It is one great grainfield to Pullman, over 50 m-les* and 
far beyond and on either side* Pullman is t—o towns, Pullman proper 
i n the bottom, on the P-louse and the college on the hill across 
the river, her-, we found Phil* had dimer with him and ran him 
round town making final arr ngei ants fox the start in the morning* 
Phil -as th organiser and ’ manager of the p - rty am li© had his 
hands full. n, he Paster vacation bggan at n- on and boys and girls 
were packing suitcas s to the trains and oars of ■ very age and, 
condition wore leaving town. nv who lacked money ’"ere walking 
trusting to getting llifts along the road* < picked up t-o, walking 
t 0 poii.eroy and gave them a 50 mile lift to Lewiston on our way back. 
The next morning at 8 o'clock the truck Phil had hired disgorged 
its freight at the boat* our g ub had been loaded the day before, 
the Wristle blew ai d we started-We left lire. Shroeder on the bank, 
she is 70 but very game and she said, "Put, if I had some other 
clothes, i'd go with vou'" 
n*he river is swift at Lewiston, tut smooth* but we soon 
sa- T some which w a s rougher* Tie boat -as not large, perhaps 50 ft. 
long* built of this sheet steel* drawing about 5ft. of water and 
provided -ith two 100 K P engines and three rudders- we were -armed 
before starting that on no account -ere we ..ill to r eh to one side 
of the bo«t and that ~e -ere to sit do~n when told* "’here -ere 45 
