Fifteen the -sand tons'* They make cement in Washington, flour in 
Portland, farm in California, buy g ,nny sacks 121 Bombay and I know 
not what not in other places, lie, C. p.. hi 0 aT» ( -,+ via™ j_n "**;—, Hel¬ 
en's father, myself and one or two others made up what -e called 
t e Skokomish Fishing m ib, and we have fished the same streams, 
eat eh o it of the same frypan and slept rider the same blankets for 
o? years- Whey do a tremendous business, r remember one month dur¬ 
ing the m ar when it totalled 6 million. I think this will inter¬ 
est you. I will send you photographs of the trip -hen they come 
from Phil, ^lex lie Ewan, -hoi; he . entions in this letter is a lum¬ 
berman, a u of Michigan man and an Alpha Belt like myself and in 
the etrly days of Seattle we used to room together, c Ewan is a 
"globe trotter, * fries, the South Bens, 1500 miles up the Yang ste 
South and central America* everywhere. And yet it is a small place. 
Oitce in a hotel in the mountains of olumbia he met an engineer 
who -as building a railroad* bearing that Me Ewan came from Seattle 
the fellow asked, " Do you know Church?” mentioning a class mate 
of mine, a son of F. E. church the painter —ho —as responsible 
for my oming west-"Do you know Put?•» Me Ewan countered- "Sure" 
nother time Ainsworth, Helen's father landed at one end of the 
Suez c ana i and heard an Arab yelling "Ainsworth, Ainsworth" at the 
top of his voice. Asking him what he -anted and telling .an who 
he -as the Arab replied, "Mr. Carstens, another member of our 
club, ” r as through here a month ago. I -as his dragoman, and he 
told me to meet every boat till you came and catch you. Ainsworth 
is the only one of the crowd who has passed on. Good old Elt, the 
best friend a fellow ever had. 
T think no— I ktold you enough to enable you to 
brush up on your geography. We still ilk cows and pack eggs and 
manage to get out our quota. Send me back a. b's letter, I want 
to pass it on to Phil. did not see gt. John in Pullman, he had 
