May 25 to May 31, 1913

Sunday, May 25 

Fair

Sunday School

Home till 4 P.M.

Then out wi G. Canoeing

Met Sperry & Hudson.

Home 8:30 P.M.

Monday, May 26

Rain   -  School. 

Home 4:45

Had slight Snooze.  Study eve. G. over few min.  Turn in 10:30.

Tuesday, May 27

(missed a day)

Wednesday, May 28

Fair

School - Home abt 12:30.  Drawing Power Plant.  Monkeying with Gas Engine.  Got old one to run pretty fast.  Study Steam.  Over to G.N.M. for supper.  Home 7:30 P.M.

Dell up few min on Motorcycle. Took G. for a ride. Turn in 10 P.M.

Thursday, May 29

Fair

School  -  Exam mechanics.  Tried to get Alaska Job.  Nothing doing.  Over to G. took walk to Ruth's.  home 10 P.M.

Friday, May 30

Finest Yet

Decoration Day. [the name for Memorial Day from the time after the Civil War until after WWII.]  Finished Power Plant drawing.  Out to School. Climbed in window.  Home afternoon working on E.E. Notes.  Wrote a couple of letters to B.C.  Over to G.  Eve. up to movies.  Home 11 P.M.

Saturday, May 31

Very Fine

Out to School - Worked on Photometer Experiment.  Home afternoon.  Slept. Whole time feeling very Punk.  Down to Broadway Alumni Ball.  Had swell time with Cass in Car.  Home 1 P.M.  Was wi. G.

May 18 to May 24, 1913

Sunday, May 18

Fine

Home Morning. 

Out canoeing wi. G. had good time.  Home 8: P.M. had lunch and home.  10:45  P.M.

Monday, May 19

Fair

School. home 1:30 P.M.  Slept afternoon.  Study eve.  G. over.  Turn in 11 P.M.

Tuesday, May 20

Fine

School - Worked on Boiler Test all afternoon.  Took some of Gooderham's books to him.  Over to G.N.M. Home 9 P.M.  Study Steam till 10:15 P.M.

Wednesday, May 21

Fine

School all day.  May Festival

Home 6 P.M.  Out on Lake on Launch party, dance at Ammet's had grand swell time.  Home 1:45. Along wi G.

Thursday, May 22

Fine

School - Got out of Mechanics at 3 P.M. to see races. We won both of them wi Vancouver and Berkeley.  Home 6:40 P.M. Over to G. Little while. Turn in 11 P.M.

[1913 was an exciting time for the UW rowing team. There is an excellent web page telling how the AYPE of 1909 and the vision of Coach Conibear brought the Washington Crew onto the national stage.  E. Clarence was there to see it. http://www.huskycrew.com/1910.htm ]

Friday, May 23

G.M. Geburtstag  - 19 - ['Geburtstag' is German for 'Birthday'  G.M.'s birthday- 19 years old?  5-23-1894 birth date?]

School - Worked on Engine Test.  Down town got G. home.   Down to Orpheum.  [Not sure which Orpheum Vaudeville Show house this would have been, since this was a time in Seattle of great competition. Vaudeville, live theatre and films were all vying for the entertainment dollar.]  Home 11:30 PM.  Had fine time.

Saturday, May 24

Fine

Out to school for E.E.  Nobody showed up.  Came home and worked with engine.  Then out to "U" with Ryan and worked with wireless sets.  Got F.A. in Tacoma easy.  [I think he means he reached someone in Tacoma, approx. 30 miles away, on the wireless.]  Home 10 P.M.

May 11 to May 17, 1913

Sunday, May 11

Rainy

Home all Morning.  Down Town for dinner.  Over to G. afternoon.  Out for walk up to Society Theatre wi  G.  Huey called up.  Home 10:15 P.M.

[The Society was at Broadway and John St. It had an Organ in its early days, so possibly even in 1913. The Society later was renamed The Broadway and today is a Pharmacy.]

Monday, May 12

Fair

School - Worked on Gas Engine.  Nearly finished.  Home 6 P.M.  Study Calculus.  G. over few min -12-  Turn in 10 P.M.

Tuesday, May 13

Fair

School - Worked on Gas Engine.  Got it done.  Couldn't get it to run tho.  Tired out.  Home 6 P.M.  Saw G., made up Ex '13 in Experimental.  Turn in 10 P.M.

Wednesday, May 14

Fair

School - Exam in 41.  Home abt. 8:30.  Took Gooderham's Books over. [J.W. Gooderham lived a few blocks away at Harvard & Thomas.]  Then went to see G.N.M. had supper there. 

Thursday, May 15

Rain - Fair

School.   Home 4:45  G. over eve.  Fixed bath tub at 508.  Turn in - 10:30 P.M.

[E. Clarence lived with his mother who, I believe, owned the apartment house at 504 E Republican Street, in Seattle.  So when he says he "fixed the bath tub in 508" or "made key" or "looked for leak," he means he is working on the apartments, for his mother.]

 Built in 1910, this is how the apartment house looks 100 years later.

Friday, May 16

Fair

School - Exam in Exp. 40.  Drove for Mrs. Dow 4 hrs 2-6 P.M.  Over to G., Lulu over.  Home 10:30 P.M.    

4 hrs    $2.00 [Mrs. Dow is probably Mrs. Frank P. Dow who lived at 627 36th N. Her husband was the President of the Frank P Dow Co., a Custom House Brokerage Business.  I imagine that in those early days of the automobile, a lady of wealth may own a car but not, for one reason or another, want to drive it.  For E. Clarence, this would have been an excellent source of income. In 1913 bread cost about 6¢, a quart of milk 8¢, but more importantly for Clarence, shows were 10-25¢.  $2 could come in very handy.]

Saturday, May 17

Rain

Out to School.  Worked on Gas Engine.  Did not get it to run.  Home afternoon.  Tired out. Had nap.  Over to G. eve.  Down town with Howard and Farmer.  Home 11:40 P.M.

May 4 to May 10, 1913

Sunday, May 4

Fair

Sunday School

Home till 3:30  Then out to Woodland Park with G.  Had nice time.  Home abt 8 P.M. Study E.E.  Turn in 11 P.M.  Had feed at 512.

[Guy Phinney, who built the first industry on Lake Washington, invested $40,000 in 1889 to develop his residence estate, "Woodland Park". Woodland Park was to have a small zoo near his residence in the southwest portion of the park, a bandstand and paths through the woods to Green Lake (where Phinney built a bathing beach and a boathouse), picnic grounds, and two ballfields. Phinney then built a trolley line from the southwest corner to the Fremont line to Seattle.

In 1900 the City Council bought the park from the estate of Mr. Phinney, in spite of vigorous protests over the price - $100,000 - and complaints that it was "too far out of town"!  Another trolley line had been built to connect Seattle with the east and north side of Green Lake, and by 1904 it was extended on around the lake and through Woodland Park on a trestle.]

Monday, May 5

Fair

School  -  Worked in shop.  Home 5:30 P.M.  Kane home yesterday.  Went down to Metropolitan with Mama and Kane.  [The Metropolitan Theatre was located on University Street between 4th and 5th Avenues and originally opened in 1911 showing plays.  In 1913 it also screened motion pictures.]    Home 12 M.

Tuesday, May 6 

Fine

School - Boiler test.

Home -  5:30 P.M.

Over to G. little while.  Study E.E. eve.  Turn in 11:45.

Wednesday, May 7

Fair

School.   Got 2nd place in mech - 41.

Home 5:00 P.M.  Study till 9:30 P.  Work wireless some.  Turn in 10:30.

Thursday, May 8

Fine

School - Mechanics.  home 5 P.M.  Over to G. then G over here  study Steam till 10 P.M.

Friday, May 9  

Rain

School  -  Worked in shop.  Home 5:30 P.M. Over to G.  Wireless Club Meeting.  Home 1 P.M. [I think he means A.M.]  

Out at Kraft's.

Saturday, May 10

Rain

Junior Day

Out to shop working on Engine.  Home 1:30 P.M.  Bum weather, feeling mean.  Over to G. few times.  Down to Empress wi G. 

                                       [Seattle Star May 6, 1913] 

Home 12: P.M. [I think he means A.M.]