April 27- May 3, 1913

Sunday, April 27

Rain

Home all day studying and working wireless.  Turned in 11 P.M.

Monday, April 28

Fair

School     Worked on gas engine.  Heard Lecture on General Elec. Co.  Home Eve.  Study E.E.  Turn in 9:30 P.M.

Tuesday, April 29

Fair

School  -  Boiler Test home 5:15 P.M.  Saw G. got her to write Notes for me not much studying.  Turn in 10 P.M.

Wednesday, April 30

Fair

School  -  Mechanics.  Home 5:00 P.M. Over to G. N. M. Study  Electrical.  Turn in 10 P.M.

Thursday, May 1

Fair

School  -  Mechanics  Home 5:30 P.M.  Over to G.  Eve up to Movies. Home 10:30 P.M.

Friday, May 2

Fair

Campus Day. Had great time building trail. 
["Campus Day was an annual event from 1904 to 1934.  Students and faculty worked together to clear land and improve the campus, with a break for a communal meal." These pictures are from the University of Washington Digital Libraries... please do not copy.]  

   [1913 Campus Day showing lunch tables near Denny Hall, University of Washington]

        [1913 Campus Day showing students on Denny Hall steps, University of Washington.]

         [1913 Campus Day showing students with a horse, University of Washington.]


Got Finch's Tuner.
[An example of Type E Tuner from United Wireless Telegraph around 1912 (see sparkmuseum.com)]

Also Got wave meter from Kraft.  Monkeying with them eve.  Turn in 10:30 P.M.

Saturday, May 3

Some Rain  -  Fair

Out at School - worked on Gas engine, No Class in E.E.  Home After noon working with wireless set.  G. over.  Down to Clemmer wi G. Home 11 P.M.
[He and G probably saw "Through Many Trials," two reels and "Hiram Buys an Auto," silent films that had just been released that week and were being shown at the Clemmer. The cost of admission, 10¢.]

March 16 to March 22, 1913

Sunday, March 16

        Rain

Sunday School with G.  Over to G.N.M. to Dinner.  Home 3 P.M.  Babe went to Chehalis.  I went to G. down to Empress.  Home 9 P.M.  Study till 10:30.  

Monday, March 17

School              Rain

Home 2 P.M.   Sleep few min.  Studying till 10:30 P.M.  G. over few min.  took typwriting to 512 -  got it done.  Turn in 11 P.M.

Tuesday, March 18

School             Fair - Cold

Home about 4 P.M.  Studied and got lessons.  Gave G. Exp. Exp. to type.  Went to A.I.E.E. Meeting.  Heard Loew give talk on "oscillograph"  ["Seattle Section AIEE The March meeting of the Seattle Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was held March 18th in the Good Roads building on the University Campus under the auspices of the Electrophysics Group Prof EA Loew read a paper on The Oscillograph and Oscillograms and a stereopticon exhibit of some recent oscilligrams taken in the laboratory was given by LE Curtis The meeting then adjourned to the engineering laboratory for the inspection of the University oscillograph equipment and other apparatus and laboratories used for electrical testing and research work" - Electrical West, Volume 30, 1913].  Was with Stanwick.  Home abt 10:30   Turn in 11 P.M.     Wallace started working on my gas engine.

Wednesday, March 19

School         Snow

Mechanics worke hard as the dickens. Home 5 P.M.  Took short nap.  Studying til 9:45.  G. brought Exp. back.  O.K. gud. wrk. Turn in 10 P.M. Minnie gave me bid to dance on the 29th.

Thursday, March 20

School          Fair

Home 6 P.M.   Study till 9:45 P.M. "Lu" called up.  Not much doing.

Friday, March 21

School          Fair

Home 2 P.M. down to Bank.  Worked on Notes all afternoon.   G. not feeling well. tnk all right now. Went to show, movies, home 11 P.M. .  Turn in 11:30.  Babe back from Chehalis last night.

Saturday, March 22

    Fair

School Morning not much done.  Home 1 P.M.  Shoveled coal.  Out to Cascade Canoe Club with Huey, made deal with Forrest about painting the canoe.  Home  6  P.M.

then over to G. down to Clemmer  [1414 2nd Ave....."Considered to be the first theater in Seattle constructed primarily for the exhibition of motion pictures, the Clemmer Theatre bore the name of James Q. Clemmer, who spent $135,000 to construct the movie palace.  Seattle had several movie theaters before the Clemmer, but most were either remodeled storefronts or live theaters that also showed movies. That the Clemmer Theatre isn’t as well remembered as other Seattle theaters isn’t surprising; it bore the Clemmer name for only nine years before being renamed the Columbia Theatre in 1922.

In 1912, the Seattle Times described the theater: “The old Roman style is in vogue, plain columns set off by flaming electric torches. These torches are decidedly unique and something new in the manner of theatrical lighting in the West”.One of the standout elements of the theater was its organ. On April 7, 1912, The Seattle Sunday Times reported: 'Great Organ to Be Installed.'"  -quoted from cinematreasures.org]  Home 11  P.M.

[interesting note: "The Sea Wolf," shown as the movie playing at the Clemmer in this 1913 photo, is a film based on a Jack London novel in which he plays "a sailor" (his only role as an on-screen actor).