April 13 to April 19, 1913

Sunday, April 13

Fair

Sunday School as usual.  Home till 3:00 P.M.  Howard and Lulu over.  Went for walk to Volunteer Park then to Lu's house had grand feed.  To Clemmer.  home. with G at 9:30 P.M.

      [Volunteer Park 1910]

Monday, April 14

Fine

21 - My Birthday.  School again after vacation.  At top in Mechanics still. at 84.  Worked on gas engine in shop.  Home 5:30  P.M. saw G. went over got cushion, some class to her.  Got stick pin from mama.  Study eve till 11 P.M.  Pretty tired.

Tuesday, April 15

Fair

School  - Worked in shop.  Tired as Dickens.  Study little.  G. over min. Turn in 9:30 P.M.

Wednesday, April 16

Fine

School  - Home 5:30 P.M. G. over few min.  Study til 9:P.M.  Not much doing.  Dell up had new Merkel twin. 

        [1913 Flying Merkel twin engine]

Thursday, April 17

Fine

School  -  Went to Ball Game.  We got cleaned by Oregon.  Home 6:40 P.M.  Study till 10:P.M.  G. over few min and then sneaked away.

Friday, April 18

Fine  -  Rain

School  - Home  - 1 P.M.  Study afternoon Exp. Over to G. eve then to Movies also with Mary.  Home 10 P.M.

Saturday, April 19

Fair

School - Down Town with Babe.  got his trousers etc. got watch.  Home 4:30 P.M.  Study little, Down to Emp. with G. Home 11:30 P.M.  Good Show.

April 6 to April 12, 1913

Sunday, April 6

Fair

Sunday School as usual. Home till 3:00 P.M. over to G. Lieben and Lulu up. had good time.  For short walk.  

Home 10:00 P.M.

Monday, April 7

Fair

Home all day.  Worked on Hot water plant looking for leak - found it in Pearman's Apt.  

Over to G. eve. she was laid up with 'mumps'  - not sure. Home 10:15 P.M.

Tuesday, April 8

Fair

Left for Victoria 9:00 A.M., on Princess Victoria.   Saw G. before I started.

  Loafed around town. Out on Foul bay car. To 2 shows.  Had 2 meals. Home to Edwards apts with Kane.  10:30 P.M..  Turn in 11:00 P.M.  Pretty tired. 

Wednesday, April 9

Fair

At Victoria.  Got up 10:00 A.M.  Went to Museum  [probably the Royal BC Museum that was founded in 1886]  and Park then to Esquimalt [on the southern tip of Vancouver Island]. Back abt 3 P.M. had dinner then home agn took sleep.  Read magazines. Turned in 7:30 P.M.

Thursday 10

Fair

Got up 8:30 A.M.  Had breakfast.  Got magazine.  Went out on Oak Bay Car.  Then to Park and read, then to movies.  Had supper at Dominion, pretty good.  

Down at Empress, heard music.

        

 Pretty nice. Home, 9:00 P.M.

Friday, April 11

Fair

Left Victoria at 11 A.M. for Seattle on the Sol Duc.  

Ate lunch at Port Angeles.  Met Finch on the boat at Port Townsend.  Got in at 8:10.  Home at 9:00 P.M.  

Turned in at 10:00 P.M.

Saturday, April 12

Cloudy

Downtown Morning.  Saw Huey went to Nat'l City Bank.  Got cushion for Canoe.  Out to Lake.  Saw Papa.  Home 3 P.M.  G. over then over there took G. to Empress.  Home 11:15 P.M.

March 30 to April 5, 1913

Sunday, March 30

              Fair

Sunday School.

Study Afternoon.

Over to G. down to Empress.  Bum Show allright. Home to 512  - 8:30 P.M.  Had tea  home 10:20 P.M.

Monday, March 31

             Fine

School    -  first place in Mechanics Class  83.5.  Home 1 P.M. studying all afternoon.  Saw G. few min. that's all.  Feeling rather bad study calc. eve. quit 9:30 P.M.

Tuesday, April 1 

School        Fine

Worked in shop on Gas Engine. home 6 P.M.  Study a little over to  G. and  G. over too.  Turn in 11 P.M.

Wednesday, April 2

School           Fine

Home 5:30 P.M.  Worked on Exp. Notes. Studying eve.  G. copied notes for me, brought them over.  Quit 11:30 P.M.

Thursday, April 3

Fair

School.  Home 5:30 P.M.  Study eve.  Heard Lecture by Ober on Columbia R.[iver] Bridge. [1913 is when the construction of the Columbia River Bridge began.] Exam in Mechanics.  Turn in 10:45 P.M.

Friday, April 4

Rain

School - Worked on Gas engine. Home 6 P.M.  Over to G. Home 10:30  Vacation begins.

Saturday, April 5

Rain

Home all day loafing and monkeying around.  Got storage battery from Broadway Auto Co.  G. over for while over there. To Empress. Home 11:30 P.M.

March 23 to 29, 1913

Sunday, March 23

Easter       Fair

Sunday School with G, also Church.  Home 1P.M. out again at 3 P.M. to Mrs Gerould's took walk around Denny Blaine Park. [Today's address for Denny Blaine Park is 200 Lake Washington Boulevard E, Seattle. You can still see the old stone wall that would have been the sea wall when Clarence and his friend walked there. Later, when the Lake Washington Ship Canal was finished, it lowered the lake by about 9 feet. This is one of many small parcels of land donated to the city by Charles L. Denny and Elbert F. Blaine.] 

Met Wells had short auto ride.  Home 6 P.M. had tea.  Out to Movies, home 11 P.M.  Some day, what?

Monday, March 24

School          Windy Fair

Got raise in Mech 41 to 83.5.  Home 1 P.M.  Slept all afternoon.  Study eve.  Talked with R.Y.  Turn in 11 P.M.

Tuesday, March 25

School         Fine

Home 4 P.M. worked on Exp. Notes.  Study Eve till 9:30.  G over few min. got copies to type.  

Wednesday, March 26

School          Fair

Home 5 P.M.

Not much doing.  Study eve a little.  Turn in early.  G. over abt. 9 P.M.  Finished Exp and (let)? her take them.  

Closed Shop 10:20 P.M.

Thursday, March 27                 

            Rain

School  -  Mechanics worked hard. home 5:45 P.M.   G. over while working on Notes for me.  Called Minnie & Elsie up.  Study till 9:30  Turn in early.

The telephone may have looked something like this.  In January,1913 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. emerged from the combining of previous smaller independent companies. 

Friday, March 28

School              Rain

Worked on Gas Engine.  Home 6 P.M.  Saw G. few min.   Took Minnie to Junior Informal.  Had good time.  Home 1P.M.  Called Elsie up.  She did not go.   Rather tired.

Saturday, March 29

School            Fair

Home 1 P.M. Slept all afternoon.  Out to Hyland Hall Informal.  Had good time.  Home 12:45.  Not as tired as last night. Crockett called up.

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).

March 9 to March 15, 1913

Sunday, March 9

Fine

Sunday School  - Church - O. to G.  Dictate letters.  For walk to Queen Anne Hill.  Home at 512 at 7 P.M.  had feed. very nice. Home agn at 9:40.  Huey called up. 

Monday, March 10

School            Fair

Home 2 P.M.   Down to Bank. saw Geo. H.  Sleep for hour or so.  Studying E.E. & Calc. not anything done.  G. over eve. few min. Turn in 10 P.M. feeling sore.  Got $5 fm bank.

Tuesday, March 11

School               Fair

Home 3:30 P.M.

Worked on Notes a little .  G. over short time.  Had to leave and go to Davie's Men's Chorus Concert.  Was Pretty Good.  Home 10 P.M.  Drew Piston. Turn in 11 P.M.

Wednesday, March 12

School    Fair

Home 5:30 P.M.  Studying till 12 P.M.  G. over. wrote notes B.H.H.  Got Bounce in Mech 41. But I should worry!

Thursday, March 13

School    Fair-Rain

Home P.M.  Studying til 9:30 P.M..  D.I. called up.  Not much doing.  Found Lamberty's Pin. 

Friday, March 14

School       Fair

Home abt 1:30 P.M.  Cleaning up and studying.  Got to Dance with G.  Fussers.  Had a good time.  Home 12:30 A.M.

Saturday, March 15

School             Fine

E.E. Morning.  Home studying.   G. over while then over there to movies.  Home 11:15 P.M.

March 2 to March 8, 1913

Sunday, March 2

Rain  - Cloudy

Sunday school wi G.  Home afternoon til 4:00 P.M.  Down to Empress.  Walk home 

10:30 P.M. *

Monday, March 3

School  -    Rain

Home 12:30 P.M.  Sleep & study.  G. over eve.  Study till  10 P.M.

Tuesday, March 4

School             Rain

Home 4:30 P.M.  Study all  eve.   G. over helping me on notes.  Kane down here.  Babe & Baker's car at quits  Crank-shaft broke.  Sent letter to Broadway Auto Co. about battery.  

Thomas Edison and an electric car in 1913 (courtesy of the National Museum of American History)

Wednesday, March 5

School.

Raised grade in Mech 41 to 85.  Home eve studying.  Hard work. E.E. Not much done.  Turn in 10:15 P.M. 

Thursday, March 6

School              Fair

Mechanics Most.  Home  5:15 P.M.   Studying Eve.  G. over Notes in experimental.  Quit 10:40 P.M. 

Friday, March 7

School         Fair

Home afternoon.  Worked on E.E. drawing.  Sent letter to G.N.M.    G. over Eve.  Wrote up notes for Exp. #3  Up to movies too.  * Home 11P.M.   Turn in 11:30 P.M.   Made key apt. #15

Saturday, March 8

School         Fine.

Home afternoon. Worked E.E. Problems.  Down to Empress wi G.  Good time  *

Home 11.30 P.M.   Monkeying around home singing etc.  Called Huey up.