July 1 to July 5, 1913

Tuesday, July 1

Fair

Out to Ballard morning looking for launch.  packed boxes and had them sent to depot.  Up to G's eve. went to Movies home 11:30 P.M.

Wednesday, July 2

at Tacoma       Fine

Up 7 A.M. breakfast down town. left on 11A boat for Tacoma.  Put up at Olympus Hotel.  Loafed around town.  Went to a couple of movies.  Turn in rm. 413 @ 10:30

Thursday, July 3

at Tacoma   Fair

Up at 6:00 A.M. out in launch back at 12M [noon]. Up to Wright Park after Monument.  Left for Seattle on "Tacoma" pretty fast boat.  Home 5:15 P.M. Up to G.N.M. hr not home.  Also up to G. got back at 12 P.M.

[The quote and picture below are from Evergreenfleet.com]

S.S. Tacoma 1913 Built: 1913 by Seattle Construction and Drydock Company; Length: 221; feet Beam: 30 feet; 1000 passengers 4 cylinder triple expansion steam engine, 3750 HP. 20 + knots in speed.
"The crown jewel of the PSN steel steamers was undoubtedly the S.S. Tacoma. The vessel had an arrow-like hull and long, sleek profile capped with two oval funnels painted crimson and capped with black.  Launched on May 3, 1913 the ship would spend the rest of her career as the fastest vessel on Puget Sound, routinely topping her rated 20 knot speed.  Lloyds of London was so impressed by the steamer that they deemed her the fastest single-propeller vessel in the world. Fitted with with comfortable wicker seats upholstered with tan leather cushions and real wood paneling throughout, the touches of elegance set the steamer apart from her near sisters. The vessel sailed the Seattle-Tacoma route in about an hour.  At the time the only road between the two cities was a narrow, muddy lane that required nearly four times that time to travel via land."

 Friday, July 4

In Seattle  Very Poor Rain

Was going canoeing but on acct of weather was up to G's celebrating, making candy etc.  Very m..n [?cannot read this word] day for the fourth.  Left here for Tacoma, got there 10:30 P.M. Turned in.  Mardi Gras in Streets. Hall's Canoe Locker  #6

Saturday, July 5

Fair

At Tacoma.  Was out in launch.  Made survey at Quartermaster Harbor [I believe this is Vashon Island]. Back at 12 A.M [He means PM].  Packed boxes.  To movies and then met Howard.  Left Tacoma at 7 P.M. on Tacoma, then up to G's. home 10:30 P.M.

June 15 to June 30, 1913

Monday, June 16

Fine

On boat coming to Neah Bay. [Neah Bay is out at the tip of the Olympic Peninsula.]  Got there 8:15 P.M. Up to Hotel and Turn. Got some swells but did not get seasick. 

Tuesday, June 17

Fine

At Neah Bay.  Hike to find stone. Some trip too..back 3 P.M.  Took nap.  Had bully supper.  Turn in 8 P.M.

Wednesday, June 18

Fair

Out on beach from light on point (East) to Rock on point (West).  Thru at 4 P.M.  Loafed around till supper.  Met Lieut. Armsted of the Snohomish.  Turn in 10 P.M. 

Thursday, June 19

Rainy

At Neah Bay.  Rainy morning loafed around Hotel till noon.  Had dinner then had a snooze till 3 P.M. Then over to Waadah Isl.

Got soaked too.  Tug Tyee here, Met opr. Gibson on board.  Turn in 9:30.  

Friday, June 20

Rain

At Neah Bay.  Loafed around packed goods. Boat late came in 1 A.M.  Left then for Port Angeles.

Saturday, June 21

Rain

At Port Angeles. Came in on Bellingham at 10:30.  Had Breakfast at Cafe then took up at Merchant's Hotel. Met Ben Abbot.   Saw Movie free. 

Sunday, June 22

Fair

At Port Angeles loafing around took walk. To Movies. Turn in 9 PM.

Monday, June 23

Fair

At Port Angeles. Worked on Land Spit and Town.  Packed Instruments. Went to free Medicine Show. Turn in 11PM.

Tuesday, June 24

Fair

Arrived at Townsend on Ste. [Steamer] Bellingham from Port Angeles.  Put up at Central Hotel. Unpacked instruments looked for launch had supper went to movies with Seran & turn in at 9:30 P.M.

Wednesday, June 25

Fair

Took launch to Point Wilson, took in Lighthouse got back by 12:30 Worked on maps. Turned in abt. 9 P.M.

Thursday, June 26

Fine

Packed up boxes and Left Port Townsend for Seattle.  Fine ride home abt 5 P.M. Things out of sorts.  Got Baker's car and took G. for ride also Babes and Mary.  Had good time too.  Home 10:30 P.M.

Friday, June 27

Fine

Down to Office of C & G.S. [Coast and Geodetic Survey] working.  Met G going to work.  Had job drafting.  Got off 4 P.M.  Got films and met G.  Up to her house, then home, down to Pantages with Babe.  Some show too. Best in long while. Home 11 P.M.

Saturday, June 28

Fair

Down to work at C. & G.S. office.  Got out 2:30 P.M.  Walked up Pike met Heutscher took me home.  Babe got run into by Winton. Broke Baker's car up some. Down to Baker's for supper then to see G. to movies. home 12:30 A.M.

Sunday, June 29

Fair  - Rainy

Got up abt 10:30 & had breakfast.  Babe got it. Then down town & sent telegram.  Then up to G's and out to Lake and got ride in Bunny's speed boat.  Huey there too.  Then out canoing, got rather wet.  Home 10:20 P.M.

Monday, June 30

Rainy  -  Fair

up to Richmond Beach [13 miles north of Seattle] again this time took Huey along. 

Finished work and then hiked to Interurban.

Some trip too.  Got check for $42.50.  Down to N.G.W. [National Guard of Washington?] Armory eve tried to get money.  Home 10:30 P.M. Kane & Mama back from Victoria. 

June 1 to June 15, 1913

Sunday, June 1

Very Fine

Out canoeing all day with G. Ruth & Ed.  Had swell time went up above Mud Lake. [He would have been canoeing on the northwest portion of Lake Washington up by Sand Point. Mud Lake was filled in, c1937, so no longer exists.]  Home 10 P.M.

Monday, June 2

Hot as H---

School - Worked on Engine Test.  Home 4:30 P.M.  Study  - E.E. Exp.  Over to G.  Turn in 10 P.M.

Tuesday, June 3

Fair

School - Feeling bum.  home 4:30 P.M.  Sleep all time.  Turn in 10 P.M.  Worked up Exp. Notes at school.

Wednesday, June 4

Fair

School - Mechanics.  Home 5 P.M. Over to G. few min. Study little. Turn in 10:P.M.

Thursday, June 5

Fair

School - Home 5 P.M. Worked on Notes.  G. over.  Turn in 10 P.M.  Ryan called up. Wants to go out wireless

Friday, June 6

Fair

Worked up and handed in Exp. Note Book.  Home 2 P.M.  Down Town with mama & Registered [To vote?]  Over to Fussers with G.  Had good time. Home 1:15 A.M.

Saturday, June 7

Fair

Slept till about 10 A.M.  Down to S.E. Co. [probably the Seattle Electric Company, a Seattle cable car company.] Saw C.B.C. favorably.  Home 12  Worked up Last Notes for this semester in E.E.  Slept afternoon.  Worked wireless a little.

Sunday, June 8

Rain.

Got up for Sunday School but found it began @ 11: A.M. so didn't go.  Cleaned up my room. Up to G. @ 612 -Harvard N.  Then out for walk and to movies.  Home 10 P.M.

Monday, June 9

Fair

Took E.E. Notes to school.  Was down Town looking for a job.  Home 12 P.M.  Slept all afternoon.  Looked over Calculus a little.  G. here getting books. 

Tuesday, June 10

Fair

School - Took exam in Calc. 5a & Steam 21.  Home 5:30 P.M.  Took last of things over to Gooderham's  Over to G.N.M. We down to Chehalis. [I think he must mean the Steamer Chehalis, since the town of Chehalis would not be a trip for one evening.] 

Wednesday, June 11

Fine

School - I took finals in E.E. & Steam 40. Down Town and all around. Up to G Eve. Home 11P.M.

Thursday, June 12

Fair

Grades 

Mechanics   B

Steam 21   A

E.E. 1         A

Exp. 40      B

Calculus 5a C

Down to Cooper abt. report.  Tuned set to 175 meters. Worked wireless some.

Friday, June 13

Fine

Home Morning.

U.S.G.S  [U.S. Geological Survey] called up. Want to give me a job.  Down there @ 3 P.M. Wrote letter to C.B.C. Up to G. Job for her too.  Home 11P.M.

Saturday, June 14

Rain etc.

Up at 6:15 A.M. Out to Richmond Beach. [Now Shoreline. In 1906 it was connected to Seattle by the Seattle-Everett Interurban streetcar, then (in 1913) the new road State Route 99.] Worked, half a day. Stopped acc't Rain.  Home 

3 P.M.  Slept afternoon.  Down to G's Cousin to get her. Met Mr. Lowman. G. gets new Job. Home 11:30 P.M.

Sunday June 15

Rainy

Sunday School.  Outside Class. Over at G  A.M. Then home had dinner then back again. Had great time rough-house.  Left on Steamer Bellingham for Neah Bay at 12:00 M.  [I believe the Willapa, seen below, later was called the Bellingham.]

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.]