Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1926, Page 14

14 GIRLS ARRIVE HERE FROM3-YEAR JAUNT Traveled 20 000 Miles Flivver—Started Long Trip With $65. | ini ago a second-hand fliv- | ver cultured young | women in knickers. with $65 between | them, rolled of staid old Boston | ind headed due west. There's not | much news in that, of course. and » city of learning did not so much ‘h its evebrows over their This story must have 2 news basts, however. and in nce thereof it should not be & here to state that the same women, augmented with a third )‘nl companion who made a late start, rattled into Washington the other day | in a wheezy prototype of the original containing two out Wzzie, en route back to Boston aft A 20.000mile jaunt around these es. | n they ride triumphantly home will tour that ffected ook then on that initi nd a world of twentieth cen r as Hawa 5 worth of ust honest-to-goodn ury feminine “nerve.” These vivacious, self-reliant Ameri can girls are Lee Olive P tely and Alice C. rlane. Calls Up Old Friend. n the old wor Lee used to TRAVEL-WORN, TIRED, ALMOST “BROKE,” BUT HAPPY TH SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, | sites, to say nothing of *f pen MAY 16, 1926—PART T. full set of | were about 1,500 Indians doing a my: tools, Including even a wheel-puller. |1ic dance to the beat of tom-tonge We | fix it and then drove on. So well do they like the camping life | (0 F 0 RS T etor r‘w a| “The dance lasted all night. and we that only twice have they slept in il 2 Ths v irist camps | party of tourists came along and we [Stayed and watched it. =The nex hotels. That was-when tourist camps | party 5 LRGN we cosked our cesel Mven 1. in the Old Dominion mine, | below the surface of the earth. 0 foe We flat tire and he courteously helped us | found Texas to be far different fron | the | the Texas as we had imagined it fron maovies and books. We “had into a rodeo to see t Wers not.avallible, o advisgble, felt considerably relfeved. We really |fag¢ alongstde the cammfire of an In ping cowboys do the stunts ihe big thrill of the trip ‘out’ was | pad no more reason to be seared than | din ad pictured them as doig. \when we dined \with the Prince of | we did {n Montana, when we fled for | “From Grand Canyon we went to We followed through the € e o R e iben sald Imiles from a closely pursuing motor | Phoenix, Ariz. taking in the Roose | States and up along the south co B e e cyelist. We hud to stop because of &' velt Dam. Al Glole we went down line and here we are We drove up to the fashion- ting place in evening clothes, irked _our decrepit tin lizzle alongside all the Rolls-Royces and other big cars. “Hopnobbing with royaity cut heavi- Iy into our slim purse, however, and when we left Banff we had only $10 among us. We started the next morning for Spokane, and when we xJu‘)rl\*ed there tried vainly to find a job. They were extre ly scarce. Finally, wi ere forced (ceep! 4 s N i Flnally, e, yere forced to accept en. FIES LEWRET FRICES N IO then coined money at the splendid rate of 35 cents an hour. By the end of the third week in the orchards we were expert apple-pickers, tov.” were met later in San Fran cisco by Miss Marfarlane and took a boat for Honolulu, where all three BROUGHAM 1519 ease of the native dancers. “We are sorry that we haven't had Coach ............$1259 ..$1750 a chance to learn the Charleston. but we think the hula-hula exhibition in | At Your Door Nothing Else to Pay our grass skirts will serve to make the folks at home sit up and take no e, the girls explained. re sailing for Hawaii the girls ed their old flivver and on thelr rn they bought their present one “We named her Alexander the Great beause we taought she would help us find new worlds to conquer,” Miss Ca vointed out. “But Alexander didn’t live up to his reputation. We literally pushed and swore our way from California to Colorado, and were - fixing leaky radiators rings and punctured tires City we plowed our way » mud. only to| run into snowstor We nearly gave up after three weeks of this sort | and the following equipment: Front and Rear Bumper: Automatic Windshield Cleaner; Sedan (7-pass.).. Radiator Shutters; Moto-M Combination Stop Tail Light. through Risk Insurance Bureau. and the of struggling, but after we left Den- | thing «h» did \\hr'r\‘ she and her “bu ver the going was much hett | » the tourist camp in r & o | was to call up an old Here are Lee Capen, Alice Macfarlane and Olive Gately, an tourists extraordinary, who are passing through Ran Into Snake I b acquaintance. Mrs. Paul Mone Washington, en route to Boston, afte 000-mile tour on $65 initial capital. Pardon us, the fourth member of the \Wo. FaiTaT e Waxide. daal At SLEEE S o el s el U = et SRR [7ona by far the most interesting of EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD <top-over here. The party’s ; i ) i i e I any of the States. Near Gallup we was very mearly depleted when their he smoke cleared up the snake | course, deeply inte onr Rouge. La.. they had to pause and al | 5 5 A v Nty iver i cunbas ana me. treasur most _choke with emotion over the |ran into a Na ake ceremonial souvenirs, came to a stop in the local And we only once were afraid tag| One of th that impressed comparison 45 mile civilization There amp. 2o anywhere. That was Tonopah. | the girls mo thousands of ve- | On the trip west across the conti Working their way through similar | Nev. Believe me. that it u wild | markable scenes they have viewed. nent they had no tent, and spent th vexini situations has been their hobby | woolly, wide.open town. We staved sourse of ~the Mississippi | nights on the ground, with the ¥ for the past three vear 1 matter there no longer than was necessary.’ “Father of Waters” has | heavens for a canopy. If it rained of fact. Miss Gately, b ofession Lee and O'ive were the members | its origin in a swamp in northern | they sut up all night in the curtained fa am “ad" writer and her pals are |of the party who started the trip |2 and this swamp they vis . however, they have a can y three vears ago. Alice could not | ited on their trip to the Northwest seat cush proficient at secretarial duties, but not always were they able to find the type of employment for which they had|of the trip, and finally hopped « heen trained. So it came to pass that | train and joined her friends in Cali the trio have hecome expert, also, in | fornia. When the girls bezan their | divers other trades, from apple pick- | tour their Boston ing after the Spokane school of |chided them probable thought. to cleaning carbon and grind- | length of their prospective jourrey tng valves. In the latter i chanic to do it and then tellin; they had no money to pay him, or do- ing the job themselves. Being con- scientious young women, they chose he latter cours nd “Alexander the ! " their e. dubbed when you back t ! the flivver sist the letters telling of the progres: Trip Fooled Friends. by distanee us to tow velled “Give us a ttered off. their own Members families of gave them three months on the road. Great, as they h: faithful machir ambled right along A’~‘ \)’1»;(\ ear I".,f,, s h;n_:?:l‘:x‘. \:!;xl. t the letters coming from more dis- after the operatio i i & 1t pl: s each time, everyone rk Saw Everything in Sight. yme do ided " that maybe the ir “We did not start this trip on a bet after None but ihe nor as an advertising proposition for | girls fhemselven knew that §65 was somebod. tires or sline. 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