Entering the Islands of the South Seas

From Fatout (p 252):  Eight days out from Vancouver, the Warrimoo anchored in Honolulu roadstead, where the tourists were sadly dashed to learn that an outbreak of cholera in the Islands prevented a landing.

Clemens, Clara, and Olivia aboard the S.S. Warimoo. Victoria, British Columber. August 23, 1895
Clemens aboard the S.S. Warimoo. Victoria, British Columber. August 23, 1895
S.S. Warimoo sailing for Australia, August 23, 1895

Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas.

Clemens and reporters. Hotel Vancouver, British Columbia. August 17
Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas.

Twain had a bad cold and his throat was in poor condition, but he lectured at the Lighthouse Theater, the fourth floor of a building with no fire escapes.

The Cascadia Daily News, in an article about a Mark Twain statute sitting on a park bench, reports he stayed at The Fairhaven, a Victorian Hotel that was at 12th and Harris.  The statute is one of Gary Price's Mark Twain III.

Clemens aboard the U.S.S. Mohican. Seattle, Washington. August 13
Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas.

[From: The Pacific Railroad Preservation Association]

The Northern Pacific line from Tacoma to Kalama began service January 5, 1874 and included runs between Portland and Kalama by steamboat on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

Kalama was entirely a Northern Pacific railroad creation. It was unofficially born in May 1870 when the Northern Pacific railroad turned the first shovel of dirt. Northern Pacific built a dock, a sawmill, a car shop, a roundhouse, a turntable, hotels, a hospital, stores, homes. In just a few months in 1870, the working population exploded to approximately 3500 and the town had added tents, saloons, a brewery, and a gambling hall. Soon the town had a motto: "Rail Meets Sail".

Clemens aboard the steamer Flyer. Seattle. August 8
Mark Twain Archive, Elmira College courtesy of Kevin Mac Donnell, Austin, Texas.

Flyer was the first vessel ordered by the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company, a concern formed by Capt. U.B. Scott and others, which already controlled the fast sternwheeler Telephone on the Columbia River, and on Puget Sound, the then new and fast sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert as well as the express passenger boat Fleetwood.