A PLEASANT TRIP | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1881

A PLEASANT TRIP.

On the Cornelius Camp-ground we wrote to the agent of the Navigation Company, to secure a state-room on the steamer State of California, requesting that, “if possible,” we might be free from the atmosphere of tobacco. When we boarded the steamer, on the first of July, and found ourself numbered to room with Dr. Stratton, President of the Pacific University, San Jose, and Mr. Roby, Principal of the Central School, Portland, we decided that some agents have good sense and a spirit of accommodation. And yet, we regret to say, it is not always that an instructor of youth, or even a D. D., or College President, is free from the degrading habit of tobacco smoking. In this case the agent was right in his estimate, and not only were we free from the atmosphere of the filthy weed, but we found congenial companions, and had a pleasant trip every way.