Dedication of our New Ski Hut, November 11, 1928

Anonymous - "The Mountaineer" bulletin, November 1928

At last the dream of the Mountaineers has been realized. The club possesses a real Ski Hut. The two-story building at Martin is finished. Stoves for cooking and heating have been installed. there are dishes on the shelves, tables for meals, benches to sit on, and steel double-tier bunks and new mattresses in the sleeping quarters. Every week-end of the past two months has seen a group of enthusiastic Mountaineers laboring as carpenters, masons, pack-horses, and thanks to their efforts the hut is ready now for occupancy.

Dedication exercises will be held at the Hut on Sunday, November 11, 1928. Doctor Edmund S. Meany will preside

Providing 130 sign up, a special train will be chartered, leaving King Street Station at 8 a.m. The dedication ceremony will take place shortly after lunch, and the special train will not leave Martin until 4 p.m. It will arrive in Seattle about 7:30 p.m. This will leave free time for everyone to add his bit to the work remaining - so bring along a hand axe for brushing out trails--a hammer or other tools.

Expense on the special train will be $2.85 round trip fare from Seattle and $2.70 from Tacoma plus fifty cents for the hot lunch served at the Hut.

About 50 persons can be accommodated for overnight. The total expense for overnight at the Hut will be $1.50. Regular trains leave King Street Station, Saturday, 4 p.m. and arrive at Martin at 7:15 where a hot dinner will be server on arrival. A fast train leaves King Street Station at 7:15 p.m., arriving at Martin at 10 p.m. We can obtain a special stop order on this train if six or more passengers are ticketed for Martin. Fare on these trains is $3.60 for the round trip from Seattle.

Members of the overnight party bring sleeping equipment and flash or bug.

Other committees have cooperated to keep this date, November 11, free for the Dedication--so all aboard for Martin! Sign up with your nearest Hut representative and make the special train a certainty.

All reservations must be in before 9 p.m., Thursday, November 8.

Our feature of the Dedication Ceremonies will be a Potlatch for the infant Hut. Cooking Utensils and dishes are already provided, also a First Aid Kit. But we crave a gorgeous, generous, comprehensive, presentation of almost any tool you can spare from your basement, garage, or toolchest. Dig them up, polish and sharpen them if necessary, present them to the Hut and receive the blessing of future ski generations.

Buckles, straps, rivets, shoe nails, shoe last, etc., may be included in this Potlatch.

December 1, 2, 1928 If snow conditions are favorable, a ski party will be put on at the Hut, with proportionate reservations from Everett, Tacoma and Seattle. Your Branch Committeemen will have the latest snow "dope", so keep in touch with them and be a member of the first Ski Party at the new Hut.

Committeemen

P.S. Movies will be made of the Dedication. Here is a chance to break into the movies. add