The Unintended Voyage of a Victoria Day Excursionist

Port Townsend, May 25—The local people are having considerable amusement over the trials and tribulations of one of their number who went out on the Queen’s birthday on the lake excursion. The Idaho arrived at the outer wharf, Victoria, at an early hour and our hero walked towards town. When he was near the Mexico, the steamship came in and he thought he would return on her. He went to the gangplank to see his ticket, and was refused passage at the gangplank on finding he didn’t have a ticket on the ship. The captain being sent for, he told his story, and was informed that he must pay. He pleaded to be put ashore and was finally landed below Esquimalt. He walked back to Victoria, a distance of about the Idaho however had gone and he never came back home. Learning that the steamer Mexico was bound for Port Townsend, he hurried to the wharf and got aboard, thinking he had a way home. When he had found himself in Port Townsend, the steamer left town and he was left in a state of mortification at his failure to get home. He was later helped by the ship, which took him to Townsend Saturday in time for the transit, and he arrived home that afternoon, wiser if not a broader man.