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1933
Summer 1933 377 varieties of wild flowers have been classified as growing within the Park boundaries.
June 1933 A fire inspection reports problems with knotted drop cords in the Lodge’s guest rooms. Fire escapes are damaged or rotten.
July 20 1933 Paul Herron, of Klamath Falls, assumes boat operations on Crater Lake. He worked seasonally on the Lake until August 27, 1959 at which time he suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire. Herron did continue to work as a consultant to the company until the late 1970’s. The boat crew would haul him up and down the Lake Trail on the Lodge’s tractor because of Paul’s failing heart.
Paul had worked as an auto mechanic for the Lodge Company’s seven Hudson Auto Stages, earning $90 per month with $30 taken out for B/R after ten years of experience. He was frequently called out to assist with visitor break-downs caused by the Park’s rough roads. All fees earned had to be turned into the company. Because of Mr. Herron’s interest in boats, he was assigned to work as a boat mechanic and eventually became headman for 27 years. The original boats Paul had charge of were 30-passenger with Magori Marine and Peerless engines. He replaced the original engines in 1936 with two Hudson super 1926, after having been on the road for over 100,000 miles. One engine stayed in the boats until 1950 and the other was used every summer until 1960. (Part of this information was gleaned from conversations with Paul and the author while on the tour boats.)
Summer 1933 Rim Road Construction extended to Kerr Notch. Snow drifts of 25 feet prevented road construction from beginning until August 15.
400 people employed at the Park in the CCC.
200,000 Silver Salmon and 150,000 Steelhead liberated in the Lake.
Four, one-room houses added to Sleepy Hollow. Torn down between 1984 and 1989.
Blue silence, O lake of silent blue, –
within your sapphired deeps the gods have fought
titanic battles. Now an azured peace
broods over your bestudded, jewelled breasts;
a peace that only those can know who cease
to struggle after cataclysmic waves
engulf their burning, cratered hearts. The rush
of molten lava filled the fissures where
the crush of titans wracked your battle-tortured soul.
Yet here, today, beneath cerulean, nimbused sky,
you lie so still in torquoised dreams, you lure
my mind to rest upon your sculptured loveliness
and see your deep serenity become my constant goal.
— Crater Lake, Wesley La Violette, Nature Notes <http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/online-library/nature-notes/topic-poetry.htm> , Vol. 6, No. 4, Sep. 1933
September 27 1933 Fatal fall of woman off trail alongside Rim Road.
Season 1933 Visitation: 90,512
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