The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-27
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

we nave so much to tell you since |
last we wrote, we've been to Philadel- |
phia, attended the Woman Suffrage
Convention, the Woman's Congress, and
the great Exposition, all within a week,
and now we are back again in New
York, overseeing the publication of our
new epic, writing the serial story and
editorial letters, and overhauling our
wardrobe to make ready for the coming
blasts of King Boreas.
How you'll be surprised at the an-
nouncement-but New York is a huge
city. None other on the Continent can
compare with it. For miles and tens of
miles you may traverse its intermina-
BILE labyrinth of streets and alleys, parks
and palaces, hotels and stores, tene-
ments and MISUNDERSTANDING loaded
trucks, Tattling omnibuses and ever
abounding street cars, always fetching
up where you least expect, and always
finding some friendly policeman of ele-
phantine proportions and conspicuous
star and buttons ready to set you right
when lost. But we can't write that
promised New York letter now, for
Philadelphia looms up before us and
exclaims, "Here l am Publish me ~
The reigning queen of Manhattan po-
litely steps aside and the Quaker City
comes to the front with bow.
On Monday, October I'd, we left the
publishing house of S. R. Wells & Co.,
of New York, who at present preside in
magnanimous patience over "David
and Anna Matson's" poetical adorn-
ments, and taking a Christopher-street
car, proceeded to Desbrosses street and
the ferry, bound for the City of Broth
erly Love and the Centennial show.
A resident New Yorker can always
tell novice from a veteran at glance.
The former doesn't wear glasses, and the
latter doesn't, especially if car driver,
give you any information that makes
you sure of your course. But by dint Of
asking many questions, and paying sew
eral extra fares Ito right yourself after
having run the gauntlet of wrong rail.
ways you reach the ferry disgusted al
your own verdancy. Itwas night wher
we arrived at Philadelphia, and agaiT
= we were in a quandary. New York ca
men were remembered with fear anC
trembling, and we knew not what to do
But an obliging policeman saw that W,
were at loss, and he kindly marched u
to the Market-street cars, giving our ad
dress to the driver, and we took sea
and breathed freely.
Philadelphia's houses are all alike
True, there are exceptions now and then
but only just enoEgh of them to prov
the rule. They-the houses, not tn
rule-are built of brick, tall, narrow
and convenient, with marble steps a
every front, as prim and clean an
! Quakerish as the dear people who "thee
and "thou" each other and treat every
! body well. The lower windows of a.
- most every dwelling are guarded b
white shutters with barn-door hinge
! and inside bolts. The sameness in th
houses extends to the window blinds
furniture and upholstery of every d.
.scription, all being massive, elegan
. plain, substantial and costly.
We were to be the guest of the Misst
s Thompson, two excellent ladies, WI
made US thoroughlyat home, and who's
kindly and unostentatious hospitalit
we shall never cease to gladly remen
ber.
Morning came, and Hon. A. J. Duff
called and guided US to the Centenni
grounds, where he is as busy in his e
forts to enhance the interests of OregC
as though he owned the State and e,
pected personal reward for every a
=. tempt to place its wonderful resourc
: properly before the world. Here, ais
we met Charley Dubois and frieI
- Ryan, and in the Washington Territo
= division Elwood Evans, all of who
greeted the wanderer with that cords
ity for which the great Northwest is +
nous.
= Having secured our press ticket al
is sat for 'photo'' to adorn it-a beautif
"a thing it is, too, resembling a cider m
:, as much as ourself-we returned to t
city and the Woman Suffrage Conve
tion, not having dared to stop and lo
about US, lest we should overstay o
time and neglect the business of t
Vi Commonwealth. In a little while '
" were on the platform with the Bost
w w suffragists, with stately Mrs. Livermc
at the head, facetious Lucy Stone
standard-bearer, positive Henry BlaC
"' well as fac totatnl, earnest Julia Wa
Howe as adjutant general, and men a
y. women from twenty-four differe
States and Territories as reserve cor
And such a meeting! From all parts
:" the Union the speakers came, ready
~ work in their own way for the gr,
principle of human freedom. You
=, women, old women, and women midd
an aged were there, all looking as comic
ork able and happy as Washington in
Of splendid clothes and Hancock in
grand equipage must have looked WI
ius they, without a personal grievan
grasped the principle of Liberty and
ur' solved to live or die for it.
old Never have we heard more eloou