, 1876-09-30

Office. This is his first visit to Snoho'
mish since his return from the east. lie
left Seattle on the DAKOTA, June -;
reached san Francisco midnight of the
3d fully; spent the centennial 4th OF
July in that city; says it was the best
celebration ever seen by him; the turn
out was very large, procession very fine;
was two hours and twenty minutes pass
ing the plaza. Left there on the fifth,
made no stoppagc until he reached De-
tloit in Michigan, going ria Central and
Union Pacific to Omaha, theme to Chi
cago gia Chicago & Northwestern r. r.,
thence to Detroit by Michigan Central
arriving there July 14th stopped there
one day. Thence to SherbrooIi in Cana
da on Grand Trunk Railway. There
found mother and sisters. From there
went with one of his sisters to Washing
ton City, visited all the public buildings,
cemeterys and noted places in the vicini-
ty, including Mount Vernon and its sur
roundings: was strongly impressed by
the size and grandeur Of the national
buildings of the capitol; was five days
at Washington; then returned to Phila-
delphia. Was at the Centennial EXhibi-
ton four days. This only gave time to
look through the main building, ma.
chinery hall, memorial hall, and the ag-
ricultural building in hurried manner,
after which he returned ria New York
on the magnificent Fall River line of
sound steamers, the line built by Fiske
to Boston, making the distance Of PIP
miles from New York to Fall River, in.
Guiding stoppage at New Port, in ten
hours. From Boston returned to Canada
on the Boston and Maine and Grand
Trunk Railways; thence to San Fran
cisco, after resting at home few days,
by same route ne went east on. Thence
to the Sound on Str. Panama. arriving
in Port Townsend on the 9TH of this
month.
The heat Of the summer seemed almost
intolerable, especially the heat in the
night, after being accustomed to the tenn
perate, mild climate and cool nights of
Western Washington. People every
where seemed anxious to learn about the
country, with a view of coming out here;
was frequently invited to their houses
by them, so they could enquire as re-
CARDS soil, climate and institutions found
here When they were told about the
large crops of grain, hay, etc. raised tc
the acre, they were astonished and in
clined to doubt his word.
One thing noticed in the east was the
great number Of people out of employ
ment, and the universal complaint of
hard times. In many of the towns it
had become source Of great anxiety to
the authorities what they were to do
with their poor the coming winter; es-
pecially is this the case in the manufact-
uring towns.
In coming through Iowa and Nebras-
ka he found the northwestern part of
Iowa aud the whole Of Nebraska com.
pletely devastated by grasshoppers. The
hay had been pretty we'll saved this
WAS abont the only crop saved. The
corn was completely destroyed.
Oncthing noticed was that on the cars
there were twice as many going west as
east, and of, those going east, over one
half were designing to return west with
iii few months, simply going east on u
visit, while the majority westward bound
We're going to stay, The way induce
ments are held out to Immigrants COM
ing to this coast, California gets some
nine tenths Of them all. Oregon has an
agent who meets the trains at Oakland,
and visits the immigrants atsthe hotels,
etc. 1t seems as if Washington Terrific
ry ought to have some one to try to in
duce them to come up here, and to rep.
resent her interests there, as they seem to
know very little about this country.
Hardly know where Puget Sound is,
know nothing at all about the climate,
productions and industries OF the Sound,