Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-11
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Posr TOWNSEND, w. T., Aug. 8, 1882

Posr TOWNSEND, w. T., Aug. 3. 1882.
Port Townsend, tie shire town OF
Jefferson county, like its sister towns Of
Puce: Sound, is beautiful for situation.
Olympia with it's twelve-mile vista of
blue water visible from Capitol Hill;
New Tacoma, with its magnificent pan
Drama stretching away through valley
and foothills to Mount Rainier: and Sc
attic, with its splendid sweeps of forest,
bay, mountain and valley, visible from
its terracsd hills, may each claim equal
ity; but when the artist In words arises
whose province it shall be 6tiy to paint
all these beautiful pictures he will hesi-
tate long before he awards the palm of
superiority to either.
From the table land upon which the
residenceiportion of Port Townsend is
built, looking to the north on a clear
day, Mount Baker looms up, if not with
all the majesty of Rainier as seen from
Johnson's Point. New Tacoma or other
favorable situations, at least with a
striking grandeur peculiarly its own.
Around its thanking buttresses Chaos
seems come again." Titanic, fire scar
red rocks seem piled in inextricable con
fusion around its base and half way mp
its rugged sides. and suggest Arctic
desolation. The eye of the gazer finds
a certain relief, as, turning eastward. 1t
marks the clean-cut but still snow
crowned crests of the Cascade range
meilowed by distance and tempered by
the far reaching vista of wood and
water. In the southeast Rainier. lifting
its white crown from an emerald sea
adds new beauties to the picture, Will
to the south the white crestS of tn
Olympic Mountains look down upon the
descending foothills over which they
light and fling glamour which the most
skillfui wielder Of pen, pencil or brush
might strive in vain to reproduce. At
the base of all, the beautiful bay upon
the shores of which the town is located
sleeps placidly, and mirrors all the
lovely scene. Take it altogether the
praises which the Port townsend peo-
pie lavish upon their surroundings are
Well deserved, and your correspondent
endorses them as above. not grudgingly
but with willing mind and free hand.
The town has its institutions, public
and private, of which shall proceed to
speak.
THE CUSTOM HOUSE.
The headquarters of the Puget Sound
y. s. Collection District Is located here.
l give the personnel of the establish
ment:
Collector-A. W. Bash.
Deputies-W. NJ. Harmed, w. o.
Chapman.
Deputy at Fort Colville-C. b. Bash.
Inspectors-Frank H. Winslow, Geo.
H. Jones, T.. NJ. Layman.
Inspector at Victoria, b. Ca. ID.
Attridge.
Inspector ut Seattie-F. G. Swayzee.
Inspector at San juan. N. lett.
Inspector at Neah Biy-James H.
Price.
Inspector at Sehome-A. l.. Bl Ike.
In addition to the above force of
four boatmen and watchmel are at
tached to the Office.
Mr.. Bash, the Collector, was absent
at the time Of my visit, but found a
courteous reply to my request for facts
and figures from Deputies Harmed and
Chapman.
tabuIate the information thus OBJ
tanned az follows: One hundred and
thirty 13O) vessels, steam and sail, are
documented in this Collection District.
Total tonnage, Al, 403: