, 1882-12-15
A Great Extinguisher I!

PORT TOWNSEND SNUFFEp OUT BY SAM
HowLEs OF THE SPRINGFIELD EEPUB
LIcNN.
Samuel Bowlcs, son Of his father
/ Samuel Bowlcs, the former editor Of
. the RcpmJiicaD, printed and publish
. cd in the interior townof Springfield
/ Massachusetts,, comes down on Port
. Townsend like a thousand Of bricks,
or rs Il duck lighteth on the unfortu-
nate bug in June.
When the elder Samuel was on Pu
get Sound with the Schuyler Colfax
party in 1868, he published a r0cy
book in which he gives a ttuthfNiand
vivid description of what he saw, The
younger Samuel, who succeeds his
father in the editorial chair, was here
the last of October with a railroad
party consisting of Mr., and Mrs Bel
KNAPP, Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Pickett
of New York, Hon. i. Failing, Capt.
and Mrs. G. II. Prescott of Portland,
and others.
They arrived at midnight Oct 26th,
came ashore, it being bright moon
light, and walked all through the
town, on the hill and on the beach.
The following morning they came
ashore again and remained about two
hours. This is what they said then
Mr., Belknap, who is treasurer of the
n. p. II. r., remarked that Port
Townsend was the prettiest location
and the prettiest place he had seen
since he left New York. Capt. Pres
colt remarked that Port Townsend
bay is the best harbor on Puget
Sound, and Mr.. Samuel Bowles con-
descended to say that he was aston
ished and surprised to see such stone
buildings as the great stores of G. G
Bartlett & Go. and Charles Eisenbeis.
They gave an evidence of prosperity
and permanency to the town which
he was not expecting to see. The
whole party were loud in their praise
of the wonderful beauty of the varied
scenery from the upper town.
Now contrast this with what Sam.
uel says in his paper, the Springfield
Republican of Nov. 25th, in an arti-
Gle on "The Pacific Northwest"
copy of which he has kindly sent us
marked with blue pencil, probably to
give us the blues if possible.
Stand up, old settlers, and hear
your status described by a learned
pundit from the old Bay State:
"Sailing up the Sound from Taco
ma and Seattle through Admiralty
Inlet, our boat touched Port Town
send, the port of entry for Washing
ton Territory. 1t is an old and wealth
er beaten village struggling along by
the sea and back over the hills, at the
end of tongue of land formed by
two deep inlets from the Sound, and
is inhabited chiefly by fishermen, a
few soldiers, custom-house officials
and nondescript loafers."
Sam includes in the latter class,
the gentlemen connected with the Z.
S.Marine Hospital, the merchants and
the families on the hill, with officers
of the revenue cutter and lawyers.
He evidently has been perusing the
truthful work of the late j. Ross
Browne, who classed the inhabitants
of Port Townsend as 'beach comb
ers." Sam gives Tacoma an migrate
full blow below the belt which knocks
out the inflated gas from that town,
but bespatters praise upon Seattle
with salivary tongue.
When the party of which Sam
Bowles formed the caudal appendage,
was here we failed to give more than
a passing notice of his advent. The
Seattle press however lauded him to
the skies. In retu he gives them
a shower Of taffy, but treats us to
kick and a damn. Vale Samuel
GONG EAsT.-Dr. Minor will proba-