Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-01

:. VERY ,ExsIsLE SUGGESTION.

VERY sExsIsLE SUGGESTION.
A few days ago civic banquet was
given by the vIctorians to the Governor
General. After dinner speeches. as a
+. GENERAL rule, are not noticeable for prac
tioal suggestions. But when the dis
tinQuished guest was called upon to re-
spond 70 the toast: "His Excellency the
Goyernor-General he took care 70
make his speech feast Of reason a.
we'll a. a SLOW Of soul" He was equally
happy in both directions. II his man
ner was as good as his matter, and there
was "order around the board" IT must
have been q treat to listen TO him.
Among the things the Marquis SAID
"I,et this country 1.-THE Province.) be-
como what Switzerland Is for Europe IN
the matter of good roads to places
which NAV be famed for their beauty
and let good and clean hotels attract the
tourist TO visit your grand valleys and
marvellous mountain ranges"
II is not very long since the Posr-is-
rxILrevscER devoted considerable
portion Of its space to similar sugees-
tions concerning our own environs. The
Vice Regal party, now in British Column
bia have from the time of their arrival,
borne enthusiastic testimony to the
beauty and grandeur Of the scenery,
new TO them in all its features, by which
they found themselves surrounded. We
are willing to admit that they are fully
justified in all they have said.
But it ia very certain that within a
radius of say fifty miles of this city all
they have seen of the sublime and beau
tiful and attractive in nature, in the
Province, can be duplicated in our lakes,
our rivers, our prairies and our noun
tain eorees. II there were nothing else
in our sscinity to make Seattle the head
quarters of a grand army OF tourists,
Lakes Washington and Union, made &C
oessible by good roads, and attractive
by good hotels and a feet of safe steam
ers and sailing boats, would be sufficient.
But these marvelously beautiful sheets
of water are mere incidents in the vast
array of attractions of which Seattle II
the center.
Snoqualmie Falls and the mountain
Businesses Of that region need only to DO
made accessible and properly provided
with accommodations for visitors, TO be-
come in the very truth realization OF
that hackneyed phrase, "the Mecca OF
the tourist"
There are many other localities alike
attractive, in kind, If not in degree.
within easy reach of this city.
While therefore our moneyed mon are
pushing the commercial interests of this
city, Let them not forget that they will
find great reward in considering the ad-
vice given by the Marquis of Lorne to
his constituents, as peculiarly applica-
BILE to themselves. Facts and figures are
being almost daily published in this
journal going to show that Seattle is viz
tually the headquarters of tho travel on
Puget Sourd.
It needs no facts or figure or long
winded arguments, to prove that the
volume of travel 10 this city would be
greatly increased by making 1t known
abroad that the seeker after health and
recreation can take livery hack or a
Hordic cab and be whirled away in the
morning TO tho Lake where a good din
ner, good days sport with rod or gun,
or a few hours sail on the beautiful
waters" can DO had, and those who
wish can come back to the city and en-
JOY tho privacy of proscenium box
at the opera house to be built.
1t is good plan to judiciously mix
tho pleasant with the practical. and the
way to do this To the exceeding great
profit Of this city, is to consider the ad-
vice given by the Marquis Of Lorne to
our cousins across the Straits directly
applicable to US, and, 90 considering. TO
act upon it.