Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-09
An IyTKRnsfIyC LITTLE

The following II an extract from a
Letter 70 friend, BY L. J. Colman. Ths
party viii start for home in about a
month:
Speaking Of organs, 1 heard ths best
one yet the day before Yesterday in ths
osthsdrL Of FriburR, Q small city thirtv
miles from Geneva. Il was an orran
concert for the bens6t Of iuse such nso-
pie - a, who had nevsr hsard 4 6rst
ciAas organ hpfofe. There il no use try-
ing 70 dsocri6s the music. Il distanccd
anything have ever heard, both Ia vol
ums and swostnsas. First there would
b lood blast like . trumpet call, then
repsated - II Il were miles away, almost
beyond bearing. A thunder storm Vas
rspsesented % heavy that the very ssats
soook beneath a.. Cash after crash
came, followed By luIl or quiet music,
reprseeating tain, when We almost had
20 feel the ooets to make sure they were
not vet. In Geneva an hour or more
wa9 occupied IN going through q music
eox mandatory and the store attached.
The store 10 foil Of little nicknaoks in
the way OF carved wood inkstsnds,
match safes, Vases, CLOCKS, etc., With
music In every one Of them, starting a
soon - the thing Vas touched. One Of
the party sat down on q chair, and at
onss the thing began playing q familiar
air. 4 canary in Q cage sang so nat
urally that several thought it was q. real
bird. The eyes would wink, the head
move from side 70 side, and the bill open
and shut like life. A eaudily dressed
wooden darkey- played the duts in fine
style and bowed In regular stage way
when through. Probably the best thing
Of al was . large secretary looking
thing, called a. orohsstrarian, which
played . waltz and part of an opera
for u, Just like en orchestra, with the
kettle drum, brass band instruments
and duts very distinct. It was made
for . celebrated singer, whose name I've
forgotten. There ID one pearly az large
in the dining room Of the hotel here, |
which plays while the dinner il being |
served; rather grand, don't you thinkf |
when wrote you from Rome and for |
the three weeks following, it was moth |
ing but cathedrals, towers, churches |
and old ruins Of buildings, but for the |
past week IL has been mountain and /
lake scenery; going in coaches over two
passes, ten and eleven thousand feet |
high, with snov in glaciers and
ln great masses fifty and q hundred feet
deep lying in the little upper valley.
The roadsides are strewn with flowers
Of many kinds. Among the most beau
tiful ia kind Of half violet. half panzy
10 variety OF cOlOrs, and biuebell.
The varieties of flowers change ON as
sending to the higher levels, but grow
10 a. great profusion right up to the
snow banks. One kind, q waxy lily
looking Hover. even growing up through
The snow where il is an inch or two
,hick. Forget me- nots grow everywhere,
md some Of the hay fields are more
lowers than grass.
IL seems to me that have not told
F0u before that We Joined q party of
fifteen Americans in Paris who were
s0ing on the same trip as ourselves, and
Vill be with them until reaching Rot
erdam, then parting, they going to
IOndOn, Liverpool and home, leaving
uly 2lst, while wc return to Paris for
short time, then TO London, up through
|ootland and down through Ireland,
Daving Queenstown Sept. 10Th, ON
Alaaka. The general line of
be trip on the continent has been
hroueh Paris, Tunis Tin Italy,, Genoa,
'isa, Rome, Naples, then back to Rome, [
florence. Venice, Milan, then through
he Alps 70 Geneva, and then to Inter-
Acken, and from here ON IL in general
orth, towards Rotterdam. The party
re all Oh together today ON an excur-
ion. ! stayed at the hotel because
n afraid would catch cold in the
,laae whore Yesterday had Q tooth sx-
raOted. lt had been aching ever since
savinR New York; that il, by spells. II
, the nrst one, and ] msurn its loss
severely. This 10 what 10 called the
|eason In IntsFlaoken. Il il q small
own Of not over two thousand inhabi-
ants, but has eleven large hotels, all
'uli with tourists and visitors, mostly
English. Each Of these hotels have in
he neighborhood Of 800 people; 80 YOU
20 things are rather crowded, ~ many
ransisnS - real residents. There ia q
Inc park and every evening and at diff
'srsnt times during the day an orchestra
liscousses music. Regards, etc.
l.. J.C.
IxTsRLAcxEN, Switzerland, June y.