Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-09-28

confer upon you the honor Of an in
troduVtlon 10 my family OF
course the hrcathles' crowd bowed
low ohe:slnce. And TIE lion
OF the day disappeared. Tie SOM
Der mantle II night now tests like
sable pau upon the gloomy hills
and disappointed c!'y. The silence
l. unbloken save by the murmur of
tie nppllng waves as they chase
each olhcr out upon the pebbIy
beach, or the moaning voice of some
regentant Duke vino has placed i'm
/ rliclt confidence III his ability to
knock Seattle tungle:oot out of time
i'll four rounds. The electric light
of the palace car" streams out Oh
the mud flats and shows up in bold
relief the acquired clam rancho"
Of tie honorcd Hank. \ thousand
candles light the windows of the
patriotic, and bon fires giealn out
from every hill bright as the star OF
bethlehem. The sweet, warm breeze
nom far Japan tunes to .Eolian mu.
: SIC tie n@3ing OF the Qaoen and uls
10 Tao aims of the Morphcus TIE
EurntS and Dukes, to dream of
banquet halls deserted and free
.lbch counters, strewn with Toasted
cams and iatted Indian maidens.
he silvery moon breaks through
me llrecy clouds and reveals the Sc
ii!ie finance committee kicking each
yther i'll back alley for giving
flank the money with the railroad
u'lninus sti.l ut New Taeoma- forty
mules away. We hear Hanks smile
Yet, above the chatting tide and !he
hmo:hercd curses OF the duped den
lzens Of tie goose pasture" town,
"a he sails awdy with index finger
su@gcstlvely on the side OF his nose
and one eye shut.
But Seattle was not to be fooled
oUt Of IL celebration. The stray
%iers and disappointed ones who
mad been accidentally left behind
ny Willard got together and fixed
up & program. The roasted OK was
warmed and rehashed, and the
ioayes and fishes were dished up for
the secondhand banquet, while the
price OF col ner lots remained steady.
~ the expiring notes of the dvin.
swan are sweetest, SO were the bitter
moiseis rendered more palutable by
baptism III NORWOOD and gall.
he - was gor2eously decorated
with Lnu,i"s and evergroens. and
had the Oh triH. appearance tina.
fingers nhout IL beautiful graveyard
"htn me boss mourner and hearse
have departed. OF course neither
Willard nor his railroad were in town.
but could not the feast 90 on? Did
not leslcr have on II new hat. and
Lcary IL t,csn-b blown rose bcGuet?
Was not Governor New eli ready TO
finish the speech which the rude
band at the sril,inS and rendered
shorter than the an hor had INTENDED?
Oniwith the circus :" cried the
committee. And the grand Iagean-
Try struggled through the streets
like the home march of busted cir
Gus. There were drays loaded with
empty store boxes, and Il lot of 9TH
or truck that Noah did not think
worth saving i'll the ark; and Ange- |
line was there, the ancient sister Of |
good Chief Seattle who played po-
ker with Hlliory Butler on tie sunny /
banks of Duwamish river when il /
was bablinS brook. The band led /
tho procession playing the popular
and thrilling air
!, Quack, quack, quack, went the little
ducks.
1t now become apparent that Sc
a'tlc would celebrate the millennium |
without the presence of the erch- /
angel. The yiadiators hal already !
assembled IN the arena Of the alnphi- !
theater, and the hungry popu!ace |
were shifting the savory aroma of !
the rehashed OK. True that Mayor
Strive had taken u hint and made il |
convenient to be out of town, leav- I
lnS his address to be published in !
cold type; but were not tho baz0us |
81 The balance loaded 70 the muZzle .
for bear? After lowering bottle of
Cutters best about three fingers,
Chancellor Ho!comb shuilied to the .
front and III stentorian tones intro 4.
duced the orators in bold AthcnIan
style. As one after another ol the /
chosen few came forth and fingered /
on Seattle greatness like bald /
headed rooster ut the shrine of q
BiJou siien, Tom Prosch played the !
honored part of hat rack. In an
unSuaided moment Hon. G. Brad !
shaw so far forgot his surroundings
as 10 mention Whatcom is the prob
abe terminus, vixen by order of the
city council, Special Policeman
Murphy bounced HIM from the
"iti'l and took him before Squire
Cam, WHO sentenced him TO exile in
Seattle for ninety days. Carl s;churz
inadvertently remarked that he had
seen larger multitudes, and that
PROBABLY less than half OF the people
III tie United States had never heard
OF Seattle. his mansled remains