Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-06
A Reply to 'Borax.'


In your last was an ariic'e bv
Bpray, which | wish to notice.
Such article should never hn written
about cur city "paps. the Wis
dom Of whose action III the rail-
way bu,iuess Is not To bequesti0ned.
True, by sii9ht mislal, four cans,
costing forty dollars each, have be, Ii
ruined: true. it keeps the mills busy
III supplying lumber to be expert
menitd with; true tie scien itic
"lust-hO~-to.lo-it turn of mind Of
our city fathers Is costing the tax
payer thirty tr forty dollars per day
true. un!y ubou, three wagon loads
OF earth have been put Into the hun
cry tide III two months, labor: bot
then our t" dads are experimenting.
Iiue, a contractor wouli doubles -
complete the bulge aud grade for
about $500. but the advance of the
age requires that science be brought
IN requisition, even though the sa,ie
work shall cost 81 500 True. cur
sidewalks are not get grained OF
r1ln'.'i, l'.rhULr!, they are magni-
ncl-h. Tor the kln.il. but for the sake
OF the generation they must re-
main IN heir present condition while
our eli, raps' study experimental
enginet ring an grading philosophy.
Since the accident, mentioned so
tonchinYly by "Borax,' our chiefs
have cured the services of another
engineer, who has zealously gone
about the work of Reconstruction, !"
and is bringing order out of choas
at 2:4O gait. Anew machine has
been invented by this new man,
which looks has close, and which
in not likely to cocAshet unless tum-
ble-buS rolls his historic ball upon
the track. No name has yet been
applied to this new machine, and as
an experiment merely l shall cali
1t the whangdoocle. In appearance
it resembles cross between a mus
sci and an alligator. 1t has q
whistle which sounds as melodious as
the voice which spoke for Baalam
/ have an idea it will work unless it
rains, which it is never likely do in
this land of The cedar and vine"
The arrangement for unloading this
machine is unique. You have to
open its jaws and the dry dirt slides
out as easily as miner can ride
down Rainier in his prospecting pan;
but when the clay gets wet, about
twO-thi.d of the load sticks to the
sides of this two bushel box, and
some half dozen boys are readily
made use of, with wooden paddles,
to scrape it out.
If, upon trial, this whangdoodle
seems not to answer the purpose, an
agent will be sent to Hong Kong to
contract for two Thousand China
poles aud baskets and The earth will
be trotted" into the last ditch"
by the " Sialwarts" from the Celes.
tial Empire. l desire to say to Bor-
ak, "YJu are an old fool 10 growl,
with the outlook around US.
At the present rate the bridge will
be completed for less than 81, COO
and before the centennial OF 1876.
While half dozen teams and ten
men could have completed the en-
tire job in twenty days, at an ex-
pense of about one thousand dollars,
yet there would have been no science
III this. Sir Alexander Mcintosh dc.
clares that Science, like politics
and religion, moves i'll a circle, and
our city government has got around
this circle to the days of wooden
rails for railways, being this much
in advance of the masses.
Ground has been secured near the
SwantOwn bridge for q hospital.
Patents b We been applied for on the
"whangdOodle"; Swantown property
has increased by one cent on the
thousand. A night patrol has been
ordered to guard the "whangdoodle,
to prevent children being injured
and COWS depleted of their milk.
Thus you see, Mir. Borax, every
thing is being done to save our treas
ury, beuut.fy our town and greatly
elevate the "goose."
CASTOR Oh.
Cwaniown Jnlv Ist 1XQ9