Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-01-03
A sfsif To faR RIRsT CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION eF TEE CITT or
SEATTLE.

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From Chicago Tri5aae, Mas Is, 1852 !
Ire slecfris aerial snip EasIs, xish
tie Tribsss s1e1rsion party &C board,
landed - S-s'fie Esicr A=zi.i NsEiss-
too depot at O'Clock this nornies.
Before making sur descent Se SCARED
above .as city f5r hl.: az hoc., sE5
we're ihus not only treated to cue Of the
grsndest hiFd'sess views ever sit
messed BY any human bsiEg siues asrisi
uaTlgatiOu became universal. bot re
sere also enabled, By tie aid % our
map snd Ecide book. 10 set a general
idea OF the Typographical features Of
the city and suburbs, and 20 kscafe the
principal points of interest.
Tie city proper is about ten miles in
length, extending from a line drawn
due east and west between the Sound.
about mile sad half south Of Ak
Point, and Lake Washington, 20 = SINH
lar line drawn mile or more north of
Salmon Bay, the southern extremity of
Green Lake being included within the
city liEnIts- It's breadth varies from
two and half TO sbo1s SIX miies. its
eastern boundary bssn9 Lake Washing
ton, and Its western che Sound and B4y,
East Of Lake Washington, as well as on
the shores Of tue sound. both north and
south of the city limits, are hundreds
of beautiful auhQrban villas, where
DWELL the weaithiest of Seattle's citi-
lens Who, after ending the DAYS labor.
spend their evenings with their families
IN quiet rural euioyments. A ship
canal connects the sound with Lakes
tnios and Washington, and on Mercer
Island. IN the latter, Is the old naval
statl0n-nOw the station of tue Scien-
tine Marine Survey ships, since. after
she signing Of the International Arbi
tratIOn Treaty Of 1906, all the war yss-
sels. having become useless as sach. |
vers converted into merchantmen and |
surveying ships.
The city and suburbs contaia q popu- |
lAtion Of about 10000, and nowhere |
are more than four families. or about |
twenty individuals, allowed TO the acre. |
for the City Coancil of Seattle, recoV-
MIXING early the fact that in a city the |
is in direct ratio 10 the dem
sity of the population, lost no time in /
passing stringent laws TO prevent over
In some localities We even /
ind each family occupying from half /
an acre to an acre Of ground, and thus
every house 10 surrounded by a garden,
which arrangement renders the CITY
both attractive and healthy. An abun-
dant supply Of the pursst water from
Cedar river, near its fountain source, is
brought into every house, and the sani-
Iary police have the streets and side
waiks thoroughly washed every morn
ing. PneumatIc pumps carry the sew
age through immsnse pipes to farm
outside the city, where It is immedi-
aiely rendered inocuous by chemicals
and converted into manure. BY this
fully six thousand lives
are saved annually and q revenue of
little more than million dollars ia
added to the city treasury.
But l am DEPRESSING. Ga orr arrival
at the depot We were met by representa-
ives Of the Seattle press, who conduct
I'd Us to the Grand North Pacific Hotel,
where We partook of suInptuous,
breakfast az which the venerable senior
sditor Of the Seattle Posi- INrKLIIsKS-
JKB presided. Here in the person OF
Muckilte0 Daily TiDses reporter the
writer met with An old scho0lmats whe
to act as our guide. The
Was to open at 10 o. NJ. in
he Seattle park. whittier We rode in
me of the new noiseless electric cara
4 vast multitude Of people we're gath
,Iea in the park and she speakers we're
already assembled on the platform.
l he first speaker, the venerable Mrs.
Wilson, a lady somewhat past 50, was
L.. To-. -
~ ths Hon. Bertha Lovejoy, the Mayor
& Seattle. Mrs. Wilson's voice was
eebls, aud would have been inaudibls
q ths unarmed ear, bat with the aid of
improved Electro Micro Audi
inctlv. The speaker gave a brief
eview Of the first half century of Sc
titles existence, part of which had
or, Denny, etc., to whose statues before
Yer she pointed With pride. She also
poke Of old Angelina, Saattie's Ruth,
whom she remembered we'll. In the
,arly part of the history Of her native
hty there had been many apps and
Towns. She told Of the dark days when
he city was controlled by whisky deal
re- and gamblers, days which COMPARE
lively few of those now living could re-
member. for after the great pandemic
which swept over the entire country in
he nineteenth century, carrying of
Yearly ons-tenth Of the population,
monQ them such vast number of the |
'ictlms of alcohol and tobacco, the
lation became fully awakened 10 its
LANCER, prohibition became universal,
nd a. the liquor traffic expired funeral
'yres were lighted all over the country,
nd their blaze ascending towards the
lesvens iliumiRed this continent from
he British Dominions 10 Mexico, and
rom the Atlantic 70 the Pacific Coast,
nd in this new light tie reign of pros
'ority had its birth.
The whisky element of Seattle, vrith-
nR 10 ifs death agony, made ons more ,
desperate effort 10 get into power, but
" the united action of every Law abid-
Nc man and woman this hydra headed {
monster Of corruption was finally and I
orever crushed ont Of existence.
The next speaker, Mr.. Brown, was
hen introduced, bat as had other en-
left my mirror phonograph
o take down his speech, which will be I
~ Al he al /.