Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

Leila ]. Robinson) over the nos d
Bl,irae Of - Trimonsains." has writtan
the letter follo~ine 20 the COiunbiA
Ohio Dispafok
BosToS. Marsh II, lSs5.
Hone again. Not "from Q FOREIGN
shore but fr0m the far 81 beautiful
shore Of Puget Sound, where nov-elad
mountains and virgin forests combine
with the Sound itself and the many
lovely lakes 10 make the most Bagnih-
cent seensEy that can be found By tray-
cling this vide Syrid around!
Home aQain--not to remain. perhaps.
bui puf the thoughs OF another leave
taking far from me, and enjoy the pres
ent With little th0o9ht IF the future.
But for the pairing with sne's own
people, j. Is q siHpse thing enough IN
these wonderful modern days Of ours to
make q transcontlnentai Rlp- Even
through the dead winter Of the fruzsn
north the paiatial ears Of the Northern
Pacific carry one N the perfec. comfort
of a sumner climate. Is was only oy
stepping from the car TO the platform Of
some station for q few Ezoments' brisk
walk that / could believe the mercury
had taken sneh dive into the depths
below zero. And the strange part Of It
10 that even IN thosS cold regions of Da
kota and Minnesota the people seemed
comfortable enough, wrapped in their
buffalo coats, ladies az well a. gen
tiemea wore heavy flannel lined buf-
faio overc0ats and for hoods) and /
remembered what they had told me
- n.E~fa Ia.s AnvsI that tn air Il
20 dry there that they do NOT mind the
cold.
However, I did not care to expert
mens. and 30 made no stops, bat came
straight throagh from Tacoma TO Sc.
Paul, and grew as attached 70 the
good palace car Missoula as though il
had been q friends house, and Con
dnctor shedd nay genial and kindly
host. There 1 sat aud read or playss
cards. dld fancy work. % chatsed With
my host and fellows nests, with regular
trips at stated periods into the next sar,
where substantial repasts were served
With all the luxury and elegance Of FIRST
class hotel service. By day the snow
covered living panorama fitted past our
windows Constantly to the westward, as
We sped east; for after leaving the warm
and sunny elope of the Pacific coast
country there was snow everywhere.
Through the frowning and majestic
Rockies through Montana, with ia i'm
mense hefds OF cattle, grazing even
throdRh the snow through Dakota,
sith its innaDerable villages and towns
springing up like mushrooms In Q night,
but, unlike the mushroom, evidently
bound TO take hrm root in the kindly
soil and to remain. The broad wheat
fields Of the same great Territory, SNOW
clad though they were, are wonderful to
see, and renewed the intense desire
which / felt last April to see the wav-
ing grain on these vast plains. Ny next
trip across the continent must surely
be vhen all the world Of nature ID
abloom.
By night the curtains were Close
drawn over the windows of our car, and
the dusky porter busted himself in
building up those temporary bedrooms
peculiar to the American sleeping car,
and in spreading the beds; proving con
osaaively that q man can make bed a.
we'll II not better than woman. and
raising confusing doubts an to Spheres
Plenty of blankets 10 keep warns with,
bat they we're hardly needed, for the
summer Temperature Of the oar was
kept up all night; and such sound
sleep, and tbs happy privilege OF
sleeping as late az one pleases in the
morning.
While making this mid winter journey
/ thought Of Charles Diekens's arst visit
to America IN 1872, and of bis trip to
the Far West,n (the capitals are his
own when, by slow river and canal
boats, which were constantly exploding,
and by the expenditure of weeks Of
time, and by the consumption of soul.
revolving and dyspepsia creating food,
he managed to reach and cross the
Mississippi river and 10 visit Cairo, the
fArthest point In his trip. II only he
could make the trip across our continent
an Il can now be made. and see this won
derful new northern country, with its
thriving soung civilization, and see the
scenery Of the Far Northwest, hew his
pen would reyel with such material for
its use!
When Oregon wanted to be admitted
10 the Union as State, what do you
suppose was one objection raised By an
honorable senator? Why, that 10 would
always take Representative from Ore
eon 800 days out Of every 800 TO make
the journey 20 Washington city and
back, not leaving him time 10 attend the
session. And at she same time IL was
gfavely declared in Congress that We
could never extend our boundaries
beyond the kocky Mountains. and that
that natural barrier was impassable
for fellow citizens Of one country aEd
nation!
Well, the sun do msve,s and II the
Il ,eky Mountains wouldn't 60 nearer
Washington, Washington now finds il
as easy 20 20 over the Rocky Mountains,
even 70 far. of Oregon. via ths Northern
Pacific Railroad, as u once was 70 come
10 Boston. As easyf Far easier, surely,
when enc remembers the old stageroach
and oansiboat travel.
OF course there Is no such county
anywhere on this footstooi as il Wash
inQton Territory. Everybody who has
been there will agree with me In this.
That h, its scenery 10 at once the
gfaudest and most beautiful, It's uiim
ate the miideet and most bsniglant,
lie people the most intelligent and
progressive, and its future the most
assured.
ID may be thought that I exaeRsrats.
don't believe | do. In regard 20. my
frst statement, no question can be raised
BY any one who has ever seen the views
from Seattle.
Az 10 the climate, II 10 not understood
by great many people that there 10 an
ocean e1rrent flowing frem the shore OF
Japan that washes tke coast Of Oregon,
Washington Territory and British Co
lumbia, giving the climate OF Engiand,
with neither extreme Of beat or cold,
hut With considerable moisture. I
plueked most beautiful roses from the
June bushes down 10 the garden OF my
Seattle home about the middle of De
cember. just before the one snow storm
OF the winter. And that snow wis
marvel Ia thai region. for il laid On the
eroupd two weeks. something which has
never happened there before sincs tis62
fhara Has but one sleigh IN the city
that vas q ricA manss whin--so ta1ey
constructed sieiRhs bF making woosken
siests and putlinR the tops Of bngRies on
them; also BY putting dry goods boxes
on runners. With straw for seats' There
care really the most eoniral creations
made % do duty ~ eleigks that you can
imagine. All the oiss. youthful and
aanlt, magistrates aud ministers Of tha
Rnspel. vent eoassing, too; the slisds
being manufactured to 0fder hy the
cAEpeDteF.