The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-17
4 RETURN.
A Glimpse Of Seattle After Seven
Months Absence.
Esoz a Eesias Correspondent

kzoEz EaTI1g Correspondent
les. Il Vas beaHtxtni zaos ming hetwssa
and ) ofcsaek xkga, a. The steamer
rounded Into the hay. Eay eyes rested uac1
nzare On he tsaeea e4-y. the City O. which
lad a0nz ago pinaea rny E&zfA rs 10 sn
turzTe greatness IS u. metropolis o. TIE
SOC nd eSunsry- Fer years had been ts9v-
cling Up and down. and every raonsh or
two woa1S see re skzxsEg h8a1s ~ssh &c
friends a. Essse6 np EraEs street; lat
seven l91fas absence AMI al il CHANGED
As TIE steamer zFew aes< the e1sF. il wo-e
- rae diGereut Gsp~gs. tha houses ~
RzeEa Anne IoEa aYpexrez - b. finished,
tie = bari AID DGGkxrs AZ Alitnis Cove
had assumed q look IF Yfrfl1 sgs; and as
we stll Reared fae CITY. I eosha
see that here ans there gas a
sziA greater change Daring ray absence
the old iook Of aewBess. OF ssgAsEereaness'
hAa disappeared. here was = szsW city rub
nfEg nx eyes ! AS1ge1 again AMI agsla
the-e were TIE old landmarks TIE Ocean
and City docks spreaTsG in view as Of rore,
bus sne Old CITY of ny meEosy was gone
never 20 resuTE. Iasre vas substantial
kn-Sx aacHs II. . soaldisy. huadrea-y rear
Old look & tad never before worn All,
here IL tie Eew ferry. Gene, this Is q great
improvement IN iEself, boat OF which
jersey City might not be ashamed and
handsome slip. This. I whisper 10
myself. IS gnlIe metropolitan. this csry
with tnis kind OF help wiz soon extend
tfoza tia lighthouse. al round the bay 20
Aikl point. ii viii be sae most beautiful
city ia the states. sa1 when vessels come
IN 20 the bay, they viii be Ros On the out
skirts but me heart OF the city.
Al this point voice ia my ear says: so
you knox the City Council has given this
wharf property 20 which the ferry rams 70
the West Seattle Company" What, Is the
city retEogading then Let the city lease
for city or hundred years, II they viii AZ
d dollar ySsr rental, bat let them never
part With Whist some day VIII cost millions
70 regain; encourage By lending rs any en-
terprlse, bat never give, that which viii
Ia future years, be Of immense importance
% tie city. Landing 6; the same Old wharf
and after SHAVE Tiny old barber has also
gone, wendied my way By Front street 10
the hili, and when last hers the Tokiss 4
-inzerman block Was lust finished AMI
furnished, and the Gilman block was about
half completed. Shall say ] hardly kew
Front and Second streets Ysg il was so
Front street seemed 10 me wider and more
important than OF y0re. and the new blocks
on this aud second streets bad SO improved
the city taat, s. looked back few years
20 the old time Front stree. and business
center. could almost fancy that had, By
mistake. arrived a. another cir.
Another improvement which / noticed
az this time gave token Of more metro
politsn feeling and the income of more
dollars, and this was the new cable track
which Is being laid in a thorough work
maalike manner. InqRiring for Masii-
son street bus. was informed that they
had been laid of for the winter on account
of the heavy roads. Going 20 friend
inquired naw poor pedestrians were sup
posed 70 mount the muddy sleeps. aud
mildly suggested that cable road would
not be a bad thing for Madison street
''Oh, no. thai Is our ouly driving road
80 starting out 70 foot the hiil
once more ] came 10 second street,
admired the new blocks and fins stores
noticed a vacant corner LOT on Cherry.
Turning 30 a man inquired why this lot
had not also been bull on. Well said
he, II don't rightly know, but it belongs
50 an old citizen, and perhaps be doesn't
nean - tell me that the men of seattle
are not stih working shoulder 10 shoulder
10 build up this city thought you could
not accommodate half the business men
who come IN. No more We can. but
their
Wandering on. my attention was drawn
10 new and fine block of residences north
OF Mr.. fesler's property, and as passed up
the street TO have look AT them, / saw
that Mr.. Gesier was putting up the long
needed stone wall around his residence,
bat 70 my horror "a " that inst ad of build
ing ii level il was built with the slope OF
the Hill. II this wall IL SO left il VIII ruin
the lock Of this beautiful property, aud
glaneing little further on and across the
street saw that the EpiKcopalians had not
yet risen 70 the fact that seattle is now .
city, but remembering that they had
recently built a fine hospital. ! reasoned
that perhaps their energies bad been de
voted 10 finishing that building and that
later they would turn their attention to the
old landmark Trinity church.
nay vision, the Roman Catholic church.
they also viii, In the near future. have 10
rise 10 the growing needs OF the city and
help lis permanent hnes by the erection OF
grand and beautiful edifee. i shall miss
in future years these two old landmarks,
edifces which have seen - much and
helped onward 50 grestiy this wonderful
city, but ali things mast change.
10 retracing nay steps ! come 10 the ew
city attraction, which las $50 been
finished during my absence, the Metho.
dist church, this Is really an ornament in
lts way aud II the builder had not pat So
much on so little IL would have been more
So. bnt then they deserve all the credit
they can have for this great Improvement
on the old place they use 10 inhabit. Then
passed up Marion aud CHANGING along
Fourth street saw still mere buildings of
very good architecture IN Mr.. Burnets
elock~lf they asd only been painted 10
salt the architecture and said To myself
Well. here is one old citizen improving his
property and the city az any rate Ali
honor to the men who having borne the
heat Of the battle still lag not in the oa-
ward march. Everywhere new homes
greeted me and eyerywher. the evidence
of seaitie's old energy were still apparent,
and II anything could be needed TO tell OF
the eity's growth. the fact sooa became
apparent 20 me, that whereas ] used to
know three men out of every four met,
now don't know one in hundred.
Reaching the top OF the hili and my
destination. / looked back and as my eye
ranged over the sound and over the busy
thoroughfares and well bulk streets and
the thousands of kotsos ia ali directions,
wished for the tongue of one OF the
prophets of old of sing of the beauty and
great destiny of this wonderful city, the
Queen City Of the Northwest. :.
Senator Coke Isn'r a Society Man.