, 1889-09-05

snip or built new, inc tItSpy ''ihtH |
church had a small building ON 9 street,
now one of the principal business |
streets; II sold the lot for $4,000, with |
which IL IL erecting fine large church |
on g street worehipiug meanwhile in a
large tent. BY the way, tents are u very
prominent feature, being utilized for all
sorts of purposes, from peanut stand
TO a church.
IIl this region the cities have out
grown the country; consequently farm
products, like butter and eggs, have been
shipped in here by the carload, the
equilibrium. Tho great wheat supply
comes mainly from Eastern WASHING
ton, seeking this port for shipment be-
cause here ships can come right up to
the docks to load, direct rom tho tcle-
vators. This saves lightcrage, towago
and piotnge aud lessons Insurance thus
enabling Tacoma buyers to pay 8 or .
cents per bushcl more than can be paid
in Portland, where all grain must be
trans.shipped bv lighter.
Seattle must have letter by ITSELF
we will now take u trip to Vashon is
land, which for the past month has been
thc center of attraction on account OF
the Puget Sound Ch0tauqua in session
there. AS our steamer rounds up to the
landing we find ourselves in another OF
those fine harbofS for which the Sound
is so famou3 Trump Harlor 1t Is
marked OH the niUp. "A 'iloal runs
go feet from hsh-ticIc mark, and at It's
extremity the water is of suilicient
depth for the largest Sound vessels. The
banks are prccipitolIs, and only two or
three years ago the site was
SO pENsELY WOODED
! that IL cost 800 an acre to clear it. Now,
! looking up the height, we see the am
phithcater bearing in large letters
hCha,ltauonia," tho hotel aud village
of cottages and tents clustering around
them. This is only the second year the
assembly has met here, and those who
| saw the sight three years ago say the
| improvement IL marvellous. This land
was first taken by four congregational
ministers with view to planting here a
college that plan failed, but In its place
we have here center of the Peoples s
| College" the e. J.. :. C..
| The log cabin lived I'm while the first
settler "proved up"-fOr the landwas So
cured by pre-emption--now stands back
of the amphitheatcr; tho land ON which
IL stands Is now worth 500 or 1900 Il lot,
ten lots to the ucre. Tile only fault we
have to find with the management is
that il does not continue to build log
cabins, which would probably he
more comfortable and certainly more
picturesque than the majority otthc cot
tages. Instead, they burn the logs, az
is the fashion in this country, wicked,
wastcful fashion, it seems to us prairie
people, but they assert that the work OF
utilizing them Is worth more than the
logs, fol. logs arc plenty and labor high
SO burning is the rule. Such expires
sions as "he has fired his eighty acres
are very common and the sight of great
trees ablaZe to their very tops IL "A fire.
quent one Imagine the amount of tim.
ber which must burn to produce the
smoke that for two months each yeal
obscures the sky and as thoroughly OBJ
I literates even Mount Tacoma as though
it was blotted out of the landscape
very many of them are ION purpose.
Looking at these fires on every hand
aud the wood d-built towns, dry as tindc
from the summers during which no rail-
falls, one wonders that the fate of Seat
tie and Spokane Falls is not the fate o
every town in the territory, and does no
wonder that insurance Compa nes ar
lighting shy of Washington risks.
But am wandering n long way from
| beautiful Vashon island and its Chautau
qua. The idea of an assembly here WAS iirs
! presented by the Rev. Richard Dill
: worth, who is sort OF Presbyterian
! bishop of this region, going from station
, TO station on island and mainland in lii
gospel boat, seeking the 'shecp that ar
/. lOSl. MS NUN III JIllllNII, iNNDs uilt
the Puget Sound Chautauqua Assembly
was fully organized the following July
From that time to this it has had
cheCkored existence, being something q
iourncyman i'll the sense we one
heard attributed to that word-'jour
neying about doing good"-for il Ia
han three different assembly grounds
and has now settled down for good ol
this beautiful spot. ! have visited mos
of the prominent chautauquas, and hay
! seen no grounds that for natural beaut,
compare with these. Then they are b
. the sea with all itS
WONDERFUL WEALTH or LIFE.
One of the most interesting courses {
) lessons here this season Is tnat in nutu
raj history by Dr. Pomeroy, on invcrt6
t brates, illustrated by living specimen
) taken from surrounding waters. Pug,
9 Sound is especially rich in inyertebraic
making this an unusually rich field iI
@ the naturalist. Ii is proposed to orgur
c ize here "a Chatauqua society of nauir,
!. science, and collect n museum; tn
D would prove not only Of great interes
= and value to students here. but wOul
: benefit students of natural history every
+ where by providing means, through
: system of exchanges, of securing raj
7 specimens for their collections.
a Prof. ID. j. Pierce, of Washington un
u ", >
D and to his undaunted courage amid di
+ fculties and untiring efforts is due,
o large measure, its present success Il
@ four-weeks' session has presented
u varied and rich programme, includln
n lectures by leading speakers, East an
l.. West. Western talent fully holds il
o own alongside its Eastern compeers.
It Its almost land.locked harbor is Il
G stillest of piece of water | evet saw. +,
y the ten days was there 1t was like
Il floor of molten silver and that in spi
r Of the fact that the tide rises eightue
4 feet. How such u mass OF water maj
y = ages to get in there without maxim
. more fuss about II cannot imagine, bi
. il does. Although our cottage was rigl
q on the waterfront we seldom heard IL
: lapsing of the waters fifty feet below, bl
! 20 around the "spit" into the ope
;, Sound and you will often have plenty
: white-caps.
= lfyou wish an ideal trip take ro,
a boat at the float and skirt the island
y either direction, keeping near the shor
!, that, in spite of smoke, YOU can ''tell Il
" towers thereof" III the tide is out
. golden strip of beach outlines in beaui
"a iul contrast the blue waters of the soun
i Above rise the precipltous banks in sue
varied outline that every stroke of ti
= oars bring a new contour. Sometim
they arise to I5O feet, sometimes siI
= down until they form q natural ampl
~ !. thcater open to the sea. Their summit
W. are always crowned with great tree
e which stand clear cut against the SIX
u' The banks are wooded down TO Il
~ and the varied foliage presents Il co.
W. stantly changing Kaleidoscope. Loo
~ down into the water, and you will S
- bright .colored jelly-hsh sailing by. O