, 1890-08-14
VJSSCHER ON SPOKANE
His Views Recorded in the
Fairhaven Herald.
IT IS K WONDERFUL CITY
Lager Beer Saloons and News
papers in Churches-Bes Built
City of Modern Times.
Iwill l.. visscher in the Fairhaven Her

At Spokane my modesty had n
severe test. | was wined, dined
and banqueted, and altogether
treated with distinguished consid-
Grafton. l imputed 1t all to the fact
that | hailed from the Focal City,
Fairhaven, of which many people
are talking these days. Spokane is
wonderful city, and l feel sure
that 1t Is destined to be the inland
metropolis of the Pacific coast. /
had drive all around and through
the city. Every prominent man In
Washington, nearly, Is acquainted
with John Fitzhugh Carrere. At
any rate he knows them and their
political records, with not little of
their other records. In short, he
knows Washington state and Wash
ington city clear through. He went
to the latter place rs the secretary
of Senator Squire, out prcferring
Spokane journalism, returned to
that place. He it was who
took me in carriage and
tour of the city, it's sub
urbs and environs. We drove by
the First Presbyterian lager beer
saloon, and when say we drove by
1t, that IL what / mean. 1t Is rather
u startling thing to see the we'll
known tin shield sign of the An
heuser beer brewery, with picture
OF an overlooking mug Of lager, "5
cents nailed to the portals of an
imposing church edltice, but you
see that In Spokane. The church
sold the building, and IA dealer In
the amber Teutonic beverage bough
1t and uses 1t for the purposes men
toned. This seeming sacrilege Is
offset in Spokane, however, by the
fact that IA newspaper, the REVIEW,
Is printed In another church which
has long been vacated by the dew
otecs, the rector aud the surpliced
choir, Now Editor Durham, as
the presiding genius Of the great
moral slevator mentioned, occu pies
the pulpit, as it were, while Colonel
Boyd is the assisting priest, and q
corps of reporters, swing the censers
under the public nose, and do the
chants most admirably on every
chance. At this rate, however,
Carrere and are not getting rapidly
along our career around the city.
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We drove out to the exposition
building where Washington will
gather much of the exhibit which
will 20 to the Worlds Fair In 1892
In that exhibit will be wheat % feet
tall with 100 plump grains to the
head; oats feet high with heads
that would make horse laugh,
from the Palouse country; gold and
silver from the Okanogan region;
coal and iron from the Skagit; IA full
length FIR tree from our Chuckanut:
hops from the Nooksack and Puy-
allup valleys; some colors from the
Tacoma placers; cheek from Ana
cortes; a sweeping besom from Fair
haven; an interview from Seattle, |
and numerous other remarkable |
products of the Evergreen State"
From tho exposition we drove to |
the race track, which Is IA model /
one, thence to the boulevard which |
meandeS the river to its confluence
with classic Hangmnns creek,
thence up past the burnt bridge and
over another at the falls to River
side avenue, thence by the man
slons and other splendid resi-
dences, then up to Howard
street in among some of the
most palatial homes on the con-
tinent, where stands group of
chalets, chateaus and villas, which,
with their lawns and fountains,
monuments of lava and basaltic
rock, picturesque summer-houses
and curious hooks are remarkably
attractive and interesting. 1t
would be difficult to tell of all the
beautiful and wonderful things to
be seen in such drive, and when
one comes to the splendid business
houses of the central part of the
city he Is struck with admiration
and astonishment incflable. These
buildings are not only imposing,
spacious and massive, but they are
chaste In architecture and are calcu-
lated to cause one to exclaim,
'Whence comes the wherewith?n
If Spokane Is completed by the pat
terms set In her best residences and
business houses IL will be the best
built city of modern times. But
the falls! the glorious falls! They
are not only grandly beautiful, but
furnish power enough to run the
of the greatest manu-
incturing city on earth. The falls
ol spokane river can not be eXagger-
aled as Tom Marshall exaggerated
the Genesee falls Mt Rochester,, and
by the way, | have beens SO frequent-
ly asked TO tell that story in print
That shall attempt it, but cold type
Is impotent to do the subject JUS
tice.
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Hon. Thomas +. Marshall was
one of the most brilliant men
America ever produced. He was
the pride of Kentucky forty years
ago, but died during the war. His
wit and eloquence We're matchless,
and he had an education almost as
perfect IA mans mind could ac-
cept. Thus he was frequently in
Vited to deliver addresses on great
public occasions, valedictories at
exercises ofcolleges,
speeches upon the dedication of
great buildings, the unveiling of
etc. Once he was in
Vited to make speech ut Rochester
on the occasion of the dedication of
Z building, which had been erected
ior eieemosynary purposes by II
coterie of benevolent ludies there.
Nlr, Marshall arrived at noon of that
uay and xxpa 70 ,,,nEn hi .....-,l !