Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-12

would not retain an hour. there commands at
the least $40 month. and one might saw un-
limited choice of homes. i asked one of the
girls at the Rainier, who came from Chicago,
how she liked this country. "Oh," said she.
Il don't like il at all There ID no society and no
good theater."
In another house inquired of the chamber
maid, who, by the way, was addressed by her
title Of Mrs. by all the guests, what had become
OF her daughter, bright handy girl who had
been working at the hotel 'She is on our
ranch" was the reply; but am going TO have
her come in soon and take painting lessons"
From very fine artist, by the way, who was
charging IS lesson
1t is said that there are no poor people here,
and 1t seems true when almost every working
man and woman has two or three town or
suburban lots on which they expect to make
two or three hundred per cent. II has been
done frequently and may be done again.
SOME POVERTY.
That there Is, undoubtedly, much poverty in
this country, much among q class who are too
proud to let it be known-people from the far
east and south who have come here with their
families, thinking that good positions were
ready made and awaiting them. and who have
found out. to their sorrow, that unless they are
good laborers, carpenters or mechanics or are
able to do such work 40 belongs to what we
call the working class, il is quite as difficult to
get employment here rs il would be in an east
ern city. The advantage in coming here lies
In the broader outlook for the young man.
ADVANTAGES OF THE COUNTRY
This 10 new country, as yet, we may say.
unsettled, with immense stores of coal and
iron and doubtless many other minerals in it's
unexplored mountains; a good agricultural
country in the eastern part of the state: guam
Titles OF various kinds of fish in the sound for
food. for canning and for expectation; forests
n mi ar xvht oh IL has, a
the world, and dozens of new towns springing
up let us not say like mushrooms) needing
workmen of all kinds. One needs pluck and
determination to carry one through the first
year or so, but after that the reward is gen.
orally generous.
THE sTwAsH INDIANS.
One Of the peculiar features OF Seattle life is
the number of Indians seen on the street,
dressed, not in the proverbial blanket, but in
cast-off clothes of the whites. The tribes
around here are Siwashes, and one cannot i'm
agine their having an ounce Of the desperate,
brave blood that seems TO belong TO the Indian
race. These Siwashes are very small and drag
themselves slowly around the street barefooted,
dressed IN dirty rags, carrying baskets of CLANS
to sell and other baskets TO fill with any scraps
OF food they may pick of the street or out Of
degraded and the fats on which they live are
tne fields for home missionaries.
PRINCESS ANGELINE.
The principal character among these Indians
is the Princess Angelina. and old woman whose
face in a mass Of wrinkles and who is ugly in
the extreme. 1t is said that about the middle
of this century she and her husband. who has
since died. tramped from the western part of
this state through almost impenetrable forests
to warn the people In this village las it then
was) that the Indians were going to attack the
them. This heroic act was the means of saving
the town, and since then Angeliue has been a
part of it. She is the daughter of the old
chief. Seattle, for whom the city is named and
to whose memory the pioneers of the city have
lately erected a handsome monument at Port
Biakeley. where he was buried in 1896
The old chief would have great cause to be
proud of his namesake, which. from a popula-
ton OF 5000 in 1880, has risen to be a city of
$4,000, doubling its size since 'ss.
sEATTLE's PROSPECT.
We expect great things of it in the next five
years and have already begun to compare New
York and Seattle. l saw in one of our morning
papers that the subject for debate in some
school was The advantages of Seattle over
New York" Absurd though it was, it is the
right spirit which animates the children. the
spirit which will make Seattle what its friends
expect Of it-a thriving, prosperous city of 200.-
OOO at the next census. We have few good
things that New York has not. and they are four
cable roads. three branch electric lines, with a
franchise for another.
But the best thing about Seattle is its health
full climate. Numbers of persons who came
here almost inyalids have told me that they
feel like different beings since breathing this
salt air.
The winter months are never very cold In
stead we have a continual dropping of rain
from November until March. The rest Of the
year we have beautiful weather. with numer-
GUS showers and cold nights. There is no such
heat here as there is in eastern cities.
CAROLYN NORTH.