The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-03
JEWEL OF THE WEST.
A New Workers. Praise Of
Seattle and the Sound.
TRAVEL THE GREAT EDUCATOR.
Messrs. Richardson and Buffers Impress
sions Of seattis-CompiimeDts for
the ssPost-InteIligsncer."

seeing the sights but OF keeping posted on
the growth of the country and of making
comparison Of the several sections. In an
extended conversation with q Posr-iS-
rELLrGEvcRR reporter, he gave the result OF
his observations rs follows:
This country, and fhiscity particularly,
are revelation to any man coming from
the East. In New York they know very
little about Seattle and have . vague idea
thst this Is rough frontier town IN the
backwoods. inhabited by gamblers and des-
peradoes Instead of that You have fine.
weil-organized, Iaw-abiding city, with long
rows of as handsome business blocks as
st. Paul or Minneapolis can boast and
population which compares favorably with
that of any of the fashionable Atlantic
coast cities ss regards refinement and In
telligence. Why, am told that there are
quite a large number of graduates OF Yale
and Harvard in this city. more than in any
Western city of even thrice the size.
THE point about Seattle which most
strikes me Is the number of young men in
high positions. A young man seems to
come out here. enter q business house,
prove his fitness for a higher position by
hard work and ability and he is promptly
moved up to t. while in the East he would
have to wait till middle age. The result is
that you have many young, rich men. who
have made their money themselves by
shrewd investments, and your business
men in general show a pluck, energy and
daring which are not usually to be found in
other cities.
"a peculiarly attractive feature about
the business men of Seattle and Western
cities generally Is their courtesy and readi-
ness TO give information to strangers. My
business requires me to call on many BUSH
ness men for information about the stand
ing of different newspapers and the sales OF
various articles in order that | may Judge
OF the effect of advertising on sales. No
matter how busy q mau is in these Western
cities. as soon as he sees stranger come in
he drops everything and devotes his atten-
ton to him. He gives Straightforward
answer to every question you ask, and even
goes into the details of his business to as
sist YOU. When was in Butte | wanted
to learn about the sales of certain patent
medicines. / called on q druggist, pre-
scented my card and told him what /
wanted. He Immediately took me to his
Office. opened his books and showed me
his sales of every article / referred to. He
went on to tell me of some changes he pro-
posed to make in his business. and dis
cussea matters in an open manner which
staggered me. / was astonished, and told
him that I could not have obtained as
much information from an Eastern man,
even after ! had known him four or
five years. Your people have none of
the secretiveness common among the East
ern people.
II stopped on my way out here at st.
Paul, Helena, Yellowstone Park and Spo-
kane, but no place has struck me like Seat
tle II has the country back of it with an
endless variety of resources; 1t has har-
hor where the deepest ships can ride at
anchor safely, and it has a climate in which
it is delight to merely exist. 1t will be
no surprise to me If in twenty wears Seattle
passes San Francisco in wealth and popu-
lation.
yet the Eastern people have no con-
ception of all these advantages; they can
not believe that such q community as Seat
tie has grown up in few years, and they
consider the advertising rates of the Posi-
IxTELLIGENcER exorbitant. because they
are double those of some large Eastern
papers. and they cannot believe that there
is paper here with a circulation of 1900
daily and $1,000 weekly. They do not
know that telegraph tolls and the cost of
paper are double what they are in the East
and that salaries are higher. But the
PosT-INTELMGENcE is decidedly THE paper
OF the Pacific Northwest 1t is superior in
every respect to the Helena papers. and
circulates largely in Helena. In fact, it is
more widely circulated than any paper in
the whole Northwest i found it in the
Yellowstone Park, in Helena. Butte, Spo-
kane and every city | passed through. i
don't think you could find a better Judge of
q newspapers value as an advertising me-
dunn than Mr.. George Rowell, the pub
Usher of RouelFs Newspaper Annual He
makes IL his business TO find out the stand
ing of the newspapers in every place he
visits, and he does not seek his information
at the newspaper offices. He goes TO the
merchants aud advertisers and asks them
in an off-hand way which is their best
paper. He told me that invariably the an
swer in Seattle was THE Posr-INrELLr-
eENoER'
II am travelling 10 complete my educa-
ton aud shall 60 from here to Victoria,
Vancouver and Port Townsend, then down
to Portland, San Francisco, all through
California and Nevada and on into Mexico,
shall then have seen about all of this
country. In 1856 / went to Europe and
spent four months in travelling through
England, Scotland, Ireland and a great
part of the continent / could really hardly
afford the trip. but l considered that a
man ought to travel when he is young, be-
cause then his mind is open to new i'm
pressions and he can use the information
he obtains in his business. III he waits till
he has grown old and rich, the informs-
ton he obtains is of no use TO him, for the
time has passed when he can use It, Tray
cling broadens mans mind. dispels false
impressions and destroys prejudices. The
great requisite for man 90 succeed in the
world is 10 know the world, and he can
not know it by reading; he must see il for
himself My advice to any young man in
the East wonld he, when he had accumu.
late $500 10 81 900. to start on a tour of
this Northwest. He could see great deal
of the country for that much money il he
did not indulge in any foolish Injuries. and
1t would be money well invested. He would
go back home with enlarged ideas and
would frequently find il difficult To settle
down in his old home. He would not rest
ill he came back TO settle in the West. The
West is TO the East what America is To
Europe. The immigrant from Europe can
not return 10 his odd home to settle down
after \ few years in America; the country
Is too slow Tor him and he has imhibed a
new energy which makes him restless for
more rapid action. 1t is the same with the
Eastern man who has once been West
You seem to have nearly all Americans
here. i am told that the foreign popuis-