The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-27
THE PASSING THR0NG.
What Men Say in the Hotels
and Streets.
OPINION OF Z. &. Dun's AGENT.



Northvest Tor Twsnty-Tvo Years.
s.sas Rsanins.
Mr.. Jay sugsden, Of San Francisco. the
Pacific coast agent Of Dun's Commercial
Agency, II ct the Rainier hotel. He has
been making an unusually exhaustive ex-
animation OF the Sound country for the
benefit Of the agency which he represents.
He declares that although be il not unfa-
miliar with this region. he II more sur
prised than ever with its resources and
its prospects,
In the course Of talk last evening Mr..
Sugsden said: For nearly twenty-five
years I have been watching and watching
closely the growth of the Pacific North
west Almost every day have met some
evidence Of 1t in my business. In 1869 l
came to San Francisco and established the
first Of b g. Dun's agencies on the Coast.
Then In 1871 started an agency In Port
land. But the Northwest grew steadily In
population, importance and in business |;
and Of course We had our agents make
their rounds up here. Finally,
however, in 1883. l made .
tour OF the state, visiting the
merchants and bankers Of Tacoma, Seattle
and Spokane Falls, and IN each Of those
three places l established an agency. Now
have come up again and have found that
our business demands the establishment of
still another agency in Bellingham bay.
That simply shows how steadily the coun-
try has gone ahead and am satisfied, too.
that your growth 10 permanent The bus
mess men of al your cities have talked to
me candidly, and / have had enough az
perience to know how things are going.
satisfied with their profits and
their prospects. was ct
Spokane during the recent exposition
there. and IL was remarkable exhibition
Of your products and resources. Nothing
can stop the progress of country with
such diversified industries and varied re-
sources. really think that no place has
cause for any local jealousy. for the whole
state can 90 ahead and will 60 ahead. The
Northwest can support large population.
and will supportit.
II first entered Dun's agency In 1858, ct
Toronto. with Erastus Wiman, who has
since achieved more or less fame. In the
sixties was in Montreal. Thomas A.
Edison was then newsboy on the Grand
Trunk He was . quiet and thoughtful
lad
THE story printed in connection with
the squabble over the Stanley .Barttelot
matter. that the artist Jameson bought .
negro girl for the cannibals in order that
he might draw sketches Of the Strengthening
and the feast to follow, recalls to older
men . poem once famous by an American
writer once famous, but now almost for
gotten" said gentleman engaged in edu-
cational work yesterday. 1.-THE piece OF
verse In question, is 'Parrhasius the
Painter by the elegant Nathaniel Parker
Willis. The tale as related by Willis Is OF
painter who bought in the, slave market
an old man whom he had tortured to
death on the rack in order TO- paint the
fatal sgoniea This poem Was one
Of the most popular of that very
popular author. 1t was printed in
all those dreary collections of poetry
which made up the, gilded gift books Of
twenty-five or thirty years ago, books
which lay in unused stiffness on the prim
parlor tables Of our mothers and grand
mothers, books which in their present
dingy and furnished state, are found in
dark corners Of old garrets, OF in the your.
choice-for-fve-cents box at the second
hand shops Parfhasius, this consum.
mate flower of American literature Of q
half century ago used to be the great poet
ical gem in all the school
readers, from which the boys and girls
would chant in chorus. Now. my good
pencil, quick! Gods! Could but paint
. dying groanr and many other lines
equally thrilling. But the boys Of today
read in school books verses selected by .
sounder taste than that which glorifed
Willis His life. written by Henry A..
Beers in the American Men Of Letters
series. revived . slight interest in this
favofite Of our fathers-or rather of our
mothers-but not enough interest to give
q wide sale to the book Mr.. Beers pub
ished at the same time containing selec-
tons from Willis endless bat ephemeral
writings"
In the window of Front street shop q
day or two ago was exhibited . portrait
which but for theswreath of laurel on the
brow and the dress would have been strik-
ing likeness of the Rev. David Claiborne
Garrett, rector of ST. Marks Episcopal
church. There was the high brow, the
aquiline nose. the thin. firmly closed lips
with their dropping corners, the dark,
deep-set eyes, the face with touch of as
ceticism in the expression. The picture in
the window was that OF the poet Dante.
Ii the theory of Lavater be correct, that
faces of the same type accompany minds of
the same type, there is no end to the spec
ulation which may be INDUCED in on the
strength Of this likeness between Seattle
clergyman and the author of the Divina
C0mmcdia. 1t is interesting to observe in
this connection that Oscar Browning's es-
say on Dante in the last edition of the
Encyclopedia britannica contains the follow
ing stirling passage: "If we yearn once
more for the ardor of belief, the fervor of
self-sacrifice, the scorn of scorn and the
hate OF hate. where shall we find
them but in the pages of the Florentine ?'
The last of the direct descendants of this
inspired Florentine died in 1909. So there
is no room for the theory of heredity.
Mr.. George r. Carter said, yesterday,
1--WE shall probably have no football
matches here except the Thanksgiving day