Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-23

Mr.. Dearborn and /, one afternoon while
driving through the forest, assumed the
Parker house role of Boston tourists in
search of information, and asked thirty
or forty different woodsmen about this
apparent depth of snow on the land, and
in each case got polite and lucid ex-
PLANTATION of the whole matter, so plain
and clear that anybody with a single,
disinfected brain could not help under
standing it. could not avoid contrast
ing this uniform courtesy of the piney
woods with the paucity of politeness and
intellectual desolation sometimes met
with at the elevated railway gates and
other thought ganglia of New York.
Seattle is called the Phoenix city. This
is because she was consumed by fire last
summer and is now almost entirely re-
built The Phoenix was tabled bird
which could rehabilitate itself after hav-
ing been consumed by fire, and was even
more bright and observation-disclosures than
before. Even the scorched feathers of
the Phoenix, it is said, did not smell dis
agreeably. Phenixes are now very
scarce, and n setting of Phoenix eggs
~
The day is not very distant when, like
the buffalo. the last phoenix bird viii
have disappeared from our shores. Seat
tie is a port of entry, and her land office
shows more entries than any other in the
United States, it is said.
Human life is quite safe now in Seat
tie. the sanguinary Chinook having be-
come quite tame and docile. l entered
the cage of one of them while there and
remained twenty minutes The Chinook
is essentially water fowl and Is most at
home in dugout. When he lands he
loses his dignity. for he is knockkneed
and has gait like n mud turtle with a
stone bruise. Before one knee can pass
the other it has to have written per
NIT. The squaws are industrious to a
degree, bringing i'll 10 town every morn
ing large bouquets of dew laden CLANS,
which are sold at a nominal price TO the
people of Seattle.
The churches are numerous and well
built. every denomination being repre-
sented. The Methodist, Baptist and
Lutheran churches have services in three
languages, so that each may attend and
put up his petition in the language tC
which he is most accustomed.
On the sound 1.-The typical American,
| of whom we hear so much and read -
much in the books written by foreigners
who come TO our shores. smoke a cigar
take drink and go home, practically dis
| appears. 1t is II great congress OF repre-
| sentatives from all states and all nations
| The Yankee. the reformed rebel. tht
| negro and the Chinaman lie down to
| gether, and the cosmopolitan children
of the great globe, under gentle skies
| toll on together and prosper together.
The papers are handsome and metro
| pOlitan ia lppearance-two in the morn
ing and two III the evening. y pres
| club was formed during my visit ant
started off with splendid prospects.
Seattle has no horse cars. The talent
| ed. versatile and ambideNterous bobtai
car driver can never enter there and tn,
| pleasing aroma of the car stables doe:
not cling to the good clothes of the pas
senger when he gets of. Two fine line
of electric cars, with four systems o
cable cars which scoot up the hills ant
across the city. give a style of rapid tran
sit which would put many an older cit,
| to the blush.
| Along the water front lots We're locat
ed: then the tide water flats. covering
several hundred thousand acres, NOR,
or less. were located as lots and staket
out. so that the bay looks like a forest Of
overgrOwn shad poles. That was not all