The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-04
|FIJROPE Is OUTDONE.
Il 2. Ferry Compares It's Scenery
With Washington's.
KING OF RIVERS.
- Alps Thrown in the Shade by
Raiuier's Grandeur-Sesttle
surpasses Luzerne.

Clinton P. Ferry, the Duke of Ia
mia. who was in the city on his way to
- meeting OF the State Press Association
Fairhaven. talked entertainingly to
.pnr.IxrELLfGEScER reporter of his recent
IN 10 Europe. He returns more en-
4 hasisetic about the Puget Sound country
sA.n be was when he left. and said: They
Ne some splendid scenery in Earope,
| g. ii il ali in little bits, and / am more
enyinced than ever that this is the most
h>sutfuI country on earth. The Alps are
,lorious mountains, and / climbed Mont
Bsnc. which is higher than Mount Ia
coms--T Tacoma, mind you--but those
| mountains don't command such an extern
ore view as ours do. Here we can COM
msnd view for 200 miles of mountain.
"A and forest which cannot be equalled
anywhere else on earth. Where can you
- 8 mountain like Tacoma--I insist that
las Tacoma, nursing mother. from the
shise breasts OF whose glaciers flow two
ulk-xhite streams. The Rhine is a
pautiful river, all the more so because of
he legends associated with il, but beside
ou, Columbia it is an insignificant stream.
{e river can surpass the Columbia for the
nondeur and sublimity of its scenery. The
4snery of Europe is small and insignifi-
limit beside the giant works of nature in
| lib country.
II have been accused of calling Seattle a
Ene-horse town. / never said SO. / admire
Efe&tfe and think it is a worthy companion
kbthe great city of the Northwest-Tacoma.
! he architecture of your buildings on
[1sont street is magnificent and we shall
Ume over to you for examples and go
Iome and excel YOU"
| Thomas Gonzales, of Galveston, Tex. is
tthe Rainier. He is one of the greatest
eston buyers of the South, and predicts
! bat the crop this year will be the greatest
Hsr known. SURPRISING that of last year,
rhich was the largest up to that time Mr..
Gonzales is not behind any other visitor to
this section in his admiration of Seattle
snd the beauties of the Sound country, and
nys he would bring his wife and family to
SEATTLE II they could only see Mount Rain
isr and the Olympic mountains. Said he:
Il would like to come here to live, but
there is no cotton business here and don't
know what should do with myself, for I
can't live in idleness. | see the PosT-INTEL-
ueEycEI at Galveston and admire every
thing about it except its politics; for am
Democrat, like almost all Texans.
J. Wrigley, OF Winnipeg. chief commits
sloner Of the Hudson's Bay Company, was
h the city for two days this week. Mr..
Wrigley is in charge of the trading posts in
Manitoba. the Northwest territory and
British Columbia. He has long been in
the Hudson's Bay Company's service, and
remembers the Puget sound country when
It was practically owned by his employers
He was astonished at the development of
this country since he first knew it. and
stared in blank astonishment at the new
buildings on Front street. saying: "You
don't mean to say that all these buildings
have been put up since the 9th Of June last
yearf' The growth of this section i'm
pressed him all the more on account of the
contrast 1t presents to the slow progress
which characterizes the towns on the Cana
dan side of the border.