Omaha daily bee., 1890-03-19

more crooked the street the worse does IL be.
| come, There is no pavement Mt Seattle, and
| In Tacoma one or two OF the priuclpal streets
only are plauked with boards laid cross.
wise.
or course both at Tacoma aud Seattle there
~ large aud increasing shipping interest
Vessels arc continually departing for all
parts of the globc--for CHINA Australia
Europe, south America and the isles of the
ocean loaded with lumber, grain and coal
Tho 'front.' OF both cities on what are known
as the tido-lands, where the water rises and
falls some fifteen feet each day, presents
novel and striking appearance. multi.
tude OF establishments for storage and ship
ping, built above high tide on piles with
broad platforms, strotchess along before
each city for n mile or two. Tho view dur
ing business hours reminds ono of the lcvee
at New Orleans. whero thousands OF mon
and hunnreds of teams are engaged in
handling the vast bodies OF incoming and
outgoing freight.
One Improvement in Seattle which the fire
has rendered possible will he of great advau
taRe To the business convenience OF tho city.
a piece of ground upon which twenty-four
OF the busiest streets in the busiest quarter
debouch, has been purchased by the city at
an expenses of Sl25,000 and will provide nn
open space mt the intersection, OF about one
acre Tacoma has n now opera house seat.
ing 1000 people which is very artistic in de-
sign, and Seattle will soon build a ilno thea
ter. Ono of our citizens is erecting the finest
hotel on the coast, not excepting San Fran
cisco and Portland, on an elevation several
hundred feet above the town, beyond the
university and nearly ono mile from the
business center. The university occupies
four blocks OF ground which will be sold in
n few years, and the half million realized
from it will be added to the permanent fund,
giving the institution a liberal endowment.
found the Post Intelligence occupying a
one-story structure pending the completion
of its new building. This paper lost fully
S5O,OOO in the great fire, but its condition in
common with that OF the business portion of
the city will be fonnd to have improved by
that great misfortune. The editor is u young
man who was brought up on the Portland
Oregonian. He has never been east OF the
latitude of his native city. but he is gentle
man of IDEAS experience and skill, as his
conduct OF the Post clearly shows, which is
second to no other paper on the Pacific coast.
"Anothor Cleveland is TO rise on the shores
of Puget Sound VIII it be Tacoman or
will Seattle win the prizel The raw mater
Ial--the cool, the iron, the timber the wheat.
the live stock-all arc back of Puget Sound,
back of Tacoma, back of Seattle, back of
Falrhover, back of Gray's Harbor. Some
one of these places will become the chief
manufacturing, industrial and shipping point
on the Puget Sound coast. Which will il
be! 1t Will become the property of the place
which is the first to establish coke ovens, to
ship coal in quantities, to create facilities
for the shipment of grain, to start l.on-p pro-
duciDg industries, asst furnaces and roll
ing mills, and sot thousands of skilled work
men at work. The real estate booms now in
progress, particularly at Seattle, will not
create great city. Back of all must stand
production and manufacturing industry.
The city which first conquers these will be
the one which will forge ahead at length be-
yond competition, ID. q. B.