The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-24
KIPLING IN THE EAST.
a Few Chinese Ironclads Could
Destroy New York.
THE BIG VILLAGE or BUFFALO.


America's Youthful Marriages The
sMusic Hall" whore Girls Get
Drunk in Public.
Just suppose that America were twenty days
distant from England. Then man could study
IS customs with undivided soul; but being 20
vefy near next door he goes about the land With
one eye ON the smoke Of the neshpots Of the old
country across the seas, while with the other he
oquints biliously and prejudicially ct the
alien.
can lay my hand upon my sacred heart and
aakrm that up to today have never taken three
oousecutive trips by rail without being delayed
another train makes no difference. Ny own
turn may come next.
A few miles from peaceful, pleasure loving
lakewood they had managed to upset an ex.
peess goods train to the detriment Of the dimsy
permanent way; and thus the train which
should have left 1t 3 departed At in the even.
ting. was not angry. / was Scarcely even
Interested. When an American train stsrts on
!. dime begin 70 anticipate disaster-s visitation
1or such good luck, you understand.
Buffalo 10 . large village Of quarter Of . mil
I Non Inhabitants, situated on the sea shore,
which II falsely called Lake Erie. 1t IL peace
ui place and more like an English country town
ESShan most Of Its friends.
Once clear of the main business streets you
Iaunch upon miles and miles of asphalted roads
running between cottages and cut stone resi-
dences OF those who have money and peace.
All the Eastern cities own this fringe Of ele-
gance, but except in Chicago nowhere 10 the
fringe deeper or more heavily widened than In
Buffalo.
II ID the stranger-thc homeless iackal OF
stranger-whose interest In the country il i'm
tied 70 his hotel bill and railway ticket, that
can run from Dan to Beersheba crying, aAli il
barrenv Every good American wants home
pretty house and little piece of land Of his
very own; and every other good American seems
70 gettt.
AMERICAS YOUTHFUL MARRIAGES.
II was when my gigantic intellect was Rrap-
plfng with this question that confirmed q dis
covery half made In the West. The natives Of
most classes marry young-absurdly young.
One OF my informants-not the 22-year-old hus.
bsnd met on Lake Chautauqua-said that from
20 to ~ was about the usual time for this folly.
And when asked whether the practice was
confined to the constitutionally fmprovident
classes he said, NO. very quickly. He said It
was general custom. and nobody saw any
thing wrong with 1t
II guess, perhaps. very early marriage may
account for good deal Of the divorce" said he,
refectively Whereat was silent. Their mar
slagcs ana their HEIDI, divorces only concern these
may come after have any right to make rude re-
marks about them. Only-only coming from q
land where 2 man begins to lightly turn to
thoughts Of love not much before he is 30, own
that playing at housekeeping before that age
rather surprised me-. Out IN the West, though,
they marry, boys and girls, from IS upward, and
have met more than one bride OF l5-husband
eyed %. aWhen man and woman are agreed
what can the Kali dor
From those peaceful homes. and the envy they
ut OF pine forest in British Columbia are not
oatisfactory, any way you look at them), turned
NO 70 the lake front OF Buffalo, where the steam-
motives yell to the coal shutes, and the canal
eargee jostle the lumber raft half mile long as
neuakes across the water in tow of q launch,
end sarth and sky and sea alike are thick with
n De old days before the railroad ran into the
etg q the business quarters fringed the lake
moe where the traffic was largest. Today the
1us1ness quarters have gone up town to meet
tie lailroad; the lake traffic still exists but you
shell md narrow belt Of red brick desolation,
broken windows, gap-toothed doors and streets
where the grass grows between the crowded
wharves and the bustlipg city. To the lake front
comes wheat from Chicago, lumber. coal and
90, and q large trade in cheap excursionists.
BuFrALos WHEAT ELEVATORS.
twas my felicity to catch grain steamer and
a elevator emptying that same steamer. The
steamer might have been 1000 tons burden
She was laden with wheat in bulk: from stem to
stern thirteen feet deep lay the clean, red wheat
There was no % per cent. dirt admixture about
Rat al. 1t was wheat, fit for the grindstones as
Il lay. They maneeuvered the fore hatch Of that
steamer directly under an elevators house Of
rid tin $50 feet high. Then they let down into
that fore hatch a trunk rs ii il had been the
trunk Of an elephant, but stiff because II was q
pipe OF iron clamped wood. And the trunk had
asteel shod nose to it and contained an endless
chain of steel buckets.
Then the captain swore, raising his eyes to
heaven, and gru6 voice answered him from
he place he swore at and certain machinery,
also in the armament, began to clack and the
Offering steel shod nose Of that trunk burrowed
into the wheat and the wheat quivered and sank
upon the instant az water sinks when the siphon
we're flying upon their endless round carrying
away each Its appointed morsel OF wheat.
The elevator was a Persian we'll Wheels
wheel squashed out thin and cased in 4 pipe,
wheel driven not by bullocks but by much
nose power, licking up the grain at the rate OF
thousands of bushels the hour. And the wheat
sank into the fore hatch while man looked
ssuk I'LL the brown timbers of the bulkheads
showed bare and men leaped down through
clouds Of golden dust and shovelled the wheat
Iufiously round the nose of the trunk, and got
steam shovel of glittering steel and made that
shovel also, till there remained of the grain not
more than horse leaves In the fold of his nose
In this manner do they handle wheat at Buff
faio On one side of the elevator is the steamer,
on the other the railway track; and the wheat
Is loaded into the cars in bulk. Wah, wah! God
- eSSot uuu 10 not tnittk ne ever 1uteuutQ var
eansi, or Luckman Narain TO supply England
win her wheat. India can cut in not without
profit to herself when her harvest is good and
tne american yield poor; but this very big
country can upon the average supply the earth
Win ali the beef and bread that is required.
FREE TRADE IN SPEECH
man in a train said to me:
I'VE kin feed all the earth. jest a. easily az we
Elm whip all the earth" Now the second state
menf is as false as the first is true. One of these
0ays the respectable republic will find this out.
unfortunately we, the English, will never be
me people to teach her; because she is a char
sered libertine allowed to say and do anything
sne likes, from demanding the head of the en-
press IN an editorial waste baskc. to chewing
Nanadian schooners up aud down the Alaska
seas II Is perfectly impossible to 60 to war
VIII THESE people, whatever they may do
iney are much too nice in the first place, and
% the second, it would throw out all the psssen-
81 tafle Of the Atlantic and upset the financial
ssaangements of the English syndicates who
save invested their money in breweries, rail
~ sno the like and in the third, it's not 70
uone Everybody knows that, and no one
0esseI than the American.
NEW YORK cITY's PERILs.
lei tnere are other powers who are not "ohai
aad" TOT the brotherhoodl- China, for instance.
sN % believe an irresponsible writer when he
assures you that Chinas feet today, il properly
named, could watt the entire American navy
eus oil the water and into the blue. The big, fat
Epuoiic that is afraid of nothing because moth
Y Se up 10 the present date has happened TO make
4 ~ afraid, is as unprotected as a ielyfsh. Not
s1efnaily, OF course-it would be madness for
my power to throw men into America: they