The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-23
THE PASSING THRONG.

Redick H. Mckee, Of the United States geo.
logical survey Is guest OF the Rainier. II
have come," said he, 'for the purpose of open-
Ing an office here and making preparations Tor
commencing typographical survey OF Seattle
and the adjacent vicinity. We shall proceed
with the work this winter and In all probability
this will become the headQ OF division.
On this coast there is 8 division located az san
Francisco and another at Los Angeles. THESE,
with others, are superinteuded by geog1g pher
in charge OF the Typographical work iu the
Western United States. This official, Prof. q. "a.
Thompson, / am daily expecting to meet here,
when the work here will be more fully mapped
out This typographical survey is very minute
and the results are printed in atlas sheets fifteen
minutes square on q scale OF one mile 50 the
inch, which will show every -oad, creek and
hillock, as well as permanent houses, with the
attitudes all carefully indicated by contour lines
and figures. While these plates are all prepared
by the government and a few copies printed for
the use of the department. no copies are printed
for general distribution, although there is quite
q general demand for these maps. The las& con-
gress cut down the appropriation for the geo.
logical survey, but did not reduce that foF the
4 geographical part Of the work, which precedes
y the work of the geologists, and Is valuable not
only for the purposes Of the geological Part of
Z !e work but also for various economic pur-
poses In all probability the work in this vicin-
ity will be continued, starting with this city as
radiating point. The sheets published ac-
oording to the regular geographical divisions"
D. T. Mcneil, of Indianapolis is guest at the
Arlington. He ia a manufacturer OF woo3 split
pulleys at Columbus, Ind. 81 try to get out
here every once in WHILE" said he, fsand
think Eastern manufacturers as a rule neglect
their own interests in not coming OUT here
oftener and becoming better acquainted with
your needs well rs your resources. Why,
no distant day locate factory here This
transportation question is great one, and we
are doing a large and growing export srade
Within a couple OF years we shall have sized up
pretty accurately what We can do in south
America, Australia and the Orient When We
have done so We shall come out here aud estab-
lish factory and general Western distributing
house. When l WAS out here two years ago.
obtained samples OF your woods, and fntl that
they will do splendidly for our work. Ana how
you have grown in that timel Why, Go you
know. your town is the best advertised town in
the West, aud think that 1t chiefly results from
the surprise OF people who in coming here have
had the praises of other towns drummed into
their ears. and on coming here found city
greater than any OF those so highly praised"
Hon. f. P. Devices, OF the department OF JUS
tice, Washington City, a native OF Schdyikill
county, Pa, is at the Northern He is here to
take testimony TOT the department III
lam case. ave go to Victoria tomorrow and
will take testimony there and will not be through
before Tuesday next I cannot, OF course,
express any opinion in advance of the decision
of the court that is trying the case, the United
States district court for the district Of Alaska"
Mr.. Devices is n, striking looking man with long
white hair and clear keen eyes, and wot1d at
tract attention anywhere. He WAS secretary of
the Greenback state committee for the state of
Pennsylvania in is76-7s, was then made seere-
tary OF the national Greennack committee and
was the Greenback candidate for supreme court
judge Of the state of Pennsylvania in 1889.
L. Lillis, the cigarette manufacturer, Of New
York, is at the Arlington. "Did you ever see an
election" he SAID last night, IN which al the
party managers could do would not brigs out
over q corporars guard of voters? | never did
until this campaign. From New York - San
Francisco, all over, II is Just the same, as have
seen for myself such unusual apathy, IS far
as outward seeming goes, never saw n my
Lie, / attribute il to the fact that the reople
are reaing more and thinking more, and acting
more from private conviction u don't pretend
10 tell which way the general election IL going.
If you want tn know, chuck up cens. But
this do feel, that It's going 10 be great sur
prise. whichever way it goes