The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-02
PLEAsASTRIEs AT THE BIG FAIR.


that when she arrived and stepped into
exhibit there would be something like an
account to adjust with the lower regions.
But such was not the case. To all out
ward appearances Mrs. Griggs and Mrs.
Houghton understand each other per-
fectIy, and as is was impossi-
bic for them TO agree they very
properly agreed 10 disagree, and
the curtains remain still rolled above
the dramatic and historic exhibit in the
xomen's department. III either of these
ladies was not woman she would GER
tainly be called 81 man of affairs" Zach
has q family of grown children, and both
have evinced unmistakable ability in
managing the intricacies of that difficulty
managed establishment known as house
hold Of extensive proportions. But each
was q monarch with 10 responsibility
such as properly attested vouchers. legally
called meetings and alleged ineonsisten-
cies. such as have been encountered by
both of them in their new sphere as
quasi officers of the great commonwealth
of Washington. l believe that both
these ladies have seen many days during
the past six months when they would
have hailed with delight an.opportunity to
leave their public duty for the more famil-
lar and more congenial paths of private
life if they could do so without being in
danger of encountering the dreadful title
of coward. As it is, they will undoubtedly
manage TO keep the exhibit open to the
last day, to pay all claims against them
and settle up all matters of business per-
tanning to their board, and do all this with
out exhausting the last dollar of the s, 600
allowed them by the last legislature.
When all this is done and the curtains are
finally dropped shall expect to see the
ladies bury the Ratchet, kiss and make
up.
By the way. Mrs. Houghton's we'll.
earned title of maj. Alice has
been eciipsed by her rival. Mrs.
Griggs now glories in the dignity
of the title Of Col. Cyclone Griggs.
1t all came about oy there having
been told here the story of how she bossed
the painting Of the barn near her paiatial
home in Tacoma. For many weeks she
had been receiving terrible shocks as she
travelled about the City of Destiny. She
saw so many houses and barns painted in
colors brighter and more numerous than
the famous coat OF the Scriptures. So
when her fine home was completed she in
sisted on its being painted drab, and drab
1t has been ever since. The fine stable
rests on the land between the homes of
Col. Griggs and Mr.. Henry Hewitt, jr.,
and the time came for the stable
to be painted. The man was
ordered to paint it color that would har-
monte between the colors Of the two man
sions. He started in with coat Of bright
lemon color. Mrs. Griggs was soon on the
warpath. She called out Mr.. and Mrs.
Hewitt and at once commanded the
painter to come down off his elevated
perch and cease his lavish use OF those
brilliant pigments. Then she ordered him
TO select one mild color for the barn and a
little darker color for the bands or trim
mings The next day the man called and
asked Mr.. Hewitt how the newly prepared
colors would do
"Wait minute until call Mrs. Griggs,"
said the father of the City of Smoke
stacks.'' Az
Horror-strieken. the painter gasped out:
No, no; don't call her. She is regular
cyclone"
Mr.. Hewitt, nearly convulsed with
laughter, set the man at work and went
on down town. Weeks afterward he told
Mrs. Griggs of the painters remark, and
she promptly replied:
why, Mr.. Hewitt, l like that I would
ten times rather be called Cyclone than
miasma."
So 1t is now that both of washington's
lady managers are always respectfully sa-
luted. one as Col. Cyclone and the other as
Maj. Alice. All the menials on the states
staff being full of the esprit du corps find
II difficult to distinguish between the rela-
tive ranks of the ladies, but they are
always very respectful to each of them.
and obey their slightest commands with
true soldierly alertness.
Mrs. Mary Wager Fisher. well known in
Seattle, called at the Washington building
this week. She was greatly pleased with
the progress made by Seattle, and especi-
ally praised Seattle's bankers for weather
ing the recent financial panic with such
skill. Her husband. William RICHTER
Fisher, is a prominent lawyer and capital
list Of Philadelphia, and for number of
years has been q trustee of the Guarantee
Loan and Trust Company of Seattle. Mrs.
Fisher is accompanied by her son, Wager.
bright lad of Is years. who is digging in
manfully to learn all he can from the
wonderful exhibits shown here from all
parts of the world
The lax divorce laws of the two Dakotas
are so notorious throughout the United
States that il is frequently alleged that
Dakota inventors are now at work on q
Observation-Disclosures machine by which
disconsolate spouses can walk up and get a
divorce at any time of day or night. Gov.
A. Dickey. we'll known IN Washing
ton as the possessor of a long,
howing beard of fiery hue, is here
as the general manager or executive
commissioner of North Dakota. He left
his beard at home, however. He is the
same active. nervous. energetic man in
this work as he was while cruising about
the Evergreen state for good timber land
bargains or for opportunities for getting
III some tne-spun. political work of the
dakota school. Manager Dickey, in or.
der 70 meet the expectations of his agri-
cultural constituents, hired farmer TO
take charge of Dakots's booth in the agri-
cultural building. This farmer Is a dry,
mstter-of-fact sort Of old fellow, and no
body ever heard of his attempting 10 crack
Joke until he came to the Worlds fair.
This particular part of Dakota's display is
very attractive one. and the center
piece Is a beautiful figure of a woman
worked out in grasses and varioasly
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