The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-25
MAYOR RONALD'STRIP
He Recounts Briefly the Incl
dents of Four Months.
SEATTLE TALKED OF ABROAD.
Journey Extendiag to Mexico. Through
the Southern aud Atlantic states
and the Worlds Fair.

Mayor Ronald and his family returned
last night after . trip around the country
lasting nearly four months. He left Seat
tie on March /. He looks remarkably
well. and says he has gained over twenty
pounds. Notwithstanding the fatigue of
travelling. He says he has had most de-
lightful trip. but i, glad TO be home again.
''Our party" he said, consisted of Mrs.
Ronald, INV daughter Norma and Miss
Cooke, Of South California. I wandered
about California until March %, and
among other incidents revisited q place
near Sacramento where once taught
school for time. Then We went to Mex
leo, where found new world. The au-
thorities were very courteous and treated
Us well. l needn't tell you of all the
wonders saw there; they are probably
familiar to newspaper readers. But I
must say found life and property even
safer in the towns there than in our own
country. got lesson in tree silver
there that has changed my views consid-
erably on that subject. don't believe
am free silver man now.
I'VE returned through Texas and spent
week q. New Orleans, where a friendly
planter took US twenty-five miles up the
Mississippi river TO a regular old-fashioned
sugar plantation. Then We went to Mo-
bile and Atlanta, where We saw the scene
of one of the hottest battles of the civil
war. 1t is place called Ezra Church. and
We picked up three mimic rifle balls We
went up Kenesaw mountains, saw Chatta-
nooga, and took . railroad up Lookout
mountain, where We had q magnificent
view.
while in North Georgia / met J. H.
Glenn, who has an ideal home and mag
niticent farm. He was. you remember,
formerly of the Haley-Glenn Company.
He insisted upon our going to his house
for few days, where We talked of old Sc
attic friends. He praised Seattle. but he
is comfortably situated and contented.
We stopped at Knoxville. Roanoke and
Norfolk. At Hampton Roads We saw the
great naval display. Thence We went up
Chesapeake bay to Washington City. /
saw the president at the White House, but
got no chance to speak to him. He was
surrounded by handshakers, and am no
hero-worshipper. We passed on to Phila-
delphia and New York and then to Mag.
ara Falls.
Then We spent nineteen days at the
Worlds fair. You ought to go there:
everybody ought to go: it's wonderful.
The Washington state building is splen-
did, and would not be surprised if we
carried off the premiums for fruit, wheat,
timber and coal. It's the biggest thing on
the face of the earth.
1.-The remainder of my trip was spent
revisiting old scenes. When went before
I visited father and sisters. Now had to
busy myself getting gravestones for them.
l was joined by my two brothers and my
two other children at Caledonia. our old
home. 1t is about fifty miles south Of st.
Louis. attended the commencement ex-
ercises of Bellevue Collegiate institute,
where first went to school.
Then We visited my wife's folks
at Kirksville. and had the good luck "a
attend a reunion Of the classes of 1S73-74
IS, with Prof. Baldwin. formerly of that
place, but now principal of the University
of Texas. After leaving there we visited
my sister at Pueblo. Colo, and then home
II tell you We don't half appreciate our
grand state. People all over the country
talk Of it and of the wonderful spirit of
seattle. They know us as VIZ used to be.
Ill animated by q common impulse and
standing together. am afraid that day
has gone by; as We get bigger We get
more selfish"