The Press., 1894-01-18
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(Harper's Weekly.) MOUNT RAINIER OR TACOMA ?


 In the controversy over the name of this mountain all the rivalry between Ia coma and Seattle finds expression. know of one Tacoma man who refused to be introduced to person whom he had been most anxious to meet because he happened to overhear the latter refer to Mount Rainier. In Seattle many suhSarib- CTS were once obtained to an eastern mag azine in which an article on their city was to appear. It was published, and was as laudatory of them as the most captieus Seattleite could desire, but rot copy was sold in the city, nor would subscribe CT allow copy to enter his house, be- cause, by an unpardonable oversight, the writer had called the disputed mountain "Tacoma."
 In the Seattle stationery shops they keep slips of paper with "Mount Rainier'' neatly printed on them for pasting over the Mount Tacoma" that sometimes ap- pears on maps they are obliged to sell. They also carefully erase the words
 
 tographs bearing it that come into their possession and substitute Mount Rain ier' before selling them. No doubt these same things are done in Tacoma, only in reversed order
 The Tacoma man will explain with con- vincing earnestness that Ta-ko-mah was the aboriginal name of the mountain for centuries before the white settlement of the country; that it is not only euphoni- ous, but beautifully poetical in it's mean ing-''the breast that nourishes.'' ''Sure- ly," he will say, "a most appropriate name for mountain whose glacial streams perpetually nourish stream at it's feet. And who was this Rainier anyhow? An Englishman who not only never saw this country, but was inimical to it and it's in stitutions'
 When you repeat this to your friend in Seattle he will assume fine expression of mingled scorn and pity for your credul- ity, and exclaim ''That's all bosh Ta- coma doesn't mean anything of the kind. The word simply means mountain, and nothing more. As for the name Rainier, it was given by Vancouver, the first white man who ever saw the mountain, and who certainly earned the right to name what he discovered. It appears on his charts of this region, and as all his nomencla- ture has been adopted by the United States coast survey, there is no reason why an exception should be made in this case. This silly row about nothing is all poppycock, anyhow. I for one am tired of it, and wish those fellows over there would drop it. Rainier it is, and Rainier it will be for all time, even If we have to go up and ohisel the name on the moun- tain-side in letters a thousand feet long,"
 So for him who would maintain friendly relations with both camps it is we'll to re- member that "Tacoma' is the counter signin Tacoma, and "Rainier" in Seattle, while on neutral ground the subject of contention should be spoken of as ''the Mountain" ''the beautiful Mountain" ''the Disputed Mountain" or "the Flu ziama of America.n.
 It has been suggested that the question might be settled by compromise and pop ular vote by submitting the combinations ''Taconier" and "Raicoma" 10 the people of the two cities, and calling for an ex- pression of preference from every man, woman and school-child in them. Out siders are apparently quite willing, for the sake of peace, to call the mountain by any name approved by the cities. By this means a controversy to which no other end seems possible might happily be con- Auded.