The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-30
FRONTHE NORTHWEST
Re-Union of Schuylkill County
People.
TOUR OF TIE BEDDALLS
They Meet Many Former Residents of
Shenandoah and Other Parts of This
County, Thousands of Miles Away, and
Are Entertained by Them.

A copy of the Telegraph, published at
Seattle, Washington, and Of which viii
A. Steel formerly of Ashland, this
county, is city editor, has been received at
the HERALD Office. 1t contains an article
having reference to many -ex-residents
and present residents of Schuylkill county,
and for that reason it is published in these
columns. The article is as follows:
| am prepared to believe almost any
story of the marvellous beauty and won
derful resources OF your magnificent
country, remarked Ed Beddall last even
ing to Telegraph representative, who
personally knows him to be a young man
of strict veracity, and yet at the same
time one of the leading members of the
Schuylkill county, Pa, bar. In cross
ing the continent l was impressed with
the scenic grandeur in the Rockies, gazed
with awe upon natures wonders in the
Yosemite, was surprised at the proper
tions of the midwinter fair, but not until
| reached Puget Sound did l experience
the greatest surprises of all my trip. At
Tacoma the first revelation came, as |
looked upon metropolitan city so beau
tifully located upon the hillside in this
far-of northern section. Then the hour
and half ride on the water between the
twin cities was delight. But the sight
that met my gaze late this afternoon in
traversing your succession of hills on the
cable cars was simply grand. To the south
was Mount Rainier sombre and majestic
in its white garb; in the east lowered the
great Cascades with calm and peaceful
Lake Washington, that | am told is 80
miles long, seemingly at the very foothills.
while to the west, and beyond the oceans
waves, were the snow-capped Olympics,
behind which the sun set in glowing orb
of fire that brilliantly illumed the skies.
1t was grand beyond description. And
your magnificent buildings, surrounded
on all sides by the most modern improve.
ments, are almost revelation and speak
volumes for the stability and future Of
the "Queen City" and progressiveness of
her citizens. The farther north | have
come the more pronounced has been the
change in my views of the ''wooley' West
This is certainly a great country for
young man, and while my business in
| terests in the East may prevent my locat-
ing here, shall at least return home with
the expectation of bringing my wife out
on trip within the next year
Mr. Beddall and his brother Nathan are
on an extended tour through the West
At Tacoma they met an old Pennsylvania
| friend, Joseph S. Whitehouse, who ac-
cOmpanied them to Seattle and will join
them to-day in a trip to Victoria. While
in the city these Eastern guests were
made welcome by friends and former
| Schuylkill countains, including Judge l..
| j. Lichtenberg, Attorney Reese p. Daniels
Dr. H. f.. Merkle, viii Silliman, r. II.
Helms, Attorney William Beddow
Mr.. Whitehouse has gained consider
/ able prominence as an attorney and
Republican leader at the City of Destiny.
| He comes from stalwart stock and is a
brother of Jack" Whitehouse, of Penn
| sylvania, eX-district attorney of Schuyl-
| kill, a county of 100000, at present chair
man of the Republican county committee,
| and who will some day represent his
district in Congress. The Beddall brothers
! reside in the heart of the anthracite coal
| region one at Pottsville and the other at
| Shenandoah. Much of the land in that
| locality was owned by Philanthropis,
Stephen Girard, and the revenue from the
coal property runs into millions. In
speaking ON the annual report of the
great Girard Trust which was recently
made in Philadelphia, Nathan BeddalI
said 1.-THE trust funds amounts to nearly
$40 900, and they are used principally
for the maintenance of Girard college
The total receipts last year was almost q
million and a half dollars, and of this
magnificent sum almost half million
was expended upon the college mentioned
where over 1900 orphan boys are receiving
an excellent education free of expense
The estate is splendidly managed and in
creases in value year by year Over hal
million of the past years income was in
vested in accordance with the provision
of the trust, which is under the control o
branch of Philadelphia's city govern