The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-08
PROSPEROUS SPOKANE
President Harrington's Trip in
Eastern Washington.
TIE STATES GOOD SCHOOLS.
biographical Formation 81 the faiousc,
lie Possibilities Friendship for
the University

p,rasdsn: Marx W. Harrington. n
fhe University OF Washington. -
turned on Friday from what Would usual
i, 10 called a featuring toar. hBt ne mol
.stiv pooh-poohed his classification as too
dyaulfisd and said he had only Jear gay
ins "taika" at a few points 70 ~ai1h he
tad i,eeif invited When asked % tel u
his trip he said there Vas not maeh "a y
81 aay public interest. ami thst ne f9.H7
not think u a single point @ofin5 q H'ip-
lcation And this wa no ass 'npti"a ot
,no.Iesty. bat what h beiic.s1 20 be nsii
staiemsnt OF fact ~ h-n u ~as a4''tao
that anything the head n o1f eniters'i'
1nighi say MAS OF pIblir interest a. ss'iR,S
laughed in his ihira brown tssart. and 81
O sort af d.spcr&is c"1fiSsy ioid 10 '''T
course Of = general cvns-,s2tson This story
81 his travels.
81 vent from here 10 PgllInau ana WAS
very usch pleased NTH 14e srranxs rtents
fhel-, They have good binid!rRs an4 ~
selIenf appointments and good faculty.
The work seems 20 be koins On IN ifbe
order. The prettiasi building OF the a"s-
eral they have IL the Momena doFmttosy.
That IL coIup.sted nos. IL " % sranite-
tine FIRST sgory-the granite they had 70 get
from spokane, and the rest Is Of brick
they made right there. II - not only
beautiful building. bat It's appointments
and arrangements are excellent lee
,nred there on Modern Theories OF
Wind THIS subject / those because they
ars very much interested 5hsre IN wind,
tseaus. they have much wind and the hills
there are all sand bank. shaped b. the
influence % the winds
Il WAS very much Interested In the Pa
louise country generally. and ~ this re-
syect particularly The more { of II
she more became convinced thar from a
r....t .at.a . lr.s.a
district Ioess Is a term applied 10 a
..osra p licsl formation OF which wilma is
abe pr .ars cause. when Prof Kichoseu
solne t-eni 1.-Two years ago, described such
q loes5 "a itric. IN China the discoTery
made quite a sensation ia geographical
circles. This diGtrlci is Ia the provinces OF
shansi ana 5nensi. ara / know of no more
characteristic losss district in the United
Gtates. or anywhere else. that corresponds
20 well with those described by Prof CHI
osen "a thai Of the fsiouse The Chinese
ioefs is an area Of remarkable fertility. and
has been occupied by dense population
probably Tor 400 years. and Is yet fertile
That Is suggestion for the future OF the
Talouse district. Some Of as there tsti-
nsited that II would support a population
1Ug times as large as II now has II Is a
district about the slAe Of Masaachuset;s
aud would Therefore support a large pupu-
latl0n
From there I went to Moscow. Idaho.
and lectured AZ the university there on
'Rainmaklng. telling them not To invest
their money In II and giving them reasons
why they should not. ! found the univcr-
city prospecting. with about no stud fnis.
They have an agricultural college connect
ed with the university. and that fact en-
shles them to have two Federal grants
which aggregate S35.01i a year They have
In addition the grants from the state, but
those cannot amount 20 much. as the sta,e
Is undeyeloped and the entire valuation Is
not more than thai of our W Whitman county
alone. But from what | heard. the devel-
opment Of the state. ITS mineral reshutc =
especially. @il 30 on very .Ltively this
summer
From there went to Spokane and lee
tured, or rather gave little talks th,re
twice. once at the invitation of the GARD
OF education. and once at the Invitation
Of the Academy of Science The latter Is
a small society of ahoat thirty members
All Interested Ia science. | talked Go them
on tho present state and future OF meteor
ology. and To the board OF education on
General and Local storms
Il found In Spokane a very healthy in
terest IN our state university The news
papers Of Spokane referred 60 - as OR
hhlNerSttN-Nhich gave me much pleasure
and they said some very pheasant things
about IT. As Spokane rs thp central point
for the whole eastern part Of the state
This ausurs veil Tor the interest felt n tho
university IN the whole ct that section
SPOKANE rs looking prosperous. during
tho three or four days was tnere did
not see any sign OF 10 lot ON any Of thu
buildinas ar no ises and there was a sen
ofai air of activity ln the s.re,.s that Vas
inspirttiuE Thi~ urnSn.rffy ia t,,ast,. A.,