Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-07
will doubtless be heard in Washington's
streets before many days have passed.
Seattle and San franchise.

Will doubtless be heard In w washington
streets before many days have passed.
Seattle and San Franeisc0.
Among the western delegates who have
come on to the convention there arrived
from Buffalo this morning one who has
come OF alone over the Great Northern
railway and by steamer on the lakes as
the solid delegation from the state Of
Washington, 1t being Miss Alice Munday,
president Of the Seattle local union.
While Miss Munday is the only delegate
who came through direct to the conven-
ton, there are quite number of others
from Washington state who have come on
at various times during the last month.
taking advantage of other excursions, and
are just now rounding to for the cenven-
ton in Washington. The delegation Is
being entertained at the Gunton Temple
Memorial Church. on 18th street. Readers
of The Star will remember the hard fight
made last year at the Boston convention
by number Of Washington state delegates.
headed by Mr.. William H: Lewis of Seattle,
formerly of this city. Failing in this, they
immediately fell in line for San Francisco,
but with a cordial invitation to all eastern
delegates to take in Seattle on their trip.
Miss Mundly, when interviewed by Star
reporter, made the following statements in
answer to question as to the position Of
Seattle with reference to next years con-
yention:
Seattle will do everything 1T can to make
the San Francisco convention a success.
We are working as hard as we can to get
the tranS-eont.nenta1 railroads to give the
rate the San Francisco committee Is ask
ing, ard are assured by prominent railroad
men that such a rate will be given. How
ever, if 1t should happen that San Fran
cisco cannot get the rate she wants on ac-
count Of being controlled by one railroad,
Seattle will again be in the field for the
convention.
No, we are not opposing San Francisco
in any way 1t would be useles to do so;
but If San Francisco should find 1t i'm
possible at any time to get sufficiently
low rate and should drop out of the fight,
then Seattle is ready to step in and take
the convention and entertain it handsome
ly- We think that with the four direct
roads that We have connecting Seattle and
Tacoma with the east. that is to say, the
Canadian Pacific, Great Northern, North
ern Pacific and Union Pacific, We are in a
better position to take the convention If it
comes TO question of rates. than any
othr city on the coast. But the trustees
decided. and decided wisely we are forced
to admit, In favor of San Francisco; and
until San Francisco.iS out of the race, we
shall make no attempt of any kind to Sc
cure the convention.
To Entertain EndcnvOrcrs,
But we do count on entertaining a large
portion of the delegates who come to San
Francisco. We do not think that any dele
gates will want to come to San Francisco
and return without seeing the rest Of the
coast, so We are preparing to entertain the
Endeavorers in Seattle on the Saturday
and Sunday following the San Francisco
convention. We shall make special prepa-
rationS for this and shall arrange for serv-
Ices such as Salt Lake City is preparing
for the delegates for the Sunday before the
convention. and We shall ask the trustees
and officers of the United Society of Chris
tan Endeavcr to arrange the program for
these services as part of the convention
trip.
we count that one of the greatest ad-
van;aSeS of the convention coming to San
Francisco is that the thousands upon thou
sands OF delegates will come directly in
touch with the missionary work of our
country. Northern California is quite
thlckly settled and resembles portions of
Its and public sentiment being much set
tied and hard to change. In the state of
Washington 1T is quite different Ours is
a new and rapidly developing community
and each year brings thousands of new
settlers into our state. The missionary So
cieties of all the denominations realize the
Importance of the field, and are pushing
their work at every point. On this ac-
count, We feel that it would be a tremen-
dous advantage if the thousands of earn
est Christian Endeavorers from the east
could be held over among us for a day or
two. Their influence among us would be
very great and would tell more than in
any old and well settled community
Seattle Endeavorers, as we'll as those
in Tacoma and all over our state are thor
oughiy aroused and are working heartily
TO give the Christian Endeavor delegates
TO san francisco an enthusiastic re.
ception and attractive a program at
Seattle as they will receive anywhere on
the road