Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-13
OLUME XXXVU..-NUMBER 80.
A WESTERN WELCOME.
King Coles Address to the Visiting
Lumbermen.


Frank b. Cole, of the Wesi Coast
and Puget Sound Lumjermdn, has is
sued the following characteristic adj
dress of welcome to the visiting lum-
bermen from the East:
"The citizenship of Washington Is
so mixed, its population is so cos
moplitan, that any welcome extended
to our guests is tainted with the hos
pitality of Kentucky, the liberality OF
California, the mince pies of Massa-
chusetts, the odor of the pig pens OF
Illinois and the prohibition of Iowa
and Kansas. 1t speaks of the corn
bread of Missouri, and whispers sweet
recollections OF the Manhattan cock
tails of Minnesota, and the red liquor
of the camps of Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. 1t carries with it the warmth o1
he hot winds of Nebraska and the
moving shadows from its fields OF
billowy grain. But above all the in
cense of this mixed welcome rises the
spirit of the West, the mysterious
something that transposes the Yankee,
the Southerner or even a Chicago dude
into a product different-if not better
than any other type of citizen found
in the world.
"The glistening peaks of the Cas-
cade mountains are the tall sentinels
which first flash their white banners
of welcome. Their passage means
your advent into the Puget Sound
basin. AS you go down the western
slope you enter into the great green
forests of Western Washington. You
feel an air upon your cheeks, sweet,
fresh and unfamiliar. The mountain
torrent, the signing OF the winds in
the canyons and the murmur of the
forests, sing the song of creation and
speak yet of that epoch when only the
evening and the morning stars sang
of the glories of earth. As you pass
down to the shores of that great in
land sea, you will hear the ripple Of
gentle waves on sandy, pebbly shores.
You will see glistening stretches of
water. You will see island and misty
mountain peaks, all fringed and ruff
fled with evergreen. But you can
wait until these sights come before
you.
"You will be welcome everywhere ;
that you are the guests of the lumber
men of the Northwest Coast makes
you the guests of all our citizens.
The minister and the lawyer, the doc
tor and the granger, will vie in max
ing your stay pleasant. They will lie
to you with the easy JUNCTION that
comes from long practice. Tales will
be told you that would charm a mer-
maid or paralyze devilfish. 1t is un-
fortunate that you will be unable to
tell the truth from fiction, but in that
respect yon will not suffer more than
ourselves. The only thing that can
make truth evident has been done. a
notary public will be with your party
during your entire stay on the coast.
Any statements made may be sworn
to before him, which will give them
better standing with your friends and
neighbors. Aphysician who practices
both allopathy and homeopathy, will
remain with the party. Also clergy
man of mixed orthodoxy, to admins
ter any spiritual treatment needed.
He will also carry few blank mar
riage certificates and burial permits.
The different entertainment COM
mittees have been practicing for some
time and are now able to recite in uni
son: The amount of standing timber
on this coast, cut of mills, number OF
logging camps-also average number
of fish per acre in Puget Sound. These
fish, by the way, are scaled by gov
ernment scaler and must, necessarily,
be correct. If anything has been
omitted to make your visit pleasant,
we want you to understand it is not
your fault. Verify, you are welcome" /"