The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-19

IL took Tacoma several years 10 discover
that IT'S excitasIc attempt % handicap
Mount Rainier with another name was re-
xarded by the world as a huge joke. That
town Il now attempting 70 haptize Itself
In the spill Of the fount OK Seat1ie's fame.
and the drops gathered ia its tiny hands
are neld out 10 the mother country with
the exclamation. see the oceans. mamma!
I'm 8 man now amt T. mamma Amt
bigger than Seattle. mamma
Tacoma l. lying again. IL has been no
unusual occurrence ln the past. though
from tho transparency of the present fabri-
cation ore f. disposed to doubt that prsc-
tee makes perfect" Tacoma has erawled
from a slough Of desp0nd and Is crying
Ilteously 20 passers-by. Pause and hear
me. Seattle Is NOS the only pebble on the
beach. There ara others in on this Klon-
dixie proposition. See" and ho piats the
mud with a broken stick here are to be
the offices of the North American Trans
.foFtation and Trading Company. Here Is
the Washington and Alaska Steamship
Company" he throws chips n the water
and continues. Behold the great fleets.
All belong 20 me-"
Then he cries when the people laugh
and say. GO away. poor lljtle boy. and
get washed
II Is a shame 30 throw Tacoma down in
this rough-shod way but even trivial dis
eases are the better for a remedy Vic
TINS OF lies do not always consider the
discreditable source from which they
emanate. and IL Is a duty owing mankind
that the light Of truth be cast upon Ia
coma. Not the full light lest d.
vested Of the huIHarks Of falsehood. OBJ
servers might wonder where Tacoma was
Bur the Post-InteiIigencer will turn loose
few rays on Tacoma's kloadike aspira-
tons.
Since the first steamer has run between
Puget sound and Alaska. Seattle has been
the natural Quitting point for all ventur-
Ing 20 the frozen north. and the selected
terminus Of all transportation companies
on the route. The Klondike rush is now
matter OF history and a glorious predic-
ton OF the future Had streams Of gold
been turned awash IN the streets OF Sc
attic their presence would hardly have in
spired this city with greater commercial
activity than has sprung from the human
river which flows through 10 the kion-
dixie. Transportation companies have
been organized IN a. day. and their iai-
tatory operations carried forward with
all possible haste. Without exception
they have made their headquarters in S.
attic Not a single case of permanent e.
Enlistment can be cited as having been
str.as
suburb. and were 1t West Seattle could
not be thought Of as more secondary TO
Seattle. the busting metropolis OF this
state Like ''the flowers that bloom in
the spring, tra-ia." Tacoma h8s nothing
O. do With TIE case.
Il Is not TO be imagined. however that
Tacoma would accept it's fate without
struggle. II had long ago reached the
point where. unable to make any adj
Vance in honorable methods ~ coinpeti-
ton. lying occurres as the sole remaining
resource. There is. ia that aspiring town
q combination known as fhe Tacoma
kiondike bureau Of Information It's chief
mission IS 70 experiment with the truth.
and IN this IL has tho able cooperation OF
the Tacoma press Friday this mutual
admiration society possessed itself of the
following telegram:
'on next seasons business " viii ar
range "a call FOR freight and passengers
az Tacoma. We expect % have weekly
lpe % steamers and vessels saliin< from
faciac ce1st ard Puget sound CONNER
cial centers our headquarters and Sort
irg point Nili De Seattle
NORTH AMERICAN TRANSF pRTA-
TToN AND TRADING co"
ON receipt 81 this mass meeting OF the
professional preyarleafors Of Tacoma was
called. ard the result az their ucubra-
tions was aG Article .u Yesterday morn
ioe's Ledger headed "ro START Prom
Tacoma Steamers WIZ Go Direct From,
THIS Port GO the Yukon importance of
Iicoula Recognized Great Railroad cen
Ter From Which Steamers Must Go 20
Alaskan earrs Boags FOR me Yukon
VII Make rais CITY Their startlna Point
--s'reat putnftiug Poiat for Alaska"
A dispatch iu accordance vith this was
f~nt ouf to the Accented Press
Every wei posted person in enc North
Nesf understands Tacoma and would
simply SMILE at such o3mhast. In the
East thcs probably exclaimed "Heilot
hcrt 3norbef COUNTY hesrd from This
morning the.r newspapers. threuEh the
AH~ogiatrf Press. Viii rrsrl1tn Tararpa
80 on0fs'f b nic terms Tta "Iuosrfar..s
az tFron'e witf oe re,a.res-a8 tho1en
rof a> he Inhabitants of fnsf a't.s hsd
hoped sn3 its encvclirai fulminafiane ,,ifi
b. treated With tho rAiruls the, deserve
Tire ARTICLE in the Tacoma Ledger fol-