The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-18
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
Descriptive of Scenes Around the
City Of Seattle.
Seattle. Wash. Nav 81. '99.

left on the Kingston FOR Seattle.
The day was a little misty, so we
did not see the sound and the noun
tains only through the misty haze.
There is d great deal OF this mist
here, but when the sun does shine
il makes up in very short time for
its sulky behavior, and the ground
soon dries. 1t isan admirable coun-
try for outing, as / can testify.
Every day we have been out to Lake
Washington, d lovely sheet of water
twenty-five miles long, to the east
of Seattle. We went in "a pretty
little steamer called the Elfin, going
II the wharf on the cable cars, which
run up hill and down dale in this
town, rs the city is built on little
rolling hills. We spent very hap
py day on the shore Of Lake Wash
ington, the little steamer calling for
US at 4 O'Clock, To Kinncar Park
we went on the street car. This
beautiful park was at one time a
private one, but was donated to the
city by its owner, Mr. Kinnear. a
lovely place 1T is, overlooking the
sound. We returned on another
car line, which TO myself seemed
really dangerous, as we went dash
ing down very steep hills with such
extremely sharp curves that we not
only held to the sides of the car, but
held our breath, too, until the car
swept on again in straight line.
The views at different points on the
tops of the hills were fine The blue
waters of the sound at the west, to
the east the high tops of the Cas-
cade Range, while between were
rlimpses of lovely homes, all bright
and beautiful with Il wealth and pro-
fusion of roses. | never saw roses
in such profusion and perfection rs
here in this place and | IN told they
are still more beautiful in Tacoma,
so | expect a rare treat there. Real
ly the houses here are pictures OF
beauty-with the rosevines often
reaching the roof. covered with Il
wealth of roses, such as are seldom
seen by us in Michigan, and such
rare kinds, My friends here had
American beauties which they pulled
up as being entirely too coarse,
They grew SO large and rank that
they were like great red cabbages.
We went to Snoqualmie Falls on
the railway a distance of tifty-.ive
miles from Seattle, the direction
northeast, right up into the Cas-
cades. The Snoqualmie river comes
sweeping down from the mountains.
Reaching a huge mass OF rocks, it
drops over the edge Of these rocks,
tossing, foaming, roaring mass of
water, the spray rising high above,
making such lovely rainbows. At
glowing richly beautiful in the sun
light. The water rushes over this
precipice, the eight of which is two
hundred and lightweight feet, APP
pearing to fall into a mighty pit or
cauldron at the foot of the fall !
say appears, for to me it did not
seem possible that all of the water
rushing over that mass of rock went
down the river, good sized as it is,
Some. members of our little party,
having been there before and know
ing the hard work required, did not
make the descent to a spot where a
view OF the whole falls could be OBJ
tanned. So only myself and escort
went down. a pass was required
from the superintendent. We did
rot know this, so while my escort
went for pass, sat by the gate
and listened to the remarks of the
tired, putting tourists, who had
made the descent, one saying,
there were three hundred and
forty-eight steps," another, two
hundred and seventy-eight steps,
and still others sold differently. |,
while listeningt, the contradictory
statements, made up my mind | d
not fritter away my strength count
ing those steps, but use it for climb
ing. Down, down. down, we went,
and so far at each step. j should
think the rise in some of the places
was at least twelve inches. 1t was
an awful drop for your foot, | can
assure you. The descent consisted
of great number of stairways with
landings built at different angles and
different degrees of steepness, AS
we neared the lower stairways, we
met people returning completely
drenchcd with spray, and with UNI
brellas that were dripping. Having
gone far enough down to obtain
very fine view, was content with
that. Not being a Baptist, / ! ad no
desire to go down Into the water. "
"Close unto seemed to satisfy me.
However, my escort went little
further on to see if the view was
enough finer to pay for getting
drenched. On the return we made
short stops and often. | was glad
my escort was large strong man,
and was delighted to have little
extra strength as we went toiling
up, up. Holding one S breath would
take you up one staircase finely.
But there were dozens of flights.
At last we reached the top. Repaid
for the hard work? Yes, indeed!
the view was superb, but felt like
the young lady who going down the
toboggan slide the first time remark
ed to her escort, That was fine,
wouldn't have missed it for hun
dred dollars. y He thinking to give