Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-01-18
A TACOMA, WN., VIEW
Fine Residence City and Its
Future Outlook.
LETTERS ER0M THE SOUND.
The Editor Still Talking With all
Sorts and Conditions.
LETTERS ER0M THE SOUND.

hOmelike yet luXuriant hotel by that
name. Since leaving home we had
travelled on trains, boats, street cars,
dining cars, at hotels and rode Ia ON.
nibuses with the Frawley theatre
company. At Hotel Tacoma we again
had them seated opposite US at table.
We had a good laugh together, and,
as 10 afHeTward turned out, here saw
the last OF them. They said there
were worse towns than Salem as show
| towns
At the home Of Miss Dewey, a Pa
/ cfic coast leader in kindergarten
work, we had the unexpected privi-
| lige OF meeting General Bradley, a re-
tired army officer who has seen much
service or the western frontier His
beautiful home on Prospect Hill is
shared by several married daughters,
three generations happy in an exten-
slve house, with wide pOrches, all oyer
looking the incompatible inland sea
nearly thousand feet below. Gen
eral Bradley and wife are the soul of
true hospitality in entertaining stran.
gers. | remarked to him that the
governor OF Oregon was military
man, and was once stationed at Fort
SteilacOUm. He said he knew that
and had also read many Governor
Lords public addresses and state pa
pers and considered him a man Of
good judgement and sound principles.
We also met General Bradley's son.in-
law, Hon. Robert Collier, secretary OF
the chamber Of commerce.
Tacoma does two-thirds Of the eX-
port aud import business done on the
Sound.
Besides manufactures and shipping,
IL is beautiful residence city,
especially ou the elevation facing the
Sound. The residences seem less
scattered than In Seattle, while the
grounds are better improved and
there seems to be more room for parks
and drives.
or course, Tacoma Is not as lively
as Seattle, nor Is any other city on the
northwest coast. But so long asTaca ma
keeps commercial supremacy and is
backed by the Northern Pacific, she
will easily hold her place along with
Portland and Seattle.
Considered as a residence city alone
Tacoma is easily the first city on the
asslstan6r taeptGdlet01n,, 1t'P of The t'Et
Tacoma News, who admits that Seat
tie has the start on the whole north
west for Klondlke business and is
likely TO keep IL.
We took boat for Olympia. 1t
was few hours late and did not
reach the Capitol OF the Evergreen
state until o p. m. A good supper was
served on the boat, for which we were
we'll prepared and set pace that
would have convinced Gov. Fletcher
that we are equally at home on land
or water.
talked with an Indian man who
had been TO Eastern Oregon TO get
land on reservation. He was back
here oystering. He and his wife take
out three sacks Gay for which they
get 10 cents sack. He says the In
dians in Eastern Oregon raise little
grain--too lazy.
He knew David Brewer,at Chemawa
and had nephew at the school. His
wife possessed, In addition to that
sterling Indian virtue OF taclLurnity,
a habit OF Industry, she never stopped
knitting from the time we got on the
boat at Tacoma till we reached Olym-
pia.
Among the passengers was Rev.
John Bridges, recently Methodist |
minister at South Ottumwd, Ia, a ,
brother of the public lands commits |
sloner,Of Washington. He is a Scotch |
man, has been in this country about ten |
years. He told me he had devoted |
about five years TO the study OF phil |
Osophy. | told him about our South |
Salem Reading circle, and he urged |
that we should take up the |
stndy OF Ruskin, who, he said, divided |
the activities Of life under three !
necds-labor, amusements, culture.
| told him about our Illihee club
ana he SAID, while he would be con-
lemned by many of his church for
10 such club, he believed
10 met "A legitimate need OF humanity
and WAS "A social necessity. lie would |
provide in a town OF two Thousand
people one public assembly room, or
forum and amusement hall combined
where all could gather for music,
entertainment, speaking, aud this
Methodist preacher went so far as to
say he would provide bar, open and
public TO all where gentlemen aud
ladies' could get anything To drink,
they wanted, aud drink it is they
wanted TO without condemnation or
0ss Of sef-respect The love OF
music, entertainment aud amusement
he said was one of the noblest quail.
liNN VI uNhAdN HdAAlt duu euhulu ON
ltlliZed for the elevation OF the poor,
degraded and ignorant. IL was what
distinguished man from the brute
and .the churches We're making a
mistake In refusing TO recognize that
nan Is "A social being.
Rev, Bridges addressed the stu
tents at the Washington State Uni.
lersity on moral philosophy aud trav-
,lled To Olympia with Us. Not agree
ny with all his propositions, we found |
him cultured, cOmpanionable Scotch
nan, with almost heterodoX views
about uplifting humanity.
On the boat TO Olympia was a
gentleman connected with one OF
The seattle banks, In an extended
he admitted that but
for the kloadike gold dlscoyerySeattle
HO0ld have suffered further collapse
before the end of 1897. That gold
hnd was godsend, and Seattle mer- |