The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-10
KNOWN IN EVERY HAMLET.
SEATTLE's FAME SPREADS OVEN
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY,
W. W. Wilshire's Observation. D.,.
Tag an Extensive Tour IN the East
snd sosth-lnteRest Manifested
In Information From This City.

Ex-Assisiant Prosecuting Attorney W.
W. Wiltshire has Just returned from the
East after an absence OF four months, dur
'ng Which time he has travelled through
eighteen states and visited many OF the
large cities
He says that Seattie's fame Is known in
every hamlet In the country and that when
you say from Seattle" the reply Is. "oh,
the Place from which klondikers start
He says that If the boats bring down
bali the klondike gold expected there viii
Dc another turn In the tide toward Alaska
lie says that Erastus Brainerd was TOO
modest in telling what he did TO help the
assay Office bill through congress.
The death Of Mr.. Wilsh!re's sister. early
Hast March and tho serious Illness OF his
mother In Arkansas made IL necessary for
him 70 drop mis- own affairs and devote
his time and attention TO theirs. Mrs
Wiltshire and her mother accompanied Mr.
Wiltshire 10 Washington City. and after
arriving 1t was learned that Mrs. Wilshsre's
mother was suffering from internal cancer,
from wa!ch she now lies at deaths door.
The work with which 1 have been oc-
cupied." said Mr.. Wiltshire, took me
through eighteen states and the Distric.
OF Columbia. have visited many OF the
large stiles. including Washington, Chica-
80. Cincinnati. St. Louis, Memphis and
Little Rock. Ark. 1 have been thrown in
contact with business and representative
men OF these cities besides those I met
en- route. Long before came to the time
OF starting homeward. i began TO feel as
though were paid immigration agent,
out in the interest Of Seattle and Puget
sound / was surprised TO realize how
enthusiastic citizen OF Seattle / really
was. but not SO much by that fact as by
In faf
~ people everywhere and Of every voca-
ton. When asked where l resided
would answer on the Pacific coast,
and when II was known that ! cid
not mean San Francisco, but Seattle on
Puget sound, the fact never failed to ex-
cite the NEST active interest and seldom
failed 10 evoke the exclamation. why.
tina. il where the Klondikers start from
for the Alaskan gold fields
This Interest was always OF the prAc-
teal kind. manifesting an earnest desire
for information as 10 the size. business
interests. resources. climate, health All
general advantages of Seattle and Puget
sound. I am satisfied there Is no; ham
let nor a country wayside In the United
States which the fame OF Seattle has not
reached, not only as an Quitting and
starting point for the kiendke gold fields.
but as "a city naturally surrounded by the
conditions which. as proved by the his
tory OF the largest commercial and indus
trial centers Of America, eventually and
inevitably insure the development OF COM
mercial and Industrial interests and activi-
ty Of the largest magnitude
The junction 81 the finest possible har
Dor facilities with the competitive advan-
taKes OF the transcontinentai railroads
conyerging here is conceded to be the feat
ure in which Seattle is superior 10 any
other noint on the Pacific coast, and
through the advertisement received from
the klondike gold discoveries. this s.tua-
ton and its advantages have become gen
orally known throughout the United
States
'.rha disturbance OF business interests
by the war is. think, generally considered
In the East 10 be practically at an end. l
think that IL the returning treasure ships
from the Yukon bring down half the esti-
| mated quantity OF gold the conditions In
| the East are now or will soon be ripe for
resumption OF the rush 10 Alaska.
II was Iii Washington City when the as
saw Office bill was under consideration in
the house OF representatives. and met my
| Seattle friend, Erastus Bratnerd. j was
occasionally with him and had an orpor-
| tunsty 10 know something OF what he did
| toward securing the passage OF that bill.
| I afterwards saw has statement published
| In the Past-Inielilgencer regarding the .n-
| cidents connected with the passage OF that
measure BY congress, and. with oOe eScep-
tion 7 thought IL a fair ana very accurate
statement of the facts. IL was, however.
| nruhahly natural though not Just TO him
| self 20 fiselaim any particular credit for
| the bill then becoming law Without in-
tending any dssparagernsnt In any one Else.
| I think II Is but fair 70 say that the people
| Of Seattle should know that no ether in
sfv,dual did more effective work IN secur-
In. the consideration Of that bal at that
| EMS ara in bringing about the conditions
| ina, secured It's enactment into law 1han
| Nj s,ainerl. His efforts were Intelligent
| lv and Skilifully directed and were notice
ably effective.
| The people Of the South. found are
| unanimous in their support or TIE admin
| istraJien in this war wtth span EeE@. U'esS
| a, per.V srt'iation. and the boys ] knew
/ Al school. sons OF ConfcdeTatss, are no"
| confessed Yankees"