The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-10

THE NAN FROM MINNEAPOLIS.
A subscriber to the Post-Tnteliigencer
who lives At North McGregor. Ia. has
taken the trouble--with = good motive
20 send q letter on Seattle which he has
clipped from the Minneapolis Times,
written By man from Minneapolis, ad-
yising his neIghbors not TO go to the
kIondike. The letter IL scarcely worth
noticing again. We referred TO 1t at
the time of its publication. but since 1t
In ssiII going the rounds II will do no
harm to say, first. that there are many
more reasons for not going to the Klon-
dixie than that IT was raining In Seattle
In March: and that the letter did Seat
tie coed instead OF harm.
The writer OF the communication to
the Times-some evil spirit must be in
that name--complained that when he
arrived It was raining: and he seems to
consider chat a gross outrage 30 late
in the winter as February. Taking his
troubles in their order. he says he met
a newspaper man who told him that
there were over two hundred other
newspaper men In Seattle looking for
work. That does not seem to be very
sound reason for not going to the Klcn-
dixie.
The veraeious correspondent. who re-
joices I'm the name Of Durkee Rogers,
says: II have had the advantage OF
seeing Seattle at its best" According
to the dating OF his own letter, this
was prior to March 8, and he had been
here three weeks. Now the man who
says that he has seen any place north
Of the equator at its best between the
18th of February and 81 day OF March.
stamps the whole Of his communication
rs utterly unworthy OF credit.
Durkee Rogers says the people OF Sc
ers; some wearing linen clothes, others
fur coats. This Is the funniest thing Of
all. The people Of Seattle got lots Of
fun out OF people who came from Min
neapolis and other inland country
towns and paraded the streets of Seat
tie In PREDETERMINED. white-felt cowboy
hats and fur coats. while the citizens
of Seattle. accustomed to the mild,
warm rain OF winter. were going about
their business without overcoats.
1t was this same gentleman who be-
rated Seattle because he had been lied
to about 1t. He said it was q downright
falsehood that you had to pay 81 and
s. for a cot on the sidewalk. On the
contrary he was able to stay at first
e.ass hotel at dollar a day, with all
modern conveniences: "And as for
meals. find them the same as in Min
neapolis. Is cents and up, and the 20
cent spreads are first-class. everything
from soup TO nuts, with a pint Of Cal
ifornia wine on the side" And still
this jay from Minneapolis wasn't sat-
isfled.
He growled at everything. He had
been told that the restaurants were
terribly crowded. and he felt outraged
when he could get a seat without wait
ing. He grumbiea because the barber
shops were not doing such big BUSH
ness as somebody had told him they
were doing. "and there are not many
people waiting for q turn"
Then he was Disguised at the exag-
geratIon OF the newspapers. Why. he
says, he read in Il newspaper that a
man formerly of Minneapolis had been
reported from Skagway as having
frozen both his feet. when rs a matter
OF fact the frost had only bitten the tip
OF his nose The man from Minneapolis
was bitterly disappointed.
Durkee Rogers says further: "Have
made Il a point TO visit the saloons
every day and night. and they are doing
very little better than ordinary: Il is
mostly beer and talk. and cheap class
Of people 10 deal With"
lie learned all this: he never got
within a thousand miles az the klon-
dixie: and SO he feels quite competent TO
write home telling people there is no
gold there. What Is there in the air Of
Minneapolis that makes men brag and
lie and besmlrch the city that welcomes
iherar