The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-26
n CITY OF SEATTLE.
. c~sae Future Ahead-s0mc of the
gentneksna. he Are PrOspering
4hese-Jim Givens' 1sapresstons Of
~ csty sad Surrounding Country.


-. 4 rseEer IN attractions shan anv
80 have seen. IT L. cue OK taa cities
RI the coansry tnst has grown 20 Is 90
Ceesis. you might gay. IN ten years And
- tse Elcn6ske came into being il
~ hscsrue Kind Of rx~istro.n that has
lrnNn Into It's vortex the old, TIM yogng,
- r1ch. the poor. the ignorant and the
1ksrsss6. II Doesn't saefg 10 have airy
snssesaus don't think there Is city to-
a. tkas car present TO the world s1ca a
n1rture Of tho social elements az tisix II
s.o6xws little where you go Oh Seattle
arrsu you always nrse fascination in
rnaahsug The hundreds Of faces that PASS
80 IN sea Minutes you can rim I'D and
1uuu ne gaaaf OF human existence. The
-asrnks are aixaya crowded, and at every
-. ycu pass I.apIanders. Chinese. Ja2a-
80. nsgrozs, and, IL fact people from
Sswy nation.
taink in one day spent On Seattle
~arsofs = person can see mara cor.osa-ies
"a syer ksar more coa,icai remarks than
q : r,oasn Of travel In the East. Every
nfrg here IL called = proposition. You
- inset man who wishes 10 sell you a
go az real estate. He VIII tell you Il
& 4 rare proposition A few minutes
ts4er you will meet another man who VIII
s1dax out a beautiful woman 10 you, ana
m remark that sha Is a nue-locking
sfoeoeitsen-
Auoeg the many interesting characters
4 the city Is Pat Murphy. OF Seattle. He
sofls cas Eastern papers and has a voies
~ can be heard for blocks, He has
vorderfui ,neusory for faces. and he never
farwsss a face or the paper bought, an.
wasrn he xees the same man again he VIII
anx cat the name OF the paper. Wheney-
= one OF the Kentucky crowd comes in
All no Immediately Informs the public
= squares around he has the Courier
1sssnaf
~ have here the beautiful little Saliva
IAN Army girl who seils the War Cry.
&e . lace and figure 80 beautiful that
Sven the Louisville girls would envy her,
"a a. the men here are like they are the
vorM ovsr--havc not the courage TO re-
fun a beautiful woman anything Ia their
nover-she has had no trouble IN selling
snough papers to Ees the thousand dollar
psise-
Mr. J. Whiting Bor,ym. Of Lopnsyilie,
hss been very successful II tho stove
business, ard his popularity has asserted
kseif here as at home. ard as cois''s-
aasnce bis store is the rendezvous tor .
rsat many interesting characters One
NAV drop into "Whitas' place any HIae
md hear some old sea captain telling u
{ shpwreck. or some old Indian fighter
,tdiiag his experience: or you can hear
scuse one who has Just come back from
Alaska telling 8 hard-luck story. or one
Hhs thinks Alaska IL all right. and others
Who are going and know just exactly
where The gold ia and how to get II
Another character you often SEQ on the
street. Il ar OLD woman who styles her
~ the walking Illustration of the conn
~ woman. She Is about 90 years OH.
has short hair. wears a little sailor haf
ord carries a cane. Her dress Is some
ding very original. She wears a sweats.
asd over this a coat Her Skin. strikes
Aw about three inches above The knee
snd bloomers extend about three inches
how the knee Add 10 this ieggingy
and heavy walking shoes and you have
her picture.
The gambling houses here run wide
spet- You see hundreds and hundreds
Il men engaged In playing all the well
Known American games. keno, fare.
poker and dozens of other new gane:.
ssc French Chinese and Jsfsaness
nnes, she names Of which do not
know. The Chinese game they call
fsn-tan." ana they play 1t vita but-
IONS without any cards But let ms
tdi you that Seattle has The most beau-
tifui flowers. tho biggest Strawberries
h the country. TO say nothing OK its De.
tgh;ful climate.
have not seen city ir. Europe or
This country that possesses the natural
attractions this place does. Its noble
water front. rs beautiful! lakes, rs pie
ssreeaue green hills. yen never get tired
Of looking AZ them.
II Ia true / famed the ho.d-hack muscles
al my legs going down the streets ~ this
pace the first week I WAS here Belng
AZ Eastern ienaerfoot could not he'd bach:
all FIRST. hut simply had 10 81 down q
seep block on r1in. After little time
tough thu weak muscles got the e4iuca-
non they needed. and ] can now make .he
eeseen, like a Seastleite 10 sho manner
bern.
Nature has been seekiess.y isountifai
ss1 IN her mighty power has gfver this
ssantry resources whose slightest de-
seiopnent shows almost Incredible re-
sasts. With the fon8nsss for ccrnaarl-
na which is typical cf The Angio-Saxon
.iid q A Rochester. who comes
Esfn Stanford. ard who has dare vel
as's AZ the practice ~ Law. ard whose
warming vile has q medal and diploma
spm tAe Worlds fair Ter the snesf
ssse on tAe Pacific coast, said tn u1e
Ns other day that Il was a reliable fact
snaf Washington lad more coal ard
~ than fsnusyiv more valuable
nmaer than Michigan. Wisconsin ard
ne slNFeS southern states combined.
u produces move hops than New York
= hss greater coast iine and heater
sssT'ofs lAan ANY other state sa the
sa'aa II las rs mueh ~ more xu'8
Aah any ether state. a fishing industry
2esd 10 none, and ear produce fHNrc
saa - tbs acre shasn aay spot in ts}s
s0sa him taat sounded very much Ike
e'onies's scas hut - tofa ne he hsd