The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-04
Patriotism and Local Pride Find
an Expression.
MUSIC AND lLluMlNATloNs


The streets Of the business portion OF Sc
Attic last night presented a scene difsicuit
10 duplicate and impossible to describe A.
che last lingering shades Of twilight van
tShed across bay and hiilssde and deepened
into the biack~r shadows Of night. il SEEM
ed a. II the wand Of a magician. myster-
1csts and potent. had been waved. TEN
Thousand lights burst into being ana the
darkness OF the night served emily as .
background for their radiance. The ses-
tocna across F1ra and Second avenues
Termed a bower Of brightness. underneath
which the vast thfong< on the streets NOV
Ell In an unceasng procession, The special
Examinations and arches fantastic decera-
lions and faneifui groupings gave an effect
20 the whole picture suca could no,
have been planned BY committee on art
nor reproduced by a committee of artsts.
A great authority an literary criticism
has said that the spirit Of poetry Is by no
means dead. thar the nsosaic realities az
Invention ana Industrial activity will nus
In tae long ran act "a n clog to the spirit
OF romance; and that me great poet OF
the future Is the mar who shall take the
tremendous and intense acsuaiisies Of nine
teenth century life ana by far mere COM
piicate arr than was ever dreamed of IN
the sfays Of Shakespeare ar Goethe weave
them into tire warp and wani Of a srsafiier
picture than the weria has ever known.
Such a man. had he been IN the pursuit
ef his high mission. would have received
suggestion ana Inspiration from the scenes
on she streets az Seattle last night Ma
sionai patriotism ard LEGAL pride were
blended unsA IL seemed as II the whole ma
ssnn WIRE vcirlnx itself through this one
city. Arr was present, ths very snrarna-
ton 90 art. in the long tines ~ iights
thrown tnto thousand shapes 81 beauty
and grace. ever repeating themselves In
corsaseations that delighted and hewslderei
the observer, Realism Was there with sss
spacr side ~ life. Countless character
sketches could have seea made % the gee-
pie on the streets ana endless episodes
could Ne written ~ .hesr conversation ana
comments as shes rsavs3 up and down the
ieng lire ~ decorations that reached from
below Neslev way fer go Oh. fTse street.
New Chapter Written.
Seldom X syst hss Seattle SEGA such
e,rawcs as were gathered ou sse streets
last nish; The nsgss - the - 81 galy
fSss. WAS made memorable sS the news az
ste great victory a; Santiago as}i no es-
shuSlasn could he gFvater shan seas 6is-
played upon TIE announcement et Tire
navy's Fourth Of July present - iAe Amer
sosn nation Bat xve&s - that eveak ~as
II was uae xpactssi. No ss>esssat preparations
had been made fSf g. ard al tire fsessrSv ~
Seattle could DO Mas a. read sAs moment sls
hansalns n tire Poss-iHsesssssssesr windows.
sAcat themselves hsarse AL So hossae a.
midnight sesasBs that y aew chapter bad
heen ~rstten sn the hsstafy " Ars9siSs arr
al the world.
las, night Was very air~svns Ne spe~
the celsnras.,as Asusnssse bad Eot been
kslsed AMI 40 eo9p tssaf rad been report
ed from Aas rnlsspytae& bat shre1gA TIE
whaia steA& Gs cASytctsssu OF tae psspaes