The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-16
SEATTLE 4 FAMILIAR NAME.
City Comptroller Parry Back
From His Eastern Trip.
STUDIES MUNICIPAL METHODS.
WosteSn Cities GoinS Ahead sn Mere
PregRessivs PrlnelDles Thaa
Easaern Ctties-0oRe In Wsshfag-
ten Than In . NunbsF 81 East-
ern states Conbined-Easteen NO.
eloas - - western Leealities.

City Comptroller Will III. Parry has just
returned from visit to the Eastern
cities and il again At work In his ONCE
In the city hall He left Seattle about
June 1 an q delegate to the national meet
Ing Of Eaks In 81. Louis. After q delight
full stay there he went to Chicago. New
York. Philadelphia. Boston and other
Eastern cities and towns and comes back,
he says. with q better opinion Of Seattle
and the Pacific Northwest than ever
Speaking Of his trip he said yesterday
afternoon: II enjoyed my visit, every
minute Of II. from the fraternsl intercourse
with brother. Elks in st. Louis till took
the cars for home. Ny mission. after the
meeting In St Louis. was primarily one Of
pleasure. but combined with 1t the pur-
pose Of studying municipal methods OF adj
ministrat ton in the larger cities and towns
Of the East. especially their systems OF
bookkeeping. water accounting. street rail-
ways and street improvements.
.fseneraiixsng the result OF my inquiries
and inspection believe ] may safely say
that Seattle and other Northwest cities are
going ahead on more progressive prtncl-
pies Than their Eastern sisters. The latter
have been developing by system OF evo-
luton. slow sand gradual. in accofdAnce
with their conservative notions. We. on
the other hand. see n thing We want and go
straight to IT, Many of The Eastern towns
havs had macadamixed streets q hundred
years and other improvements have been
adopted with the lapse OF time.
Utilise MOdern Ideas.
Here We are q growth Of recent years.
finding ready to our hands the modern
ideas Of advancement and quick 10 seize
upon and utilize them. It Is this rather
than spirit OF adventure or reckessness
that makes the Western town grow up as
IL BY magic and astonish the slow-goins
Fastener with It's rush,
''Of course they are ahead OF US In some
ways. A hundred years Of growth ana ac-
emulation must have its advantages over
a new community. but the balance is turn
Ing and Ia twenty years we will be on
equal terms with them In most respects
and ahead OF them In others.
II found that Seattle is a familiar word
In The East and In New York. Boston.
Philadelphia. Chicago and other places
more kind words are said about our city
than OF any other. There is a great deal
Of interest manifested about II and conf
dencc In its future and substantial growth.
but there is strange notion most Eastern
people have OF Western localities.
I'm one town In Connecticut ne wspaper,
edited by an ex-conKrsssman. referred TO
my visit there and recorded me az being
from Seattle Or. Another man. the head OF
largo Wholesale house In New York. ex
pressed surprise that. with all the hard
ships OF life here and the high cos, OF pro-
visions. ] should have had the appearance
roundtngs, "4sen told him we had every.
thing we needed ous here and could buy
what we did not produce as cheapiy as he
could, he was only reconciaed 10 my state
inert when he learned that Seattle is where
It r.. instead Of in the heart OF the kicu-
dixie where his imagination had placed Il.
They all know about Seattle but many
OF them. educated and Intelligent people.
are haxy a. TO It's location.
Hasy Ideas Of the West.
I'm fact their IDEAS as 20 what consti-
tutes the grea: West are as Indefinite as
the European mind Is as regards the states
The head of a large Eastern concern told
western trip which he described Ia glow
lag terms. speaking OF its resources and
wealth and scenery until thought he had
been az least as far as Denver or Salt
Lake When asked him the extent Of his
travels he said he had been all the way
to pittshurg.
What they need In the East are more
mans OF The United states II TIE average
New Engiandsr, with all his education and
intelligence. were required To draw enc he
would fil in an accurate outline of the
country between the Atlantic and the
Allegheny mountains He would then
thai range and the Mississippi river From
there 10 III. Pacific his map would be so
forestortened and the perspective 50 small
that Seattle would appear 70 hc The same
distance from Chicago thai New York IL
from Boston"
BEING asked as to his impressions o. the
sections Mr. Parry said:
Connecticut. especially. and other East
sru communities are greatly hsesesed In
thTir magnificent systems OF sransporta-
ton. not only by railroads, oa; by electric
cars. Connecticut IL almost a network
OF trolley reads, giving fast ana cheap
carriage Ia Pennsylvania / passed in
succession rxiies on miles Of snnok essscSs
Massachusetts, has sts fisheries and fac
tories and Maine lgz forests Other states
have their cultivated fields and great axri-
eolsssTul productions and | xss all this
tns the tssa came Ia me. ard hold is now
that sg Of these ssases cannot make enc
Washington. I>w@nts years wtil show that
this cue grea. Western state can ana does
produce more cf the various commodities
and resources ~ the states named than al
% them saxether.
Mr. Parry Travelled a. far as Spokane
WITH Secretary % AgP3csaitur- Wilson row
81 this city. and says be was sorn-lsssE 30
isarn the f4nf sF information thar gentle
nan nas regarding thss state and the eager.
nsss he showed - ascertain and provide
FOR iEs needs