The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-11

A FTER travelling I2.257 miles and visit.
~ Ing the principal cities in nearly
every state and territory In the West.
the Ralph King the private car of
the representatives Of the Great Eastern
Newspaper League. has reached Seattle
and now stands on a sidetrack on Rail-
road avenue. The car will probably re-
main here for several days, giving the
correspondents time to prepare enough
descriptive matter regarding the city to
fill more than a page in each of the four
dailies belonging to the league the New
York Sun, Boston Journal Philadelphia
Times and Baltimore Herald
G. #. King, who originated the scheme
for advertising the great West in the
East and organized the league for that
purpose, is general manager Of the party.
The other members are H. H. Hanmore,
correspondent; Frank Hendry, artist and
photographer; /. r. Honeywell. business
representative, and A. L. Widdicombe.
stenographer.
II Is now more than four month. since
the car left Boston. The Western work
was started at Davenport, Iowa. Since
that time the principal business centers
OF Iowa. South Dakota Minnesota, Mon
tana. Wisconsin. Michigan. Oklahoma,
Colorado. Utah, Idaho. Oregon and
Washington have been visited in the or
der mentioned Everett, Tacoma and
state yet to be visited After the COM
pletion Of their tour OF Washington the
party will go direct to California
The chamber Of commerce OF Honolulu
Is endeavoring TO Induce them to visit
the Hawaiian islands, and II Is possible
such a trip will be made. From San
Francisco the return East will be made
direct. When Boston is reached 10000
miles will have been covered
THE aim OF our trip has been. and Is.
A. H.. 4trx
migrant. in the East the true commercial
possibilities Of the West" said General
Manager King yesterday. you can talk
II you wish about the railroads and the
telegraph and the newspapers having
brought the East and West into close
touch. but the fact remains that ~ the
East the commercial greatness OF the
West IL scarcely dreamed Of.
ITO convince the people Of the Esst
that this is not country OF hoTling In
dian. lawless trappers and rough pros
pectors Ia our greatest aim. For that
reason we have been leaving all stories
OF wildness out 81 our writings and have
confined our letters to factories, mines,
ranches and commercial enterprises. We
are showing to the East that there Is
ample room In the West for investment
/ of much OF It's boarded wealth.
with most of MS this IL our first tril
| 10 the West and we have continually had
| occasion to be surprised and delighted
! especially az we approached the PacnC
| coast When we entered Idaho and began
seemed 70 come into new and even
better land than the rich territory
through which we had been travelling
[ Before that we had several times fol,
homesick, hut that feeling rapidly wore
away and now that we are iR Seattle
amid the hustle OF a really big city and
can look ont across the shipping IN the
harbor. Il seems just like getting home
again,
From the timo we reached 81. Paul
scarcely n day has passed that someone
has not told us that we would not sec
the city % the West until we reached
seattle think that In every town W.
have visited we have been told OF the
great rise oi Seattle, with the freauen,
! prediction that Il would loo matter Of
only few years when II would rival
San Francisco.
Nov that 7 am here and have seen for
myself cannot say that people have ex.
rgrersted things In the least I have
spent the day among the business men
/ 81 this city and must say that they are
/ the most enterprising people We have me,
| IN our tour"