The Nome nugget., 1903-08-29
SEATTLE AND .~
 THE OUTSIDE
A Newspaper Mans mpressiOns.-SeattIe and the Trans Mississippi Congress.-A Pleas
 ant Trip on the Steamship Oregon.

Seattle, Aug. l9.-The good steam ship Oregon, Capt. Fred Warner, reached this port last Saturday after noon at ? o'clock with 145 passengers from Nome. The trip was an unevent- ful one; the sea was smooth, but con- siderable fog was encountered which delayed the steamer about eight hours. The Oregon deserves a need of praise and 50 do her officers, from cabin boy to captain. The table service is eX- cellent; the officers are all courteous, kindly gentlemen who leave nothing undone for the comfort and pleasure of the travelling public. No more careful sailor ever navigated the Pacific and Boring sea than Capt. Fred Warner and Chief Engineer Sam Sutton has the friendship of travellers.
 Several concerts were held in the spacious dining room, and the amount of talent" that came to the front was to say the least remarkable. On the evening before the Oregon reached Seattle Herr Vilmos Titkary gave an exhibition which included his illus trated songs, among them "Jerusalem. 7" It is, perhaps, needless to say that the 'sour doughs" on board the Ore gon, of whom there were many, who seen "Seattle and the outside" as Criss Tremper would say, enjoyed the trip immensely. Some of them had not seen green tree in years, and when | Puget sound was reached all eyes were turned toward the shores, luxuriantly lined with evergreen forests. The sight, indeed, was good for the eyes.
 Seattle has changed wonderfully and the writer last saw the "Queen City of the Pacific" for that is the proud name by which the average Seattleite refers to the city, when in burst of enthusi- asm he makes predictions as to its future growth and greatness. Seattle is indeed becoming metropolitan" It is no longer the sawdust village of l5 years ago, but lively. hustling city, whose newspapers chronicle at least one murder day and dozens of less heinous crimes.
 The important event in Seattle this week is the fourteenth annual meeting Of the Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress, at which there are delegates from every state and territory west of the Mississippi, including Alaska, h. dian Territory, so called, and the Philippines. Alaska has large dele gation here, among them being Gov. John G Brady, former Gov. Swineford, George Murphy, John Stanley, W. J.. Allen, F. F. Clark, of Porcupine; John w. Troy, Dr. Wilson and J. G. Price, of Skagway; Dr. Harrison, of Prince of Wales island; Volney T. Hoggatt, and Capt. Green, who twenty-five years ago began development work on the Fish river silver mines. Capt. Green is an enthusiastic Alaskan, and he has under way important projects which will mean much for the quartz development of that section. Capt. Green states that quartz mining, gold and silver is destined to assume an important place in the mining industry of Seward pe- ninsula. Of course, anyone who is at all acquainted with Seward peninsula will indorse Capt. Greens statements.
 So far Alaska has been treated roy ally in the congress, Among the dele gates she has had front seat, and the interest manifested in our great terri