The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-31
'0NCE OF RALEIGH.
He Writes From Out the
Sunset Land.
And Through issLetter .Humsl the
Busy, Rushing, BreathIess Life
of Rapidly Expanding Seat
tie on the Pacific.


To the Editor: Some of your older
readers in Raleigh as well as others In
! various parts of the State, who lmbibed
instruction at his hands over half cen
/ fury ago, of whom l was one, will proba
bly, be as glad to hear of one OF their
loved Dominies of that epoch, as was
this present scribe to receive most un-
expected letter from him some two or
three months bygone, postmarked Seat
tie, Washington. 1t recalled incidents in
early life long since forgotten, and al
luded casually to a popularity OF gait
frequently remarked upon later on, thus
evincing a phenomenal recollection even
for trifles running back into the first
half of the last century. In answer to
my reply came another from him three
days since which for reason stated, as
we'll as for other good and sufficient
reasons, it occurs to me should go into
print together with this preliminary in
PRODUCTION. Col. Preston was an assist
ant teacher of Mr. j. NJ. Lovejoy cod
Jeff'), when that famous school was in
its zenith, a man of faultless appearance,
high culture, suave and gentle manners
and fine physique. He seemed to take to
the boys, or rather to the young men,
flor most of them were in a state of ad
vanced adoescence), from the start, and
the boys to him, for he was of the new
and more enlightened type of teachers.
the old school tyrannic class, being then
in a state of transition. He married,
believe, in 1S4S a. lovely and accomplish
ed lady in Raleigh, who is still his life
- rs obi
dren, who are now in the meri-
dian of life, one of them hav
ing been a prominent candidate for
the U. S. Senate at the last election. He
has held them all in leash about him,
lucky man he to be in condition to pet,
cuddle and spoil the second and succeed
ing generations, grandfather's blessed
prerogative, and prescriptive right ever
since the grand old gardener and his
wife," so ordained by example without
having to leave home and take the train
to crafty that normal and instructive
impulse.
Having settled in struggling village
of ten thousand dozen years ago, and
grown up with it until already it has de-
veloped into magic and Aladdin city of
100000 population and one of the most
ference is that he has grown with it in
accumulation and material sense. So may
it be. "And may his tribe never grow
less" is the wish of all of "Old Jeff's''
1 old boys, who knew and loved him. AS
wonderful specimen of chirography and
grammatical accordance in one of his adj
vanced age, as well as to show the mar
young city, take the liberty of sending
~ o.
vellous and unprecedented growth of this
only two or three irrelevant lines.
WHARTON J. GREEN. (.
/ Fayetteville, N c., January %, 1904. =
LETTER FROM MR.. PRESTON.
507 Washington Building, e
Seattle, Wash. Jan. II. 1904
Col. w j. Green, Fayetteville, N. c.:
NV Dear Friend of Olden Times: Yours
of the 9Th inst came to hand this morn
ing.
The Photographic views of Seattle We're
sent you by me. I thought as you had
| seen some nttle Of the place some years
ago it would be surprise to see parts Of
it on paper, showing some of its recent
| improvements. Fl
The number of buildings erected in the
! last three years average about 5000 year
ly. The population is now estimated at
over $4,000 1t may not be conserva-
tive, but it is estimated by many that
the number will reach 10000 in ten years
from now. We have about 100 miles OF
street railroads and a suburban road
(trolley) to Tacoma % miles away. The
transcontinental railways that reach us
are the Canadian Pacific, the Great North
ern, the Northern Pacific, the Chicago,
Burlington and Pacific, the Union Pacific
and the Southern Pacific.
The steamship lines to the Orient and
to our island possessions are surprisingly
on the increase. James J. Hill, of the
Great Northern Railway, will soon put
on the Orient service two of the largest
steamships in the world They are near
w complete The Puget Sound Navy
Yard across the sound Ia miles from
here, is destined to be one of the best.
| if not the very best, in the United
States. The government is constructing
a ship canal from the sound via Lake
Union to Lake Washington. When this
is done Seattle will have the very best
harbor in the world. The Great North
ern Railway Company is constructing a
tunnel under the city, mile in length
TO us uepOt Oh INC lluC lldIns - -
southern part of the city. When tins is
, completed it will take all railway traffic
from the water branch, except what Is
necessary, for transferring freight iron
the docks to the railroads and vessels.
Our climate is wonderfully mild. This
winter is nearly half over and we have
only had two or three light trosts. GU
lawns are as green as at any time In the
year Only few days since | plckec
roses in our yard and there are sui
more buds coming out. I spent part o
last winter in Southern California anc
{ suffered more from cold than | ever eX
perienced in Seattle
, We have twenty-four district schoo
! buildings, and eleven rented roon
. where the buildings are insufficient 1o'
! the number of SCHOLARSHIP school tedch
q crs- Average daily attendance OF puplis
t 1895. Our high school building com
d pleted year ago, planned to acconno
l. date 1900 pupils, will, in two years IRON
4 now, have to be made large enough u
s accommodate 500 more pupils