The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-13
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For the express purpose OF CLIMBING
Mount Rainier all BY his lonesome.
F. Augustus (oorehouse, of London,
England. dropped into Seattle Sunday.
He Is going to begin the ascent some
time this week, starting from Tacoma
and tramping to the mountain Just the
same as any plebian American. He
does not know how long it will take
him to accomplish his object, and he
does not care. Mr.. Moorehouse is
man of some leisure, and will stay by
the job until it is completed.
The Londoner came to this coun-
try solely for the purpose of seeing
Niagara falls. When in Buffalo he
met a Washingtonian and the two
struck up quite friendship. 1t was
through him that Mr.. Moorehouse
learned of Mount Rainier and decided
to climb right to the top of it. He an
ticipates no difficulty. He has chased
through the Alps extensively for a
pastime, and little hill like Rainier
is not going to withstand his assaults,
Mr.. Moorehouse thinks.
Too Rough and Ready.
Unfortunately for the United States
of America, Mr.. Moorhouse does not
fancy Niagara. In fact, he does not
particularly like anything American.
Too rough and ready is this country,
he thinks, and lacking in the ultra
fastidiousness of European life. Mr..
Moorehouse, although he does not
lay any claim to title, and is not even
ious. At the Hotel Cecil, where he
is stopping during the short time that
he remains in Seattle, even the col
ored bell boys have become deeply i'm
pressed with the manners of the aris-
tocratic Britisher.
The fact that Niagara has been
''harnessed' has deeply offended Mr..
Moorehouse He said to a reporter
who humbly begged for an Interview:
Thinks It's a Shame.
as dominates the American people.
The spirit of commercialism seems to
permeate the very atmosphere, don't
cher know. Fancy Harvesting Mag
ara. 1t is an outrage to use the great
est work of nature for purposes of
mere gain. Don't you bloomin' Ameri-
cans realize that there is something
higher than money? What right had
you to utilize those great falls for
motives of gain? None whatever. The
falls are international. They belong
to the entire world. They are the
pride Of the entire world. And yet
you people have seen fit to use the
power to make light and heat and all
that sort of thing, don'tcher know,
and thus reduced the flow of water
over the falls 80 per cent. 1t is an
outrage and l cannot understand why
your government stands for it. We
would not in England.
Falls Are Ruined.
Il came to America only to see Nj
agara and perhaps to look at the Hud-
son river 1 discovered at the end of
my journey that you have ruined the
falls and blasted half the bluffs away
from the Hudson. Now I come to
Mount Rainier as a sort of a last re-
sort l suppose that when 1 attain
the summit of the mountain l will
find billboards advertising some liver
pill or else find that you are utilizing
the mountain for a wireless Geographic
station. 1 may make myself unpopu-
lar, but reiterate that it is a blasted
shame the way American enterprise
has ruine6 the cOuntry''