The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-08-23
TWO REDWOOD FALLS HOMES

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Spokane is a good city-a
big city-a city that will al
ways maintain it's place in
eastern Washington, but the
president really might have
said that she never saw such
city anywhere as Seattle"
Over the Great Northern road
you run along the shore of the
Sound and Seattle appears in
the distance almost as does
New York on Manhattan.
Steamships are plying in and
out of harbor destined to be even
greater than that back of Golden
Gate, and these boats are going to
and coming from every part of the
globe. Some are on pleasure bent
while others are carrying the freight
of the world. Railroad trains
freight and passenger-ar coming
and going, and each train seems to
be loaded with human or marketa
BILE freight. In the waters of the
Sound, resting on piles, are the
great saw mills that are rapidly
turning the forests of Washington
into all kinds of lumber, and the
finest lumber milling plants known
to humanity are located here. Here,
too, are many other factories, turn
ing out products that 60 to make up
business world. Still further, are
the combined railroad and steam
boat docks, around which nestles a
commerce the like of which the ear
ly western explorers probably never
dreamed of. But the Sound has
encroached too far upon land, and
man is driving it's waters back.
The railroads, in their hunt for
more land, have purchased vast
water frontage, and are now en-
gagged in hauling dirt and gravel
and kinds of refuse, as we'll as TAX
ing portion of it from further out
in the Sound, and forcing the water
from their purchase, on which will
soon be constructed vast Pacific
coast terminals. Man can do most
anything is clearly proven at Seat
| tie.
On the hills and down to the wat
er line are the business and resi-
dence Districts united commun-
ity growing so rapidly and contain
ing a population going so fast, that
the census enumerators have found
it simply impossible to determine
the exact population in any one
month. Immense business build
ings and beautiful residences that
would be creditable to any eastern
town are located here-the former
hives of industry and the latter
happy homes. To enumerate or
particularize would be unfairin any
short newspaper article. One must
see for ones SELF
1t was shortly after our arrival
in Seattle and our assignment to
comfortable quarters in The Butler
that [ strolled down into the de-
lightful and expensive cafe of that
popular hostelry and took seat at
one of the tables. Three or four
tables away sat Col. A. J. Blethen,
formerly of the Minneapolis Tri-
bune, under whom I received nv
first daily newspaper training, and
with him three other members of
the Mystic Shrine. Col. Blethen
is running the Seattle News, Seat
tie S greatest daily. He spied me
and | was soon one of his number
and for two hours I was wined and
dined by this noble quartet of
desert travellers who insisted fre-
quently that my money was bad and
their gold alone was good. Here in
Seattle, too, on the Saturday eve
ming that we returned from Port
land, we met at the depot Mrs. w.
A. Hubbard, formerly Miss Allie
Sickle of Redwood Falls, who in
sisted that we must go out to their
suburban home at Ballard an in
vitation that we were reluctantly