Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-31
.DAkOTANS ON PACIFIC COAST

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Is said he walked three times through
the mountains mapping out the line.
Certainly 1t is a splendid tribute to
his engineering genius.
North Dakotans at Seattle.
But not too much Of scenery. Along
toward evening Everett, Chehahs and
other cities appear. At Everett a
delegation of North Dakotans boarded
the train to accompany the party to
Seattle. A. D. Lucas, formerly deputy
state auditor, was there. Ormsby Nc
Harg, now practicing law in Seattle,
came down to welcome the party.
Jerry Bacon and his wife were there,
having been on the coast for several
weeks. And from now on there were
old time Dakotans at every town,
warm in their welcomes and keen in
their delight at seeing old friends.
Seattle found dozens of Dakotans
waiting to greet the party-Harry
Bringhurst, Tom Church, H. D. Hur-
ley, Judge Sauter, ]. D. Trenholme,
and others without number. And so
the outward trip ended with the party
certainly in the hands of it's friends
and with nights rest at hotels in
prospect to prepare the excursionists
for the strenuous times of the morrow.
The Steamship Dakota.
On Friday took place what was to
the members of the party the crown.
ing event of the trip-the reception
aboard the Steamship Dakota. So
much has been said of the Dakota
that description would be a work of
supererogation. She lay at the dock
at Smiths Cove, a leviathan of the
sea. Her white sides glistened in the
light of a clear sunshine. President
Farrell of the Northern Steamship
company had made every possible ar.
rangement for the comfort and enjoy
ment of the party, and officers of the
ship escorted the visitors all about, ex-
planning the nature of the monster
craft.
Genius Of James }. Hill.
In the trip across the continent by
the Great Northern, the thoughtful
man involuntarily rendered his tribute
of respect and admiration to the
splendid genius at construction, who,
beginning with naught but a fertile
genius and indomitable will, laid
bands Of steel across great prairies,
through splendid valleys, over and
through great mountains, who bridged
streams and chasms with steel and
brought Seattle within sixty hours of
st. Paul. It was the work of life
time for an army of laborers, com
passed and directed by one masterful
man who was big enough and broad
enough to see the destiny of this great
territory. No mountain was high
enough, no chasm broad enough to
deter him from his labor. And, hav-
ing traversed the line of roal laid un-
der so many difficulties and through
so forbidding chain of mountains,
the thoughtful man found, where the
work. of railroad building was estop-
ped by the waves of the Pacific ocean,
a monster ship, full equipped and
ready to continue the transportation
Of men and products from one con-
tinent to another across the seas.
Here was a system and completeness
Of energy carried to it's utmost-an
energy that not only spanned the con-
tinent but reached across the seas in
to lands thousands of miles distant,
half encompassing the globe with a
continuous line OF transportation.
So much for the work Of James J.
Hill. 1t is not meant to be more than
a passing reference to his genius. The
story OF that will not be written in his
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come, he viii stand out, towering
and preeminent figure In the world OF
men who DO.
Some History Of the Ships.
Briefly Of the Dakota: She was
launched In January. 1904. She is OF
the intermediate cargo and passenger
type, equipped and fitted for the re-
quirements Of the trans-Paci{lc trade.
Her passenger accommodations COM
pare fayorably with the best Atlantic
liners while In cargo carrying capacity
and displacement she exceeds any
vessel every built in America, except
ing OF course her twin sister, Mime
sofa. She Is six hundred and thirty
three feet IN length, seventy-three
feet six inches in beam and ffty-six
feet deep. There are five complete
decks in the hull proper and three In
the deck house. She has double
water bottom and fifty-two water tight
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