Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-03-01
|ACHANGE DEMANDED GREATER aberdeen
WONDERFUL GROWTH OF The CITY
SURPRISES A VISITOR.
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p. II. ScuIIin, Secretary of the Nation.
al Industrial Peace Association.
Visits Aberdeen After an Absence
OF Three Years, and Tells of His
Surprises.
EDITOR ABERDEEN HERALD:

EDITOR ABERDEEN HERALD:
SIR:-As an old resident of the Ever.
green state, who has paid occasional
visits to your charming city OF Aberdeen,
VIII you kindly permit me to express,
through the columns of your representa-.
tive paper, in my own feeble wav, after
an absence Of three years, the surprise
with which l beheld your new Aberdeen.
Though far distant from the state of
Washington at the time, read with
grief the destruction by fire of the busi.
ness portion OF your city, and wondered
at the time if your enterprising citizens
would here show to the world that un.
denying and indomitable pluck which
has Justly earned for the hardy pioneers
OF the west the admiration of the world,
Yet my thoughts upon the subject were
Tree from every element OF doubt, know
ing as did the go-ahead spirit of your
people, nevertheless am surprised in
this my first visit since the fire. What
do find on your principal streets where
the wings OF the destroying angel famed
the flames OF destruction but little
over two short years ago? Business
blocks, not OF wood, but OF stone, brick
and concrete, which put to shame many
OF our Jar eastern cities of large popula-
ton, and not only in the solidity and
number OF your new and beautiful struc.
lures is the confidence and enterprise of
your citizens shown, but in their en-
larged and better equipped stores; your
clothing emporiums, drug, hardware,
jewelry grocery and other stores, taken
in conjunction with your banks, facto, les
and mills and the general hum Of pros.
perity that pervades every rank of life
and phase Of society in this young
Phoenix must fill the heart OF the aver.
age Aberdonian with glow of com.
lnendaole pride, inasmuch as he or she
can say to all: See what we can do in
Abereeen where the enterprise OF our
people is backed by the unbounded re.
sources of bounteous Nature and an
equaDle climate.
And yet another surprise of the most
agreeable kind was in store for me when
arrived in your city, the we'll equipped
electric street car service. have trav-
eled through the principal cities from
San Francisco to Washington. d. c., and
in none have l found street cars of a
more modern type or higher standard
OF courtesy among officials, from the
super intendent to the gentlemen entrust.
ed with the safe transportation OF the
patrons of the road. And just here, Mr.
Editor, let me say word wAich | think
may be taken as illustrative of Aber.
deems success. | paid business visit
to the street car office to see the superin-
tendent, expecting to meet portly gem
tleman dressed in broadcloth. What
was my surprise to meet a young man
not hidden away in private sanctum-
but hustling about his business in a
working suit of clothes, with the alert
appearance OF an intelligent mechanic to
whom had been entrusted some RESPONSE.
BILE piece of work that had to be finished
within given time, yet when approached
showed himself possessed of that delicate
courtesy instructive of business. And
here, let me say, is what has made and
what will continue to make Aberdeen.
Everybody works here. The industrial
atmosphere is pregnant with the spirit
of cooperation and content, each indi-
vidual striving manfully to do his duty
in the sphere OF life in which God has
placed him, while never ceasirg for
moment to aspire to something higher;
and thus it is that he who leads the
noblest life is he who does that we'll
which he has to do.
p. II. SCULLIN.
Aberdeen, Feb. 2S. 1906.