The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-05-23
HE SAYS YAKIMA
EXCELS EVERETT
THROWS B0QUETS AT BUILDINGS
a. B. Lord PrOnOunces North Yakima
Liveliest and Most Progress
i've Town i'm the State.

Albert B. Lord, circulation man
ager of the Westerner, has been Wis
iting North Yakima in the interest
of his company. He is a very close
friend of N. f. Turner of the Y. NJ.
G. A. and is greatly interested in the
progress that is being made with the
proposed building.
Mr.. Lord is we'll educated along
social lines and in speaking of North
Yakima said that he believed this
city was livelier and did more bust
ness than Everett and that the city
was better built than any city in the
Pacific northwest of even twice the
population.
Mr.. Lord paid Yakima some very
high compliments when he prepared
the following statement for the Her.
aid:
do you know that North Yakima
is the liveliest town of its size | have
ever visited. ] am at present taking
a trip around the state for Seattle
corporation to study business condi-
tions, and, being entirely out of poll
tics and therefore independent, ! say
what | plea e. | say what | think is
right; this often makes people angry,
but at the same time ! do it for their
own good. Last Friday evening /
addressed the Commercial Club at
Ellensburg. and tod the citizens of
that town that they have a fine chance
to build up good city, brit that theS
will have to spend some time daily
first. and do some waking up to all
the opportunities surrounding them
''In respecting these things in
North Yakima, my object is to help
them over there to dress and go to
work. l would like to see the old
town of Ellensbrug get new start
and I am sure you would too, her
neigh Dor on the south.
''Do you know that keen competi-
ton is building business? You can
not enjoy a sinecure all your life,
and at the same time develop per-
feet manhood. The same is true
about the building of great cities
You have to have cities north of you,
and south of you, and east of you,
and west of you, that are all in for
the best that can be obtained, reach
ing out for more business, more rail-
roads, planting more trees on public
squares, wanting a finer Y. NJ C. A.
than the neighboring city, and so on.
Nov, in talking about North Yak
ina proper, as the editor so kindly
asked me to do, | would like to tell
you few good things about your
town. I had to make the Introduce
ton the way did in order to prove
to you that / am not afraid to say
to the contrary. / say without fear
of contradiction that North Yakima
is is the livelest, busiest town; in
an architectural way the best built
town of its size in the state-no,
think I will go farther and say, of
twice its size in the entire Pacific
northwest. I believe you are doing
more business than Everett does
yonder on the Sound. Your stores
are better supplied with stock than
many cities l do not care to men,
ton. Your church buildings display
taste and refinement.
II took two years. postgraduate
course in architecture at the Univers-
ty of Munich, and made speciality
in studying city developments, ETC.,
and therefore am able to forecast the
architectural future of city. l nat
uarlly have to take many things in
consideration. beginning with the
kind of clay her citizens are made OF