Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-18
v WASHINGTON
FORMER BisMARcKER GIVES HIS
IMPRESSIONS or tn *
TONS cAPlTAL
SOMETHING OF THE BEAUTIES
AND SOME or I'll 8 Dis
ADVANTAGES rs

4 formerly OF BISMARCK t8 ldHQ IL uihcS,
but now of the treasury department
/ in Washington, writes so interesting
" Of his experience and opinions OF
/ the national capital, his many friends s
A in Bismarck will be glad to read q
few quotations and Mr.. Guthrie has
been in Washington about six months
and is not yet quite convinced that
he prefers the enviro nment Of that
4 city to that of some other locality
in the west. He says:
Mr. M w. Hutchinson, Bismarck,
N. ID. "a
81 might have written sooner but
had not fully determined what 1
did think of this little city and I
am free to confess that I have not
yet fully made up my mind. That it
! is a large and beautiful city goes
without contradictions that their is
always something doing here is also
a fact: but that is not all that is re-
CURED to make man satisfied,
have surely been on the move since j.
came and now my walks around the
/ city will run pretty, regular three to-
Ave miles daily and seeing something
new all the time. Have been out to.
see Elston, formerly of Bismarcis,
twice. He is not $50 big and rugged
looking as when he left Bismarck,
but he has made good along other
lines as he has been transferred to
the Indian depar tment and last April
/ went UP to an ST, 800 salary.
Itbelieve the most Of the people Iiv-
4 ing here do not care to- live else
where and while there is lots of
Egrumbling as to cost Of living here
ssIsI cannot see that on the average
i it is worsesthan other places provided
4 a person will live in the same Way,
but it is pretty hard for the average
person to do that with temp ation
4 all around and III is here ali right
4 and scattered around IN great ab,l,,-
I, dance
& yesterday evening and this even
ing witnessed the ball game for q
/ time between Chicago and Detroit
The audience at the ashingtor
4 Post building was. i think, about s.,
900 and at the Washington Sta
q building fully twice as large, boil
! places were connected by wire 81
! that you could see the ball passe'
q the fellows on bases and batting ant
! it seems quite real. AT the Star |
ri large electric board was set up o.
the second story wall and a roun'
ground glass electric ball indicate
s where all the nine was located d
{ the field. AT each point of the dia
q lnond was light that would ligh
!. up when runner took a base an,
e go out when he left and next has
e would light up IL he reached Their
: safely The pitchers light Woul
show when he had the ball, Whe
nj he threw 1T lis light would go OF
t. and the catchers light up. If a ii
ri was made and the ball caught on I'll
h. fly you could tell from the light wi
caught it. The innings and scol
z was on the board all the time. Th
most complete thing of its kind
ever saw.
presume you have seen and talke
with Fennincer since his return.
was glad to see them and woul
liked to have spent more time wi
them, but they were not here lon
yuchols, Of Shaw & Suehols, Ma
@ dan, was also here and he and
spent a very pleasant day and a hi
together. We went to the Gaiety 4
gether to see Sullivan and Kilrain.
This a great place and In urbbe
ing around YOU simply sec what Is I
top, OF the ground but by being
s serving and asking questions I a
there is all kinds Of tunnels, pip.
sewers and wires underneath I'm
the ground is honeycoTnbed wi
them, but all covered with paYeme
and when you want to get at va
sewer and water pipes 1T mea
something here. ,.aI
The parks, squares and sire
here are the finest I have ever sc
in any city il have been In, bu
in any city have been In. But. I
my the money it costs. Priv
capital IS in many cases trying
build III harmony with the COVE
ment buildings and there is m,
marble displayed around as a resi-
Sunday afternoon I made 4 tour
insnection .of the new Union stat
to Pc. It sure Is the finest til
of Its kind a ever saw Think
spending twenty million dollars
new depot and grounds. HUI
reds of two, three and four st
buildings had to be torn down
make room for it,. The train sh
Land tracks are sight also and