Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-03

later before the show could be seen
at Its best Most Of the buildings are
being built permanent and / under
stand it is expected to preserve the
grounds as completed. The perspec.a
tive lis, or will be when finished, be-
fine to look at. The board walk, fac.
Ing tide water, has a frontage Of
about two miles, the Inside Inn be-
ing located at one end along this
walk. About every 100 feet Is an
electric arc light with a ground glass
globe upon medium low stationary
posts. Back Of the walk and parallel
with it is a broad roadwer for driving
Fronting this road and walk is the
Innside Inn and the state buildings,
except in the centre front is the Plaza
fronting the grand entrance BASIN,
which was simply an outline at that
time. Taken In connection with this
city and the ride down the Potomac
with the shipping and boats, think
"a person will be repaid later in the
season by trip over the grounds.
Washington is very different city.
from the place | visited twenty years
since and Judging from the plan for
the future OF the. city, which is in
miniature in the public library, it is
far from completed yet. The points
of interest in and around the city
are numerous and the street car COM
panies have at the terminals of their
lines built up amusement parks.
Amongst which most prominent are
Luna Park in Virginia, Great Falls
of Potomac, out some sixteen miles,
Glenn ucho, Chevy Chase Lake, etc,
all of these places have attractions
and music and electrical illumina.
! lions and are all worth visit The
/ street car system is the best ever
no unsightly poles with overhead
/ wires in the city, all have a third
: rail underground. The tracks look
j very much like the old cable cal
tracks upon the surface. 4 .sz
]! How do / like. the city and my
/ job Well, that is pretty hard tt
answer. Here I am in a city of 800,
/ GOO and know practically no one will
! little prospect of change. an
not what is usually called a sociabl,
i fellow and yet this is little TOT
much of my style to suit even me
i There is plenty of amusement here
i:but I find wherever I go am
!. stranger to all. The department pee
pie, many of them, are simply her
because it is better living for then
i for the same work than they coult
get at their homes. The grind goe
:, on and on and the frequent pls
4 hear is, eff I could do as well il
salary would rather be away fron
Washington The old and grey
headed seem to be in the majorit
and a persons independence of az
ton is practically gone from mir
here in the departments. (.
4 You can think, but your thinl
J don't count, it is the fellow abov
you that thinks and you do as h
thinks. Altogether, it is more of
: prison for a public officer than i
mas been my luck to encounter be
fore. None of my family are will
me yet, but am expecting a visi
from two of them the last of tn,
month. I am undecided about NOV
ing them here unless I get to lik'
it better as they are much NOR
comfortable where they are than
have not seen Elston yet but i
this fiery furnace will cool off fo
4 a while I intend to Took him up.
+ Personally 1 can live better herr
for same money than in Bismarck
but with my family with me I ques
ton whether the position would b.
the same of course, there is NOR,
doing here and more to see and will
a family, at least that is the tall
II hear from the ladies in the sam.
room where I work. I hope I ma!
like it better when I get to that poin
that il seems to me that an, doins
something. Going over accounts o
$4,000 to 100000 and finding NJ
material errors or but very small
ones and largely clerical, makes mt
feel sometimes like my time is vast
ed, but find that most o. the Others
| think they are doing great thing: