The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-06-16
Letter from Seattle.

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way from Spokane to Seattle we
had several hours ride among the
Rockies, and they are grand. There
was more coloring in the rocks here
than we had seen before and though
we had three engines, We were very
late in arriving.
Seattle lies on hills, with noun
tains everywhere around and the
water below it all. We have been up
in high tower where We could see
the whole city and the Olympic
range of mountains up in triangu-
lar point between Puget Sound and
the ocean.
Across the city the other way Is
Mt. Rainier said to be the highest
peak in the United States. Most of
the time it is wrapped in clouds,
and we only had one clear view.
The streets are so steep that 1
held my breath when first saw the
street cars and autos go down them.
There are strips raised up in the
cement so people won't start at the
top and slide all the way down.
One day we took car ride around
Green Lake and got off in forest
of enormous trees. There was thick
underground of fine, feathery ferns,
shining green vines and oceans OF
wild blackberry bushes. The odor of
the pines was so delicious ! just
wished / could bottle 1t up and send
it to you. When we emerged from
the forest we seemed to be right
under the snow capped mountains.
The Sound has so many branches
and arms that there seems to be
water everywhere.
There are SO many people here
that know me, / am having invita-
lions galore.
Nellie Burgess, one of my Sagi-
nav pupils, is here and we were in
vited to dinner with some of her
friends, musical people named Cad
we'll. Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Strehl
invited me to dinner and took me
for long auto ride all around Lake
Washington and for miles on beau
tiful boulevard. The road in some
places zig Jagged up and up high
hills, all heavily wooded and in
some places covered with fine yell
low flower which grew in such pro-
fusion it looked like sheets of yellow
flame.
We went all through the old ex-
position grounds, the permanent
buildings of which have been given
to the state university. There is a
perfectly grand view from these
grounds, but Seattle abounds in
views everywhere. We saw the
canal which is to be extended and
deepened until the large ocean ves-
sells can go into Lake Washington
for harbor.
l have been very pleasantly en-
tertained by the Williams people
here, who use to live in Owosso.
They have a daughter named Mar
guerite, a pretty girl Of about six
teen.
Besides all the visiting and sight
seeing, we have had to play more
here than in any place we have been.
When we had finished playing one
evening there was such prolonged
applause they raised the curtain to
show that the stage was empty. Still
the people applauded and Mrs. Mich
OILS stepped in front of the curtain
and said. ri am very sorry, but my
children have all gone home. Won't
you come again?"
/ am sending you some pictures
of the principal business streets, you
will notice the pretty lighting sys-
tenn. Each avenue is about sixty
feet higher than the next.
We saw, exhibited in one OF the
store windows, a branch cut from
an apple tree bearing thirty apples,
each one about five inches in dame
ter. Was not that curiosity?
1 shall have many pleasant MEM
cries of Seattle. We shall go from
here, by boat, to Vancouver.
Miss Mable Ferry.