The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-05-09
GAZETTE SCRIBE ABROAD
A SPIN THROUGH THE BEAUTIFUL
PARKS, OVER THE BOULE.
Wards OF SEATTLE
PANORAMA OF SCENIC BEAUTY
Expensive Municipal Embellishments
That are Well Worth the Very
Heavy Investment

pleasing and striking features of Seat
tie are the boulevards and parks.
There are miles upon miles of these
boulevards, with many ramifications.
encircling. or radiating from, the city,
following the shore line of Lake
Washington, valuable asset in the
general assembly of features that in
combination lends so much charm to
the scenic setting for this municipal
gem, and extending long distances
into the surrounding country. They
can be seen to the best advantage, and
more thoroughly appreciated, only by
skimming over them in an auto, and
that privilege l was able to enjoy.
Many Of the readers of the Gazette
will remember DR.. J. s. Mcbride, who
spent some months at Nighthawk a
decade ago. The doctor is among the
many who have put good money into
Improbable mining ventures in our
north country. He is n good sport, and
Is wasting no regrets over that eX-
perience. Indeed, in one respect he
is far ahead of the game. DR.. Nc
Bride followed his investment into
Okanogan county, in rather delicate
health, and IL he did not take any
thing out Of the ground in return for
what he blew into 1t his stay of a
few months In OkanOgan, in con-
junction with the out door and rough
life he was compelled to live, owing to
the total absence of conveniences and
luxuries, put new blood in his veins
steel in his sinews, kick in his lungs,
color in his flesh, and he left this
country SO greatly improved physi-
cally that the money he lost and the
hardships endured were really very
advantageous investments. DR.. Nc
Bride went to Seattle from Night
hawk and entered upon the practice
OF his profession, in which he stands
high, and has built up a large and
lucrative business. 1t was through
the courtesy and kindness of DR.. Nc
Bride that l was enabled to see
large portion of Seattle only as it
can be seen to the best advantage.
This trip of observation was made in
the Doctors car. The day chosen was
the brightest and most spring-like
that marked the weather during my
ran into many miles. This is merely
explaining how it came that l was
able to do the drive ways in an auto
mobile, together with touch of per-
sOnal mention of a former Okanogan-
ite who is kindly remembered by a
number of old timers.
The paved streets and circling
highways of Seattle seem tangled
labyrinth to the uninitiated naturally
unfamiliar with the lay of the town,
without any real beginning or fixed
compass as car wires in and wires
out among the innumerable streets,
or sails around the maize of curves
in the boulevards that follow the con-
tour of the hills and the indentures
of the shore line around the lake.
A more beautiful drive than the
smooth, wide asphalt roadway that
follows the west shore of Lake Wash
ington for long distance, and which
Is in the process of extension, can
not be found on the continent. Not
that l have inspected all of them, but
that Is the expressed verdict of those
who have travelled afar over much of
the earth's surface. However. to see
it at its best one should drive over it
later in the season, when touch of
spring has dimpled the hill sides with
a myriad of flowers of rich and veri-
gated color, and carpeted the bare
places with bright, luxurious verdure.
Even in it's Incompatible attractive
ness as l saw the highway, and the
surrounding landscape through which
It winds, 1t was a revelation to me.
and every hundred feet seemed to pre-
sent some fresh and refreshing charm.
In places the road, either slipping
gradually down a grade, with many
turns and crooks, to water level, or
skirting the water front, passes
through forests with their tangle of
underground. in appearance un-
touched by the hand of man since the
day God placed it there. Again the
highway passes elegant homes with
their well kept grounds, evidence of
wealth and refinement. And again
the road is at the waters edge, with
io,s I'd a y'sis ~ TEs E.,a,.''. Of lake on ~