brightest prospects for the future, and each also delights 

 to decry the boasted advantages of the other. Our 

 caiulid ;uul unprejudiced opinion is Ihal Seattle is by all 

 odds the most enterprising and promising of the two. 

 Certainly there is much more life there than in Tacoma, 

 and more public spirit. 



Tacoma seems to have been nursed and coddled so 

 nuich by the Northern Pacific that, in a measure, she has 

 lost her indciK-ndence. On the other hand Seattle has 

 had to .-^cratch and fight for her railroad favors, and 

 fought so well that she has fairly compelled the Northern 

 Pacific to come off its "Tacoma perch" and hustle for 

 its share of the trade. The Great Northern Railway is 

 expected to be opened to Seattle in a few months, and 

 then the difference will lie still more marked. 



We have been enjoying the luxury of trolling for 

 salmon in Puget Sound, both at Seattle and Tacoma, 

 with fairly good success, as all our party save one (and 

 he was the professional "lone fisherman" of the party) 

 caught one or more salmon. While the sport was ver>' 

 exciting, I confess I was disappointed at the tame fight 

 they make when hooked. There is a good deal more 

 fight and fun in a four jionnd l)ass than you can get out 

 of a sixteen pound salmon. But they are beauties; and 

 when vou have ihem safely landed and lying in the 

 bottom of the boat, they are certainly a "joy forever." 

 Our fifteen-year-old sportsman was not to be outdone 

 bv the older hands, for he not only hooked and landed 

 his salmon, but he also landed a ironi with the trolling 

 line and spoon, a feat which none of us had ever heard 

 of before. 



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