TOWNS OF PUGET SOUND 



who lived in this part of the Sound. He was 

 very proud of the honor and lived long enough 

 to lead his grandchildren about the streets. 

 The greater part of the lower business portion 

 of the town, including a long stretch of wharves 

 and warehouses built on piles, was destroyed 

 by fire a few months ago,^ with immense loss. 

 The people, however, are in no wise discour- 

 aged, and ere long the loss will be gain, inas- 

 much as a better class of buildings, chiefly of 

 brick, are being erected in place of the in- 

 flammable wooden ones, which, with com- 

 paratively few exceptions, were built of pitchy 

 spruce. 



With their own scenery so glorious ever on 

 show, one would at first thought suppose that 

 these happy Puget Sound people would never 

 go sightseeing from home like less favored 

 mortals. But they do all the same. Some go 

 boating on the Sound or on the lakes and 

 rivers, or with their families make excursions 

 at small cost on the steamers. Others will 

 take the train to the FrankUn and Newcastle 

 or Carbon River coal-mines for the sake of 

 the thirty- or forty-mile rides through the 

 woods, and a look into the black depths of the 

 underworld. Others again take the steamers 

 for Victoria, Fraser River, or Vancouver, the 



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