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 reserves in connection with several smaller ones, and with the beautiful park-like country extending south of Tacoma to and beyond Steilacoom, it might be thought that for so busy a town its preparations for play were too elaborate, if it were not perceived that they are in keeping with everything else about us.

WHERE SHIPS ARE LOADED.

What surprises me more, if possible, than anything else is the extent of the Tacoman suburbs. You take a street car on Pacific Avenue and run out to the eastern end of the city. It seems a long way, but when you get there you take another line which goes somewhere, and find it takes you half a dozen miles out into the country, or into the woods, for the half-cleared land is laid out in lots and built up all along the line with comfortable houses. Then you come back and try another line which branches off into the Puyallup Talley, running straight through the thick woods for several miles, and designed to go to the town of Puyallup, nine miles east from Tacoma.