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viewed from the bay, which belongs to no other town on the Sound.

Seattle, like all towns in their formative periods, was, and still is, a combination of the new and beautiful with the decaying and grotesque, although the great conflagration was of service in wiping out much of the latter, as well as in introducing even more largely the former. As it stands to-day it contains hundreds of buildings which would be a credit to any city in the United States for grand proportions and grace of outline. The Hotel Rainier and Hotel Denny arc built upon the heights, with magnificent views on every side, themselves constituting a part of that pleasing tout ensemble presented from the approach by water.

Like Tacoma, Seattle has extended its suburbs in all directions. It is a saying that the two cities meet half-way, in spite of their confessed rivalry. North, the street railways carry you to Queen Anne Town, the fashionable quarter; Gilman's Addition, the terminal centre of three railroads; Ballard, another addition just being put on the market, on Salmon Bay; Bay View Addition, on Salmon Bay; Kilbourne's Division, on Green Lake; Tremont, on Lake Washington. East, to Bryn Mawi Park, on the west shore of this lake; Boston Heights, on the summit of the elevation between Elliot Bay and Lake Washington, to Green's addition, and Summit addition, and I do not know how many more. A ferry carries you to West Seattle, where a company with half a million is making improvements, as before mentioned.

In none of these places do you find the view lacking in interest, whether you are thinking of the wonders of nature or the works of men: both are here worthy of attention. West Seattle sits upon a high sandy point, which having once attained, you have water on every side except the southern, a city on the east. Port Blakely mills, the largest in the world, the smoke of whose burning sawdust ascendeth forever, and serves as a beacon on the Sound, is a little north of west; and Port Orchard, the newly-selected site of the United States navy yard, is a little south of west.

But transferring yourself to Seattle, and taking a cable-car to Boston Heights, here again you have a water-view on both sides