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erect better buildings farther from the centre of the town, and with the remainder enlarge the endowment. There is a large Chautauqua circle here, and the society owns property on Yashon Island, near Tacoma, where it holds its annual meeting. A Young Men's Secretarial Institute also owns twenty acres adjoining the Chautauqua-plat, which is about establishing a training-school and gymnasium, with ball-ground, boating-club, and a variety of physical-development accessories.

This institute consists in the first place of the secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Associations throughout the Northwest, and the stock is sold only to active members of the associations. They will have twenty-five thousand dollars with which to make improvements in 1891. The two organizations promise to be helpful to each other, and together will make Yashon Island a popular summer resort. The institute has already published among its rules that "boiled shirts" are not admissible; polished shoes only admissible on Sundays; no study to be allowed in afternoons; the hours of sleep to extend from ten o'clock in the evening to seven in the morning. The last of these four rules may wisely balance the effect of the first three.

The common schools of Seattle are of a high order, and the city has erected handsome structures for their accommodation. The city supports an Orphans' Home and three hospitals, Providence Hospital being the largest on the Pacific Coast. The charitable orders are numerous, as in other cities.

The tourist has a choice in departing from Seattle of steamboat or railway service. The railroads going out of the city are the Puget Sound Shore line to Puyallup, where it connects with the Northern Pacific, and through that road with the Union Pacific, or O. R. and N. Railroad, and the Southern Pacific, or Oregon and California Railroad. The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad I have already referred to. This is an extensive system, only partially completed. The Snoqualmie branch on which I travelled opens up coal and iron fields in that region, and is eighty miles in length. Another branch, one hundred and twenty miles in length, known as the Seattle and West Coast Railroad, will connect with the Canadian Pacific, making Seattle one of its terminals. When completed the main line will cross