. The tourist's northwest. rn Pacific Office Build-ing to Pacific Avenue, the main round-topped Union Station and the depot ofthe Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road aresouth of Eleventh Street, which is the principalcommercial highway running at right angles to Pa-cific Avenue. The Tacoma Hotel, on a bluff at theedge of the harbour, looks down upon the activitiesof Commencement Bay, beyond which the Mountainrises, apparently from the shore. In this deep-water haven, protected from all the winds that blowby a fortunate disposal of islands and high penin-sulas, vessels sail to
. The tourist's northwest. rn Pacific Office Build-ing to Pacific Avenue, the main round-topped Union Station and the depot ofthe Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road aresouth of Eleventh Street, which is the principalcommercial highway running at right angles to Pa-cific Avenue. The Tacoma Hotel, on a bluff at theedge of the harbour, looks down upon the activitiesof Commencement Bay, beyond which the Mountainrises, apparently from the shore. In this deep-water haven, protected from all the winds that blowby a fortunate disposal of islands and high penin-sulas, vessels sail to widely scattered ports withwheat, flour, ore, lumber and fish in their cavernousholds. Tacoma claims for many of her plants thelargest area or production in the world, inthe United States, or west of a given elevators and the gaseous shaft of a smelterchimney are the most striking features of herwater-front silhouette. The citys growth dates from the completion ofthe Northern Pacific Railroads transcontinental. CAXYOX NORTH ERX WASHINGTOX LOWER SOUND. SOUTHWEST COUNTIES 213 system early in the 80s. Its population whichwas then 1098 has increased a hundred-fold. Out-distanced now beyond dispute by Seattle and Spo-kane, Tacoma has relaxed her agitated race to betop city of Washington, has convalesced fromfevered booms, and settled into an even pacemuch more conducive to stable prosperity than thejerky going of the past. Tacoma has long had pride in its great HighSchool, gabled like a French chateau and pictur-esquely situated on a rise overlooking the recent years, the concrete benches of an open-air auditorium have been constructed about ahorse-shoe field, where games, festivals and massmeetings attract on special occasions a concourseof spectators and performers equal to half thepopulation of the city. As the cost of the amphi-theatre was borne by the citizens, through popularsubscription, it is in every sense a municipal insti-tution. In the vicini
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