WEST SHORE.
lices, surveyor's offices and vault and toilet rooms.
On the upper iloor are a law library room 22xM
feet, two witness rooms, court record vault, clerks' of
fices, and two court rooms, each 30x112 feet in si.o and
each having a jury room, consultation room, judges'
chambers and private office in connection with them.
The structure is thoroughly firo proof, its walls be
ing masonry and its floors of Bteel and cement, sixty
eight tons of steel being used in constructing the floors
and partitions. It is certainly a substantial and high
ly ornamental structure, and from tho lofty position it
occupies will challenge tho attention and admiration
of every traveler on Puget sound, even should ho fail
to stop in the city, which is something of which few
travelers are guilty.
THE KICKING HORSE NATURAL BRIDGE.
ONE of tho famous natural objects of America is
the natural bridge of Virginia. Its outlines are
familiar to every eye, as it forms one of every
collection of engravings of American scenery
and adorns a pago in every school geography. Equal
ly familiar is tho story of tho young man who Bought
to carve his name on its rocky walls higher than the
name of any venturesome person who had preceded
him, and who was saved from destruction by iciiig
drawn up to tho top with a rope let down by those who
had discovered his perilous position. It is certainly
most picturesque and interesting because of tho asso
ciations that cling about it, but the western portion of
tho continent contains many natural bridges, some of
which far exceed that of Virginia in size and tho ele
ments of tho picturesque. One such is becoming quite
familiar to tho tourists who visit tho National Park of
the Yellowstone, where it forms one of the numerous
attractions of that region of marvels. A still larger
and more picturesque object of this nature is tho great
natural bridge on Kicking Horse river, in ltritish Col
umbia. Tho Canadian Pacific crosses the Rocky
mountains by tho Kicking Horse pass, ascending the
How river from Calgary to the summit of the puss and
then descending tho Kicking How on tho western
sloMi to tho Columbia.
Not far from tho road is the wonderful natural
bridge ihown in the largo two-page engraving in the
center of this number. The river, which is a wild
mountain torrent, has a considerable fall just l fre
reaching tho hugo mass of rook through which it finds
a passage, its pent-up waters boiling and surging
through the narrow aperture with great force, while
the sound of falling and dating water constantly
lute tho ear of the sjKrtator. A glance at the cngrav
ing will show tho peculiar rocky nature of tho rivers
banks at this point and convey a slight impression of
what all who have seen it declare- to lie one of tho
most interesting, curious and picturesque scenes to Iw
found m the Kocky mountains, that great region so
alxmnding in natural wonders.
The (VintniVfc defends the action of the San Fran
cisco chandler of commerce in withdrawing from tho
new Pacific coast organization on the ground that tho
interests of tho city and other portion of the coast
are not identical. Doe tho CnniiWc mean to say
that San Francisco consider herself In a position hos
tile to the Pacific coast generally, ami that her pros
pority is to lie promoted by opposing the general good
of all? Such seem to bo the situation, and San Fran
cisco will not gain much in friendship and commercial
good will by taking such a Hellish and unwise msI
tion. The hint that the movement is in tho interest
of tho Central and Southern Paeilie Is hardly worthy
of notice, as the Chmnitlr is a fanatic on that subject
and may ho indulged in a little canter with it pet
hobby.
It is certainly to be regretted that Vice President
Morton should feel so lightly the dignity of the jmsi
tion to which ho was elevated by the American ieoplo
a to embark in the hotel business, or any other for that
matter, during his term of office, the more so that ho
is abundantly able to live in comfort and even luxury
without tho revenue to lie derived from such a source.
All good citi.eii of either party M that the dignity
of the office bus Wen lowered, The absurd feature of
tho whole affiiir is the mock seal for temperance and
the crocodile tear of the democrat, who lift up their
voices in unison with the ladies of the W. C. T. V. in
expressions of horror. Politic develop funny situa
tion sometimes.
A hint comes from (iermany that she may sn'k to
get a slice of Urnxil, during the troublous time ex
acted to follow the change in the form of government.
It is s.ssible that (iermany hn not fully digest"! the
mottling of the pan-American congress now in session,
but if not, her digestion will tw aided by a few sugge
tion from varioii American government when she
attempt to put her hint Into action.
The Federal Steel Co. ha l'ii ineorM.ratel a a
gigantic trust of the wire, barU wire and wire nail
Industrie. This i the first time one of these robU
combination haa had the candor to VUr it object
in its title. The Co-oH-ratlv Highway lUlnry A
Hurglary Association may Im e.evtcd to put in an
early apH'aranee.