Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALITY. [ARTICLE]

NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALITY.

What an Eastern Traveler Learned in the Montana Mountains. “The people of the East,” said John P. Miller, who had just returned from a trip through the West, “do not know what broad, open-hearted hospitality means. It takes the experience of a trip through the Northwest to learn how much one man can do for another. I never saw anything like it. The mere fact that I came from Washington in itself was frequently the open sesame to everything. If I knew someone who knew someone else, and he in turn knew the man I was talking to, there was nothing in the town too good for me. One gentleman to 1 whom I was introduced out in a Montana town did not think it too much trouble to drive me around to several places which I had to visit, and yet he and I were total strangers until we were introduced an hour before. A hotel-keeper, who happened to hear that I wanted to meet a prominent citizen of the town, sent three of his bellboys out to hunt up the man and bring him to the hotel. I could tell instance after instance of the hospitality'of the Western people, and I am willing to bet that my experience could hot be duplicated in the East if L were to travel for a thousand years.”—Washington Post