Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Visited the State Capitol at Olympia. [ARTICLE]

Visited the State Capitol at Olympia.

A letter received a few days ago from George M. Babcock, who is still ■topping at Tacoma, Wash., says thai he had just returned from a trip to Olympia, the state capitol, making the trip over on the boat Misqually, leaving Tacoma at 9 a. m., and arriving in Olympia at 11:30 a. m. He says “It is a fine trip and lots of nice scenery on the way. The Misqually i s the fastest boat I have ever been on. It is quite a good deal faster that the Indianapolis on the Tacoma-Seattle Mae. | “Olympia, from a forty-five minutes looking around,. appears to be quite a beautiful place, although not a live town like Taooma. I went into the capitol building, which is •onstructed of cement blocks with a small amount of marble and is mostly wood finish on the inside. Did not have time to see the new •aiptol and other state buildings that are being erected in Olympia, but understand that they are to be very handsome. “We are having ideal weather here, except a few cloudy days each week. The atmosphere in the mornings is just frosty enough to make •ne feel good. The landlord at the hotel, an old resident, says that thunder storms and windstorms are unknown here —just nice, easy rains that fall for several days at a time, the only things that one has to contend with, and the rain would not ■oak one’s clothes unless one was to stand out in it all day.’ k