The Railroad Map That Erased Seattle

A Northern Pacific map, issued last month and circulated with advertisements of the company, is a little worse even than the map we mentioned the other day. That one did include Seattle, though the city was located on a wagon road back in the country, without rail connection of any kind whatever. This map doesn't even do that much for the town, but leaves it off altogether, with all three of its railroads. All other connections of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from Duluth to Tacoma, Wilkeson and Carbonado, are properly placed, including even the narrow gauge to Olympia, with which the big company is said to be at war. Such cities as Tenino, Kalama and Umatilla stand out boldly in capital letters—cities of less than 100 inhabitants each, to Seattle's 10,000—while the towns of Oliqua, Oneonta, Juniper, Lind, Trent, etc., that have yet to attain a population of 25 souls each, are equally distinctly marked, though in ordinary type. Though the grievance here is the severest, by reason of this being the largest town and being the terminus of at least three roads included in the Northern Pacific system, Seattle has the melancholy satisfaction of not being the only considerable town slighted, as neither Astoria, Vancouver nor Port Townsend are to be found in the map. Other companies will do as well on their maps, however, if the Northern Pacific will not, and in exemplification of what we say we may be excused for again referring to the Union Pacific's map, which shows the railroad from here to Tacoma and the railroad to Newcastle, as well as Seattle, Port Townsend, Astoria, Vancouver and almost every other town in the Territory. This sort of petty business always reacts upon those guilty of its perpetration, and it will not be surprising if the Northern Pacific realizes the truth of this assertion at an earlier day than will be pleasant for it.