Seattle Pulls Strings for a National Convention

The canvass for funds to guarantee the expenses of the International Christian Endeavor convention in 1897, should it come to Seattle, will be taken up actively today, and the Post-Intelligencer will publish tomorrow morning a list of the subscribers and amounts secured up to this evening. Every delegate to the convention will spend at least $10 in the city, and it is expected that a large sum will be left in Seattle by these delegates. The railroads are taking the work up actively. A telegram has been received from F. I. Whitney, general passenger agent of the Great Northern, saying he is working with Eastern connections to “pull some strings in favor of Seattle.” Charles S. Fee, who occupies a like position with the Northern Pacific, wires that he will stand by the Northwest, as against California. Quite a party plans to go from Seattle and Tacoma to the convention at Boston next month to urge the claims of Seattle upon them. They will start two weeks from today, and reach Boston two days before the convention in order to be on the ground early.