Tacoma, the Electric City of the Pacific Coast, and the chief seaport
of the North Pacific, is situated at the head of ocean navigation on
Puget Sound in latitude 47° 15´ north and longitude 122° 25´ west from
Greenwich. Being further north than Duluth or Quebec, Tacoma is supposed
by many to be bleak and cold. A popular misapprehension among Eastern
people seems to be that Puget Sound is somewhere near Alaska and that for
half of the year the people contend with snow and ice.