, 1876-10-28

SHIPPING NEws.-The Gem of the
Ocean and Osmyn are ready for sea
and will sail tonight. The Lizzie
! Williams and brig Levi Stevens will
take their places at the Seattle
bunkers. The barkentine Taylor is
loading lumber at Colman's mill
and the Montana takes coal for the
Renton Company. Bark J. w.
Seaver will finish discharging freight
tonight.
DoL1ARH1bE.-This enterprising
young photographer leaves here for
San Francisco on the next trip of the
Dakota. He has sent us picture
of Yesler's wharf with the Libby
and Dakota lying there. He will
take position under George D.
Morse, the best photographer of
children on the Coast.
ROUGH T1ME.-Capt. B. B. Tut5le
we'll known here and at Olympia,
was nearly drowned at Astoria last
Saturday. He saw Chinaman go
off the wharf in the darkness and, in
undertaking to save him, got a wet
jacket himself. He says the "uni-
versal motherhood of bran" is play
ed out.
The LAsT.--The workmen commen-
ced operations on Pinkham & Saxe's
store to- day, having finished Naeher's
jewelry store last night. This is the
last store in that block. What blessings
those jack have been to us local
reporters.
MEET1NG.-A meeting of the stock
holders of the Seattle tt Walla Walla
railroad has been = led for Friday next,
the 9th inst. by the Secretary. I'm
poItance business being expected, full
attendance is desired.
RUMoR.-We learn that one of ou1
most popular young merchants will
shortly follow the excellentexample
of Charley Young. NUNS the word.
FkoNr STREET. A revolution in the
business portion CT this city is going or
all tho time. and when the improve.
ments to Front street are completed. We
shall have fine promenade. This adds
to retail business great help and ma
terially enhances the value Of property
Halls & Paulson's furniture factory ta
nearly done and when they transfer
their operations thither, other manufac-
tories will follow in their wake. Ten
years hence, the bulk of retail trade
will be located north of Mill street,
while wholesale trade will be done upon
Commercial. Large houses like Schwa-
bacher Bros & Co., the Frauenthals,
Crawford & Harrington, WA. Jennings
and others. will in time discontinue re-
tail trade and make money by doing SO.
The small traders about the lower
Sound, will find it profitable to pur-
chase here just rs soon rs Seattle ceases
to compete with them in direct trade
with the farmers upon whom they are
dependent. We are in a transitory state,
between large town and a small city.
and another five years like the last five,
will regulate all these little discrepan-
cies. Our position is such that we are
the radiating center of a great traffic
that can never decrease. Let us not
abuse the advantages bestowed upon us
by Nature, but improve upon them by
a liberal and enlightened commercial
policy.
CoMPLA1NTs.-We hear q great deal
of complaint about the manner in which
freight is shipped hither from Portland,
and what we say here is said in no par
ticularly captious spirit against any
body, but with desire to set parties
interested upon the trail of the careless
ones. The editor of this paper receiv-
ed shipping receipt of o. s. N. Co. 8
steamer Bonita, dated Friday night, for
merchandise shipped that day. and it
has not come to hand yet. We also had
some machinery for our business ship
ped from San Francisco on the same
day; and the probabilities are that it
will get here first. We learn that the
o. s. N. Co. have recently lost all their
old. experienced officers by reduction
of wages. and filed their places with a
lot of school-boys. They will find it a
penny wise and pound foolish" policy.
We have yet to learn that experience is
a crime.
RUNAWAY RoYs.-The Oregonian saws
that two boys, sons of respectable par
ents, ran away from Portland q few
days since to join Queens circus. They
are located somewhere on Puget Sound,
and on Wednesday their friends started
in pursuit of the runaways. We have
heard nor seen anything of the young
sters. These matters are always made
out great deal worse than they really
are. We will venture to say that those
boys are In Olympia, eating up all oi
burr's oysters and raising money to
start another daily newspaper in that
overcrowded city.