The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-06-02
DAILY INTELLICEN(ER.
Saturday, June 2. 1877.

CgowDIyG \ True BESEFAcToR TO
THE wALL--So single ia>i st:oa has
contributed % largely to tls growth
and prosperity Of our city g. the Seattle
Goa! AMI Transportation Company.
They commenced operations here about
seven years age, and since then the
ba siness interests of our city 70 con-
siderable extent have been closely
Identified with theirs. As their business
has grown from month 20 month their
disbursements became larger. new
names have been added to their list Of
employees aud their value 20 the city has
increased For the past two years, ac-
cording 10 the showing of their own
books, they have disbursei in the AZ
erecate, into the hands of their en-
ployees aud our citizens generally. for
Labor, material, etc, etc. the round
sum Of $50. $50 per mouth What city
would not extend every inducement,
ana grant almost any privilege for
the establishment OF such an institution
ia It's midst? It is no. only what they
are 10 our city at present. but what
they are to be In the future tina. should
be taken into account. 1t cannot be
claimed, however. that our citizens
are less appreciative than those of other
cities for they are not. Our citizans
with but scarcely an exception. duly
appreciate the value Of this company 10
our city They understand that 10 take
II from rs would bo like extracting an
arm from the human body In the out
set our city granted that company the
right Of way through Pike street for
a railroad to the water front for q term
81 twenty years; also the privilege
of erecting a machine shop and &C.
cnpying Pike street from Front To
Webb street, or more properly To the
edge Of the tremendous bluff that
makes off there, FOR the same period.
with the stipulation that the City
Council should reserve the privilege
of opening twenty feet through this
portion of the street when it deemed i.
necessary TO do so. The company found
Pike street unopened. ami like the adj
jacent country coveret with thick
primevai forest. They cleared away
the street, ran their road through for
thu dis ance mentioned. aud graded aud
opened to travel a strip of twenty feet
through the street from Front to Fourth
along the line of the road. They then
built splendid machine shop
on the situation already indicated,
an office, black smith shop. etc. on On
adjacent lot; constructed . wharf, hun
kers and M incline balo~ the bluff, ut
a total cost. all told, Of over Sc. 900.
These operations seemed to excite tho
ayarics of mercenary old man. who
owned portions Of block +. adjoining
the machine shop, and he at once went
to work aud pulled every wire in his
reach ia an attempt TO indnce them TO
s.e figure. Finding that policy would
not work. he then assumed to take the
last and drive the company to purchase.
declaring that he would make them buy
his property before he got through with
them. He attempted to get up petit
ton among citizens living Whereabouts.
to compel them to remove their me
chine shop from the street. But no one
would sign il. lie then came into the
District Court aud by some anomalous
procedure got Judgment against tina
company. AID an order for the removal
of the machine shop The shop has
boen tors down by the company. aud
they are now obliged to turn their mo
chanics GU, of doors and repair
their locomotives and cars rs best
they cau along the road. The removal
of the machine shop suhserses no pur-
pose III the world, only that it gratities
the malice of the old man. while it
damages the company intellectually. 1t
only opens up 40 feet of Pike street,
from From. to where il jumps over the
bluff The upshot of this piece of out
ragcons persecution. will be that the
company will remove their road aud
works from ,ha. locality; throw away.
or AS good as that, the 5000 they
have expend,d there, aud property will
be deprecated in that neighborhood. rs
IA natural consequence, 20 per cent. at
least.