Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-10

hosting engines for their work. Both
sne adortons are now ranchino IN this
state. and are in comfortable circum-
stances. Richard d. Chandler vas
hghterinR here In 1850. and was manager
OF the hulks, etc. of the California
steam Navigation Company, and has
Deen In active business ever since. He
- now IN the coal business. and has not
only gained g0Odiy share of this
worlds goods, but he has also the larp-
est stock of COED will from his fellow
townsmen of any Of our water front
t0ilers. He ia universally esteemed, and
IKE his partner, George Fritch, also an
Old pioneer, his word il as good as his
bond In any transaction. Among other
lightermen or stevedores of 1850, whose
whereabouts are unknown to US, were
George Anderson, Edward BartlinQ,
Fred Cook. Fowler (Albert) 4 Smith,
henry Foiger, Gregory Joseph II. d
Griswold John, Captain Huntlsy.
Dennis Libby, Anthony Ludlow, Cap
tain Jer. Maggie (store ship Elizabethl
Nathan Pariow, Charles Rand, Fred Ro-
tand. James P. Rosseau. Charles Rob-
inson, d. s. Smith, Spencer 4 Smith,
George A. Weeden, and James Wilson.
In those primitive days of our now
large and wealthy city, nearly all the
business was done by tho hghtermen
into store-ships, the city front and har-
Dor having largo number of them an
chored in various quarters. We we'll
remember the ''old ship on Pacific
street, used for many years AZ a store
ship. 1t was stationed near the site of
the present Chicago Hotel, near Battery
street, and was used finally as a drink
ing shop. Three or four others were
moored stem and stern off Cunning
hams wharf, and several others, one
large ship with painted ports being es-
pecially noticeable in the stream, of
what il Market street ut present. In
fact, our water front, from one end to
the other, il the resting place of num-
Der of ships, in those times used
as store ships, and finally tho march of
improvement caused the filling in all
along the line, and many time when
digging has been going on for the pur-
pose of laying foundations for new
buildings have ribs and knees, etc.
of old vessels been brought to light. Il
is not many years ago that the Niantic
building was started, and that sections
of the old ship Niantic were seen and q
portion of her cargo of choice wines
discovered and distributed around as
souvenirs of the olden days. This was
on the corner of Clay and Sansome
streets, and newcomers will be aston
ished to know that vessels tloated near
ly block TO the westward of that To-
cality in 1919. The ''old ships and
many Of the ''old boys have long since
passed away, but it will be many years
before they will be forgotten BY the
survivors of the Tightening or stevedor-
ing gangs of the golden days Of ~ and
80. In concluding this account we may
mention couple of others. who have
been engaged principally in Tightening
and ballaSting vessels and lumber dis
charging. We refer to Charles z. Ha-
zeltine, who is also an "0ld stager."
He came here, If We mistake not, in 10,
and first engaged in Tightening and bal
lasting vessels, and is still hard at it,
and is considered very well off. A. G.
Freese came here from Panama in 1852,
in the brig Samuel Chnrchman, whereof
]. NJ. Shotwen, now prominent stock
broker on Montgomery street, was cap
tain. Freese soon went to work along
the water front, and later on was en-
gagged with Thomas Thompson, who. is
still bore, in digging tho artesian we'll
which supplied the famous COchituate
baths on SansOme street with water.
Freese finally came back to the wharves
and has stuck to them up to the present
time a. q lumber stevedore, in which he
does largo business.