Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-15

Qo0U.
The 6rss schools vere Taught in the
order named by Miss Dorcas Phillips
Mrs ID. Il. Blaine, E A. Clark, d. Ora
nam, Edmund Carr, Miss Addie IN.
drews Ars- ]. s. Hill. and Edwin
Richardson. The school house in tho 9
days vas little board shanty thai
stood abo1. where Wusthoff q hardware
store now ia. Clark's school was held
In his own building, in the I'D stairs
above Dlxon's barber shop.
The FIRST white child born was Mis-
E1eeuie McConaha, 1854.
The early merchants were d. Horton
Joseph Williamson, Charles Piummer
lafteryard Plumner 4 Chase. and later
Piumuler IL g. b. Kinds. Yesler, BAND
| 81 Co.. afterward Yesler i Denny, al
though the hrst stores were those OF
Terry on Alki Point and Dr. MAYNARD
on Seattle Point. Stone d Burnett suc-
decided Plummer 4 Kinds, both long
since deceased.
The first bank Wa that Of Dexter
Horton 4 Co. Originally Horton 4 Phil
ips). 1874.
The first batsher shop Vas started in
1879 by A. A. Denny and George +.
Frye.
The first brewery vas started about
1865 by Amor Brown and II. SchmeiR
the North Pacific" lately owned by
A. Meklhorn, and burned down last
spring.
Tho first steamer on the Sound va
the Major Tompkina, 1854. She VA
followed in 1856 BY the little Traveller,
Captain Parker, which, in 1851, vas
svamped OF Foulweather Bud, drown
ing her captain (Slater) and all the
crow. For while after there vas ne
boat plying the waters of. the Sound.
Then the Constitution came on from
New York, Captains Hunt and Soran-
ton. After running awhile she was fol
lowed euccsssively BY the Wilson @.
Hunt, Julia (6rst stern-wheeler on the
Sound), Sea Bird (burpsd 10 the waters
edge on tbs lower Sound, 1857, and at
length the Eliza Anderson, Captains
Wright and Finch, which probably has
made moro money on the Sound than
any boat before or since. The Eliza
Anderson Vas replaced in 1870 BY the
fine side wheeler Olympia, which was
soon bought of the route BY l.. n.
Starr. The North Pacific was put on
by Starr in 1871. Not till 1855 was the
Sound able to boast moro than a single
passenger boat. Then opposition run
wild, and for short time there were
three boa:s-the Eliza Anderson, Jo~ie
McNear fst-rn-wheeler) and New
World. The first boat on the Nhatcom
route WAS the j. b. Libby, Captain Geo.
+. Frye. Until AZ late as 1873 We were
obliged to worry along with only a
weekly mail.
The 6rst newspaper was 7x9 affair,
called the Seattle Gasette, started in
1865 by Jno. w. Watson, since dead, q
man named Reynolds, succeeding. 1t
survived along under the various names
Of Puget Sound Weekly, l. Il. Hall, edi-
tor, and {ntelif9eroeY, being launched
under the latter name in August, 1867.
by Samuel L. Maxwell, deceased. last
year. The first daily was the Puget
SoSsd Dispatch. Beriah Brown d Co.,
followed by the Daily Paste Tvt6vns.
1878, by Tho. w. Prosch, and the daily
IntsI.igencer, 1876, BY D. Higgins 4
Thaddeus Hanford. The successive
newspaper ventures have been the Poet.
1878; Chronicle. 1881; and H~old, 1882
The Post aud InteUi0encer were c0nsol-
idated in 1881 under the management of
Thoa w. Prsch.
The first pile driver was run BY Capt.
8. ID. Libby.
The FIRST blacksmith was L. v. Wye
koff.
The first brass band was organized in
1866.
The 6rst water works were put in By
H. L. Yesier aad @. q. Terry.
The first railroad was the old Pike
street coal road to Lake Union. in the
year 1871.
The first atone building was the store
Of Dexter Horton. 1863, now occupied
by Harrington b Smith.
The first brick building was the store
of Schwabacher Bros. 4 Co. in 1882, fol
lowed by those Of j. M. COlnan, 1875;
Wa Choug. Frauenthal Bros, 1877; the
Parker building. 1878; Post, RsntOn d
and Marshall buildings. 1882; the G. p.
Stone, Schwabacher Bros. d Co. (newl,
Wa Chong (uev), City Hall, Huqine
Houss No. 1. Yesles-Loary. and Oooi-
dental Hotel, in 1883
xHE crrv's GROWTH.
Within the past two years, or since
Henry Willard oams to the fore az the
Moses of the Northwest, . trausforma-
tion has been wrought in the appearance
aud status Of our oity suoh as has not
been witnessed within the same period
in any other city in the world. In 1860
Seattle had only attained a population
Of less than 400 by actual enumeration
by the writer and abo1t 70 buildings.
Al that time she was Q place of SEQ
ondary Importance a. compared not
alone With Portland, Victoria, Astoria
and The Dalles. but even with Olympia
and soch places ~ Albany, 6als9 and
Port Townsend. Tacoma, however, At
that tins VAS never dreamsd Of. In
575 buildings. classified - churches. s;
2-story. 81; II story, 16l; 1-ssofy. 2l9;
stables, iS. rne commerce Of the place
amo ,nted to about 81 ,000. 900 Per year.
In 1880 the population had risen 10 800.
with more than o thousand buildinQs.