Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-03

.,nir.aion Of present contracts.
rnr posT.lHTEllIcEMcER PUB. co.
ae.ftie June 10. 1883.
yeW TACOMA IN Isss.
From the Ledger.)
oood iudQes say that there are 400
,sss,is resideut in New Tacoma. Eight
sssss AGO there were only 10 people
ksrs asoordinQ 10 a census taken ON the
Art day Of October, 1876, by one of the
,.ost reliable men nov living in the
sounsy. Saaire Eben Pierce, who has
LindIy resurrected aud furnished his
cord for publication. II contains the
usmee Of ali persons residing at that
dsts in this place, and Ia AZ follows:
AB Graham d wife Mrs Lewis
Hair Graham r Hewitt h wife
Iliuo A wife Miss Annie Hewitt
OP Ferry Il wife BWhittlesey, v3ch
Nav Perry Miss FneStevenson
n IHibbsrd, VT q inf A McNsal d wife
~ Dora Hibbard Mics Sarah Root
Mir Sutherland L-H Root
NichaAl o. Regan B bingham &wifs
White 4 wife Boone Bingham
Nin Minnie Fife Hammer Bingham
NJ Fife Willie May
wallace Fife Ira CoRswell
E1h Fife III J CoRswell
His II 0oolsll Jsoob Hslstsad &wf
NiM M ,ry Emery Miss Haissssd
or Orchard d VT Miss Eta halstsad
Geo Orchard Geo Halstsad
Pc E.s.wick Il vi Frank Halstead
Phil 4 .stwick Tom Quinn
Rbsu Pisrce d Vt 4 Carmichael
AIjce N Pieros / Wilson. vi 4 oh
Cant SR SmithGwf w b Htillwell
Charles Smith Heury o Geiger
Alma Nmith Miss Fannie Young
Nina Smith Mertie Smith
Kittie Smith Wm omisn
Tho above IL q correct list OF persons
living in what Vas afterwArd incorpo-
rated an the village Of New Tacoma
Arst incorporation. In the suburbs
we're Il. A. Scott tdsiryman) and fam
liz. at the old mill; Smiths logging
Grew Of IL men oamped on the bank by
the car shop, and Robert SpFoui and
wife ON section B. what 10 nov being
plated ~ Fife and Cogswell's addition.
Those living on the wharf were not
listed at the time, but are nov listed
from memory, assisted by the memory
Of 8. +. Sahm:
sPS Sahm a VT WB Blackwell q VT
Geo o Kelly j b Walker
Mike Murphy Lon Curtis
Nat Meow Niok Larson
Three employees in Blackwell d Kelly's
hotel.
A. the time Of Squire Pierce's census,
pinSteen- twentieths Of the people OF the
iosn were living ON two blocks, viz:
Nos. 703 and 70l. Pscido avenue. Tho
Arst house In block 704 was tho old
American hotel. o tw0-st0ry board
heuse, which 10 yet standing. The next
building going south was on lot No. >, q
house built for n butcher shop, but then
empty. Lot 10 vas vacant. On lot 5
wa Smiths building, board house Of
Two stories, having hall above, IN
which public entertainments, church.
and In which, during the last three
years, court has been held. Lot B be-
|cneed 10 Samuel Wilkes0n, Jr., and he
had on Il a two-story board house. Lot
vss vacant, being that On which MI.
Wolfe, Of Old Town, has lately put a
eood frame building. On lot Was tho
6aildinQ which now stands there, and
which IL nov occupied by Lsvius bar
her shop. II was then used Tor = school
houss. Lot 8, now containing beer
nloou, was vacant. Lot 3 had little
hcuss on the rear part Of it where Mo-
Neal lived. Lot 10, nov Wallace's sa-
hon, vns vacant. On lot IL therc WAS
an old board ahell house, not dnlshed.
Ga lot II Squire Piercs's building,
which Was the flrst frame structure IN
~ town, except hsadquRrters' build
hQ, via standing. On lot ID Vas Mr.
oeospe r. Orchards business hOuse, In
~ hover story Of which he conducted
. grocery business, and In the mp
pof had his residence. On the
eAAse Ode OF the street In block
10. that ia tho eastern side of Pscifio
avsnue, between Seventh and Eighth
oGSsoea, the nrvt building WNs CoR~wslls
livery stable, ON lot No. l. Oa the next
tvo loss was the old HAlstead House, .
eoe-ssory and ATTIC board structure.
which vns burned In 1879. L0ss I and
Svese vacant, and on lot 9 there wAs .
omAll board house, empty. Adjoining
~ around ON which Williams, 0rAinRsr
tCo,s livery stable nov u. Vas dimin-
u1ivo hoard house, which had been used
~ peanut stand, but vas then vacNnt
IAose were all the h0uses ON block NS
O Mock No8, being the east side Of the
oseans, bsewcen Eighth and Ninth ,thsre
- only too houses, both small and
- one Of which was on the corner
9AAA, and the other, nov standing
adtolnhQ the Columbia Hotel ON the
negeA. bsih a. q residence By Bosel, .
snoAmaksr, Who had dcaerted the ranch
~ want Of businees. This house b nov
- b 4r. GAY - Q boarding hOuss.
- u Ooeswcll's livery stable, In The
oeel WA . little boArd holss cecu-
~ By ]. b. Bingham. What was
0nun e the Cii6 House, being the
eaetA half Of the present Cli6 House,
eePooile b the COGsWell livery Stable ot
0oay. vas vacant u hAs three stories,
~ y 4 occurred an earthquake limo
senelv eaussd ono night tfoF further par
gcolAss inquire Of our rsapeceed fellow
aasoo. Pslse Irving. Who viii remem-
- ooout The clAttes Of the loooe boafds
voioA projected out Of the window, and
- aoses of which olattss % asoosed and
eArmed the sleepeYsI The proprSesOf oi
- Oi6 HOUSE In those days indussri,
10y and peopsrly pursued his calling ol
e!oneetn9 visitofS 10 HE houso, IN doing
Sseo q WAe his custom, when mention
s~0sSSs ~ ~ oAADkUko ~ eAsssS~
y train or boat, 20 appriss them in &
eely impressive manner. his voies bsins
Soieed 70 suit the oooaai0u. that tn
~ houss vas the only three seoTy
Aeeas IN town.
!. Aaaoe from the huuseo meutionei
0ese we're oulv two others on pAci6<
sveeas. namely the brick on the south
- corner OF Ninth street In whtch tn
xaeoma National Bank nov h. and ~
s0-seosy board house. nessly oppnsite
-. occupied ~ Litsisjohn b johnson
Ssera II produce. Go. The ootl0nl
49, W. avenue 10 The south vas - dit
ssnA b. eon6nsd - Il ~. q aboo
xesteeeotA stssek, by the visain fossse
~ - ~ a los and stamps inSse