Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-02
TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.


TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
Nothing is more essential to the
growth or even the life of city than tie
establishment and proper maintenance
OF quick and easy routes of communi-
cation with the various central points
in the tributary couptry. With such
communication thoroughly established,
citv's future is assured: withcu; il,
business must be staGnant and insecure
and the establishment of a wholesale
trade is an utter impOssibility. Seattle
is peculiarly favored in this respect.
Water communication exists with al
r,OSt all the towns in the adjacent ter
r,tory, and many of the loutes are as
fully developed as the present demands
OF commerce require. No agency has
been more active IN establishing these
routes and In this manner making pos
slbie the wholesale trade which our city
has developed. than the Washington
Steamboat and Transportation Compa-
ny, which exists for the purpose of
handling the carrying trade In many. of
the waters tributary to Puget Sound.
This company was organized in May.
leo2, less tha2 two years ago: yet their
carrying trade has reached such pro-
portions that they keep constantly en-
ployed four steamboats, with the proba-
biiity of an increase in the near future.
OF these four tie first acquired Was the
Daisy: then followed IN the order
named, the City of Quincy, the Wash
ington and the w. X. MerwIn. The
Washington is probably the best known
she was built at Portland in ISL and
for some months ran on the Columbia
River. She is now commanded by Cap
tain Jaskscn and running on the What
com route, making semI-weekly trips.
Ike boat has done we'll ever since being
placed on this route and is usually
crowded with passengers on both her up
and down trips. The City of Qaincy
vas also built at Portland in 1879. and
now runs on the Snohomish route. She
is commanded by Captain Benson. The
two remaining steamboats, were built
here and directly for the trade in which
they are engaged. TIE w. X. Merwin,
Captain Merwin, also runs on the SnO-
homish River route: and the Daisy
Captain Bailey, runs as general
freight boat without any regular route,
being always held as supply in case of
the temporary withdrawal of one of the
others.
The officers of the company are at
present as follows: President, D. b.
jackson; Vice President and Manager,
q. LongfellOw, and Secretary, 5. w.
Honey, The central Office is located in
Seattle, and the building on the south
side of Yesler's wharf is used for of ce
purposes. Yesler's wharf is used by
the company as the point for the arriva!
and departure of their boats. 1t may
thus be seen that this company is essen
TALLY Seattle institution, and an insti-
tuition which has been of incalculable
benefit to our wholesale trade. Com
munlcatiOn with surrounding towns has
been cheap and rapid, and freight rates
have been placed at the lowest possible
figure. But the Washington Steamboat,
and Improvement Company is q cOrpo-
ration, not only greatly beneficial to So
attic i'll the present, but great III its pos.
sible developments. The advantage OF
having these water routes occupied by a
company centerng in Seattle will be
powerfully felt when any outside city
contest the sovereignty of the waters OF
Puget Sound with their Queen. Seattle
will then be far ahead of her compete
tors. and it will be almost an imp ,sslble
task to wrest from her the trade of a
region which has been taught to be de.
pendent upon her.
WHY Is IT PERMITTED !-Residents OF
this city in 1867 will remember Val
Wildman, who conducted a lottery
known as the VANITY Fair" in the
building now occupied by H. Jones q
San. Those who investigated tho game
will also remember that it was cOmpar
atively speaking fair game, if any
gambling device can be made fair
There was a sure ter percentage in
customers knew. Notwithstanding thi.
the Grand Jury not only indicted Val
Wildman, bat all those psrties in his
peoted. and Wildman served his sen
tenoe out in the city Jail. These remin
iscences arc simply Introductory or pre-.
liminary to a matter of which We are
about to speak. A few weeks ago a
shrewd sharper, after having fleeced the
suckers" as the uninitiated in the
WAYS of vice are termed by sports. in
different parts of the Territory, lit down
on Seattle, and securing a room in one
of MIR. Yesler's buildings, hung out a
sign which reads: 1.-The Chicago Dol
lar Store. Gold and and silver watches
an jewelry given away" or words OF
similar purport, hut on Investigating on
the inside of the establishment, tie
dollar Store" turns ont to be nothin.,
more nor less than u LOTTERY. by which
the Investors have one hundred chanc IS
to lose where they have orc chance t.
win, and tie gentleman,y sharper who
| conducts the store Is growing rich from
those who arc foolish enough To bioI
their money into his till. We hold tina,
it is the duty of the law, as well as the
otficers of the law. 10 protect the weak
and ignorant, and here certainly is a
chance for the law to throw its pcotQct-
ing arms around Il number of boys and
ignorants or weak minded men, VIII
daily squander their earnings In this
diso uised gambling house. If the law
could reach and punish Val. Wildman
| why can it not reach and punish this
man -! IL there is any difference in the
devices for obtaining money, the odds
are certainly in Wildman's favor. Wa
have on several previous occasions called
attention to this matter through these
columns, and now we call Oh the City
Attorney and Chief of Police to take
steps to stop this gross outrage which is
daily praoticed in our midst. The PEG
pie will uphold the officers if they do
their duty i'll this matter. and certainly
il Judge Lewis could send Val. Wild
man to Jail for weeks for carrying on
the " Vanity Fair" Justice Cana has it
in his power to fine and imprison this
man who conducts tho " Chicago Dollar
Store"
DEATH OF JOHN NoYEs.- Poor, old
John Noyes is dead. Few Of our citi.
zens knew him by name, but nearly all
knew him BY sight, and many by a
slight acquaintance extending only q
little further than recognition. The
old man oamo hero in 1877. and has ever
a. a. - Al