Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-26

We have had several telegraphed ac-
counts In the last month or two Of the
crowds Of people on the wharf and tbs
scenes witnessed At the departure from
San Francisco Of the steamers for VIC
toria and Puget Sound, accounts that
we're of thrilling interest hsreebout, and
that be.oken in sliaht manner the ex-
raordinary feeling concerning this re-
eion that Is raging in the minds and
hearts Of those elsewhere. On these oc-
cssiors the ships were reported g prov
ing entirely inadequate 70 tie demands
made upon them; being unable to carry
anything Iike tbs freight Offering, while
their passenger Recommendations vere
more taxed even than their freight
room one, two, three ecd even fo7r
hundred who would have gone being
reported left on the wharf Of absolute
necessity. On arrival the passengers
have told "a of the crowded condition
Of the ships; Of parsons unable 70 Ree
berfhs, Of their sleeping all over the
cabin floors; Of the squeeze and jam
everywhere and all the time. These
things are hard 10 realize by those Who
hear of them only (; but for those Who
would like to &c. q little better idea OF
them, without actually passing through
them. Ne suggest WHIT to the wharf of
the Oregon Improvement Company on
the arrival Of one Of these ships, aud
especially at the time when several Of
| the oompany's Sound steamers are COM
ing in or going out. The jam in San
| Francisco can be partially realized
then. Five or six hundred tovnspeop!e
pour down to the front of the great
wharf. A dozen hotel coaches. hacks
and light wagons take their places at
the entrance TO the mammoth ware
house. and from fifteen to thirty drays
and trucks are awaiting loads Of goods
from the incoming vessel. II in the
night, forty odd gas jets in the ware
house and on the wharf are lit, and add
to a scene the like of which can no
where elss, except perhaps in Portland
be aeen on this upper coast. The OCEAN
steamer comes in. puts out her piant
and sends ashore her two hundred Of
more passengers. Other plauks are put
out, and the unloading Of cargo imme
diasely follows. All the men ON thu
steamer are employed on board, anG
from thirty TO fifty men on shore Their
begins trucking that is al most terrify
in4. Men with piled up trucks Of bag
gage and goods rush here and there al
over the great building, leaving theil
burdens in places designated by thosl
in charge Of the wharf. BY this tim,
the confusion at Babel il all bat out
done. The movements of lockers ON
the half uncertain, bewildered stops o
passengers, the rushing about Of tn
truckmen, with horses, coaches, trucks
drays and express wagons, combine {.
make confusion and din of q natur
akin to that IN the city before referre.
to. II to all this in added the incomin,
Of tho North Pacific from Victoria Will
seventy or eighty passengers, the Idah'
from Whatcom with a hundred, or tn
Emma Hayward from Tacoma With IL
or 200. one or two boats perhaps simu!
taneously, "a almost invariably happens
the crowd, danger and uproar are irl
measurably increased. Then doubter
and enemies are convinced that the rusl
here, Of which We have 80 often spoken
! has actual meaning, and they are eithe
J silenced or forced to admit that this
the place and the future great city O
: the New Northwest. Seeing and realiz
; ing what we have attempted to depic
! in the foregoing 10 giving old settlers
who have long and patiently waited 70
It, new lease Of life.