Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-17

noon cosI laden
Steamship Wilmington cracked her
shaft at San Francisco last week
Steamer Empire Was TO sail from San
Francisco for the Sound on Monday
last.
Social tea party at Bangs Hotel, Fri
day evening. Proceeds for the benefit
of a circulating library.
Five DRINKS visited the Police Court
yesterday morning: one paid up and the
other four languish in Jail.
The ladies of the Baptist Church will
hold social for the Lake Union Sun
day school at Pages Hall this evening.
Admission free.
A small consignment of I rails for
the Olympia and Tenino Railroad will
go up Sound on the Emma Hayward to-
day or tomorrow.
A new wholesale fruit dealer, named
Bowiey, has made his appearance, and
to him came An immense consignment
from California on the Walla WalIa yes
terday.
Olympia and Steiiacoom freight from
San Francisco is now all landed here
and taken by the Emma Hayward, Mes
seneer and Zephyr to their places of
destination.
G. Z. Stone d Co. circulated through
the postoffice yesterday vast number
of diminutive plugs of "PIuck" tobacco,
which, it is said. ''for purity and deli
cateness of chew is not equaled by any
other tobacco on the market"
Two Of the best hacks to be found in
any town on the coast now accommo-
date the riding public of this city, be-
sides four of the finest hotel coaches, all
six of which are found ON the wharves
at every steamer arrival, and will be
found at the depot as soon as the road
from Tacoma is completed into town.
The master and mates of the bark
Emma Augusta have been rewarded by
the Board of Underwriters for meritori-
GUS conduct and skillful seamanship.
The vessel, when off the coast of Austria
liza, lost her mainmast, and as it could
not be replaced on making port there,
the captain assumed the risk of taking
her under two masts to Puget Sound,
which he accomplished.
So great is the tax upon the Emma
Hayward and her crew that in several
departments she is doubly manned. In
all she carries thirty men, when eighteen
would be a sufficient number in ordin-
airy times. The freight she carries is
excessive, while no other boat that ever
navigated these waters did anything
like the passenger business of the Hay
ward. Hardly any hoCr of the twenty
four can be found in which a dozen
men are not busily employed upon her.
What the COMPANY would have done
without her in this exigency we cannot
imagine. She is certainly a money
maker on a big scale.
MUNICIPAL SALARIEs.-Quite q little
connection has been caused in certain
circles at the proposition to salary the
office of City Treasurer. 1t is a com
motion that will appear to the average
citizen as entirely groundless. The
Treasurer was formerly paid a small
salary; we forget the exact amount, but
it was something like thirty or forty
dollars a month. About five years ago
j. M. Blanchard, while Treasurer, got
the pay changed to percentage on all
moneys handled, the intention being to
make the Office pay about $50 a month.
The percentage system has been con-
tinued ever since, but as the money
handled has grown disproportionately
with the service rendered, the pay con-
nected with the office has attained a
figure out of all reason, amounting dur
ing the last year TO several hundred
dollars a month for less real work than
could be procured for $75 in private
business. The new movement aims to
make the compensation $500 a year,
the same as that given the City Clerk
an amount quite ample in both cases.
There is another Office in which the peo-
pie have an interest in seeing the
emoluments reduced, and that is the
City Surveyor. During the past five
months that Office has cost the bleeding
taxpayers of Seattle over six thousand
dollars. A monstrous figure for q place
like Seattle! We doubt If the engineer
ing or surveying of the city of Portland
has cost as much as the like work in
the city of Seattle, and that a town of
q, 600 inhabitants to 5000 here! Before
us is the report of the city of Mime
polls for the year 1882, and from it we
learn that the whole money expended in
engineering in 1882 was less than six
thousand dollars-was less than the ex-
penditures here of five months! And
yet Minneapolis has ten times the popu-
lation of Seattle; it was last year, in the
midst of magnificent boom. and an
enormous amount of money was spent
in improved streets, stone sidewalks,
sewers, etc. 1t has come during the past
year to be understood that the city of
Seattle was to be plucked by everyone
who could get his hands on it, and that
in pecuniary sense the most favored
men were those who could get them
selves enrolled among the funotionaries
of the city. An end has got to come TO
this municipal extravaganza, or the city
will be involved in financial wreck
within the corning year.