, 1884-03-06

about ready to be started by Scurr Bros.
T while Mr.. Lee will resume operations at
fFilay Harbor III week or so. Mr..
Lee has been i'll for a short time, but is
recovering. 4 big seasons work is ex-
pected in the lime business during 1884.
NEAT MAP.-We were esbownycsterday
one of the neatest specimens of artistic
map drawing that it has ever been our
good luck to see. The specimen referred
to is map OF Port angeles town site and
harbor, executed by Mr.. Norman R.
Smith, civil engineer and surveyor. 1t
has occupied his attention for about two
months, is outlined with mathematical
precision from actual and careful sur
veys, has been etched, shaded and let
tered with a pen, and beautifully col
ored. showing the military reservation,
U. 5. survey lines and street lines. 1t
will be Autographed, and will cost about
five hundred dollars. The map is large
about 3x4 feet-and shows not only the
town site and harbor in minutiae, but
a smaller view, giving the relative posi-
ton of Angeles toward other points, es-
Pecially Victoria. We learn that copies
OF this map are specially desired by per-
sons living on Vancouver's Island, who
will use it as an argument in locating
the terminus Of the Canadian Pacific
railroad at Port Moody, on the theory
| that an American railroad will inevita-
bly, be built down the west side of Pu-
get Sound sooner or later, to Port An
geles. Mr.. Smiths map OF Port Town
| send, mentioned by rs recently, is now
being Autographed in San Francisco, and
| Will soon be issued. 1t is thought that
other maps of this part of the country
| may be made in future, and prove val
| "able advertisement of our most attrac-
tive points. Mr.. Smith does his work
in a credNable manner.
HUNTS New HOTEL. Mr.. J. ].
Hunt, the fat, jolly proprietor OF the
Cosmopolitan, who has so successfully
| conducted the hotel business in Port
Townsend these many years, has out
grown his shell, SO to speak, and is pre-
pairing to shed the same before donning
new and more roomy abiding place in
keeping with his present business and
prospects. In other words, the old Cos
mopoliton Hotel building that has done
duty so long on the water front corner
of Adams and Water streets, is to be
moved from its present site to make
room for four-story edifce that
| will be credit to the town. The new
structure will have a stone foundation
extending out into the bay and cover
ing the entire width of the lot, 55 feet.
| Mr.. Wilkes, our local stone mason, has
| the contract for this part of the work.
Uy on the broad and sure foundation in
| dicated a magnificent wooden building
four stories high and containing some
thing like fifty rooms, all told, will be
erected. Mr.. McInnis and Winters, we
believe, have this contract The interior
OF the building will be nicely hard
finished Throughout, the plastering and
brick work for the flues being done by
Mr.. Richards. Mr.. Hunt says he ex-
poets to have the new hotel finished by
the first of July. His patronage has in
creased go that it long since outgrew the
capacity of the old building, and the
new one has been talked of for a year or
so past. Mr.. Hunt is one of the veteran
| hotel keepers, not only of Port Town
send but OF Puget Sound. He began
his career in that line in this place a
good many years ago in the Franklin,
now kept by Dave SpooF. From there
Uncle j. j. waxed in physical and
financial proportions till he bought
from Capt. Fowler the old Pioneer Ho-
tel where Capt Tibbals use to entertain
the hungry multitude in early days-the
stand being nothing less than that
which became under Hunt's man
agement. the Cosmopolitan, and where
he has made money by the thousands,
often spending 1T as freely as it came.
About eight or nine years ago he rented
the stand and business to his nephew,
Frank Clapp, for term OF three or four
years, during which time he was engaged
mostly in conducting a wholesale liquor
store in partnership with A. T. Learned,
brother of our postmaster, who is now 8
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in
San, Francisco. The hotel lost nothing
OF its prestige or popularity under Frank
Clapr'k management, and when, about
in 1879, the old desire to get back into
the hotel bus.ness again so possessed
Uncle ID, that he purchased back the
leass before Its expiration, he found him.
self once more settled as proprietor in a
flourishing and lucrative business. Since
then that business has grown so that, as
stated already, the old building has
been too small for it altogether. After
the old Bartlett store baiiding was
moved away to give place to stone store,
and was located ON Taylor street for use
as warehouse, its upper or second story
was rented by Mr.. Hunt to accommo-
date his dodgers; and it has had plenty of
| occupants ever since. Whether the new
hotel will accommodate all the
patronage for any considerable length of
time or not, remains to be seen; but it
will certainly be vast improvement on
the old one. Its rooms will be large, AIRY
and pleasant, and will be supplied with
all the modern conveniences OF such es-
Establishments. We congratulate the town
upon having men of such enterprise,
means and capability; and can only hope
that Mr.. Hunts shadow may never grow
less-it couldn't get much larger unless
it outgrows the original. "'Pon me
sowl Hunt; you're lookin' quite we'll"
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