Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-03
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s-.,t,e June 10 1883.
.,v AND uASDsOMg YACHT.
SEATTLE. July 81, 1884.

gnrcs Posr-lsTELLIoENcEH;
,,,smus Ward once bought some cat
a., "A a drove and put them into bis
sSs,rssrd. Next morning, when he went
=. brioht and early to admire his new
~ ~ he said be found every one OF
- 49, lsaninQ ap against the fence as II
,bsy wanted TO think:
w., correspondent took stroll to-
-. slono the water front, and there
Say snmahiuQ which drove him down
-. s.d of 4 wharf, where be- leaned
q, 4 athink." IL was the first
..oys Yacht ever built in Seattle. 10
NV nearly completed, at the order
~,Tav,er Hainss, IN the boat yards Of
W.ss,s Harmon q Thurlow. II IL
sSsisg.n even though IL did not o'pst
,sW million dollars, like James q ~
H.. Bnuett's (the owner OF The Nv
V1,t Heraidl Namouna. or like Jay
G0plds Atlanta, or even quarter of a
s.ill,on. like 90 many yachts Of the New
yorL Yacht Club. But It il, neverthe-
-. biz enough and pretty enough and
~ enough for large possibilities Of
p.,bans Counstl ll0r Haines NAV not
IA aware OF the fact, but the cosy little
,.bp looks like mighty convenient
,lscr 10 open one or two, or even three
a. k,ur. .0ttlss Of champagne In q very
SUI, space of time, and bag to suggest
20 him. with all proper modesty, and
ty,n diff 4ence, that If, upon a cruise,
hs sLould find that he had forgotten his
uork.er.s, he need not endeavor 20 ex-
lrc.te the odious stopples WITH his
l,.,h, for there has been discovered 4
very neat and expeditions way OF scalp
me- or rather taking off the heads of
lhs bottles.
A no description Of this most felicit-
mssrt il laid down in Blackstone or
ksbi or Story, or any Of the great legal
ssikorities, it has probably escaped the
otsfvstion OF Mr.. Hsines. IL this be
its case, as n knowledge of the requi
lie delicate manipulation will be. abso-
lu,el, indispensable to Mr. Haiues about
he time the vessel ia launched, will not
yon, Mr.. Editor-who are said to be au
unable man will not you kindly pub
ish An account Of tho process In your
mIuable journal, and accsmpany the
asefipti1n with diagramsf
But | was going to remark that, when
Ivas down at the end of the wharf. l
vas thipkine-or | thought ~as think
ing-ihst twent, years had elapsed, and
lvs looking onoe more at Seattle. Ii
nsy be from lover the range"--the
narydon't say. But saw the blue aud
ihimmering waters of Puget Sound,
bright with the fluttering pennants of
het own yacht club, with its squaarons
Of AilsRtas and Namounas.
Tbs Queen City had extended her
stately edihces thick along the shore
and over the bills rs far as the eye
could reach. Spacious ferry boats were
plying across the bay to the Brooklyn
o. Oakland of Seattle. The cholera
esaxing water front, with its disgusting
and nameless filth, was filled In with
Substantial docks, aud everybody was
happy.
hessrs. Harmon 4 Thurlow were sit
tins in the elegant Office of their capa-
cioHs shipyard, with half dozen Sea
gcing monsters on the stocks oil about
laem, and they were saying: We
built for Lawyer Haines the first pleas
nre Yacht that WAS ever launched in Sc
aHle, and We built il we'll"
STRANGER.