Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-30

~ACEAMENro, March .9-1he city WAS
! lighted for the first time tonight with
tn- long promised electric light. /,
gives = bright. cheerful appsarance to
tue streets, aud in consequence the
'-orouyhfar-s are crowded with admir-
iuG promeu aders.
The Alaskan ut san franst.~o.
SAN FRAScIsCo. March 19-Ihe new
steamer Al1=kan, belonging to the Or
ergOI. steam Navigation Company. Ar
rived Yesterday i'll this port fron
PriiaGelphii. lSJ davs oft. She will be
run or Paget Sbun4 The steamer Is a
sister ship To the O.ymplap. which is
nJE III service. The long voyage Is due
to stopyagee ut Savannah ard ST.
Thomas, MaraLha and Perna al orcu.
~ Brazil; MouleyIcieo aud Parrti Are
mas, III ii geIlan Straits: Valparaiso,
Chllac snd Acapulco. IAe vessel Is not
thoroughly finished, aud Ter ietllis viii
he com vleted here. Captain Martin Is
III charge of the steamer. he crew
nuisbers 30 men.
IMMIGRATION VIA TIE NORTHERN Pa
CIFIC.-Ihe rush to the great Northwest
is illustrated forcibly in the following
from late st. Paul Pioneer Press
Emigration to the Northwest has, during
the past few days, Increased very much.
Just at present pretty much all new
coBers are destined for puinis on the
extreme western end of tae Northern
Pacific. The through trains of that
road have, during tie past two weeks,
been so large that hl c1mpany has beeu
taxed to supply the necessary rolling
stock. The enllgrdnt sleeper. n North
ern Pacific institution. has been such n
success that the comp 4ny has been com
PEELED 10 order 2 fres-i -applv. ~ pres
ent thirty pf tnls class OF equipme LIT aIe
h pt II constant use. and even this
number does not supply the demand.
10 meet the expected Increase III busin-
ess, the company has ordered eight new
sieepeis. making thirty eight III all,
which will enable the company to run
three to each tram. These cars are not
patroniZed solely 10y the enigrant prop
er, bat by good portion oi the travel
ing public as we'll. They are always
10 Il clean and i'll good order. The only
possible exc ptiOn to them L. that tLere
il no privacy. Another thing viii IA tends
to make these cars popular. Is the fact
that they are all upon the fast through
trains, and not attached to freight
trains, MS Is the custom with nearly
every other road III the country. The
Northern Pacific through trains have,
during the past two weeks, aggregated
from ten to twelve cars, and very sol
dom have had during that time less
than $50 passengers aboard, from Is to
l5O of VII m have been emIgrants tick
eted through to points III Washington
ard Oregon. These are all domestic
emigrants, ooning principally from
points III Illinois, Iowa and OHIO. Last
nights train was probably the largest
taken out since the opening of the road
to Portland. The train consisted of
thirteen cars, three of them emigrant
sleep-rs, aud two engines. Each car
was crowded. Officials who were at the
depot when the tram went Out estimst-
ed that there were uear.y 6OO persons
abos srd, 40 of whom were emigrar.ts
destined for the west end Tuese came
into st. Paul priclpa.iy over 'he Albert
Lea and Sioux City roads. The latter
train had three Car loads of such trav-
elers, while the Alber. Lea landed dur
ing the day 50. Most of the,u were
from Southern Illinois.