Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-07

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ssfveo ios Wasotngt0n's birthday.
Snoft1y axtef O'Clock Col. Thomas Il |
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enafke. ano nis assistant. CGpk Davis,
Y. .. A., and bernard y: Cream, OWL en-
esnsof, soeesnsr Win Master Mechanic |
1clauRnIin ana several workmeu |
ssanoieG on 2 narrow platform built |
arounu me sl0pine marble roof uear the /
summit. PROCEEDED - eet the capet0ne
welgninR $50 pounde. vhieh vas sus-
penoed from 2 quadrupon Of heavy
lolsss. supported oy the platform and Il
tosenn9 forty feee absve them. A.
Len e ne sapssone Was 80, the Ameri-
csn nag 80 onfurIed overhead and Q
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pastssy N tne Wnite house lot fay be-
low. Ih2 n0un0 al 01Mopn Alan essal
falntiy from tns crowd Of spectators
Rasoered around the base OF the mOnu-
ment, velie number Of invited guests
90 sno 0uV-l00s PLATFORM and 10 the IN
terror Of the monument ct that level
spo1sane0osly struck ~ he Star
spanQied hannef and other patriotic
songs. steady down pour Of rain bad
given place . Iittle ehtle previously 70
brisk Rale OF wind, At this elevation
blowing about dfoy-dve miles an hour, II
and worry few Of the invited guests cared
70 avail themselves Of the privilege Of ,
climbing . nearly perpendicular ladder |,
from the 500-foot platform 20 the dizzy II
hight Of b33 feet, from which three or
four journalists and half dozen other
Adventurous climbers witnessed The set-
ting OF the cspst0ne. aud subsequently,
asoeuded 10 the pinnacle.
Meanwhile the Washington Mouu-
ment Society, represented BY Dr.. Jos. II
NJ. Toner. Hon. Horatio King, General
William Mckee Damn, DIR. Daniel B.
Clark and 7. L. Harvey. the secretary.
bad meeting on the elevated platfsrni ,
OF the hight Of 500 feet, and when the
artillery airing announced the setting Of
the cspstone. adopted resolution offer
ed by General Dunn, congratulsting
a ot{x.sx - 1 :
during monument Of our Nations graft ,
suds 10 the Father Of his Country. IL
Among those present today at the /
completion VI. the structure xas the
master eneehanic who laid the corner .
stone Of this monument moro than s. |
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.slhisf Enoinesr and Architect. Thomas
Lincoln Casey, Colonel Corps Of Engi- .
neers; Assistants, Geo. W. Davis, Fourth |
United States Infantry, Bernard B.
Green. Civil Engineer; Master Me-
chanic, p. II. Mclaughlin" On an
other, Corner stone laid on the bed OF I
the foundation, July I. 1873; frst stone /
sco ~ $500. -. n-"s soos \