Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-27
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For the past few days the Victoria
papers have teemed with items tellina
how the steward and ssevardess Of the
Inflated Umasllla we're ill-sreAted at the
hands Of the Seattle people. The Vic
terra Post of recent date rsi;erates the
charge in the following language:
I'VE subjoin the statement Of the
steward of the wrecked steamship Una
tillA, which appears 20 be severe re-
Election upon the people Of Seattle. We
have sDe best authority for saying that
Mrs. PARIS arrived at the Occidental
Hotel in Victoria 10 the condition rep
resented by her husband. Mr.. j. &.
PARIS. steward of the CnatiIla, says:
Myself and wife came ash )rs with Capt.
Worth and some of the crew on the 9to
instant. On shore the Indians behaved
veil towards as. On the third day the
tug Goliah came 70 our assistance ana
conveyed as 70 the Sound. The captain
put Us IN Q hotel and behaved TO as "a
he had always done, - . true gentle.
man. Myself &nd wife cannot ind
words to eXpress our gratitude 10 nln
for his unbranded kindness. From
there ve proceeded by the q. T. starr,
and the capts in gave as letter ~ 60 10
the Brunswick Hotel. On arriving there
my Door wife vas very weak from ex-
pOsure TO the severe weather ana
the hardships she had undergone.
We remained At the Brunswick for
nine days, and during the whole OF that
time, although there we're women In
the hoose, "a. landiady and a. least be-
tween thirty and forty Others, mot the
slightest assistance was gwen to my
vlfe, and she remained without
change of underlInen until she arrived
in Victoria. Ii is extraordinary. but
nevertheless true. that not a woman IN
that hotel, although it was well known
all over the place We were shipvrecked
people, offered my poor wife the cou :
mon civiiities due from one woman TO
another. am q Master Mason. OF tho
Neptune kilwinning Lodge, ~, held IN
Ardrossan, AYRSHIRE, Scotland, and al
though represented myself to the Ma
SONS as in distress, they gave me no as
sistance. In any other part OF the
world myself and wife would have
been treated with kindness and hu-
mainly. since our arrival at the Occl-
dental Hotel, Mr.. and Mrs. Pither have
shown us the utmost kindness, and We
gratefully acknowledge the generous
assistance of the people Of Victoria.
It is almost unnect ssary to say that
Captain Worth frequently visits us aud
ia most mindful and ateentive TO our
wants. Mrs.. Paris adds: What my
husband has stated ID perfectly true,
and am thankful to find that there
are women in Victoria who have kind
hearts and who feel for one Of their
own SEX"
Now the facts in the case, which
would not be made public had not the
generous people Of this community been
assaulted, are simply these: When
Paris and his wife arrived az Port
Townsend they both got drunk, and
Paris assaulted one Of his companions,
a coal passer, With . oleayer and nearly
killed him. When they left Port Town
send 70 come to Seattle, Paris was still
drunk and insisted ON cleaning oct ev-
eryone ON tue North Pacific. In order
to prevent hun from injuryin9 someone
he vas locked in q staterOo0 till the
steamer struck the wharf here. In
stead of caring for his wife, as a hus-
band should, he got drunk here ON his
arrival and the pair of them wandered
about the streets in Q tipsy condition.
The Nellie Boyd Company played the
Bankers Daughter" that evening, and
Paris and wife, accompanied by q dog
and two or three low associates, went "a
the performance and their behavior
there was 10 disRrsoeful that an
officer Was called upon to put
them out. During their stay
here they appeared to have plenty o:
money to buy whisky with, and when
they departed they beat the hotel pro-
prietOr who had fed and lodged them
out of his bill. This il the brief has.
tory of the couple while here, and shows
that they did nss conduct themselves ~
| iit objects of charity, and, 1t ID believed
were lot sober enough during their 90
journ here to ask any enc for assistance
An officer of the ship called at the room
of the couple, u day Q. two after tbeiI
arrival here, at IL O'Clock a. m., and
found the woman IN Q stupefied cOndl.
ton from drink, with bottle vi
whisky On the table beside her bed. The
people of Seattle are ever ready to heiE
The deserving, as can be shown by q
thousand instances of their generosity
among which was the raising of purs<
of 5000 for u poor fellow who lost hit
hand in q saWmill here week or 90 ago
But for the repeated charges made
against our people by this couple IN I
foreign press, the true status # this
CASE would never have been brought