Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-16

1ns dssidsdly prohahls. from tie
whols rsaapilulatinn, thas tha bottom
sukFy o. psae s6s 'sAs intsFpoiated amer
theorizi1aI tosals srese written nd maoe
tba aEasura q teen all eeeHssaxy- BAT
! ohaeFVe. thna tha Fnbhed sarfaee under
oue total does n0t underlie AL TIE NJ
uEs8. II IL he total repEese1ttnG e1ArRes
da8. whaeh has hesn carried forwAra
fF0m ths bsstsm az page - % the Top
q pARe So. i is9heBamber s6ssI o. "
In ala nnmbSF, the eEuFes rspresentlue
hundFeds and thousands apDsaR - SAND
90 1nrabhea sarEacs, and 70 be . fera-
mart q the original total ooo1pyinR thxt
spot. II this Be 50, u Shows tnls. tnat
tie inteFpolzteo entry on tbs presiding
page, Whatsoever i is, must contAin
fneiRht charge. IN the columl Of duess
ms excssdina 9a9a Many Of tie en-
tries do contAin saeh 9 chArRe. out
among them il the opt1D entry.
A compaFison of BaRes 365 and ~
with al othaF rspapitniation PAGES OF
tbs beck, shows that efasaFe OF recapif-
ulasion totals abonnds. Indeed, eFasara
and rewriting have been the rulo and
non-eFasure she exeePtian. Bat TIE
erasGres are seldom 80 thorough a.
thOse 90 tue pages named. and IN no
ether instance de- they adect all the
totals.
u really dos Ioak a. II page 364 had
beeu made up Witnout the kAasan Bay
entry, and that afterwards the eoinci-
dane Of the bosa 6fs entries OF mer-
eaandiss from juneau saufhWard. those
IN detail and II recapitulafiOn, hapPsa-
ING 20 be a. the foot Of the pages On
which they respectively occur had been
discovered, and seized upon IS aidordirR
q coveted oppOrtnnity for inserting some
e1eh entry ft looks very mach az IL the
reearriRQ lines Of totals on p4Re $50
WeFs due either 10 the fact that the
freight clark vas interrupted from time
10 time In making up that page and run
q new line e. every cessation or renewal
of his work upon il, or to the fact that be
vas desiFous Of exhibiting The business
Of The steamship 10 various aspects IS
iRclusive or exclusive OF certain branch
e of kKaf3c, and that the kaasan Bay
entry Of page 369 vas not N Ade till all
those Interruptions or computations bad
tiGn Of is oocaaioned and neaeasisated
the rubbing out and 0Vsr-Wrising Of
every one Of these totals. That what
mus H1GA1a ~ pHouhO11 - e41 4DtGaA Aaoe
IL susceptible Of smashing vesy like 3
characterization. Happily for the cause
Of truth. either the muscles or the eyes,
the patience or the vigilance, Of the per-
son erasinR we're not equal TO the tax
of complete eEasare, Dim fragments
of figures still remain limb sdded in the
paper, and disceFnible By close scrutiny
aided By 3 str0HR light. These fraR
ments are sofhcient 10 enable me to re-
construct the eifaced totals 10 snch an
extent rs TO show the relation Of them,
aud Of those that have supplanted them,
TO the figures Of the Kaasan Bay entry.
In order 10 display that relation, viii
set down SUCCESSFULLY the seven lines Of
tetal8 and Immediately under each line
the original line OF tstals il has dis
placed, 20 far as recoverable. will, as
proceed, subtract each reconstructed
line frem the line Of totals next above
it and 10 facilitate comparison form a
third line ont Of the remsindeFs. Every
space for an iFrecoveFable figure l viii
al With star. For convenienoe, / will
number the tEiplets OF lines consecu-
sively: