Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-10

school property is now estimated to be
worth from $4,000 to $4,000; but
the directors have decided to spend
$40, 900 in the erection of new and
more commodious buildings during
the coming year and thus give the
city schools accommodation equal to
that in any city on the coast. In ad-
dition to the public schools there are
also two private academies, one of
which is under the care of the Sisters
of Charity, and the other is the Olym-
pia Collegiate Institute, of which Prof
Follansbee is principal. These both
have number of pupils, and the la.
ter has a normal and classical course
that affords every facility for higher
education.
While the educational wants OF the
city are so well looked after, the spirit
ual needs have not been neglected.
Olympia is church-going city and
has a church-going people. Almost
every denomination of religion is
represented, and some of the churches
are models of architectural beauty.
The city, too, is in advance of many
others in the quality of her news
papers, and the Republican Partisan,
WASHINGTON STANDARD and Olympia
Reriew take high rank among the
weekly papers of the new State. The
first named will become a daily with
this New Year if the Western Union
can complete the new wire they are
stretching from Portland to Seattle by
way OF the capital city, so that the
proprietor can obtain Associated Press
dispatches.
Most of the benevolent societies are
well represented in Olympia, and the
Masons have a handsome and COM
modious hall on the corner of Main
and Eighth streets, opposite the Hotel
Olympia. The Odd Fellows have a
magnificent temple on Main street at
the corner of Fifth, and this is one
of the finest blocks in the city. The
Grand Army OF the Republic, Knights
of Pythias, Ancient Order of United
Workmen and Good Templars, all
have local organizations, and the noisy
Salvation Army also parades the
streets. The gentlemen of Olympia
have a pleasant social club, the Pot
latch, and the ladies a club OF their
own, known as the Woman's Club OF
Olympia. Among the other institu-
tions of the city, the St. Peters Hos
pital, maintained and conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy, must not be for
gotten. The building has recently
been enlarged, and it is now one of
the most complete and commodious
hospitals in the State.
Heretofore the city has been de-
ficient in hotel accommodations, not
in the quality but the quantity. The
leading hotel of the city, the Carlton,
has had to send large numbers of its
patrons to other buildings to sleep
from lack Of room, and while the ho-
tel ranks high among the Puget Sound
hotels, this going out of the house
was always considered inconvenient.
During the past year the citizens of
Olympia put their heads together, and
decided to organize company to
build hotel and would be in keeping
with the size of the city, and afford
accommodations for all corners. A
capital of $4,000 was quickly sub
scribed, and magnificent hotel, the
equal of any in the Pacific Northwest,
has been erected and completed, and
Olympia now possesses better hotels
and more of them than any other city
of its size on the Coast. The new ho-
tel commands splendid view of the
water from the north and west sides,
and the cupula is high enough to af-
ford the most delightful scenes on all
sides. The glorious old sentinel of
the Cascades, Mount Rainier, can be
seen in all its beauty of its snow. clad
dome, and the smaller but equally
beautiful peaks of Mount Olympia
and Mount st. Helens are visible on
every clear day, and afford never
ending pleasure to the lover of all
that is grand to nature.
The new hotel at Olympia is an
elegant five-story frame building, with
brick and stone basement. There
are two hundred sleeping rooms, and
the hotel is well equipped with all
modern improvements and conven-
fences. Parkinson & Evers, of Sc
attic, were the architects who drew
the plans for both the Olympia hotel
and the new bank building.
The capital building itself is neither
n very handsome nor commodious
structure. Indeed, but for generosity
and public spirit of the people of
Olympia it would not be able to ac-
commodate The Legislature now in
session there. When the Constitu-
tional Convention was about to assem-
BILE last summer the citizens of Olym-
pia at their own expense made con-
siderable addition to the south end of
the building which before that would
only give seats and desks to about two
thirds Of the members, and also added
to the accommodation for the library.
The grounds occupied by the capitol,
and which are the property of the
State so long as the capital remains
in Olympia, and no longer, are very
extensive, and comprise acres of land
beautifully situated on the top of the
hill whence magnificent view ex-
tending for miles in every direction
and especially towards the Sound il
obtained. These grounds have been
planted with trees that have attained
large growth and form splendid