The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-06
THE CANAL WILL GO.
4 Significant Real Estate Sale
Concluded.
VITAL ADVANTAGES or THE WORK
Judge Murphy Takes Up the schsms--
Architect suiIivan Arrives TO Plan
the Opsrs-H House.

The Lake Washington ship canal ID TO Be
pushed IN congress with all energy next ssion.
Az soon a. the survey, for which $1,000 - ap-
propriated in the pending river and harbor BILL
is completed, ex-CouRrsssman J. 81. Murphy, OF
Davenport, Iowa, will take mp the project and
push IL throush, If possible next session.
In anticipation of the success Of the project. ex-
Congressman Murphy yesterday closed the pur-
chase Of thirty lots IN Greenes addition for s10-
500 lie also, in association with L. b. Grimth,
secured An option on the balance Of the addition
end from d. T Denny an option on seventy-hve
acres adjoining for $50 zoo This property
is on the peninsula on the south side
Of Lake Union opposite Latona and immedi-
ateiy opposite the outlet of the stream from
Lake washington and has four miles of water
'front.' Messrs. Murphy and Griffith, with Mr.
Denny, will organize company. In the event OF
the passage of the bill. for the improvement
and sale OF this property.
In regard TO the canal project, Judge Murphy
said last evening 50 P0sT-IETKLLIGENcER re-
porter: "I shall take this canal scheme In hand
aud am confident that 1t viii pass It IL quite
as feasible and will cost only about one-twenti-
eth as much as the Hennepin canal, which 10
nearly through. / have not secured
exact estimates on the cost, but it
can be done for less than q million
dollars. The locks and dams might be butt Of
timber. which would cost only one-ffth - much
as stone, though not a. durable"
do you think the government can do the
work better than private corporationf'
ayes, sir. It can be done In one year. II the
people like to take it In hand. II you let . pri-
vafe corporation do Il, you will be no better of
than If you had railroad. for it is bound to fall
into tho hands of q railroad. and you can't show
me canal in this country which il owned by
railroad on which the tolls are any less than on
the railroad. Yet bear this in mind, that
water transportation is 30 per cent cheaper
than rail transportation. There are private
parties willing and anxious to do this work, and
they would be only too glad to have . franchise,
but the public would be no better or II corpo-
ration did do It, This 10 work which belongs
TO the government, so that the canal may be
free to everybody and exist for the good Of the
public and not for any corporation. The people
of this town can we'll afford to subscribe half
the cost but the government ought to do the
work, manage the locks aud dams and keep
them In repair. You don't want any private
corporation to control your harbor."
Louis b. Sullivan. OF the firm of Adler q Sui
Ivan, of Chicago, is ct the Rainier. He has
come to Seattle at the request of the Seattle
Opera House Company, having come for the
purpose of preparing plans for the opera
house to be built at the corner of Second
and University streets He was in
conference with w. E. Bailey and other menu
bers of the company yesterday. but the plans
have not yet taken such form that anything
definite can be said about hem. The fact that
Adler Sullivan are to be the architects il SUM-
cient guarantee that the building win
be equal to any theater In the
country. Adler g. Sullivan were the
architects Of the Chicago auditorium. which IL
acknowledged to be the most magnificent build.
ing in America Mr.. Sullivan has with him .
number of photographs Of the auditorium,
~~~y1s 1A iii ~ w<fA o~HS - x1%n
Chamber OF Commerce building during his
visit The auditorium building cost s. 800 900
and contains hall with q seating capacity of
4,l00, q hotel with 400 guest rooms and q large
number of Offices Talking with Mr.. Sullivan, .
Posr-IHTELLIGENCERr reporter asked:
"what do yon think Of Seattle? A good many
visitors have said it reminded them more Of
Chicago than any other city"
Eyes, IL is very much like Chicago" was the
answer. 81 can say emphatically that like
Seattle very much. It resembles Chicago in
the hustle and activity on the streeta was
prepared to zee pretty lively town, but the
reality passes my expectations, and you have
really a Chicago on small scale. Your people
go about with 'get-there-or-bust' cir which Is
peculiar to Chicago"
show do the new buildings strike your
"very favorably. You have some very fne
bui dings. showing very goo1 architecture,
though you have some worthless ones; but 90 we
heve in Chicago, miles OF them. You have some
good, trained architects, but some poor Ones It
is too easy for man to get into the profession.
Some kind OF apprenticeship ought to be re-
quired. We in America 20 to the opposite ex.
IRENE to the English system"
"what about the Worlds fair building? Will
the plans be q matter OF open competition"
81 hope not If they are we shall not com.
pete. We have never entered public competi-
ton yet; did not in the case of the auditorium.
II you want good work done you go to . man
you know to be capable aud honest. Work fs
not done by competition among lawyers or doc
tors, and don't see why it should among archi-
teets."
Mr.. Sullivan said the work on the Worlds fair
had not progressed far enough for him to talk
about what the design for the buildings should
be. A great deal OF preliminary work remained
to be done.
Mr.. Sullivan will be in Seattle for two or three
days and then will go to Portland, San Francisco
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