The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-29

paint fhe upper works of the dock,
Of bFAss castings ten ions viii Be needed In all.
q all the eiuice yates and valves and the frames
TO work them on must Be Of hfazs- Besides the
pumps and pipe system mentioned, ne have 70
put 81 mir pfpes to let sir escape when the aock
ID sinking. and the thousand and one other
things too numerous to mention. but AL needed
TO haye fnt-class structure, that viii last tor
no les than two generations.
81 haxe found Ia Mr.. Frank NadeAu, the
superintendent of construction, not only IN ex-
ceilenf mechanic who has tDe practical exper-
fence OF dry dock bniIding, but who. moreover,
IL eyer ready TO work ont ever suggestion made
BY me Tor greater strength and utility OF the
dock
For the benefit OF my newly adopted fellow
citizens / want TO illustrate the direct benefits
that they may expect, conseryatfyeiy speaking,
by having given me the helping hand TO cora
rlete this enterprise, for which they win have
what Is honestly due them.
"Fist-Let us remember that al classes OF
mechanics working on ships are we'll paid, 80
cents per hour being the usual price for that
class OF work, such a. carpenters. calkers, spar
makers, mAchinists, boiler-makers, brass-found-
ers, plumbers, down to painters and longshore-
men, the Last two getting perhaps little less
All that class of mechanics with such wages are
not only able to support faraisy in good style,
but are entitled to and have the Injuries OF life
and means 70 educate their children, When con-
slant work can be obtained. What have been
their chances 10 date Working perhaps one
week and being idle three weeks, believe, IL
not stretching II much. For outside of the ship
building industries ut Port BlakeIey, that keep
going so many men at all times of late, and the
building Of minor vessels and steamers once in
awhile, there was no work TO look forward to
with anything like success except small jobs.
Hundreds Of thousands of dollars have been
carried to Victoria and San Francisco that
would have been spent on the Sound II dock of
the style now building FOR Seattle had been in
operation. Look back four months only. The
xhip C. z. Sargent returned from sea leaking,
discharged GO tons In order to be safe to go to
San Francisco, there TO repair: the ship Detroit,
ship NcNear, the same as the G. F. Sargent, all
had 20 50 away because we had not facilities for
docking; next. the City of Seattle, coming from
PhiIadeiphta, docks At San Francisco for the
same reason; the City OF Kingston goes to Vic
toria for cleaning and repairs; the steamer
0iympian lies idle since February l, waiting, for
she cannot go IN the Victoria dock except on
special high tides. and she is not allowed to go
to Portland except by paying $4,000, . special
premium to the underwriters.
"When our dock Is ready we will take her out
inside OF one hour. We can clean in two days,
and be back in her element The machine work
on her can Be done as well at Seattle as any
where. The City of Kingston loses q propeller,
has TO lose two days going to the victofia dock,
Mnen iour hours would DO the work in our dock.
Inc tug eea Lion Is now at Victoria, spending in
oae way ana smother, $6oc: 10 benefit to us,
and many other vessels. much in need Of dock
ing, have to Be kept running, against the best
interest Of their owners, all for the want of
= COCK ships coming from England by way of
otner poyfs, where they discharge their outward
cargoes, ana come here 70 the Sound to load
wneats would be only too willing to dock to
ciesn the bottom, saving thereby thirty to fifty
Gays on their homeward voyage. But they have
70 ko - tney come, for the want OF dock And
20 We 60 iron vessels and steamers are the YES