Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-23
DOUBTTNG THOMASES


to do anything, certain element in
this neighborhood has sneered
and declared, cts only a
bluff, and it won't be done"
When the Fairhaven Land company
bought the ground on which Fair
haven stands, and declared its inten-
tion to turn Dan Harris ranch into a
city, they laughed with great hearth
ness and exclaimed, "Oh, what a
joke!"
The city was not only built, but it
built adjoining cities through the
force of example and the cOntaglOn of
enterprise.
When Mr.. Mason started in to build
his handsome block, and the Land
Company started in to build the hand
soonest and best hotel in the state,
those people said, "That's cute way
to sell town lots, for, of course, the
buildings will not be erected"
Those buildings are today architec-
tural ornaments on Belhngham bay
and blessings all around, the hotel
being even place of entertainment
for many who, perforce, must sojourn
for a time among our sneering neigh
| bOrs.
Similar remarks were made about
our ocean docks, street Improvements,
school houses, churches, handsome
residences, etc, etc, with similar re-
suits, and Of late, even since The ma
| terial, steel rails, cross ties, stringers,
electric poles ana all that had been
distributed over the entire length of
the line, the poles set and mile of
the road completed, some of our
doubling neighbors have said: "There
is no intention TO complete that road.
1t is only bluff, a scheme TO sell the
franchise. Who ever heard Of S.
pound steel rail being used on a street
car line?"
Nevertheless the work of con-
structing the road is being pushed
a force of fiftymen and a large num-
Der Of teams on the tracklaying alone,
and in two weeks the people of Fair
haven and New Whatcom will be
riding on the road. Moreover, it will
be the most substantially constructed
and perfectly equipped street railway
on the Pacific coast, and its branch
lines will be built as rapidly, after the
first line is completed, as men and
money can do it. The laying of the
track is completed from the New
| WhatcOm line to the intersection of
| Eleventh and Front streets, a
/ distance of mile, and the
construction is complete to within
few yards of Eleventh street.
Added to what is here said may be
given the following paragraph from
the Whatcom Express, which always
tells the truth when it can't avoid it,
and frequently when it can. This
paragraph is all true, excepting the
word forty" and that is true Also
/ for there are that many and many
more than that many men at work on
the tracklaying alone, the editor of
the HERALD having counted fifty
there on Tuesday. The Express says:
The Fairhaven company are laying
| their track In a solid, substantial manner
and will push the work to completion
| forty men being now at work.
There are those who object to every
mode Of legal killing because it causes
suffering. People are unduly sensi-
tive of the feelings OF criminals. Sup
pose that the victim should suffer in
| tense agony for two or three minutes,
that would not be a 1.-THE of what 900
persons out of every 1000 who die a
natural death suffer. A man may
brutally murder his defenceless wife
and yet because he is made to suffer a
few minutes in cXpiation of that crime
there is a great cutlery about the
cruelty Of the punishment. This is a
very peculiar world.
a mob Of miners surrounded and
captured squad OF Tennessee militia
men who had been sent to subdue
the riotous miners. The troops, how
ever, were only making bluff and
had been ordered not to fight. One
lieutenant OF militia offered to fight
the mob with twenty men, but the
commander refused his request. Now
the miners who had the sympathy Of
the public, have by their lawlessness.