The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-16
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FAIRHAvEN NEWS.

Building improvements Made NoW
Opera-House and Wharf Projected.
FAIRHAvES. March l5.-tspeciaL 1.-The ex.
ceptionsily fine weather thus far this month
has greatly stimulated building operations,
and there is already more work OF thaS
kind in progress than at any time since early
last summer Excavations for several substan-
tial brick and stone business blocks have been
commenced, and the indications now are that
the record OF improvement for 1891 will
equal II IL does not exceed the remarkable show
ing OF last year. General satisfaction is now en-
pressed at the refusal Of the council
to reduce the FIRE limits so as to ad-
init OF the erection of more cheap frame
who are able to build suhstsntialy, but who u arc
not personally constructed upon broad gauge
plan.
The residence of f. l. Cowgirl, general man
ager of the land company, is now being re-
moved from the corner of Thirteenth and Harris
streets, where the Grand opera-house is to Be
lot adjoining the 100 feet frontage that he
already owned. aud that he viii erect .
larger building than he at first intended.
been submitted, and il is expected that Q
selection will be made in q few days
an Of fss sGs r caieo % ipr . wiz =
and will be included in the circuit comprising
Portland, Seattle. Tacoma and spokane Falls.
cation is ended, the city council At fits last
chise to the Plat -Hiscock Com pany. N
the only really important change being the one
providing for the payment to the city OF an an
nual license fee of per cent of the gross receipts
which the sid old ir franchise called & for. There
must be one and q quarter miles completed and
In operation BY August !, and two and half
erected and trackIaying win be commenced 20
soon a. the rails arrive. The Thompson -Hous-
ton motor system win be used sed
by the legislature Of Miller. House bill No 2ls,
authorizing cities Of the third GLASS 70 raise
issuance of bonds. Fairhaven viii take
advantage Of this measure to issue
?, bonds probably & ios $4,000. With which a
Be at the foot Of Mckenzie avenue. In about :
VIII snS sSs city has
been ordered 70 make connections and assess
the cost against the property benefited in all
with the ordinance requiring such connections
to be made within thirty days after notification
The ordinance authorizing the construction
bier street, against the passage of which the city
attorney made . determined fight, on the
ground that the city cannot legally grant such
privilege because the tide lands are owned BY
the state, and the right to use them for
street extensions to deep water is granted to
cities in trust only for purely public purposes.
has received the mayors approval and has been
published, and work upon the wharf will begin
In few days.
II is expected that at Wednesdays meeting Of
the council. in accordance with the provisions
of the new law. Mayor Wilson will nominate .
seventh member OF "this mighty sanhedrim,"
IS the Herald recently named Il, and then some
OF the committees OF the council will be recon-
structed, and . special committee appointed 70
supervise the sewer work.
This week has witnessed the death OF one
paper at Watcom, the BaIteftn, and the birth Of
one here, the Bee, the latter being, in .
measure, the successor to the Sun, whose
meteoric career and the fight to British
Columbia of its proprietor, Tarbell, are still
of the Bee appeared yesterday. with
the announcement that it will buzz
weekly ON Saturdays. The proprietor ID
H. b. Kane and his present venture Is his irst
experience in the newspaper business. W. II.
Sizer is business manager. The paper is neat in
appearance and more creditable in character
than was the Sua CULvER.