The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-21
REMOVED TO SEATTLE
This City to Be Headquarters
for the Union Pacific.
CLOSING UP TACOMA OFFICE.
The Old Port Captaincy and Seattle
Agency to Be Merged Into One
Oface-New Appointee.

Captain James w. Troup, superinten-
dent of the Union Pacific Company's
water lines, and Mr. f. K. Rathbone, the
company's newly appointed port captain
and Seattle agent, arrived in the city yes
terday from Tacoma. They left Portland
Saturday evening and laid over in Tacoma
until the Greyhound should leave in the
morning. Mr.. Rathbone comes to Seattle
to assume the official position to which he
has been duly appointed. Inasmuch as
the removal of the port captainship from
Tacoma to this city and the arranging of
the agency affairs will consume some little
time and involve difficulties. Captain
Troup will remain on the Sound few
days to see the new appointee thoroughly
and satisfactorily installed in office.
The fact that Captain Charles +. Clan
cey, who for twenty years has been con-
nected with the Union Pacific Companys
line of boats, with residence at Tacoma,
had been asked for his resignation has al
ready been published, but the retirement
of G.. E. Baldwin, the company's Seattle
agent, will be quite surprise. His office
will be merged with the Tacoma office and
be managed by the new man, Mr.. Rath-
bone.
The report circulated that Captain Troup
would probably be replaced by some East
ern man and that he would be appointed
TO his old position as port captain of the
Columbia river division, is without founda-
ton. Captain Troup is still superintendent
of the company's water lines, and any rea-
sons why he should he removed from office
have not been advanced.
Captain Troup was seen bya PosT-INrEL-
LIGEScEg reporter yesterday shortly after
his arrival in the city, and he said: 1.-The
reasons for the cornpany's asking for Cap
tain Clancey's resignation are several; the
most important one being a question of
economy. For long time it has been APP
parent the Office of port captain should be
at Seattle instead of Tacoma. At the former
place all the shops of the company are es-
tablished, and the greater part by far of
the business on Puget sound is carried on.
Then again, all of the boats run to Seattle,
while all do not go to Tacoma, and so can
not receive the attention they should from
the port captain. The removal of Captain
Clancy and Mr.. Baldwin, however, in no
manner reflects upon the integrity or hon.
esty of those gentlemen"
Captain Troup says that he was not in
strumental in causing the removed of Cap
tain Clancy, but he was instrumental in
having Mr.. Rathbone appointed to the
Puget sound district, and in merging the
port captainship and the Seattle agency
into one office.
The new appointee, Mr.. Rathbone, is a
man of experience in the steamboat busl-
ness, and the fact that for a number of
years he has been Captain Troup's chief
clerk and right-hand man in the manage
ment of the company's Columbia river af-
fairs and later part captain pro tenn. of the
Puget sound division during a short alb
sence of Captain Clancy, is evidence that
he has the confidence of the managers of
the Union Pacific company. Previous to
his connection with Captain Troup, Mr.
Rathbone was purser on various of the
Columbia and Willamette river steamers
owned by the Union Pacific company. In
Portland, where he has long resided. Mr..
Rathbone is very popular with all of the
company's patrons. and being a man of
uniform courtesy it is foregone conclu-
sion that he will meet with favor in Sc
attic.
1t is quite possible that the new
appointee may make some radical changes
both with regard to his assistants and the
running of the company's steamers, but
Just what the changes will be he cannot
tell, owing to the field being new. 1t will
take some time to get the business of the
two offices into shape and running
smoothly. The new steamer Victorian,
recently built at Portland, and now tied
up at Tacoma. will be put on a regular run
between Tacoma and Victoria about the
middle of the present week.