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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
HARBOR CHARGES AND LNSLIR
ANCE ON SHIPPING.

On account Of the ease of entrance and
the accessibility of the harbor ports to
the ocean, the towage rates are much less
for vessel bound from this city than for
one bound from Portland or ports on
Puget Sound. The towage rates on the
harbor for lumber laden vessel is fifty
cents per thousand feet Of lumber for in
and out tow, and twenty cents per ton for
incoming freight, while the towage rates
on the Sound are much larger, as the dis
lance to be traversed is longer.
TIE insurance rates on lumber and
merchandise leaving the harbor ports are
likewise lower than the Sound rates on
the same cargoes. The highest rate from
Grays harbor to San Francisco being
three-quarters per cent. lower lower than
the lowest schedule rates from Puget
Sound, the lumber rates being also three
quarters per cent. in favor Of Grays
harbor.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
THE CENZRAL CITY

Aberdeen is the central city and the port
Of entry for the Grays harbor country.
1t is situated at the apex of that pear
shaped bay, where the waters of the har-
Dor are united with those OF the
Chehalis and Wishkah rivers, sixteen
miles from the bar. The incorporate
limits Of the city contain eleven square
miles Of land and water, lying on both
sides of the rivers just named and the
bay proper. The site is principally level,
but back of the level portion
rises gradually to an elevation of fifty
feet or more. The Wishkah river
divides the city little east of the center.
This river is navigable for some distance
for the largest ships and for steamers as
far as sixteen miles above its mouth.
Aberdeen was originally founded as a
mill town some seven or eight years ago,
but its commercial growth. has been mat
ter of only three years The first corners
thought of little but the advantageous
location and exceptional natural facilities
for saving and shipping lumber,
but these two very important factors have
gone to make up location favorable for
other industries, and a realization of this
has pushed the town into commercial
prominence and accounts for it's recent
rapid growth.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
FIRE DETACHMENT.

The city fire department is thoroughly
organized and well equipped. Water is
supplied from the bay by stationary
pumping engine, running night and day,
Hydrants are located at convenient in
tervals and connections are easily made
when necessary. The apparatus con-
sists of three hose-carts, two thousand
one hundred and fifty feet Of hose, and a
first-class hook and ladder truck. There
are eighty-four members of the fire de-
partment, divided into three companies,
under command of a chief and four
assistants.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
GRAYs HARBoR.

About fifty miles north of the Column
bia river is the entrance to Grays harbor,
from the Pacific ocean, long known to
uayigators as the most accessible and
safest harbor on the coast. The bar car
ries depth of from eighteen to twenty
three feet OF water at low tide, '-nicn
increases from ten to fifteen feet at high
tide. The entrance, or channel, isabout
mile wide, and the extreme width OF the
harbor is twelve miles, gradually tapering
to a point at its eastern end, where it is
met by the Chehalis and Wishkah rivers.
In the harbor there are three well defined
channels offering ample anchorage room
and merging into one broad, deep channel
or roadstead, near the head of the harbor.
These channels are separated from each
other and from the shore proper by ex-
tensiye n I'D flats up to the point OF their
conveyance, where the volume Of water,
being more confined, has swept them
away, and the water is deep up to the
very shore line. At the head Of the har-
Dor the channel is over two thousand
feet wide, carrying depth Of 40 feet.
Theexpense of continuing this width and
depth to the sea would not be great, and
no doubt will be done as soon as proper
surveys can be made on which an estimate
Of cost can be based. Once these i'm
provements are made, the flow OF water
is sufficiently strong to keep it from shoal-
ing. The harbor is land-locked, and the
shelter it affords from storms is complete.
During the past year over one hundred
calling vessels and from four to six steam
ers per month have crossed and re-crossed
the Grays harbor bar and not one acct
dent has occurred; in fact, during the
eight or ten years the harbor has been
used as a deep water port not single
vessel has met disaster going or coming.
This harbor is three hundred and fifty
miles nearer San Francisco than are the
cities Of Puget Sound, and six hundred
miles nearer Oriental ports than is San
Francisco. Tacoma, Washington, is about
sixty miles by land from the eastern end
Of the harbor, while the peninsula, around
which all vessels must go to reach that
city, is over one hundred miles north
Of it; thus a passenger from San Francisco,
bound for Tacoma, saves more than
fiue hundred miles of the distance now
travelled by coming into Grays harbor
and completing his journey by sixty miles
of rail. Distance is time, time is money.
These facts are thoroughly undersIcv,. ~
the railroad companies, who are now hur-
rying to completion their lines to this
point. Their especial concern will be
the transportation Of coal and wheat
from Central and Eastern Washington,
with which the harbor has now direct
railroad communication. Nature has, in
deed, made here an unequaled gateway
to the ocean, to the commerce OF the
world. 1t only remains for men to i'm
prove the opportunity.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26

keep the atmosphere fresh and pure, It's
remarkable health has become pro
verbal.
The city health officer reported Tor the
wear 1890. as follows: Number Of Deaths
IN The causes of death were DROWNING
accident in logging camp, !; suicide,
1: cerebro-spinal meningitis, /; scarie'
fever. 1: cholera infantum, peritonius
1; local causes, 10. 800 49,.
Estimating our population at 25oo' the
death rate shows conclusively the health
fitness of the country
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
WooD-WoRK ESTABLISHMENTS.

After numbering, the next important
industry is that Of the sash, door, blind
and general woodworking and turning
establishments. Three OF these are nov
in profitable operation, and there is room
for more. The raw material is cheap and
the market convenient.
A factory for furniture exclusively
would be most profitable investment
here, as has been amply proven by the
work in that line being done at the sash
factories. Two shingle mills and box
factory will be ready for business this
spring, and almost any number OF indus
tries Of this kind can find good locations
near this city, where material is easily
obtained.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26

school houses are well equipped with the
most improved furniture and apparatus.
The graded schools of Aberdeen have
already become noted for their efficiency.
Preparation is being made for the erection
of new central school building to cost
$4,000. The public school in January,
1891, had an average attendance Of two
hundred pupils.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
MANUFACTURING.

Chief among the industries OF Aberdeen
is that of numbering, including logging
saving and shipping. Not less than nve
hundred men are employed in the woods
in this vicinity. -Four mills are in opera.
ton with a combined daily capacity OF
400. 900 feet. One of the mills is exciu-
sively devoted to the local trade, while
the largest share of the product OF the
other three is shipped to California
and foreign ports. For several rea-
sons Aberdeen can and does supply
lumber cheaper than either the Columbia
or Puget Sound mills. As shown else
where, our port charges, towage and other
items of ships necessary expenses are
much less. Legs are more easily OBJ
tanned. and therefore much cheaper
than at the other ports mentioned.
The shipment abroad for the year 1880
was $4,000 900; the home consumption
being about 100000. On the wharf this
lumber represented value of over $780,
900, which was principally paid out here
in wages. Other mills are being erected
and the product will probably be doubled
during the year 1891.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26

DR.. Marcoux, dentist, over the first
National Bank, is rushed with business
since he came to Aberdeen. People on
Grays Harbor needed a good dentist and
appreciate his services. There is nothing
like learning business thoroughly if
one expects to succeed in this world.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
GZHOLLc SCHOOL.

Beside the public school, Aberdeen en-
Joys the advantage of first-class Cath
bic school, conducted by the Domin can
sisters Of New York. Together with its
common branches they also instruct their
pupils in instrumental music and draw
ing. They now have an enrolment of
ouer sixty pupils.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

Five churches afford accommodation to
christian NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Pres
byterian, Congregational, Catholic and
Lutheran; the Episcopalians also have
a strong society and are preparing to
build church edifice.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
HEALTH OF THE CITY.

On account of the mild and even tenn
perature Of this country and the salt
breezes from the sea that continually
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
Mexican
Mustang
IiniI,ne1

A Cure for the Ailments of Man and +
A long-tested pain reever
It's use IS almost universal by the Housewife the Fan
liniment
No other application compares with it in efficacy.
This well-known remedy has stood the test Of years
generations. M
No medicine chest is complete without bottle Of ~
LINIMENr.
Occasions arise for its use almost every day.
All druggists and dealers have it.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-26
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Much attention is given in Aberdeen to
the education Of the young, and the two
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06

but soldier of original genius and rare
accomplishments. He thought out his
movements with the same precision
that he executed them. His study of
the art of war was on largo scale.
His nature was intense; and he carried
with him into the field the resistless
engincries of q tremendous martial
spirit, vigor and enthusiasm, built upon
q belief in his cause and In himself,
which never tagged or faltercd
The notion, founded on General Sher-
mans aggressive methods and unspar-
ing activity, that he WIS an inconsid-
crate or cruel mon, did injustice to his
real character. lie was a man over
flowing with generous sympathies.
But, impulsivc, pugpacious, affectionatc,
choleric. as open as the day, he often
got into trouble and put himself ut q
great disadvantage by his unguarded
freedom of speech Those who knew
him well will always bear testimony to
his lovable qualities; the soul of honor;
born democrat In his transformations
fellowship with his fellow-men; and one
of the most delightful Of companions in
all affairs, either of work or play. He was
a close observer, possessed n canny un-
derstanding of human nature, and had
acquired much Of the lore Of books
The relations between him and his
friends were cordial to the last degree,
and with his family and kindred,
charming. In q word, General Sher-
man was a soldier of whom my nation
might be proud, and we record the It'd
ings of his death with regret, tempered
by the thought that, after long and
brilliant career, he leaves to his coun-
try renown in the glory of which all
who survive him, Southerners alike
with Northcrners, may share. We were
often opposed to him in life But In
death there is nothing to mar the re-
spectful homage which we lay upon the
coffin that enceses true American, a
valiant and successful General, and a
patriot of many exalted virtues, public
and private.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN.
Three Interesting Examples OF
Bright Young Americans.
Tho Evening SUMS "woman About Town"
"A Girl Who Has Shot an Indian
and Saved a Camp-Mrs.
Sophia BraeunlicIi.
lCopYRIGuT, 1871

COPYRIGHT, 1871.
One day heard Of woman uptown
who believed she had made discovery.
1.-THE Evening Suns Woman about
Town." said she, ''is not woman; she
(sic) is man! The man has studied
women, and he knows how they think
and how things look to them, but he has
one failing, every now and then he gets
drunk and goes on spree"
The person addressed inquired with
all gravity from what the lady drew her
differences.
WELL" returned she, "I'll tell you
He runs along with sQuibs, critiques and
one thing and another, the most inter-
esting paragraphs in the paper day after
day, until suddenly you miss him. For
On afternoon, or possibly two, he doesn't
write line, and when he begins again
he's brilliant but sometimes, or imag-
inc it, little mixed. The second day
he pulls himself together and comes out
with q wonderfully sparkling column.
He keeps it up, getting more and more
delightfully."- clever, for about five or six
weeks, and then he's gone again.
''Am / not right now?''
The person, with show of rcluct-
ancc wiclcdly allowed that she was.
Nov l wish, if you know him, you
would go to him and tell him there is a
lady who is deeply interested in him
and who begs so earnestly that he will
reform"
The person went, and the woman
sent return message promising that
the interest and sympathy of her (his)
unknown friend should rouse her Chim)
to most earnest efforts to abstain from
alcohol. There were no breaks in the
column for II long period, and tho anxious
watcher uptown sent many q note of
congratulation.
The watcher was only one of wide
circle of readers whose curiosity has
been piQued by the clear-cyed comment
OF the merry, keen, yet tender woman
Looking tonight into the firegiow re-
member letter that came to me one
evening q little more than year ego.
It promised a visit from friend who
would bring with her a young woman
who had "just taken charge of q column
of the Evening Sun"
In few weeks began to hear people
ask: who writes The Woman About
TOWN.
In few more weeks I began to
notice on horse cars and elevated
trains that three ont of every four
Evening Sun readers turned first to
The Woman
The gray -eyed girl had struck O fresh
note and, stranger as she was, much as
her name belied her who had not been
about town at all. her witty, everyday
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06

CLOSING ENTERTAINMENT.
Brilliant Event Given by the
irving Lyceum.
ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,

HOTEL LUCERNE, SALEM, VA. }
The latest society event was tho ball
and banquet given by the gentlemen
of the Irving Lyceum at the Lake
Spring Hotel Thursday night.
The meeting was called to order by
r. S. Stearns, president of the club.
Mr.. Smith read the news of the last two
weeks, Messrs. Camp, Baird and Mont
gomery rendered and instrumental solo;
o. L.. Stearnes read selection from
s'Colonel Carter, Of Gainesville"
Messrs. Camp, Baird, Stearnes and
WYE sang in q quartette; K.
Stearnes, rendered vocal solo; j. l..
Allemong, a piano solo; Miss Roberts
vocal solo; C. A. Weber gave a guitar
solo and some humorous remarks. Mr..
Weber is gifted in humorous compost
ton and his points are very fine.
After q brief address by r. 5.
Stearnes the farewell address was de-
livered by Edward Jeter, which adorned
by all the flowers Of rhetoric.
After the banquet the dancing in the
elegant hall of the Lake Spring began,
and was kept up until $3.50 in the morn
ing.
The following were present. J. R.
Thomas and Miss p. Smith, York, Pa. !:
r. S. Stearnes and Miss Willie Gam
bill, of Roanoke; j. A. Floyd and Miss
Roberts; Rush Burdette and Miss Min
ME Burks; a. S. Burdette and Miss Eva
Moon; Edward Brand and Miss Nancy
Chapman; j. E. Allemong and Miss
Bessie Allemong, of Baltimore; G.. $.
Bowman and Miss Mollie Logan; j. S.
Persinger and Miss Brander. Of Rich
mond; v. C. Tompkins and Miss Kate
Ayres, of Abingdon, Edward Jeter and
Miss Killiam; DR.. Saunders and Miss
Burdette; II. G. Camp and Miss Stella Izor,
of Indianapolis: Il. L. Roberts, Jr., and
Miss j. p. Izor; Ii. Pechin and Miss Elsie
Logan, Thomas Kennard and Miss
Lucy Johnston, w. M. Montgomery and
Miss Bessie Thompkins, A. l.. Hannah
and Miss Grimes Burwell, j. c. Dorst
and Miss Edna Uncommon, Dick John
son and Miss Annie Palmer, o. L.
Stearnes and Miss Buchanan, Eugene
Smith and Miss Bessie Moore, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. III. Chalmers, G.. S. Bowman
and Miss Kent, of Wytherville.
The gentlemen unaccompanied by
ladies were: Messrs. Riddick, Webster,
Lewis, Baker, Glasgow. Armstrong,
Nelmes aud Arthur, of Bedford city:
Wright, FLOYD, of Lynchburg; Alfred
Burdette, Martin, V. X. Bowman,
"Hub" Smith. Clay Chairman. DR..
Baird, B. S. Barnett, j. E. Shipman
and R. l.. Fogg.
Among the spectators were Col. F. J.
Chapman. wife and daughter, and Miss
Fincy. This winds up The Lyceum for
the summer.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06

philosophy, unusual in woman, most
unusual in young woman, was COS
mopolitan and this included its being
metropolitan. She was success from
the beginning.
Probably most of you know by this
time that the woman's name is Helen
Watterson and tina t she is college girl
from Wooster University. The future
looks very fair before her, for she has O
quick insight into human nature, strong
common sense and sweet, wholesome
humor to help her to other successes,
sure to be won, as her present rcpute
has been by legitimate, conversational
means.
The Mayors committee who have
been helping Commissioner Beattie to
solve the problem of cleaning New
York's dirty streets refer all their
mathematical calculations to a tall,
brown-cyed young woman, who fills a
place ON which many politicians look
with envious eyes, and who has O most
UNUSUAL history.
When she went West few weeks
ago, Denver greeted her as "the Colora-
do girl" With her father, well-known
geologist and expert miner, she jour
neyed up and down when little more
than baby, till she knew the passes
and peaks of the Rocky mountains from
Mexico to the Canada line.
She was taught to cling TO the name
OF scrubby pony almost before she
could walk; She was good shot before
she could read. though her father paid
twenty-five dollars for the scrap of a
primer from which she learned her A,
b, C's-
For months she saw no woman, no
children but little Indians; for other
months she lived on snowshocs high up
among the mountains.
She was a brave child, and the story
is kept of how once she trudged after a
woman, who had straycd IA bit from the
emigrant wagons with which they were
travelling. As the two passed out of
sight over the rise of little knoll,
there started up close at the womans
side Nh Indian with hand stretched for
the scalp lock ind tomahawk lifted. Be-
fore the blow could fall pop went the
little girls revolver, and there was live
woman and dead Indian.
At another time the camp was
hcmmcd in by savages. There was
one chance of life; it lay it getting word
to body of soldiers beyond the lines
of the Indians. The red men had not Vet
guessed Mt what disadvantage they
had the party they were bcsieging, but
at any hour the discovery might come.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06
THE MEDAL CONTEST.


An Interesting Event at the Town Hall
Last Night.
The contest for the declaimers' medal
given by the Dcmosthenian Society took
place last night at the Town Hail.
The contestants and their subjects
were: Il. w. Hunter, Pushmataha dis
trict, Indian Territory, "IIannible on the
Alps" w. II. Kyle, Fayetteville, N. c.,
'Karl, the Martyr" G. w. Castle. Rural
Retreat, Va, silent Voices,'' Lloyd
Marcus, Salem, Va, "The Influence of
Oratory;'' S. j. Homer, Annette, Push
mataha district, Indian Territory, "Our
Duties to the Republic:' G. S. Bowman,
Salem, Va, The South"
j. w. Lamm, of North Carolina pre-
sided over the exercises. The Judges
were DR.. o. Wiley, Judge w. Griffin and
w. NJ. Montgomery.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06
Wonderful. If TINE

a Colorado rancher relates the fol-
lowing story. which, by the way, is q
little bit too far-fetched to be implicitly
believed. The story is given for what
1t Is worth: GAS most people lsno,y
black wool brings from five TO ten cents
less per pound than tho corresponding
grade of white wool In order to in.
sure the separation Of tho Inferior prod
uct' as our shcaring operations pro-
crossed, we once placed the black sheep
IN pen by themselves. There were
sixty-thrcc of the black sheep thus iso-
lated in the corral on tho night speak
OF. Some time during the darkness a
woif' coyote, as we call it, entered tho
pen and killed n cwe and two lambs.
On the following morning we were
greatly surprised to find that the wool
on the remaining sixty had turned per
tectly white from terror" It is report
cd that the author Of this story is a
church member in good standing.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06

ment, with the task of editing the
original matter, toning down the ex-
travagant reports of correspondents en-
thusiastic over bonanzas and making
the Journal felt among miners as a
storehouse of reliable facts about their
business, fell into her efficient hands.
She developed at the same time q
Gift for management, was put in re-
sponsiblc charge of the Office and the
staff employed on it, became treasurer
of the Scientific Publishing Company,
which gets ont the Journal and little
more than year ago became business
manager.
She is Mrs. Sophia Bracunlich, and
the big office of the journal is said to
be, under her management, the best
ordered in New York. Are not the
three of whom have spoken interest
ing examples of bright young American
women? ELIZA PUTNAM HEAroN.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06


derstood, will relieve him of much of
this detail of editorship and thereby
edd to the character of the journal. The
career of Mr.. Davis has been brief but
brilliant He is but twcnty-six years of
age and the son OF l.. Clarke Davis.
managing editor of the PHILADELPHIA
Ledger, and Rcbccca Harding Davis,
the novelist He is n graduate of the
Lehigh University and studied mt Johns
Hopkins at Baltimore. For three years
he was connected with the Press at
Philadelphia and aftcrward went to
Europe for the Telegraph of the same
city. Upon his return he became a
special writer on the New York Even
ing Sun and did some admirable work
for that bright paper. His first appear
ance in magazine was as the author
OF an article on football, which ap-
pcared in st. Nicholas. lie afterward
contributed several wcll-planncd char
acter studies to Scribncr's, the best of
them being "a Walk Up the Avenue"
and my Disreputable Friend Mr..
Raegan." Mr.. Davis is pleasant COM
panion and o good newspaper worker.
lie is very popular with his associates
Of the press.