The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
With the great eagles at the morn
THE PASSING THRONG.

Walter A. Mcclure, delegate from Seattle to
the International Typographical Union, which
conveues at Philadelphia June Is, has gone to
Eugene, Or. to visit his relatives. In a week
he will return to this city. when he will imms-
diately start East Mr. Mcclure Is a terror to
hatters. Although one would not at a casual
| glance notice anything peculiar about him. 1t is
fact that he has an unusually large head,
wearing number ~ hat. Just before he went
to Oregon he decided to get q new hat, and
called at Dimock Il Cheasty's. The affable
clerk, with bland smile, brought out a num-
Der 71 hat, but to his surprise, 1t scarcely COW
cred Mr.. McClure's bump of veneration. Then,
after the whole stock had been rummaged over,
711 tile was discovered, and the clerk, with a
cry of joy, produced it, but it was too small.
Hyams, Pauson & Co. next went
through their stock, but their hats
were far too small. Then the Goldstein
Hat Company was given q chance. but was I'M
able to accommodate the purchaser In despair
Mr.. Mcclure gave up the search, and he now
declares that when he gets to Philadelphia he
will have a lot OF hats made to order. Six years
f! ago, when he was about Is years old, he called
on Meusdorfer, the Portland halter. and wanted
hat. Meusdorfer prided himself on his large
and elegant stock, but was completely taken
down when, after an hours search, he was COM
| PEELED to confess that he had not fit. Two
years later Mr.. Mcclure called again, and had
no sooner entered than Meusdorfer sprang to
laying for you for two years" From a back
shelf he produced 7ss hat which he had had
made to order and kept In readiness for two
years. He got his reward, for Mr.. Mcclure
bought that hat.
Thomas Maloney, of Port Angeles, president
| OF the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony Com.
pany, is stopping at the Northern hotel, home
ward bound from the Democratic pow-wow at
Vancouver. The company of which Mr.. Maloney
is the head Is now cooperative only in name
for it is plain corporation, transacting business
according to the usual methods for what profit
may be gained; but its name recalls an interest
in experiment in cooperation tried on Puget
SOUND five years ago. In the spring of 1857 n
cooperative colony of about 500 souls, includ-
ing men, women and children-setted at Port
Angeles. They had incorporated with a nominal
capital OF 100000, of which $4,000 was paid in
but of this $4,000 only $4,000 was in cash, for
the rest was contributed in labor. "The plan,"
said Mr. Naloney last night, "was to run a CO.
operative store for the colony, and have CO.
operative factories, in which all the profits
should go in the wages to the employees. I
think that If We had had money enough we might
have carried the undertaking through to sue
cess But, as it was, the cooperative plan was
abandoned in a little less than year. We had a
| single factory and a lumber mill in
| operation, aud we planned to start
other industries, but the wages at the two mills
We had We're SO high that the concern ran
almost bankrupt, and some of the property had
TO be put III the hands OF q trustee. After
| year few OF us bought up the stock or a ma
| iority OF ii, and began running the company as
an ordinary corporation. There are now eleven
OF us in 1t, and we still buying in the small
| outstanding blocks of stock"
"The names OF the chief cities of Washington
are always source of curiosity TO visitors" said
| Samuel l. Crawford yesterday, sand their mean
| ing Is always asked. Seattle comes from Sc alth
| the chief OF the Duwamishes and the odds and
| ends OF Puget sound tribes who made their
| headquarters at Old Mans House, now Port
Madison. Spokane takes its name from the spo-
kane Indians. There is no such word as Ia
coma, but 'tacomau' is a Puyalup word mean
| ing mountain PEAKS, and was used TO describe
| all high mountains, Rainier, Mount Baker and
| all Others. The Indian name OF Mount Rainier
| is Tiswauk. The original name OF Old Tacoma
was Cheoallip, meaning big shade. and was
| derived from giant maple under which the
| Puyallups used 10 assemble"
| ave are doing a good service to the state by
| bringing ministers and editors out over our
rad said l. A. Fadeau, general agent of the
| Northern Pacific road, yesterday. "They and
| the school teachers are the best advertisers in
| the country. The members OF that Editorial
| Association will go home to every corner OF the
land and write about what they have seen ont
| here. The Presbyterian ministers will be apt to
use illustrations taken from their tour in their
| sermons, snd talk 10 their congregations about
| this country. Ii would have been splendid
| thing Tor the sound If we could have secured
| the Educational Association convention this
| year for the school teacher will talk Her les
sons no longer consist the Three Rs but are
| IN the nature Of lectures, and she will tell her
pupils eli about section OF the country she has
| seen"
| ). h. Howe, OF Springfield. O, man who has
been interested in the timber and logging trade
IN Michigan and other parts of the West, is ct
| the Arlington hotel. II have come to this
siate' SAID he, Yesterday, ''to see If can find
| lana where aooat20 people can settle and form
| colony. They want two or three townships OF
| good timber ana farming land The people
VINO wish to come live around Springfield and
tnioa IsaI.e. aad they would all come here