, 1892-05-21
DRIFTW0OD.
Odds and Ends From Here:
There and Elsewhere.

Changes In the Oity---Graingers old
BuiIdings---A Word About the
Odd FeIIOws--- PettersOn,s In
genuity.
In years to come, young men now grow
ing up in this city will look back in vain
attempts to remember what old and his
toric landmark was replaced by some new
and handsome brick or stone structure. 1t
requires but a short space of time for the
wave of progress to obliterate old scenes
and memories, and even within the past
two years changes have been remarkable.
The axe of the Woodsman has cleared away
the forest, which but short time ago coy
cred the neighborhood of the Rankine and
Reed residences, near the capitol. Every
body remembers the beautiful garden of the
state auditors home, where the postoffice
now stands, and the cozy-looking white
house fronting on Washington street, and
hidden behind growth of lilac bushes and
heavily-laden cherry trees, all of which
have disappeared to make room for the new
court house. Frequenters of Fourth street
now admire the imposing Bettman block
but in passing along that thoroughfare, only
a short time back they would have ad-
mired the old Bettman home, the walls of
which have resOunded with the merriment
of the young people of Olympia for many
years. A little father on, too, they would
have noticed, of a summer evening, that
venerable old gentleman, Judge Sparks
sitting on his porch within an archWay of
climbing vines and rose bushes. The now
handsome thOrOughfare which leads to the
west side replaces little ten-foot passage
which made the walk to the other side of
Olympia both dreary and dangerous. The
McKenny building removed the old Pacific
drug store and Ed McGoYern' s milk-shakes,
Avenues of shade trees have disappeared,
and lOungers around the street corners
who put in their time hacking awav at
some old post, know their old haunts no
more.
The buildings which Charles Granger
has been raising have some interest to old
timers. Charlie says this is the third or
fourth time he has raised them, and he is
getting to heaven step by step, although he
inds 1t much more expensive to reach por-
tails beyond by the use of jack screw than
by climbing the golden ladder. The little
building just south of the TRIBUNE Office is
the more historic of the two. 1t was built
by the first secretary of the territory, @. H.
Mason, who afterwards received the title of
governor, in filling the office of acting
governor during the temporary absence Of
Isaac L. Stevens. 1t was used as Governor
Mason's Office and residence, and was built
in 1854, by Benjamin Harmed. Charles
Granger bought it in 1868, and lived in it
for 28 years. His family grew up in it, and
he regards the old building as something
dear to him. Mr.. Granger did considera-
bic building in early days. Eighteen years
ago he erected the building now occupied
by the TRIBUNE, and in 1872, the one used
for Wllliamson's grocery. Thirty-three
years ago he built Grainger's barn, which is
one of the most historic land marks in the
town. There We're nothing but woods up
here in those days" said Mr.. Granger, "and
people asked me why didn't go to Tum-
water to build my stable"
And right at the corner of Main and
Fifth streets, where now stands the Odd
Fellows temple, were grown the first hops
in the state, so Mr.. Granger says. They
were sent to Governor Stevens from the
East and he planted them in his garden
and orchard, which occupied the corner
above referred to. From Governor Stevens
garden the first hops grown in the ,Puyal-
lup valley were sent. Ezra Meeker was
over IN Olympia when Mr.. Granger sug-
gested he take few hops home with him.
Puyallup hops, or, rather, Olympia hops,
have made Meeker rich.
The meeting of the grand lodge of Odd
Fellows at Olympia next year means about
one thousand visitors here for three or
four days. Like the Masonic fraternity,
the Odd Fellows instituted their first lodge
in Washington in Olympia, and it is not
only the oldest, but one of the most -four
ishing lodges in the state. 1t was insti-
tuted July l3, 1855, by the late
Chief Justice c. c. Hewitt, who was
deputized by the grand lodge of
the United States to institute the lodge and
metal the of fn,o OH to,l
to G. Q. Hewitt, J. L. Head, James G. Head,
Daniel Kiser and Cyri Ward Among
those at the first meeting were Victor Nun
roe, then chief justice of the territory, D.
Q. Beatty, now living at South Bay; VIM
N. Ayres, who went back to the states in
the early sixties; Samuel Davenport, who
IS still member and resides at Tenino
r. ]. Smith, Daniel Kiser and George
Blankenship, the last three of whom are
dead. #e#
The lodge is in an excellent financial
condition and possesses considerable prom
erty. The present temple was occupied
three years ago. Judge Hewitt, and his
nephew, Randall H., printer, built the
old hall on Washington street, now used
by the Washington club. 1t was the in
tentiOn to use the lower floor for a printing
office, and the upper floor for a lodge room.
The lodge, however, was compelled to take
the building off of Hewitt's lands. A pleas-
charge of Olaf Frisch and which is open
every day fronL2 to 8 o'clock for the use of
members. There are many who never fail
to take advantage of it. It is quite large
now, and is increasing constantly. To the
late ]. T. Brown the lodge is indebted for
this library. At his death he left 200 vol
umes and 81 900 for library purposes. At
the death of Captain S. w. Perciyal Mrs.
Percival gave to the library fund the sum
of $75.
Since filling the Office of engineer and
electrician for the fire department., Charles
Peterson has shown his ingenuity to ad-
vantage, and has saved the city consider
able money. Nearly everything in the
Columbia engine house is operated by an
electric button. His electrical connections
are so ingeniOusly arranged that when the
fire alarm strikes two miles away, the
gong sounds, the incandescent lamps
throughout the building are turned on, the
doors in front of the horses fly open and
revolving axle, to which are attached four
whip lashes, send the horses to their posi-
ton by the wagon tongue in a iiffy. By
another arrangement the incandescent
lamp in each sleeping department is regu-
lated.
John Fiske's Religion.
In one of his books, ''The Idea of God, !"
page 49, he says: "Inits fundamental fea-
lures the theism of Jesus and Paul must
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