The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-03
THE PASSING THRONG.

Everett, are at the Northern hotel. Ihey are
striking examples of young men VINO nsse sue
ceeded in the Puget sound country. botn are
graduates of Brown university OF the Class OF
1888, and In all probability neither OF them 10
over Is or 26 years of age. They came TO wash
ington in the summer of 1890 and until Everett
was started they were in the law business al
Tacoma Their work there was 30 SUCCESSFUL
that when the Everett syndicate De
gan its operations, they became the
legal advisers of the Everett Land ana
Improvement Company, the steel Barge COM
pany, the Everett Monte Cristo railroad, ana
in fact all the other corporations In which the
syndicate IL interested Mr.. Brown Is himself
secretary Of most Of these companies and IL
president of the railroad. So far as is known,
he enjoys the distinction Of being the young
est railroad president in the United states. In
speaking Of his line he said last night: ABOUT
100 men are now working in clearing and grad
ing, and we expect to have the sixty miles COM
pleted BY November. As far as Everett Is con-
cerned, am conservative, but believe we
shall have good town there. We now have
about four miles of graded streets, and gangs
OF men are pushing steadily ahead
The steel Barge Works will employ
as the business develops. We shall have two
vessels under way before long. Then, too there
are the paper mill, the nail works, several saw
mills and sash and blind factories. plant has
been erected down on the point for making
chemical sand brick" Idon't know the exact
method of the work, but by some chemical pro-
cess brick is manufactured from ordinary clean
sand. The brick, 1t is said, can be made Of DIFF
ferent coors. and If they have the durability
Claimed for them, they should make good build
Ing MATERIAL
NJ. c. Adair, better known a. SHELL Adafr,
leaves in . day or two Tor the Kootenai mining
district. He goes first to Boomers Ferry, in
Idaho, and proceeds north from there. The de-
parture of Mr.. Adair will remove picturesque
figure from First ward Democratic politics.
When Boss Joseph Livingston the distinguished
statesman from Chicago, was engaged in his re-
cent bitter struggle for ascendancy in that ward,
Adair was one of his fercest opponents. When
the night arrived for the primaries to choose
delegates to the city convention, the Chicago
plomas opened his primary for the
First precinct behind Q door in the
Windsor hotel. boarded so high that Q
man could not see where the ballot box was.
Adalr objected violently to the whole proceed
ing, and with his chosen friends went around
the corner and opened another little primary.
Two sets OF delegates were returned, but Liv-
ingston's men were declared the regulars, and
Adair's supporters were in the convention
merely as spectators. But Adair had his inning,
for he had been favorable to Ronald, while Lv-
ingston had not come in out OF the wet until the
his influence for Adair for license collector.
The police commisston, however, objected.
Adair might have won the fight in the end had
he cared to stay. but he SAID yesterday he pre-
ferred to 60 and get rich in the mines.
George E. Ames, . stockholder In the Union
Iron Works, of San Francisco, and agent for the
company, arrived at the Rainier hotel yester-
day. Last night he said: "We now are working
on three vessels for the navy, the Monterey,
cruiser No. s, not yet named, and the Oregon.
The Monterey is somewhat In the style of q
monitor, coast defense vessel Though she
has about the same tonnage az the Charleston,
she is of an entirely different type, for when
she is ready to fight her hull stands only
eighteen inches above the water. Her machinery
10 in, and We are waiting for the steal plates
to arrive from the East They fourteen
inches thick-heavisr than those in any other
vessel belonging to the United States. In q
week or SO nine or ten carloads of these plates
will arrive from Bethlehem, Pa, and then We
stall go on, completing the vessel in FIVE
months. The cruiser 10 Of the same general
style as the Charleston and others; but the
Oregon is q liae-of-battle ship Of 10000 tons-a
heavy fighter"
w. A Woodin, owner of the Fairhayen Lum.
Der and Planning Mill, Is at the Diller hotel. hay
ing come to Seattle to see about some single
machinery. Mr.. woodin has been resident of
the Puget sound country for nine years. At
first he was engaged in logging, but fer two
years he has had the mill mentioned above.
ain a week or two," said he last night 1--WE
shall begin TO turn out 100000 shingles
q day. Our market for them is, of course
the East We also cut good many cedar clap
boards, or Eastern siding as 1t is called This
stuff is more profitable TO even than shingles;
the demand is steady and the prices are good
for this siding throughout the middle West
The cedar and shingle business /. doing a good
deal to bring a steady flow of Eastern money
into this country. With Us this part of the bust.
ness Is Q mere side issue, and yet 1 expect that
during the next year we shall do trade OF
$1,000 q week, clear Of freight, in this branch
alone"
Captain c. J. Noyes. OF Mount Vernon, is at
the Diller hotel He is yet suffering from the
accident received three weeks ago, when, In
getting aboard a train here, he fell and broke
several ribs. The baudages were removed yes.
terday. but Captain Noyes will be unable for
some time yet to get about usual He is one
OF the Puget sound pioneers, and he served sew
eral terms in the territorial legislature. He il
extensively engaged in numbering.
"The tax rolls for the city OF Seattle will this
year take six volumes as against three for last
year. said County Assessor Paul yesterday.
"The total number OF lots in the Aty is now
65,Sis, the great increase being due to the fact
that the annexed district will be included this
year. This means total increase, together
with other additions in the city, of about 5000
lots"
F. II. SchulEe, who has been spending week
or more at the Northern hotel in the interest OF
the New York Maritime Register, has gone to
Port Townsend. From there he passes on TO
Victoria. He is now making his annual tour
through the Coast ports TO get complete and
exact information in regard to all the shipping
here
Mr.. and Mrs J. 1. Hutchings and daughter,
who register from Everett, are now at the Raj
rier hotel. Mr.. Hutchings is himself a hotel
man, and his plan is to get good inn al Everett,