The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-12
THE PASSING THRoNG.

60 use even for domestic purpoees," said T. 1.
Stephenson, the Pittaburg banker. yesterday.
"The manufactures have gonezsiiy gone BACK
70 the use OF coal. and to householdsfs the price
= ~ cents Per Loo fss9 The companies navs
put in metses, but they make the bills run mp q
. great pacA Ny gas this winter has cost about
20 . month. The meters seem 70 measure the
volume NO matter how attenuatod II In The
pressure - now inersased By means OF air fans
placed in the mains about half way between
the point q consumption and the we'll, SO that
the pressure II increased from about fifteen
pounds at the we'll to ninety pounda Expert
ments have been made with view to the pro.
duction OF artificial gas for manufacturing pur.
poses. but none OF them have been successful -
yet Some such invention il needed. for
the immsuse plants and mains cannot
b thrown away. There - NO reason
Why gas suitable for fuel cannot
be made for ID cents . thousand. Many Of the
largest manufacturing establishments have
been moved 70 new towns along the railroads In
the suburbs and the surrounding country. such
- Jeanette, Wilmefding. where George West
tnshouss has put up g. 900 600 plant for the air
brake works, and Parnassua In consequence OF
this change. the directory for 1892 shows no In
crease In the number Of names over the censuA
Yes. We have been building new street raiiways
ell over the city, just about - many Of them -
our population can support, the bonds amount.
ing 70 about 100000 goo We are almost - well
OF in that respect a. you are herA ! have had
ride on six or seven lines already ana new
one u sprung on me nearly every day. 20 that
may not have been over them Ill yet"
DE- George returned from Victoria on wednss.
day morning and reports having had . right
royal reception. He was the guest OF MIRA Will.
lam, the mother OF MIRA Robert Croft, OF this
city. Dr. George preached on Sunday morning
ct the Centennial Methodist church and In the
evening at the Pandora avenue Methodist
church. taking up missionary collections at
both places. On Monday evening the doctor
gave "A Literary Ramble" at the Centennial
church for the Epworth League, when he read
selections from the works Of Tennyson.
Shakespeare, eouthey. Poe, Ingoldsby and Mark
Twain, much 70 the delight OF the audience On
the following day the minister and friends
visited the English man-of.waf Hyactnthe,
where Capt May and Lieut. 6tyleman gave
BY request, repeated some Of his readings Of the
previous evening, refreshments being furnished
in the ofhcsrs' mess h u. s. Hyacinthe and .
large torpedo boat are now In the EsQuimalt
harbof.
Assistant Chief Engineer John F. Stevens, OF
the Great Northern railway. Joined Mrs. Stevens
and their children at the Rainier yesterday. II
should like to i've here" said he last night.
"but Spokane 10 . more convenient point from
which to reach al parts OF the system than
here don't know exactly how soon the main
line will be ready for regular traffic, but the
work Is going ahead at great rate, and more or
less traffic is now going and coming over the en-
tire line. While most people think that rail.
road 70 done when the rails are laid, il 10 almost
an axiom among railroad men that then the
work of building the road has only just begun,
and after that time it takes lot Of work to get
the line in perfect condition. OF course this
-in<o 49, h.A -
snow to contend against, and one cannot buck
snow - easily on new line - on an old one
We have . good line, however. and there u no
danger OF snowslidss anywhere"
sewall Truax, of Spokane. inspector Of sur.
veys OF tho United States land ONCE, is stopping
at the Occidental II have been surveying on
this Coast since 1858" said ha I'm that year I
ran about $50 miles Of the Willamette meridian
am now sent from one place to another BY the
land ONCE TO inspect the public land surveys,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether they
hSve been carried out according to contract
am now at work on township over IN Kitsap
county. Then have couple of townships 70
look after in the Quilisyuts country, and one .
few miles above snohomish. l expect, though.
that my head will Be cut OF now pretty soon
and my position given to some Democrat"
George p. Moore, manager OF the Denver
White Lead Company. was at the Occidental
yesterday. 'Our factory has been running
shout . year and . hail." said he, ''but this il
the 6rst time We have ever tried to do business
up this way. Denver ts peculiarly we'll located
for this sort Of mandatory. a. there 10 large
output OF lead there, and there 10 only one
other institution Of the kind located west Of NJ
that ct San Francisco We are using patent
process invented BY . couple Of Denver men,
who will realise great fortune from this dis.
covery. % IL enables the manufacturer to cor
rode the lead In four days, whereas formerly IL
took twenty-five days to do II"
Thomas Dryer, who has already received the
nomination on four tickets for the msyoralty Of
Everett, and who may b regarded - the future
first mayor Of that city, paused through the city
last night on . flying trip 70 Superior. Wis.