The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-08
THE PASSING THRoSG.

1AEtr NAAAA&t1l INAAGfASs - 49, 80 0-4
OF the Episcopal church OF Tacoma, and
president of Washington college, and his
brother, ]. II. Jefferis. of Philadelphia,
were guests al the Rainier yesterday. The
doctor is showing the sights of the Puget
sound country 10 his brother. who is 3
wealthy man and who came ont here for
the purpose of possibly investing some
money in Tacoma he is president OF the
Whitney Glass Works, which was estab-
lished in ITT5 and whose factories are To-
Gated At Giassboro, Salem and Camden,
\. j. To reporter for the PosT-ISTELLI-
sEScER he said last night: Your neigh
bors over here have been pulling my leg
for several months. and they had gotten
such good grip upon it that unless
wanted to lose il I had TO come along
with it. / have been figuring for some
time with some Tacoma capitalists about
starting a glass works plant there and
they have offered US some very fattering
inducements in the say of bonus. l am
satisfied that there is abundant business
on the Pacific coast for large plant To-
Gated on Puget sound, and that the cost of
manufacturing here would not be very
much greater than in New Jersey, while
the high freight rates from the East
would operate to the advantage of fac
tory here. You have all the necessary
materials in this state. The samples of
quartz rock sent TO us from Sumas have
worked very we'll. You have good gas
coal and plenty of limestone, and | be-
lieye that the potash can be brought here
from England nearly as cheaply as it can
be laid down in New Jersey.
believe that two firms in this city
alone will use one-third of the output
of one green glass bottle furnace. Ny
idea is to lay out plan Tor large plant.
bat to start in with small one and in
crease it as the trade develops. / think
that plant could be maintained on this
Coast manufacturing green glass bottles.
window glass, flint glass bottles lamp
chimneys and pressed table ware. / am
now making tour of the cities on the
Coast for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the dealers would buy of local
mandatory in preference to the Eastern
manufactures l think they should. be-
cause what helps one point on the Coast
helps all points. / don't know whether
the local prejudice existing between Seat
tie and Tacoma would interfere with this
patronage or not, but / don't believe it
will. Yes, / know business men will
trade where they can do the best, whether
that place be Tacoma or London. but
everything else being equal, think they
ought to support a factory located on the
Coast" Mr.. Jefferis later told how the es-
Enlistment of the new glass works in the
gas fields of Indiana had knocked the bot
tom out of his company's trade in the
West, and that he had gone out to Chi
cago, studied the situation and had finally
b. en- able to recover the trade for his CON-
pany. In that case. however, he was not
trying TO convince Western dealers that
they should support Western factories.
r. P. Craig, the travelling salesman for
the Fremont Milling Company, has re-
turned to the city after being absent since
last February. He brings q gloomy re-
port of the condition of the lumber bust
ness all through the East, saying: Build
ing has stopped and the farmers are just
doing what repairs are absolutely neces-
sary, while the railroads are delaying all
but Immediately essential repairs unit
next year. the best buyers at present are
farmers. The dealers are letting their
stocks run down, and when a farmer calls
for a certain kind of lumber and the dealer
has none of il in stock, he tells the Gus
toner to look around the yard and see if
he can find anything else which will serve
his purpose and thus avoids buying any
thing. OF course, the result of all this
will be that next year the dealers will have
to stock up and the work that has been
put off from this year will have to be done.
IS we'll Us the current work, SO that there
will be double the business for Us when
activity once sets IN. That is one consola-
ton, and another is that money is getting
easier"
f. w. Vest of st. Louis. who was
severely hurt in the Premier collision last
fall, is again guest at the Arlington. He
sports an unique cane which he managed
to save intact from the wreck. 1t is made
from one of the horns of the orex. the
horned horse of Africa, and is beautifully
mounted.
Mr.. and Mrs L. Saroni and family, of
San Francisco: DR.. and Mrs. Cooper, of
Los Angeles: Mr. and Mrs. Charles H
Hewitt. orrin N Robinson, of Boston, and
Mrs. Hugh Robinson, of Frankfort, KY,
are tourists stopping at the Northern.
". s. III aldane, Miss Haldane and Miss
Horn, Of Edinburgh. Scotland, are tourists
registered at the Rainier.
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