The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-25
THE PASSING THRONG.

THE PASSING THRONG.
are guests OF the Rainier They have been
spending several weeks in California, and are
now ON their way home via the Canadian Pa
cifc. Mr. Gault II the dry goods king OF Can
ada, being the senior partner in the firm Of
Gault Broa d Co., the principal owners Of most
OF the cotton mills in the Dominion He 10 also
interested in several other large enterprises in
that country. Mr.. Morrice is one Of the junior
partners in the firm OF D. Morrice, Sons 4 Co.,
who are selling agents for Mr.. Gaults cotton
mill companies. II regret very much that
cannot stop longer in your beautiful city, but
We are already belated on our journey, and
must hurry homo I began business in Mon.
trsal just forty years ago next May. and
! may truthfuliy 50 that our wholesale
dry goods house 10 the largest In Canada. We
employ fourteen travelling salesmen and do bus
insss from Newfoundland to Vancouver island
and north to Hudson bay and the Arctic ocean.
am giving most OF my attention, however, to
the manufacture Of cotton goods, and the two
companies OF which am president own TWEEN.
ty-two out OF the twenty-four mills in the Do.
minion, and which turn ont IN annual product
OF over $10 O00. 000. These two companies are the
Dominion Cotton Mills Company, whose mills
manufacture gray goods or plain sheetings ex.
clusively, and the Canadian Colored Cotton
Mills Company, whose mills manufacture coll
ored goods and printa We have the only print
works In that country. Our colorsd goods are
all consumed in Canada, but We export about
$4,000 worth Of the gray goods to Chine. While
these companies are combines, they are organ.
lied diferentlylfrom your trusts. We formed .
syndicate to buy the mills and found . financial
institution which would lend 10 money ON our
honda We then bought up all but two Of the
mills. paying for them half In cash aud half In
bondA Besides paying interest on the bonds.
the companies declare dividends of 8 and 10 per
cent respectively. Yes, We get our cotton from
% per cent on manufactured cotton, which
keeps your goods out of our country. Tho last
three parliaments have been protection parlia-
mentA The last time the Conservatives got in
by only g majority. but since then the majority
for the government has increased to 81 Yes,
live in the province Of Quebec, in which Pre-
mer Mercier cut such disgraceful figure He
is a very clever. but unprincipled man, and
very closely followed Sir John Macdonald's tao
tics Of being all things to all men. Mercier went
into politics 90 poor that he couldn't buy hat,
and while In offics he took toll right and left
On every public contract 10 per cent and more
was reserved for him and his friends. He went
into ONCE ON the cry Of economy and reform,
and was put in Office BY the support of the
priests, whom he cleverly deceived. His private
Lille, however, became so shameless that they
threw him overheard. and then the rottsnnsss
OF his reign came out"
r. II. Lloyd and A. Hsynemann, San Francisco
attorneys, were at the Rainier yesterday and
left for Victoria. They arc making brief tour
OF the Puget sound country and will stop here
again on their way back to San Francisco. ITO
use q slang expression" said Mr. Heynemann.
1--WE are stuck on your town. Whom walking
along your business streets one cannot help be-.
ing impressed with the activity and enterprise
manifest on every hand, and one feels that he 10
right in the swim. It's q pleasant feeling, too
and one which hardly think any other city on
the Coast can offer to its visitors. am sure
great future 10 in store for this country because
being interested In California timber lands, can
appreciate the vast wealth OF your forests. not
to mention your other resources. ] am aston.
ished, however," said Mr.. Lloyd, shat with
coal 40 near at hand you should 10 obliged to
pay S ton for it Why, in Denver the facto.
ries which are starting up there are only re-
quired to pay 90 cents . ton for fuel Do you
know that in the cotton goods trade Denver IL
cutting the West away from Massachusetts,?
The distance to the cotton fields Of Texas is
much less than from the Bay state, and the cost
OF manufacture 10 no greater. Yes, You will get
manufactures in time but il takes Q lot OF nerve
for q man to invest his money in manufactures
these days when the labor unions practically
run his business Twelve thousand men are
Idle IN San Francisco on this very account The
ironmouldsrs' strike there was started because
one of the propretors wanted to put his own
aon in the shop to learn the trade, and the
union refused TO allow him to work there. The
union was defeated, but Ii cost a big sum of
money to DO it The unions are often arbitrar.
Ly ridiculous in their regulations. / was hav-
ing a retaining wall built not long ago, and the
..xfea . I'm
the workmeu. They were urged 70. hurry the
work and &c, IL done before the bank should
topple. While was looking at them working
! asked the boss way he did not shovel the
mortar IA instead Of dipping il up trowel full
ct time. He said that IN laying the wall 10
handle mortar with Q too! larger than q trowel
Was against one OF the rules OF the union, I
suppose II the union had required its members
70 use teaspoons they would have used them"
Judge and MrA Mcconnell came over from
Sidney yesterday. accompanied by their son
Burnsy Mrs. Mcconnell was one OF the most
earnest advocates of the rhododendron a. the
state flower. The shrub grows In great proiusiou
near sidney, and Mira Mcconnell furnished
many OF the bunchss used BY Mrs. D. I. Fry snd
Others during their vigorous state flower csm-
paign. Judge Mcconnell was one Of the found
ers OF sidney, OF which thriving town he still 10
& leading citizen. He backed his confidence in
Its future with his capital and now sees pros
poets 0. good returns for every dollar invested.
Thomas F. Drew, member OF the house Of
delegates, has returned from Washington City,
wasre be witnessed the inaugural ceremonies
he had severa, opportunities of seeing Presi-
dent Cleveland ana says he 10 one OF TIE most
I.-possessed men he ever met He has q
thorough knowledge OF politics all over the
United states, and 10, among other matters,
kept fully Informed OF tie condition of Affairs
IN " ash ington, and especially n Tacoma Nh.
brsw sAys u. O. Finch was no, q candidate Tor
TIE once Of lsrd com missioner, bat Was put
forward hT thu Iowa aud Nebraska dslega.
Cons, VIII whom he 10 very popular. Mr.
Drew tays s.so that the president seemed
to regard 1oha collins with some curiosity 2t
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