The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-02

oent would De ~ beneficial 20 T.eornxs.
ss.er 'front.' as the great Ere was 70 SEAT
a1 business portion. IL would mean. he
says, either new brick warehouses and a
substantial wharf On the site Of the cid
one. or. better still. that shipping would
go 20 TIE head OF the bay, where n be-
longs Ii il the opinion gener.l1v sropv
tnose on the wharf who have looked into
tue matter, that the only w.v 70 prsv.n.
future iandsidss At the same place would
y % afivs piles along the proposed line OF
.ue sea Wall TO hold the dirt in check. and
outside OF this build q solid sea wall
VI ssone and masonry on q rock founda-
on me parable of the man who built
mouse upon sand was freely quoted
aiohg the docks. In anticipation OF the
sAiaaa ssioe last night, all the tracks un-
mined oy the slides OF Thursday and
sne oav before were taken ND and moved
oack- The south end OF the Ocean ware
Hoase - nearly empty, ell ths freight
sHsher being moved to the north or more
SUBSTANTIAL end or sent out by beats. The
steamer Mocking Bird has been cruising
alons the water front. picking up cases of
salmon and recovering the records and
looks which went down with the Puget
~ AD@ EI warehouse.
he work Of clearing away the debris
along the water front ofshe warehouse and
wharf Is progressing rapidly. bat is not far
enough along TO permit Diver Harrison to
go down and make search for the safe
and vsiusbles stored in the Puget Sound
warehouse. The hull of the steamer
susie has been found. sunk in twenty feet
oil water at low tide. Her owners are
considering the sdvisaDiiity of having
Diver Harrison put q chain around her in
order that abe may DO raised.
MeCabe & Hamilton started purse yes
te-day afternoon for the relief of the Fl. III.
Aiger family, who lost everything in the
slide. The firm headed the list with
contribution of so. As soon as ii became
known that such purse was to be raised,
shipping and wharf men called at the
Office OF McCabe Il Hamilton and the sum
OF 500 vas raised without taking the paper
outside the Office. The officers and crew
OF the United States steamer Hassler con-
trib1led 81. The subscription paper will
Do more generally circulated next week
and IL is expected that a handsome sum
will be realized, as Mr.. Alger and family
are very popular with water front men.
BURTON, Dec. L-fspecial. Daniel
Price, one of the pioneers of this section
and one who had charge of the gang of
men who helped log off the town plat of
Tacoma, Is of the opinion that the ''tidal
wave they claim, was only the return
wave of the avalanche caused by the slide
lie says that the pier was built on steep
side hill, and there was nothing to hold It
but the piles, and these badly injured by
the teredo; and alter they had filled in the
rock they cut away large amount of
these, and washing the hill down by
hydraulics had the mass in good condi-
ton for such an event, and be had foretold
IL In his opinion a number of times. To
support his theory one can see the bank
at West Seattle between there and Al-Ki
point, where several expensive lots have
already disappeared in the Sound, and
there Is an example on the west shore of
Lake Union. where one can see the outline
where in years past some forty acres or
more have slid toward the lake, and even
in the past year the boulevard has been
crowded toward the water. On Friday the
wreckage OF the wharf begun to float into
the bay, and by noon q steamboat and a
large number OF men in boats were trying
to secure what they could of value. among
other things the books and papers of one
of the offices. There was one pile massed
together that was as high as o good-sixed
house. and was tied up near the College
wharf