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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
NAVIGATION.

A glance at the busy wharves of Seattle
with their forests of masts overlapping
the long lines Of sheds heaped with goods
and produce of every description, will
show what an important port it is.
Here everything from a launch to an
ocean steamer, and from Il five ton
schooner to the great grain and coal YES
sells of more than two thousand tons bur-
den, may be seen loading or unloading
produce, merchandise, coal, or grain.
During the year goods OF the estimated
value of millions OF dollars pass over her
wharves. To carry Seattle's export OF
lumber, grain and coal alone requires
the services of considerable fleet. OF
course the greater number of the vessels
are cramps, or cargo boats, but already
eight regular lines are run from Seattle
to points outside the state, and twice as
many to ports on Puget Sound and tribu-
tary rivers. There are two regular lines,
giving double daily connection with Vic
toria, British Columbia; one to VAN
ports; two lines to San Francisco; and
a sailing line to Honolulu.
The Great Northern WILL in the near
future, put on a line OF first-cass ocean
steamships from Seattle to Japan and
China. The incoming cargoes will con-
sist of tea, silks, and other Asiatic pro-
ducts, while the return cargoes will be
made up mainly of flour from the flour
ing mills of Seattle, as flour is already
largely consumed in China and Japan,
and is supplanting rice as the staff of
life i'm these countries. The vessels of
the new line, with their American termi
nus at Seattle, will touch at the prnci-
pal ports of China and Japan, and
arrangements are pending to have them
call at Nladivostock, the chief port of
Siberia. This line will have the advan-
tage over all other trans-Pacifc lines in
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

new church at Seattle last week was a
blank book with this inscription on one
OF the pages; s. attic has twenty banks
with a capital ranging from $4,000 to
to $500, 900, and has never had Il bank
failure neither has there been bust
ness failure of any sort in Seattle as a
result of the panic of 1898. In addition
to the entire absence of bank and bust
ness failures in Seattle, one of the lead
ing banks of the city, during the dark
est days OF the depression, increased its
paid-up capital stock from 100000 to
$6OO,OOO, and the new stock was sub
scribed instantly when offered. No
other bank in the United States has in
creased its capital during the present
period OF depression. Such an achieve
ment is an object lesson worthy of emu
lation by many older and more populous
communities. 1t teaches the advantage
of unity of action, and in this case was
the direct result of civic pride backed
by able and conservative management
of the financial institutions. knowing
that the banks were secure and would
stand together like a stone wall, the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

Aside from this feature OF it, it can read
lily be seen that the construction of the
canal would undoubtedly give Seattle the
highest harbor dues and cheapest dock
age in the world, an advantage which
while of the vastest Importance to the
trade and commerce Of this city, would
be shared by the entire country whose
products pass through the port OF Seattle.
A company has been organized in this
city for the purpose of constructing this
waterway. They have received their
charter and permits from the State gov
eminent; and Seattle's citizens are now
engaged in raising subsidy as an addi-
tional inducement to capital to enlist in
the enterprise and for an early compile
ton of this important work.
A company has also been organized
whose object is to fill in some two thous-
and acres of tide lands ut the southern
edge OF the city, thus acquiring lien on
it, and at the same time cutting canal
through to Lake Washington by that
route.
Thus it is with Seattle's business men.
When the progress of the city demands
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
LUMBER AND SHINGLES.

In the autumn Of 1852 the late Henry
l.. Yesler established within the present
city limits of Seattle the first steam saw
mill on Puget Sound, and ever since that
day timber has been the leading product
of the state and the leading export; and
with the vast and practically inexhaust-
IDLE supply at hand it will long continue
in its present position as to both pro-
duction and export. Taking King county
alone, after having been cut from for
forty years, there is estimated to be at
present standing on the nine hundred
thousand acres of timber land in the
county more than twenty billion feet of
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

bers, reached fity-fve millions Of dol
lars.
In withstanding the almost unprece-
dented panic of 1893, the banks Of Seat
tie underwent a crucial test and came
out unscathed. The great panic that
wrought so much havoc, especially
among the banking institutions Of West
ern cities, passed over without leaving
a single wreck in Seattle. There was
not a bank failure or business disaster
in this city during the year. The record
is unique among the cities of like popu-
lation in the United States, and amply
demonstrates the stability of Seattle and
her financial and commercial institu-
tions. Seattle stood like a rock during
the storm; and in weathering it created
comment all over the financial world.
The New York Mail and Express in a
leading editorial said: "Among the ar
ticles placed IN the corner stone of
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
BANKS AND BANKING.

Seattle is the financial as well as the
commercial center of Washington. No
city in the west is better provided with
banking facilities. Were it not for this
even her favorable location and splendid
transportation facilities would hardly
enable her to maintain and increase her
prestige and move the vast quantities OF
lumber, grain, hops, and coal Seattle
has twenty-five banks with an aggregate
capital and surplus of more than three
and Il half million dollars. In 1892 the
banks of the city showed deposits Of
seven millions and resources OF twelve
millions; and the business transacted by
the clearing house, with fifteen mem
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
INLAND TRANSPORTATION.

%MSeattlc is one of the three railroad
ntrcs of the Pacific coast. 1t Is now
Id actual terminal point OF three great
thnscontincntal systems, representing
1prc than twelve thousand miles OF rail-
L 6ad. Seattle has the Great Northern,
<hversing the vastly rich numbering,
lining and agricultural regions OF the
Gpntral part of the State, the Union Pa
t1tic and the Northern Pacific, passing
0rough the equally rich mining, lum-
ering, hop and wheat growing and gem
uouthcrn Washington. Both the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific pass
tbrough portions of Idaho and Montana
Mai are naturally tributary to Seattle,
bfinging the trade of these comparatively
0ndeveloped, but iabulously rich sec
1Ipu> to their natural port, Seattle. The
Dattlc, Lake Shore x Eastern, the Seat
Elevator < Terminal, the Columbia
Puget Sound, and the Seattle and
pntana lines act a. important feeders.
e relations Of the city with the Cana
\ ln Pacific are so intimate as to all but
tly claiming them a. here also, as the
81 pany maintains an office here, have
a&lrough freight and passenger arrange
men and run ships here. They do
Ing business with Seattle in both pas
senger and freight; and it is question
a. only a comparatively short time until
they VIII enter seattle over their own
line OF road. The Chicago, burlington 4
Qnincy is also in prospect.
l 1t is becoming evident that the OPEN
ing OF the Great Northern railway for
4atiic from its Pacific terminus at Seattle
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

AS Mr.. Hill expressed it, Seattle is the
headquarters and headquarters of the
Great Northern Railway on the Pacific
coast The company has secured Il
right-of-way SIXTY feet wide on Railroad
avenue across the entire waterfront OF
the city, l4O acres Of land for freight
yards, 50 acres for shops, and three blocks
in the business quarter for depot pur-
poses, paying over $25O, 900 for the depot
grounds alone, upon which they will at
once construct a fine modern depot. The
acquisition OF such properties is so sig
niticant as to require no further state
ment
Seattle's success has been in the fullest
degree merited. When a railroad pro-
jected to Puget sound in an early day
failed to keep faith with Seattle, the
people turned out en- masse and began
to build railroad for themselves and
actually constructed the road to New
castle mines again, when railroad OPP
preston became uncomfortable in later
years, and it became necessary to have IL
counter irritant, Seattle citizens began
the construction of the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern. designed to connect
with transcontinental road east of the
mountains. Capital was enlisted in New
York, a large portion of the construction
was done, and the enterprise served the
purpose for which it was intended adj
mirably. This is only IL single illustra-
ton of the indomitable spirit that has
made Seattle what it is.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

Seattle for the purpose OF establishing
line OF freight and passenger steamers
between this port and South Africa. a
great amount of railroad building is being
done in that country now, and the lines
would undoubtedly do Il profitable bust
ness, and would place South Africa on
the list OF markets for Puget Sound
lumber
In another part of this article will be
found a paragraph on direct trade with
Guatemala and other Central American
states. The possibilities are great, and
with the characteristic "gO-ahead " of
Seattle's business men, the next year
will probably see the establishment OF a
line of vessels to Central American ports
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

mass Of their depositors stood at their
backs. As result, the banks OF Seat
tie have met every demand with legal
currency, and have not even been obliged
ia resort to clearing house certificates,
certified checks, or any other expedients.
Seattle has survived railroad oppression,
prospered under Il conflagration that de-
stroyed the entire business portion of
the city, and now has Il population of
$1,000, and is one of the finest cities in
the land. Such are the fruits of enter
prise, self-reliance, unity, and civic
prde.n
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

furnish timber for extensive railroad
building operations now under way or
soon to be started in Hawaii and South
Africa. Minnesota is larger buyer of
our lumber than any other state: and
our entire single output is consumed in
the United States.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
,EATTLE'S TRADE.

Glance at the two illustrations APP
ring on this page will show Il growth
ISeattle Turing the last two decades
lom paralelled in the histories of
les. From an isolated hamlet of 500
bple I, modern and magnficently
hi city Of 50 900 people, with all the
Aveni"nces of the larger Eastern cities,
a all in twenty years! Phenomenal
if is. the growth of the trade and
kmmercc of the city is still more phe-
ln,enal. From two or three small
hroes of lumber sent coastwise in 1870
a total OF sixty millions of dollars in
DA. and extending to Australia, South
merica, the Orient, Europe, Africa and
over the commercial world, such is
e history OF Seattle's trade.
Seattle has the world for her field,
Id she Is making rapid strides toward
cupying her territory Trade with
p Sandwich Islands is now thoroughly
fablished and rapidly developing. Our
Idle with the Orient has attained con-
aerable proportions, and promises
anifold increase. Our trade with
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
GRAIN AND FLOUR.

10 attempt to review the history OF the
grain trade OF Seattle from its beginning
to the present day is too comprehensive
subject for the space at our disposal
here, but on account of its great impor-
lance it is worthy OF more than a pass
ing mention.
The grain and flour exports from this
customs district for the season OF IS93.gl
consisted of thirty nine cargocs OF wheat,
containing 2,60S, 249 centals and valued
at S2,lS9, 800: and fourteen cargoes Of
flour, containing 29S, 249 barrels and
valued at S73l s32. This shows a total
export OF grain and products the result
of manufacture from it of more than
three millions of dollars for last season
This is a smaller export in value than
that for the season of 1929 but a
greater in quantity, the present low
price OF wheat making the difference.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

b "" ~ :, ie'iii anu IIOuT, DuU IOf
many years this city has suffered from
railroad oppression and unjust discrimi-
nation in grain freight rates. Now that
TINS Is forever at an end, Seattle's grain
trade Will acknowledgements, and Seattle
grain brokers and flour merchants will
handle the bulk of the grain and -four
exports from the Northwest. On the
establishment of the Great Northern,s
Steamship line to Japan and China and
the larger development of our trade with
oriental countries the grain and Hour
trade Will receive additional impetus
Even now with the cost of re-shipments
Washington sends considerable flour TO
the Orient; and the amount will be
vastly increased when Seattle has direct
connection with the ports of China and
Japan Flour is already largely con-
sulned III those countries, and is SUD-
planting rice as the staff of life.
Seattle's facilities for handling the
trade are excellent. She has complete
modern elevators as fine as any on the
Pacific Coast. They are situated on the
water front and are connected with the
different railway systems bv the lines Of
the Seattle Elevator and Terminal Com
pany. Several vessels can load at once:
ana the water is sufficiently deep so that
the largest vessels can load at any STAGE
of the tide
The greater part Of Washington's flour
product is milled in the section where if
Is grown, but Seattle has one modern and
complete mill with a daily capacity of
three hundred barrels. The exports of
this mill to foreign ports for the ten
months previous to June 10Th last were
2,2o" barrels OF flour, $500 lbs. OF bran.
and 1850 lbs. of middings.
Seattle also exports corn, oats. rye.
barley. hay and feedstuffs in annually
Increasing quantities.
COAL.
King is the leading coal producing
county OF the Pacific Coast states. It
has more mines open, has produced
more coal, has exported more, and has
found a more general and widesnread
market than any other county in the
state. Six million tons of coal have
been taken from the mines in thi.
county, and the annual product during
tne last lew years averages about s00, 600
tons. The coal ranges in quality from
bltumlnous Ignite to heavy bituminons
coklng coal, and is excellent for oomes-
tie purposes and for making steam.
There are also several thin veins Of
anthracite. Excellent coking Goals
abound, but are as yet but little used.
The mines are very reliable The coal
naturally gravitates to Seattle, where
are located the storage bunkers Of the
more prominent companies operating
the mines, and whence what is not con
sumed is distributed by ship to various
ports on the coast The coal is found in
inexhaustible quantities, comes out OF
the mine in uniform, suitably sized
pieces for use, is hard and clean and
banks and carries with little waste.
Shipments by sea and rail to other
parts OF the state, to California, and
elsewhere, amount to more than 800, 900
tons per year. The trade report for the
year ending June Goth, 1894, showed
shipments Of coal by vessel OF 253 500
tons.
The report OF Major Powell, chief of
the U. S. Geological Survey, on the
Continued on 4th page
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

The exports for the season of
1928 were forty-four cargoes
OF wheat, containing two and
a half million ccntals and
valued at three millions of
dollars; and eighteen cargocs
OF flour, containing 169, SOB bar
rels and valued at S6l1.716.
making a total export value Of
three million and six hundred
thousand dollars.
The estimates of the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture as to wheat production
tor the year of 1893 give as
the yield for the State of
Washington 9,sS3,72 bushels
OF the value of $4,744,1s grown
on 4S6,SS3 acres of land
The completion of the Great
Northern Railway to Seattle,
making this the outlet for the
grain growing regions of the
eastern part of the state, was
an eventful epoch in the his
tory OF Seattle'sgrain trade. 1t
lays the wheat fields of East
ern Washington, and particu-
larry the Big Bend Country.
at Seattle's doors. This is the
natural outlet for Washington's
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

u battle is the nearest American jobbing
Il pint. and will naturally get the bulk of
ne Alaskan trade. We are not indulg-
Ing in vagarious dreams. None of the
countries mentioned but that we can
apply with many articles of which they
are extensive importers, and, such are
Seattle's advantages, at prices though
bfoftable to us, successfully competing
viii the world. Seattle has won first
p3ace as the commercial center OF the
Northwest; and, with her many natural
Advantages, her enterprising business
Zen will let no opportunity pass to ex-
md her trade and place her still farther
II the lead.
5The summary statement OF the inn
orts and exports of the United States
10 June, 1894, shows those for the Puget
4 Dund customs district as follows: I'm
orts, SAG, 346, against $751; for the
inc month in 1898; exports, $l9o, $40,
kainst $l9l ,3S9 in 1898. For the fiscal
ear ending June 81 the merchandise
sinports were 81 ,23j, us, against SS39, 100
- the previous year, an increase OF
D96 ,OO9 The merchandise exports for
1o94 were 81, 942 ,039.
Before taking up the more important
Ranches of Seattle's trade in detail, We
X i II state that there are many worthy OF
tended mention for which we have
bt the space, for instance, the Wash
gton hop crop in 1893 amounted to
,74t bales, valued at $3.50 600, OF
hich 10, 600 bales were shipped direct to
bndon; and our prune crop amounted
q 5 100000 pounds green, or 60 carads
fied, while our total crop OF fruit
amounted to 1853 ,OlS bushels; and so on
through many articles.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20

Antral and South America Is
hportant, and with direct CON
ection. which will soon be es-
kblished, will become a great
ctor in the totals of our
bmmerce. Our trade with Aus
alia is extensive in lumber
i bit could be profitably devel-
bed in many other lines. With
,,,,. puth Africa we already have
ri considerable trade, but Il far
nm n1feater only waits development.
there we can protitably dispose
/. ~ our agricultural implements
ppRt md other manufactures which
+. pnust soon find place among
The leading industries of Seattle,
va, Because of our cheap and in
"a = haustible supplies OF wood,
IN Non and coal. The making OF
81 ~. n fladivos took Il port of call for
oitI }he Great Northern's lines OF
tfans-Paciic steamships will
. I've us a promising footing in
the Siberian trade. Alaska is
N V nr nearest, and will probably
ntkgr rove our most important
BID. Our trade with that vastly
lch territory is already extern
Ne in all lines, and will develop
nth the development of
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-12-20
SHIP. CANAL.

On account of its vast importance to
the trade OF Seattle the proposed water
ways from Puget Sound to Lake Wash
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-05
BRIEF LOCALS.

Angelina BoIta, 8 years old, living at
13S Cedar street, was badly burned about
the left hand and back by the explosion
OF powder at z o'clock last night. She
was attended by q physician.
Frank +. Freeman had his hand badly
lacerated by the exhaust fan in his res
taurant on Weybosset street this MORN
ing. The wound was dressed at the
Rhode Island Hospital.
A sewer ON Burnett Street caved in this
forenoon burying James Gallago and q
fellow workman in the debris. Both men
were dug out within few minutes after
the accident, Gallogo being badly bruised
and the other man uninjured.
There's bicycle hung up on Custom
House street in front of the Rankin Cycle
and Typewriter Company. Twenty per
sons passed the bicycle this noon and
IL of them turned the wheels to see them
go round. The wheels Of that bicycle are
kept moving.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-05

Among the ancients shaving the head was
very common mode of expressing great
grief or sorrow Sometimes it was done by
the priest or some other religious function
ary formally cutting off the hair, some
times by violently plucking it out by the
roots. In extreme cases among men the
beard as well as the hair was either cut off
or plucked out. The idea seems to have
been that mourners should divest them
selves of that which under ordinary circum-
stances was considered most beautiful, or
namental and becoming. Lucian land he
is not the only one of the ancient writers
by any means who gives points on this
queer mourning custom) says that the
Egyptians expressed their intense sorrow
by cutting off the hair upon the death of
their god Apis and that the Syrians acted
In the same manner at the death of Adonis.
Olympiodorus remarks concerning job.
!, 20, that the ancients, among whom long
hair was regarded as an ornament, cut it
off in times Of mourning, but that those
who commonly wore it short suffered it
upon such occasions to grow long.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-05
"Rather InterestinC.~

So far as man is concerned, the panther
OF India, according TO Mr.. X. II. Elliot, is
practically harmless. In proof of this, or
perhaps in illustration of IL, he cites what
ho calls rather an interesting incident, ;"
which happened at the house of one of his
friends Rather interesting" will prob
ably seem rather mild form Of expression
To some feminine readers.
ono night my hostess, some time after
retiring To rest heard a noise I'm the open
veranda which runs round the side Of the
bungalow just outside her bedroom. She
got up, and lamp In hand went round q
corner OF tho building in tire direction of
the sound. As she turned the corner there
fell upon her astonished vision the spec
tacle OF panther devour1hg the family
cat. Seeing the lady, the panther tried to
make of along ths~veranda, which at that
point was shut in by trcllis, but Just
then tho cook, who also hnd heard tho
noise, appeared at the opposite end Of the
veranda with lamp In his hand.
The panther turned back in tho direction
OF tho lady. Sho stood spellbound with
the lamp in her hand, and as the cook to
all appearance equally spellbound re-
maincd stationary with his lamp, the pan
thcr found himself between two fires and
lay down under table which stood against
the wall
At last the got up, made move In the
of the cook. and then changing
his mind rushed past the lady, and 80 ef.
lected his escapo.-Youth's Companion.