The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-10
PAPERS ARE SIGNED.
S., 500, 900 Deal for Tide Flats
and South Canal Clinched.
ST. LOUIS FAITH IN SEATTLE.


The announcements that the $500, 900
for tss fling IN of the tide flats and
the excavation of the waterways ana
the south canal % connect the Sound
with Lake Washington had been Sc
cured was. followed up yesterday by
the poSsaive statement that all the pa
Issrs IN the matter had been signed in
st. Louis. This welcome news WAS
brought by Hon. Eugene Serfple, the
president, and julius f. Hale, the coun-
sci, Of the Seattle & Lake Washington
Waterway Company. which has the
contract for the ws~k froan the state.
ON their return from st. Louis yester-
day. In an interview with a Post-Inte.-
hgencsr reporter, they s1sd:
I'VE are greatly pleased with the re-
suit of our mission. fer al the papers
that We're TO be signed when our
treasurer and coworker. David e. Du-
rie. .sft ST. Louis have been signed and
the arrangements finally closed. There
is no use in gcing oveT the ground
that Mr.. Dur-ie has covered in his inter
view SO Web, and all we have 10 say
Is ti.at the money IS ready 10 fill in the
tide fats and excavate the Duwagrish
waterways ana will be ready for the
lake CANA and locks as soon as the
rlght-of-way and subsidy are secured.
We ARE very much gratIied with the
success SO far achieved and aae sure
that the canal viii be built
THE fact that Seattle pulled through
the recent financial storm without a
single bank failure was a tower of
strength 10 us in ST Louis. They said
Seattle and ST. Louis were the only
two cities in the West that went
through that trying ordeal without a
single bank failure. The 81. Louis
financiers would not have considered
the proposition were it not for the canal
feature. They recognized the fact that
the canal would give Si,is city a sp.en-
did and unequafei fresh water mar
Dor, and conceded that this would in
time make ii the leading city OF the
Pacific coast. and hencA they took
kindly to the scheme.
This arrangement to raise the $500
600 in st. Louis Will give Seattle a con-
nectaon with a weakly and conserve
tive city that cannot help but be bene-
fetal. ST. Louis IS making wonderful
strides under the deveioQrnent OF the
tributary country, the new South and
the new Southwest.
.'When we first went to St. Louis ard
unfosded our canal scheme they said
that we had come to the wrong place,
that the conservative, steady people Of
St. Louis would not .nyest IN a West
ern scheme. We tod them that we
had coma from "a reliable town win a
Conservative and reliable scheme and
one tssat would be sure TO interest them,
and before we got through with thern
they were full Of interest. as - testified
20 by the fact THAI they viii put up
ehsir millions 10 dig this waterway"
Mes-rs. Senrp.e and Hale came home
over the Burlington. the new route re-
Gently opened between Seattle and st.
LOUIS They made the trip in six hours
Tess than four days. Notwithstanding
the fpct that they were delayed for six
hours at st. JOSEPH. Next Sunday che
Burlington VIII put into effect a sched-
u,e that viii reduce the time between
st. Louis and Seattle TO three and a
half days. This connects Seattle closer
II ST Louis than any other Eastern
gnEtropotis and by n railroad which
shows its friendship by advertising Sc
attic exit easiv elv in It's folders.