The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-29

J. T. Ronald said ". H. White had
called him Doubling Thomas. bat thai
he would 90 him So better and cali x
500 and that he would give 1000 II neces-
szry White then announced he would
give 500 and Ronald went him one better
and gave $50 Mr.. Hughes said he WASH {
very much posted on the game. but Sna1
II Was what ne would call q raise
McDousaIIs Dispatch.
The chairman read a telegram from
Malcolm NacDougan, which read: ! am
sorry / cannot be with you tonight Pai
ne down for 500
Additional Subscribers.
Sam Piles in a neat speech said he
would subscribe $50. and would make IL
more II necessary. z. c. Hughes then
told the secretary 10 put him down Tor
Ssoo Lewis Bros. went down for sl-t-".
Jack Ross was put down for s219. simon
Brunn gave Sloo. San Francisco shoe
COMPANY gave SO William s Pond
gave SO. II. II. Pease gave $50 and his
wife SO more. Mr.. Hughes said II was a
fruitful pair OF Pease. Thus they came
In amid the greatest applause
A resolution by Z. 3. Friend recon-
mendiag that Seattle laborers be en-
ployed on the canal work was favorably
received. At II O'Clock the meeting ad-
tourned, and the chairman told all who
desired TO subscribe and had not sub
scribed 10 call al the Seattle & Lake
Washington Waterway conpany's Office
Form of the subsidy Note.
After the meeting adjourned ali those
who did not get copies of the agreement
and OF the SUBSIDY note crowded around
the platform and secured The documents.
The blank subsidy noke reads as follows:
S.. Seattle. " ASA. ....-.--, 49,.
For and in consi9era ton of one dollar
h 81 w~
whereof Is hereby acknos lodged. ana II
further consideration OF the excavation
and completion. by the Seattle and Lake
Washington Waterway Company "a cor
poration duly organized and existing IN
der the laws of the state OF Washington.
It's successors or assigns. OF a ship caEal
connecting Elliott bay with Lake WASH
ingIon, according 10 the terms and con-
ditions of d certain contract (now Of rec
ord in the Office of the auditor OF King
county, entered into by the state or
Washington. b. its duly authorized agent
(the commissioner OF public lands. and
Eugene Semple. on October a. 1894. for
the excavation ana completion Of the east
waterway and the canal waterway into
Lake Washington, therein described. which
contract requires the completion OF said
work within six 90 years from said %1th
day OF October, 1854 unless the time for
the completion thereof shall be extended
by the state OF W aSnlnst ton, upon a
showing of the diligence on the part CT
the parties constructing the same, &C
cording 10 the terms OF the law under
which said contract was made. and which
said contract has been duly assigned 20
said Seattle and Lake Washington v a.
terway Company ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
hereby agree -. and promise 10
pay TO the order OF said Seattle and Lake
Washington Waterway Company. its Sue
cessors or assigns, at the Office of said
company in the city OF Seattle. Washing
alton, the sum or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. dol
lars, at the date Of the completion ard
formal opening OF said ship canal for the
passage OF vessels from Elliott bay into
Lake Washington. according 10 the terms
and conditions OF said contract with the
state OF Washington. with interest there
on at the legal rate from the date of
such completion and formal opening until
paid: provided, that unless said ship
canal be constructed and completed
strictly according to the terms and provi-
sions OF said contract with the state OF
Washington. then this obligation shall be
null and void.