The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-20

Western enterprise and push, growing
fronn almost nothing 10 $500 population
IN twenty years. and having beer nearly
wiped ont oncs By fire. With her fine
hotels. good natural sanitary advantages
and pleasing variety Of topography So.
attic is well worthy OF the consideration
OF the summer tourist or the invalid 10
within this pleasant climate Is suitable.
The percentage Of sunshine for the sum
mer months is forty nine. relative humid
ity, sixty-oas per cent. and seasonal
temperature, mean, 81 degrees Fahrenheit
"a very favorable combination
Robert Irving, traffic manager of the
Kasie IL s. scan railway. was In the city
yesterday alr. Irving was en- route 10
his home in Victoria, and left last night
on the Kingston. In relation TO his bus
mess affairs, Mr.. Irving says that the
kaslo & SLOGAN road Is hauling q great
deal OF ore besides freight and passeu-
gers.
1T IL A very busy little railroad prop
erty." said he. and Il IS a paying invest
nent for the stockholders. We do not
have IL ali our own way UP there but We
are doing our share OF business
MIR. Irving - very well-known la Seat
tie There was time / knew almost
everybody in tails town. / used to run
Seattle and Victoria / was on the Olym-
pia at one time. and on the George =.
Starr al another. The Starr was new
boat then. and everything in the shape
OF steamboat property was a paying in
9estment Ny time preceded the great
fleet OF passenger steamers that ran up
here In, say, 1881 and 1882. There was
plenty OF travel then and an excuse for
the many elegant vessels that were built
for Sound service. / can remember tie
Alaskan. the sister ship TO the Olympian.
the Eastern Oregon. the Premier, the
Kingston. when she was brought around
the Horn from the Hudson river. 10 run
In competition with the Olymplan. The T.
j. Potter came around from the Columbia
river for share Of the business, and
so did the Multnomah. and the latter Is
stiii here. The old North Pacific was also
on the Victoria route. Afterwards the
steamer City OF Seattle was built and
brought around There were steamers
built and running 10 all OF the ports on
the Sound. and with every location OK a
new townsite or wildcat scheme another
steamer was either bought or built. My
acquaintance at the time l was in the
steamboat business was, of course, with
the boats that antedated the big feet Of
palatiai steamers. although the Starr,
the Eiiz9 Anderson, the Idaho the Evan
gel and others o. the old-timers were In
their day aud generation considered very
good. and for long time they were ample
10 the demands OF the times, both for
freight and passenger business"
G. .. Livermore Will start this after
noon for Sycamore. H., where he viii
take charge OF the details OF an excursion
OF merchants from the middle West TO
Wenatchee. The party is TO be largely
made up OF well-to-do people OF Rochelle.
Sycamore. Dekalb. Milton. Eigin and ST.
Charles. H.. and Beiot and GAINESVILLE.
Wis. who are seeking homes and invest
ment. The party viii arrive al Wenatchee
some time between June Il and July /. and
VIII constitute the first of series OF Great
Northern excursions to that point. Fol-
lowing the first. tie excursions will occur
regularly during the summer months.
about four or five weeks apart.
\ great many of those who viii make up
the personnel OF the first excursion have
already expressed determination to visit
Seattle and the Coast before returning
East. On his last trip out Mr.. Iiyermore
brought with him rs the personal repre-
sentative OF the excursionists Mr.. John
II. Whaien, of Sycamore. who came out
to verify some of the statements regard