The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-06
THE WILLAMETTE ARRIVES
To Snil North Saturday With Nearly
500 People and n Great
Ercsghf Caruo

The steam collier Willamette arrived here
yesterday morning from San Francisco
with lbs passengers So Of whom ara booked
through TO Alaska. or the latter, all save
eighteen arc going 10 Dycs. The arrival
of this crowd Of reopie made ihipgs lively
on the streets and in the stores all day
yesterday. With but few exceptions ,hos3
going north are purchasing outfits In Sc
attle. AT least sixty Will spend here from
$500 TO ssoo. which means from slaon 10
$4,000 put into circulation in this city in n
day
Tho local ontdtting houses are 80 rushed
with business that the overflow In nnalur
It's way 10 Port B'akeley. md y causing T
great boom for the stores there one rea-
son which forced some purchase to por,
Blaksley was a scarcity here of nvaro-ated
vegetables. These form an lrnporian. part
Of the fukonPr's outfit and tho local firms
have been called on largely for articles of
that description. A rien'lfgi stock Of fvaf.-
GRATED vegetables will reach here IN n day
or so and the merchants, wiser by expert.
ence. viii see that the supply does not
again run short.
The phenomenal business being done her..
can hardly be realized though the fact la
occasionally accertuated by aorae deal ~
anlsnal Importance. One day last wa X
local grocery firm paid to the Pacific
coast ean@hip Company a freight hill
- Wv fRSk M%G SIMPLY fHa account 4 4
che arm In one day The business ~ sorao
oe the larger grocery houses averages \,
conservative estimate from 81 GO 10 q 90
Day. and the business In a Single noliza
runs occasionally as nigh as tTmn Tnf4
means net profit Of from 81 90 IN s2 ek,
day is IL any wonder that rrorfgarea
OF years standing are being lifted and
that the notes Of The es,a bllshed bushes.
men o. Seattle are at PREMIUM
Ihs Willamette found g.r tar Arrival be,.
3uch a mass o. freight for Alaska thst it
VIII be impossible 70 get her away before
saturday. When she sails the scenes a
all previous departures for Alaska VIII be
totally eclipsed- Before leaving tha Sound
She will have aboard 20 passengers ard %
horses. She is licensed 10 carry 80. bat
viii rot carry the limit OF The IoG there
almost Do from srattle. many familiar
names being on the ist E.ighty-shreo
came az tTona san Francisco and the bail
2ncc VIII be supplied BY ether cities On the
Sound.
The accommodations on the willamette
are certainly rot such would induce
one 10 buy a ticke. FOR the pleasure % a.,
ocean voyage The vessel was luiii as a
coal carrier and the preGoni ria ting idea
Of her construction was 10 leave lots of
space. There ara not ten staterooms
aboard. TheEe are occupied ny offcer<
unless they nave tesn given uy TO so.ne Ia
vored passenger. The Willamette. hy tne
way, il splenaidiy Offered. she has
aboard four men with nas,.r's papers
Tire captain. first. second and third trates
are all licensed captains. The pi.ser In
Harry ". skinner one Of the n.ogt ac-
commodating men IL would he oezsihls 20
find. Previous TO three years ago he was
purs~r on steamships os the Paci4c Coast
Steamship Company. bsit since that time
ha. no. followed The sea
The after hold has been fitted With tiers
o. hunks running 50 close together that Il
fuli-grossu man would sage@ze through
with difscuity. The hrst-clasS pa ssengess
viii sleep e.bcw to elbow, and will have q