The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-23
nc PASSING THRONG

# Il sEzln@a- 10y
- - when tie p@assf.s gers 4sSt-s
- are not IoafAng az a1N IL :.
- s~snx with TIE pfa4k sssS eh~e
- = : Mission and az coz
mss, ezsuai sssesyeE !. :, 80
90 9 nofsce the sIlete-sso =. =. -
~ ~ : - ~reat thoscug n11rs@ OF Trade
dszE - -, IRE water front has
- GU. for activity and hustle
- 80 txo months. and al tines
trrs - - and tke prominent decks
11iToAa 800, b!Sekzceo with surg
hsFs -. rfrst AID Ssccad aTeEses
- g. nrorrinent business STREETS
- Co. "a. Jess cons plc104s On &C
tfFs ~. nsn5er q people. not en-
GO a. noon. % a. o'csSck wnsn
k5ssIs !. -. closing, but al al hours or
- ~ AZ renewed re irnPrszsss VIII
- ely AZ Cnee and they are
~ -sa..~sns on - People from al
ezst1 J. 80 co.atry are registering daily
- :. .-.sss and the large number OF
tSs So : s..ttte IS noticed ard talked
-, 10 ne east
.,sgelsr stood OF Second avenue yes
.~s,fn~ and after counting fo<
a .,ts. ne numtc- of people who
- certain doorway, aaid: The
- s~attEs may not reaEize II. but
sew streets II America where
= rsfesfrtan passes esofSay every
- - he does here"
two ago T. W. Casey. OF Port
.~z-eg.rg passenger and freight
- he Chicago Milwaukee A. ST.
- srrsves lr Seattle and while visit
~. -, ,b1 city he distributed a neatly
- NAP that showed an all-the-
e4ss',rouns route By which Il ia sx-
- spaoe VII be aanihIiafed In a re-
vS.~sssy short tsEue-somethlng less than
S,,ry-,vo days for the journey. The
- thxt Mr. CASEY was distributing
- .ofhlrg Of Seattle until he got
.sss<r stamp ard prinsed "seattls" on
= ralz letters. When ne Was In Ia
sr~s be printed the name or that town
+. The map ignores every otasr
y. =, me continent between Chicago
- Portland. although me same route,
= ees,tls. would be actually fs miles
go ma shown. The proposed route
q seearanansed By table Of distances
- sse tire than viii be required for
- s-sn and the whole thing Is goof-
s-s.rsdly taken Up and discussed in an
800 n the Railway Age. which says
-, continuous railway line across
..,.rsrs Asia and the continent Of
esrere was dreamed Of long before Alas
= xsld set people 20 planning railways
:. ~ Arctic Circle IN a book entitled
srse Cosmopolitan Railway. Com
..rslnr and Fussng Together AL
= WORDS Continents" william
curn once governor Of Color
- several years ago elaborated the
s,s.na Of building a railroad through
esafh America and Alaska 20 Boring
s~zfs 70 meet the then proposed Rus
- Pacific Railway" and thus secure
s,.s<etl,n wffh the railway system OF
erica The route across Russia shown
= IL man corresponds IN the main with
81 oyer which the Trans-Slberian line
hsuv h<.ns constructed and the Alaska
aectson as rrcposed was no more imprac-
ou1k,s stan the reads through the klon-
a. whlsh are now being SO numerousiy
ees.ruc.sd on paper. Meantime. III
asueh no railways are actually being
kpns b Bering straits from either SHE,
As 1ssss-6ibcrtan railway VIII IN a few
Nm b completed across Asia TO the
hdaa 1t viadivosfolS. and then
turssy around the worid IN a little more
ihsa dirty days VIII have become a
p16abssy. The shortest route In point
~
sey can as present b made. is about as
isrcxs:
Nss York 20 Southampton. 6 DAYS:
erskan7son 90 Brirfisi 3is days: Brin-
a 70 Yokohama, via Suez canal and In
a 4 DAYS; Yokohama 20 San Francisco.
3 Arr; San Francisco 20 New York. Ga
Ays: total. &C days.
Haf vAer the Siberian railway Is COM
pksa IN AZ its sections. ssy In 1904. the
Ezrney. n 10 estimated. may be made IN
hs hss the time. as follows
New York 70 Bremen, 7 Gaysi Bremen 20
Z Petersburg. III days; ST. Petersburg 20
yatpo<fck. az thirty miles an hour. 10
tsys. v!stsvostok % Seattle, 10 days. Sc
SIS 70 New York, Ga days: total. 3
Nm
BssY O. Bryant. the wealthy Philadei-
f,z- who organized and outatted an ex-
pts;,on 70 scale Mount ~. Elias Alaska.
" salsa owing 20 Ficxness attacking
DEsers Of bis party returned 70 the city
rxssssy on the steamship Queen, and
~ 10 the Rainier-Grand hotel He re-
tx early to bis room and gave positive
stss Dot TO be disturbed upon any pretext-
N hst especial reference 70 Newspaper
- whom Mr. Bryant desired above al
4
racing here was owing 20 trip made 70
hzzaay. where Mr.. Bryant inspected The
nc Of which 30 much hss been said and
Ustsn
he Bryant party, which began the as
naf Of ST. Elias eleven days ahead OF
faca Luigi Of Savoy was attacked b.
s<kaEss before the summit YVES reached.
sis awarting Of the purpose OF the expe-
tAssn vas great d.SappoiDtmeaS not only
ne leader II. q. Bryant hut % Ancrt-
nN wac had hoped the party would make
nexisg equal 70 that OF tbs Italian sx-
Isi'1n- The Bryant party had been two
Tar prerartng for tha journey 20 the
1sN q TIE great Alaskan peak.
gag ~ t1ccssded IN topping =. Elias. y
vas NJ. Bryant's intention 20 Try Mount
Aesss $50 feet high, which IS twenty
- nslss to the northeast OF Elias. lie then
vFos1 70 strike through 20 the Gritty
"a rFsr. near Chief Nlcosafs village. ard
ssns that stream 20 the Copper river.
s&owtag The latter % is mouth. ne in-
sIssa % take a vessel for ire United
ss a Port Ua,chek, a trading station
as Alaska Commercial Company,
20 frTant party reached here May =
- - .'s'r eoEple,snS - outai IN this city
= 80 % ne steamer Clgy % Topeka. Nay
- o-AAss tl&Fe conn 70 Tor Wa made
ne steamer Dora, which landed tne
49, q fskusat bay fhe point from
80 sAs ascent Vas attempted.
- n highee manager 81 the In
t. :. Navigation Company. eperst-
sas trans-Atiantic American and Rel
Anss reached this city yesterday
.apansed ey Gates r. Fahnestoc&
- agent % the corapany for the
- ocsse Mr. Fahnestock's pres
- asFe IS an event % annual occur
r~A mat be Is accompanied by 81
So enc ef the grest powers Of the
.ssstAuon busiEess On tire Atlantic
-. 1sr'seUlarly sIEalscant az q time
-. - SEATTLE Is developing such import
- - commercial center The Amerf-
A. running bstwecn New York
49, hampton. and IRE RED Star HEe.
rs.,ss New York and Antwerp. con
sr-.s I'VE q the greatest and most
- established routes IN TIE warid