The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-19
THE PASSING THRelt.

Charles r. HAzl,san. secretary ana
traffic manager ~ fAe North Amexicau
TrarspesEassen aaa Trading Cournxy. re-
teznssa t. Seattle ever the Great xsrsA3xu
yesterday nsoEnzsx. hrszgsax bis fAmz3w
With BIN srexa Chicago Mr. Haxnilsco
ASS hess absent from Seattle far sesar1s
nsesashs. daring which he has srArssed a.
tszs1xsiy IN sne Ea< ga nzxzness CONNECTS
60 With A5s csuap@ns. In nearly all AZ the
sssgss he visited 10 noticed renewal oe
sessness enazs311xe and \ general hrsGhs@
enassg a. cuEssnercsal coa6tfso0A He 81
msss that Cakc&xo In comparatively ea3ees
aaa says thai Il - rs2suxal szscuxh. oWfne
- rs srcgrz pascas iocsssoa- As the wave
90 prosperity nsoves westward. ChicAS9
- ere Of tns last eaeies u, fsss In sfy<cs.
~ Paul Ard AfaEsx rsssD are ia The aarao
ss>ssds-iS1. hst "a tsree places mentioned
ara qsssse as stassss Ia their prosperity 40
ara cities fngsaer east. waegs good ssmso
are tha ruse.
AL through the Est the ssaxse sub
yeck talked 81 : war. the ssssznSe ccax1ief
wtsA Srsin Aheawoanx ccnv~rsa sse0 10 tho
exras-saaa 80 everything sl~e. Mr.. Hamias
tea says thar Seattle IL very well kno9u-
sEsa that IL is the onfv place mentioned
"a connection with Alaskan aaairs. He
states that tia fsfasnx OF In passenger
trases ss essy what railroad oslaesals wso
were acquainted with the conditions pre-
the gcla tie.4s over the trails wsuid cease
shsout Axreh Is. ard be resumed axaln
Only when the ass-w2ter route wxs opened
M Hamilton says that the prex1scstca
VIII be vsrgs@6 IA the latter part a. Juno
afaf tie eaEiy part OF July. when the ccesn
.steaHssvs leave for 81. Michael He sftnks
that the number which viii 90 By the a.s-
water route vii net be as large ~ eocnA
base thought, ard see rlacsS tAe n&nxea
81 something between ave and ten thous.
Ssa- Anything n excess of the latter
number. re thinks xsn find much AFT,
faeaiiy ia getting asssosn nsoda;inxn for tho
trip up the river. The North Americas
Transportation ard Trading Company
VIII have hUr eae oceass-goiax Steamship
ca the ST. M.cAael ran. the Roanoke. due
a. San Francisco same time sssrinx the
present meath and Al Seattle as sossn after
ker arrival az the California town a. che
can be aurrsed here. She viii make fcrR
xaslfHgs during this sEmusr. and e II
predicted tia. she can make the run from
Ssattis u St Miehaei in eight days. Mr..
Hamilton - not locking Tor any trouble
from Spanish p<ssateerx. eus mays that
the Maxim gan that Was sncunsed On the
Portland has been psSced on the Roanoke.
to be ready in case OF an sn4erKeacys
The pr4acapal aussnezs Of AIf. Hamziton'a
company during the pvesen; season viii Be
20 stock is stores and trading pests and
~ S~4t$ r&An ~NSe4afS& 10 suE KsNGE n
Vii entirely pysciade any shortage IN.
other year.
''Bussne<s does not look much - II tn
Alaska movement were desd.- said C5ena
eral Manager PiEyre~ Of the Bassnn a1d
Alaska Transportation Company. yext&k>
day. Il have Jsst rscrsysd = tefegram
from our pcon5e IN New York state stating
that they had booked today ons party e
sixty passengers fer Ssstts1 te 20 Ncrth
on ths Brsxham not later than Nay &
They will leave New York .amcrrow.
Tuesday. and will reach hsr9 la time Il
So o. the Brixhans waen ssa sails Cor our
skip yard ca April e
Here is st4I another dispatch I hare
sast received stating that we have bccke<4
a party of twenty people IN Boston. They
vii also come this way