The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-31
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Ppeatdent Meilen Announces tn
Policy of Northern PariAe.
Tacoma News

Policy 81 Northern Partne.
Tacoma News
Then the Northern Pacific VIII con-
time 20 make Tacoma IFS main terminus
On tie Pacific end the place where the
Oriental commerce Is carried ca"
Yes. as long as we have cur docks
and terminals here II We had the same
terminals IN Seattle we could do the
business there ar Just a. good advantage
as here. With thu Palmer cutoff COM
aieted the distance TO Seattle from the
tunnel viii be jusr as short as the dis
tance TO Tacoma. and we could run IN
there Just as well
What the people Of Tacoma need more
than anything else is disposition 10 get
in snd do something for themselves. not
lay down and wait fer the Northern Pa
cifie railroad to DO something for them
Every time / come here / am asked the
question on al hands. Well. what are
you going 10 do for us? What is the rail-
road going 10 do for the town. ] was
even told by one man here that he
thought Il was the duty of the railroad
10 GO ahead and finish up the new hotel
that burned here a while ago.
We cannot AFFORD 10 SO into all that
sort OF thing. We are running a rail-
road for what We can get out of the
traffic, not rs a towrssts speculation
When anything IS 10 be done the first
thing Is 10 go TO the railroad company
and ask them how much they are going
10 put in. What the people need here
Is q little energy 10 do something for
themselves.
'sThe Oriental commerce was not
brought 10 Tacoma by any OF the people
here, neither was the wheat shipping bust
ness. We could take il to Seattle or
Portland Just IS we'll as here. but we have
the facilities here and here We shall do
the business
'Ie We had the same facilities in Port
land and Seattle as we have here We
would take the business TO the town that
was the most enterpgising and where the
people were the best hustlers- What Ia
coma needs is hus.iers."
lit is claimed. and with good deal
OF persistence, too, that every effort that
IS made by the people of Tacoma TO do
anything is throtiled by the railroad COM
pany unless they can hog three-iourths
of il. and that such conduct on the part
OF the company has discouraged ali effort,
How about THAR?
Il don't think there is anything in that
at least not to my knowledge. The city
was built as a townsste proposition and
the TOWNSHIP matters were run for the
benefit OF few on the inside. and not
for the benefit of the stockholders OF the
railroad company. When the road went
into bankruptcy and came into the hands
of an entirely different Set OF owners IL
was run as a railroad. and we intend 10
try and keep il running as railroad.
We want traffic, and anything that tends
10 the building up OF the country and
the increase OF traffic will be 10 our bene-
tit. We want 10 see ali enterprises pros
per; yet you cannot expect US TO put our
hands into our pockets and contribute TO
the establishment of enterprises here when
We know the people are hostile to US and
want an opposition road. We are willing
= ch-s hszS IN m
help establish these various enterprises
We viii have to help the people who are
the most enterprising and who viii do
the most for themselves. We don't want
too much on our hands"
VIII the traffic Of the Orient be divsd-
ed up with Seattle If your company ever
acquires terminals over there?
we have already acquired large ter
minals in Seattle The deal has been
closed, though It has not been given to
the public. Bu, We have closed a deal
for n large tract in Seattle. We shall
naturally utilize the land We have ter
m!nals here and shall continue TO do husi-
ness here however. and as / said In the
first instance. Tacoma is our favortie
coast city and here We expect TO DO the
main Oriental and wheat shipping bust
ness"
Where is this land you have purchased
IN Scatter"
mai IL again CoHiink TOO StcSt ~
private affairs We don't care to give that
information out just at present
Gould the Oriental business be done
as cheap ut Seattle or Portland as at Ia
coma, provided you had docks and ter
minals at the other places as YOU have
here?'
IF we had the facilities In Seattle that
we have here We could as well do the
business there as here. The distance IS
no greater. But here we have the ter
minals already built and here we shall
continue To do the main bulk OF our ORR
entail business. az long as We can keep
room enough To handle it