The Republican journal., 1900-05-31
sc1Nr1LLAT1oNs FROM SEATTLE.

territory for business purposes has al
ways been a vexed one. During the
summer of 1895 company was organ
lied in Seattle, comprising several ST.
Louis capitalists, for the purpose of re-
claiming large extent of tide lands,
adjacent to Seattle's Harbor and nearly
$500, 600 were expended to that end. The
company became financially embarras-
sed and work was discontinued after
many acres had been reclaimed and
which are now nearly covered with new
business enterprises, mill yards, etc
These flats, covered at high tide, are
several hundred acres in extent, lying
Immediately adjacent to the city water
front, and along the eastern border of
which railroads now run on entering
the city from the south. 1t is here,
also. thrt James j. Hill of the Great
Northern Railway, has laid his plans
for passenger and freight terminals and
the site of splendid railroad station,
in conjunction with other transcontin-
entail railways entering the city-three
in number
An announced purpose Of the old
waterway company was not only
to fill the flats but to construct a
waterway connecting the Sound and
Lake Washington - distinct and
separate proposition from that contem-
plated 10y the [ nited States govern
ment, at the north end of the CITY.
This improvement under contemplation
is at the southern extremity of the
business section of the city. The Water
way company has recently announced
that they have secured the sum of $500.
oo9, for the continuance Of their work
and that it will soon be resumed and
carried Oh to completion. Morris x
Whitehead. Philadelphia, Denver and
Portland bankers. are the parties to
advance the funds in exchange for State
certificates issued under the contracts
of the waterway company for the pur-
pose. over seventy acres have already
been reclaimed and this with the bal
ance when completed. will wake an
ideal level tract for all business and
terminal purposes.
1t is peculiar fact that all Puget
Sound cities lack in necessary level
land for business and terminal pur-
poses, and when this proposed plan
shall have been accomplished, Seattle
will have a harbor with docks. water
ways, approaches, terminals and all
necessary appurtenances. equal if not
superior to any port in the United
States.
The servant-girl question is again
troubling Seattle people, and still the
trouble grows. There is an interesting
contingency here which probably does
not so badly atfiict most large cities,
contingent upon the marrying off of
the girls who do housework, They come
to Seattle and engage good homes with
families who pay the best of wages, and
soon along comes some likely chap who
wants wife-and somebody has lost a
good cook. The majority of men in
such new country are young and thrift
ty fellows who have come and settled
down without wives, and when thev
have secured a competency or sufficient
for ii home. then the search for wife
commences. Many Klondiker has
picked out Seattle housekeeper from
the ranks of the Work-girls, and there
is not a bit of doubt that many of them
make the best of wives, being natural
houfekeepers. 1t is a big wonder that
likely girls do not catch on to the situa-
ton and seek employment in Seattle
homes. Although it is not in my line of
business, | could place hundred good
girls is the best of Seattle homes with
in "a weeks time, and if they'll write
me, faith i'll do it. Five hundred and
sixteen applications were made at the
city employment bureau last month in
this city for servant girls, only half
of which applications were filled.
The lumber statistics for Puget Sound
are rather interesting and make good
showing for the month of March last
past. These figures only include for
eign shipments-to British Columbia.
Mexico, Chila, Russian China, the Figi
Islands, Australia, the Philippines,
Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. For the
month of March there was shipped to
these parts from the Sound 6,294, 900
feet of lumber. 2,4l2 900 of shingles and
4, 5332 logs. This does not include anv
thing shipped East by rail, which latter
business has already reached large pro-
In this connection it may
be well to state that at present there
are orders at Seattle mills for more
than six million feet of lumber for ship
ment to Cape Nome, and more than one
million of that amount is at present
loaded on board the barge Skookum, at
present held in the harbor for overload
ing.
The Nome rush at present has as