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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-29

EPORTs began pouring In from
III the gold fields Of the Kotzebue
INK peninsula Of Alaska last fall.
M resulting in a whole winter be-
ing devoted by thousands or
wealth hunters 10 preparing to
leave occupation, family and home that
they might Join the rush for gold. IT was
not thought that fleet would be assem-
bied or required that would virtually strip
the Eastern Pacific OF all IDLE freight and
passenger carriers TO take these thousands
and their wares and outfits across the
ocean TO Nome. II was not believed that
a tonnage OF ships a quarter a. great as
departed for the whole OF Alaska during
nh OF 1899 would be needed TO take the
first instailment Of these prospectors and
promoters, and that II might require q
shipping during the season amounting to
half OF the total Alaskan departures OF
last year 10 take care OF those embarking
later and their goods.
But this is the condition that 10 con-
fronting the steamship people Of Seattle
THIS year. Since October they have been
building and charterfng steamships, 20 that
they might be ready to cast or lines at
the earliest possible moment this spring.
ana be the FIRST to reach the golden shores
Of Nome Every large shipbuilding plant
on the Sound has been busy for weeks and
months turning out craft for use In the
North Pacific and Bsring sea, and every
available tramp steamer has been secured
for this trade. The needs Of people on
the regular routes OF some steamers were
fisregarded, and the noses OF many steam
ships turned toward Puget sound. 30 that
they could have more cabins put between
decks and clear 10 the top OF thu hurri-
cane. without regard TO luxury or more
than the absolutely necessary comforts Of
prospective passengers. and be among the
first to leave on the new route Vessels
that have been In the regular Alaskan
or coastinE trade have been enlarged and
remeanred to take on mora people and
freight, and schooners and other sailing
craft have been impressed almost without
counting to supply the overflow from the
steamers.
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NAf HAT all this trade will mean to Sc
w attic Is a question 80 great that It
Is difficult TO answer. II means the
expenditure OF millions of dollars in this
city, not counting tho revenues of the
transportation companies. most OF whith
will ind their way back to Seattle. and
eliminating the returns that will come In
gold dust and nuggets when the vessels
bring back their cargoes OF gold next
fall and the following summer Every
man that comes here for the purpose OF
going northward usually brings With him
all the money he can possibly raise, and
few indeed. are those who do not ar
rive In tho city with at least sl.0po.
The nrst thing 10 he done is TO pur-
chase ticket, ~ that action was not
taken before leaving tho East. even
though most Of the prospective miners
arrived long enough before their intend
ing departures to remain q few weeks.
and sometimes u,caths After setting the
ticket. there IL the ouss..s - clothing. and
the provision. ga Tans AMI innutnerable
other thinss thAt they are prevailed upon
10 buy by thu shrewi shopk,epsrs. Then.
after providins for hotel bills. there Is
nothing to b. done hut 20 await the sail
Ing 30 conndent are nlne-tenths Of the
people bound to Nome that they are go
inx 70 ais up nuggets and gold dus, by
the .hovelftl as soon as they reach the
naming toliars they may have. and In
vest many of them in Seattie
As nearly as cAn be appruximatsd SSS
persons have engaged pss~sg~ Va Seattle
for the north on the first trips OF the
steamers that will sail This Is q con
scrvative estimate, after making due a.
lowancc@ fer all exaEwsrasians II to
practically certain thai these men came to
SEATTLE with an average 20 g. coo each
Before the vessels sail they win have cx-
pen3ed $50 10 sso ol This, ins luting the
prscsx ~ ;hesr tickets and the charges on
ths ffeight they may carry, tbs means
that S97t7Ve will be the portion % The
merchants, hotc people Transport alton
companies. saloons ana other trades folk
% Seattle Besides this. there f. the ex-
p~udliur- 81 tho TRANSPORTATION companies
IN improving their vessels IN salaries 70
agents. In ADVERTISING. Ia gaei. The Invest
nlen4 ~ thousands % dollars On mining
machinery. drcdgSs etc, and 6 - 80
worth ~ igssnb~r. merchandise hardware
and other gnoas taken north 70 ssxpplv N.
camps ana stores making q total OF SO
90. that Will be scent tn this tsSv. -
recsiy from ani Indirectly through the
Grst contingent bound for the north
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Comparison Of Pacific Wonders With the Atlantic Greyhound.

A GREAT shiphullding center Is 20
~ spring up near New York. Its
name Is Grc&on, and Its site Is
across the Thames river from New
London, Conn.
Little Groton 10 about to build Ave
steamships. each bigger than the
Great Eastern. Talk about setting the
Thames on hrei The Eastern Ship
building Company will make that
worthy Of the ancient name It bears.
Such are some Of the results of
James J. Hills determination 20
stretch his enterprise from the Great
Northern Railway from tho carrying
trade OF the Pacific ocean.
When this Napoleon Of traH.ysra-
ton first conceived the idea OF found
Ing steamship line to pack Up mer-
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chandise where his freight cars dropped
u. he caused plans to be prepared for
a feet of 10000 ton vessels But he
afterward concluded that these would
not be half big enough.
William A. Fairburn. assistant to the
president Of the company. told a sun
day World reporter that the two mon
sters OF commerce would be launched
in the Thames in iso2A
Draughtsmen ara now AT work, and
both vessels will be on the stocks be-
foro July.
There is plenty Of room In Gro,on for
the great plant that will he installed
there. and the abilities In other re-
spec;s are excellent. There Is rail-
way line, for example. which connects
with the Stonington division n Po-
aaonoc bridge
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not: for they have gotten good prices for
their freight and passenger act ommoda-
tions-far above what they could get on
any other route. The usual result OF the
reduction OF prices where competition is
strong has been eliminated from this
Nome traffic. and strangely enough, there
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-29
ANTICIPATING THE RUSH.

As soon as II was certain. and In many
~ cases before. that q sailing could be
made, advertisements were put In the
newspapers, circulars were sent through
the East. and special agents employed to
scour the country to exploit the particular
superiority OF each particular craft.
All this remilted In the creation Of =
universal interest In the wealth Of Nome.
ana a. reports came out from there
through the winter OF a continuation Of
f,nds, each richer than the ono preceding.
arrangements were made to come to Sc
Attls, get an outfit and go north on the
first boat. Some even were so anxious to
ret there that they would not walt for a
steamer, but with rare resolution and
courage started down the frosen Yukon.
hopans TO reach there ahead Of the thous-
ands Il was known would be on the Nome
beach ~ soon ~ the carriers OF the
ocean could steam through the ice-necked
seas. Hundreds were afraid to wait until
arriving At Seattle TO engage their pass
age. for reports had gone out that there
would be a shortage of steamships. and
that II would be impossible to get berth
uniess secured at once; 30 they sent on
their deposits. many of them. before tho
winter had fairly commenced. making res
srvNsions for a voyage that could not take
place for several months.
II ala not require much OF this before
some OF the steamers were forced 10 call
a halt. and publish announcements that
they were sold out. and could not take an
other passenger Instead OF this causing
q fe~sening OF the ruth. there ensued more
OF . stampede for remaining quarters
than ever a. everybody thought he was
going TO be left So thers are few bcrths
that can be Gott~n on the vessels that
call from here IN May. and IN soms cases
extensive bookinss have been made for
succeeding trips.
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develops that they will get si,00s. $50 from
carrying freight, and $55l $50 from pas
sengers. total Of 81 ,5si 300. from the first
trips. This is from the twenty-seven yes
sells that VIII leave here next month on
their first trips all OF which are steam
ers, with the exception of the bark Mer-
curry and barge Skookum. which are given
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on account of the large cargoes OF freight
that they have secured. These twenty
seven craft have total net registered
tonnage Of Is, SOB tons, can carry IS 225 tons
of freight. in addition to their fuel. besides
5,s3S passengers. The average charge on
freight is $40 a ton. and for passengers
from SIS to s175, making an approximate
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TATEsfFsNsrs OF steamship men as TO
y the number OF passengers and the
quantities of freight they have Sc
cured for this Nome trade are not gen
orally given the sredsnee they arc per-
HAIRS entitled to. as the rivalry has been
10 intense that Congregations have been
common. IL seems. however TO he a nact
that Il IL difficult GO set berthe on any OF
the istRest steamships or the others that
are fcf some reasOn considered especially
desirable puring tho last few weeks
people have been seen turned away from
the office OF al least half n dosen com
p~nies with the statement that these was
naa a herth left. and thai thss should
perhaps ~ compelled 10 refund the money
af seFse, on secaant % having more than
they taaii carry. hNen II tho statements
a the total nnnssser Of PEOPLE bo,ASsd are
perhaps swcilea seySpnd tho true totals
there - ntsls dosshs that II 80 or coo
persons SHOULD eome here tomorrow 20
act passage Il would he hard Tor them to
a. 80. and some OF them would probably
have 10 wait untsi later sailing This con
a,tian obtains Ia tn. storage Of the
steamers. a. we'd as in the first eabsns
and some % the companies have actually
sala tesths Ia ths hold fer the same Prices
as gotten for the eess state rooms on
deck. OF course ~eaS these passengers
sna same privileges as thoss in the best
eMlxna First ceme. nrs, snzved' has
haa 20 be the motto Of the transportation
companies. ana those who came too late
20 sas into the sabins and stlli wanted 20
ssn on a particular vessel have In many
Instances ehccrfaily gone into the STEER
sse. notwithstanding that they could az
s~fi 20 nay for sa8iai chambers. II there
xarn any. dozen times over
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a revenue of sl5,ooo.ooo that will come to
this point from the outgoing Nome bust
ness in 1900.
+ r r
Taking the figures OF rates charged that
have been submitted by the different
steamship companies as a basis and 1t
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-29

N Is not probable that there VIII oe @o
many golng 20 The Nome he,ds after
thx arSt rush Is over, hut It IS es;!-
mated that tho total movement OF people
and freASht aurtnS the remainder OF u.
SEASON Will not he far nom the total Of
this first departure There will not iIk-sy
he much di1ereDce in the comparative
expenditure % the later departures and
Y lila should develop 20 oe syus. sAese Is
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average Of 800 for each person sailing.
Extensive plans have been made for fol-
lowing trips, the operators of no less than
fourteen of the steamers announcing that
they will have four trips to Nome during
the season, five vessels three trips each.
and the remaining eight. including the
lows and two that will remain in Meme
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local trade during the season, one each.
II these plans are carried out II will mean
the departure OF steamers of total net
tonnage OF $3.50 Excluding the Mercury
and Skookum). II they take the same
number OF people on these following trips
as they do the first. II will mean the de-
parture from here Of 1885 persons, and II
the freight is as great the taking OF a
total Of 74,25 tons during the year 10 this
destination alone. II Is. however. scarcely
to be expected that the rush sfli keep up
through the season. for It VIII probably
dwindle out In the summer somewhat,
last year.
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around the Horn from New York last year,
is scheduled TO depart June l.
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uEvExVE or COMPANIES.
AI.L this business VIII orins an Immense
~ revenue into tho Golfers OF the steam
ship companies, no matter whesher
shay make more Than oae trio to Nome or
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
40 POUND WATERMELON.

We can all have them if we plant Cir
ardeau's Extra Fancy Selected Triumph
Seed. From no other Seed will sueh Mel
ons grow. Thousands of Melons grown
from these Seeds in 1899 weighed 100 to 1a5
pounds each-oae weighed 1882 and an
other 149a pounds.
dbGTh In CASH PRIZES for the
DGlO largest Triumph" Water
melons grown in 1900 from Giirardeau's
Seed.
Giant Hesgar Weed Seed q spec
casasay.
Send for Catalogue giving full Informal
tion. w. NJ. CHR II EDEAH
MONTICELLO, FLORIDA
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
TerSe Things Said by Mr. Bryan.

Among the terse things said by Mr..
Bryan in his address at Shreveport
were these:
No king on earth would have the
unlimited power Of the president, if
the people approve the Porto Rican
tariff bill.
The Republican party is borrowing
from England all that is bad, but will
not take the income tax, which is
good.
If the people do not get the trust
question in their heads, they will get
it in their necks.
The plea Of destiny is the plea Of
cowardice.
No nation is strong enough to do
wrong.
Admiral Dewey shonld be made to
correspond with Lafayette and not
with Lord Give.
Conquest means not destiny, but
covetousness and temptation.
God does not inspire one man to
conquer another, and inspire the other
to die for independence.
1t is not the producer, but the ION
producer of wealth, that makes the
laws.
So long as the former lets the mon
opolist make the laws, they will not
meet at summer resorts.
If the people wish to extinguish
trusts they must take the e1tinguisher
out of the hands Of monopolists.
Monopolists opposed the democracy
because it was the party of the com
mon people.
The Democratic party is now built
from the voter up heretofore it was
built from the financer down.
If the Republican party destroys
trusts it will destroy the goose that
lays the golden egg.
No large standing army is needed.
The country is safe in the hands of
volunteers.
Government should be made so that
every citizen will be ready to die to
preserve 1T.
The downfall of the republic COM
mences when imperialism begins.
Imperialism has paralyzed the Re
publicans, and no word of sympathy
is heard from them on behalf of the
patriot Beers, fighting for home and
iberty.-Times-D Democrat.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
MIR. Heard's Campaign.

Mr.. Heard's speeches are attract
inc much and favorable attention says
the BatonssRouge Advocate, as a re-
suit Of the campaign he is now making
in the Third Congressional District.
At the time of his nomination there
were many who thought that MI.
Heard was simply a capable and tai
ented business man, but that he
would cut a sorry figure on the stump
in a heated campaign. Democrats
who labored under this delusion have
been ~agreeably surprised to note the
force and vigor Of his addresses and
the ease with which he holds his own
among veteran stump speakers like
McEnery, Foster and others who are
men of recognized weight and power
as platform orators and debaters. His
speeches are always concise, lucid,
vigorous and direct, he does not
sacrifice sense for sound, nor strength
for meaningless flowers of rhetoric, q
fault so common among the vapid and
weak intellects with which the ros-
trum is overrun in this age. His
points are always clearly brought out.
his figures, while few, are opposite,
and he goes to the heart OF his sub
liect with the directness of a mar who
has something to say that will inter
est his auditors, and in this he ha'
seldom been disappointed. The NOR
the people meet him and have oppor
tunity to listen to his earnest and in
telligent expositions of Democratic
doctrine, the more pleased do the.
become with the head of the Stat
Democracy and the more firmly ar
they convinced that the party mad
no mistake when it selected William
wv. Heard as its standard-bearer il
this campaign.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
Ward Ticket.

1st ward-Justice OF the Peace;
Pierre Pellout; constable: Camille
Leblanc ; police juror: z. d. Leblanc.
End ward-Justice of the peace:
Jos. Trahan; constable, Andrew
Moss; police juror: Cornelius Har-
rington.
3rd ward-Justices of the peace:
+. M. Lcguennec, O. Ell. O'Bryan :
constables: Fl. 3. Lyons, G. ,. Up
church; police juror: NJ, r.
Eldredge.
18th ward-Justice Of the peaces
Edmond Richard constable: Aliface
Bodoin police juror: Aristide Picard,
9Th ward-Justice of The peace: \,
a. Dubus; constable: Paul I. Ri
chard; police juror: Thomas Hoff-
pauir.
9Th ward-Justices Of the peace:
a. Schlessinger, +. G. Darby; con-
stables: B. j. Hartman, Martin Tou.
chet police juror: Babilas Leblanc.
9TH ward-Justice of the peace:
Felix O'Neil; constable. ]. B. Mills;
police juror: Jos. Theall.
8th ward-Justice of the peace;
Chas. G. Stevens; constable Archie
Rose; police juror: w. Qnereal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17

The antitrust convention recently
in session at Chicago overlooked the
biggest trust that has ever been form
ed, which is now exerting its power
to prevent competition and restrain
trade. The sugar trust, the Stand
ard Oil company, the iron and steel
trust, the whisky trust and all the
rest of them are not a circumstance
to it. The trust I refer to has been
organized by the members of both
houses of congress and its purpose
was declared in a speech made in the
senate some time since by Mr.. Nc
Emery of Louisiana, a sugar planter,
who declared against ''the acquisi-
ton of lands whose productions are
similar to articles produced in the
United States.' He mentioned cot
ton, rice, sugar and tobacco in par
%ticular, for those things are raised by
his constituents. Mr.. McEnery is in
favor of free trade in all articles that
are not produced by his constituents,
but insists that they shall suffer no
competition. The same position is
taken by the beet-sugar manufactu-
rers, the tobacco growers and other
interests who have organized a trust
for self-proteetion. The first action
of this trust was to place, an embargo
Eof rs per cen upon the people OF
Porto Rico.-W. E. Curtis.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17

The President says that everyone
is against imperialism. True enough!
Everyone in this country is against
what he considers Imperialism. The
question is one of definition. The
President does not consider it impe-
rialism to hold several millions of peo-
pie as subjects, governed by an alien
people, without representation, and
given only such rights as Congress
may see fit to bestow on them. If he
did he would be opposed to it himself.
But other people do consider this sort
of thing the rankest imperialism and
they would like Mr.. Mckinley to tell
them just what he does understand
by the word.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
Constable Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA-Parish of
Vermilion-Sixth Justices Court
No. 479.
Robert PrimeauX
We
Joysan Rogers.


By virtue of a writ of fieri faeias
issued in the matters of the above en-
titled and numbered suit and to me
directed from the Honorable 9th
Justices Court aforesaid, in and for
tbs State and parish above mentioned,
| have seized and will expose to public
sale to the last and highest bidder, at
the office CT the Sixth Justices Court,
OH
Saturday, March "a, 1900,
between the hours prescribed by law,
the following described property seized
to satisfy said writ, to wit:
Two gentle horses.
Constable's Office, Parish of Vermil-
ion, March 10, 1900.
ARTEUSE HERPIN,
Constable.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
A Tribute to JUDGE Perry.
HALL OF ROBERT S. PERRY CAMP,
United Confederate Veterans. !
NJ, R7O

HALL OF ROBERT S. PERRY CAMP,
United Confederate Veterans.
No. $40.
Comrades Taps have again sounded,
and our late Commander, Robert 8.
Perry, has lain him down to .bivouac
with those immortals, who have made
a history as enduring as patriotism
In the first flush of early manhood,
when the call was sounded from Stump
ter's battlements, he, without thought
of self, was among the first to respond,
and with the earliest troops, enlisted
under the banner of the meteoric jack
son. AT Cold Harbor, at Harper's
Ferry. at Bull Run, at Winchester, at
Manassas and countless other engage
ments, where the SStars and Bars"
were forged to victory, Lieut.. Perry
was at the charging front.
In camp, on the march, in the dreary
winter quarters, not to speak of the
irksome military prison, his undaunted
spirit never for a moment quailed, in
the great cause for which he would
have gladly given his life.
And when the end came, and the
Confederacy fell, what does this hero in
gray with a heart of gold? Though
SCARED and bent with the futile strife,
returns undaunted in defeat to bis
wrecked home and country, and pick
ing up the thread Of a broken life;
proved himself as great in the arts Of
peace, as when chasing the fleeing le-
gions of dispirited and beaten foes.
Comrades-Another soldier from our
fast declining ranks, has gone to answeI
duty done here:
eve see them slowly marching year by
year
A lessening band, to that lone camping
ground,
Where their companions, in the days
that tried
Mems souls, have grounded arms for.
eyer
Ease has seldom been their portion
bronzed by u
And bit by winters cold, they bear the
scars,
And blows of enyious time as ~valiantly
AS once they bore the buffetings OF war
For them a nations Golfers have mo-
bled
To salve their wounds with gold, bu'
were worn out
With fatal victories, they left the felt
Where valor long had strove in vair
, with might,
, Like that great son Of Rome, whose
| %conqnering arm
Did not disdain to guide the pillow they
sheathed
Their swords, and asking aid Of none
: but God,
| By honest toll redeemed and glorified
The land their fruitless valor eould no
5 save.
See where they come, an ever lessenine
band.
= Torn by life's storms, and chilled BY
t numbing frosts
Of thankless years, they falter not, no
fail
In the great strife with human wan
and woe.
Till, one by one, the Great Commander
Death,
Gives word to break their ranks, anc
join the vast
Encampment meath the white and ser
+ ried stones
Where Fame shall write their epitaph
"Not conquered, but worn out witt
conquering.D
ANDREW THORPE,
FELIX VOORHEES,,
, l.. q. HACKER,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-03-17
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given to the pnblie,
that | am applying to the Board OF
Pardon for a pardon from the sentence
pronounced upon me by the Judge of
the 18th judicial district court. at Alb
beyille, La. October IL, 1899. in the
case entitled, Estate Of Louisiana vs..
Telesmar Marceaux, ct. Charge lar
ceny. TELESMAR MARCEAUx.
March IL, 1900.