The Irish standard., 1903-09-05
Growth Of Many of the Western
Cities Little Less than
Marvellous.
Seattle has Increased its Pop.
ulation from 1 100 in 1870
to 100000 in 1908.
General Notes and Personals
Covering a Vast Area
Of Territory.

Special Correspondence Irish Standard.
Seattle. Aug. 31.-A brief letter
from this bright. sound city will not be
amiss at the present time. SO much
has been written and said of this sec
ton of the Union that anything new is
next to impossible. The population is
cosmopolitan. People are tlocking to
these coast points from the east and
the west and the Orient is furnishing
no small proportion of the inhabitants,
though this may not be of any par
ticular advantage. Seattle, Il little less
than 1000 miles from Minneapolis,
was settled in 1853 and named after IL
Siwash Indian chief. In 1870 the
population had reached LOO. in 1880
$500 and now it is claimed that fully
100000 people are bona tidc residents
of the city. The rapid increase in
population has taken place in Il par
ticuar manner during the past five
years and has been due largely to the
discovery of gold i'm the Klondikc and
operations in the Philippines and the
Orient Both Seattle and Tacoma
have splendid larhors and here may
be often seen some of the most mag
niticent vessels of our own and of
foreign lands. At Brcmerton IL few of
and some of the finest steamships in
use come into these ports. Railroad
facilities out here. too. are excellent
and help much i'm opening ana develop
ing both Washington and Oregon.
Particularly may this he said of the
Northern Pacific. Burlington. Canadian
Pacific and Great Northern. known as
the trnnScontincntal lines Some 81
miles north of Seattlr on Puget Sound,
is the neat city of Everett. now num-
bering in the nei"hborlood Of 100000
people. 1t is Il lumber town and saw
mills and other industries are nlnler-
Gus. Amongst the many Minneapolis
tanS who have driftrd here is .rX-Govcr-
nor David clou"h. who is extensively
coma. but 30 miles from Seattle. is IL
SubStnntinr city. and. like its rival, is
growing rapidly And speaking of Ia
coma. this has been one of the best
building seasons it has had for many
years. Everywhere are seen new
buildings going up an evidence of
vigor ant of prosperity The Catholic
population is quite large here and am
other church rtlilicr is being erected in
the heart Of the city. whicn. when COM
pleted. will prove one of the finest in
number of Catholic societies. One of
these is the Ancient Order of Hbern-
ans with Il good membership. Still
another, the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
y. o. III. The officers of these Organl-
cations are as follows: \. o. H.-Wm.
Wclch. presidents: NJ. Dowd. vicr-prcsi-
dent II. Il. Armstrong. recording sec
retnry; j. Il. McGrath financial Secrc-
thry: j. Nj. Boyle. treasurer: james
Gordon. Ser%eant-lt-arms: Nj. O'Con-
nell, Insurance. secretary Ladies' AUX
iliary.-A1rs. Lizzie Coleman. prcsi-
dent: Miss Maggie Reilly. vicc-presi-
dent: Miss Irene Lyman. recording
secretary: Mrs. G. O'Lcary. financial
secretary: Mrs. Nj. O'Connell, treas
urcr: Mrs. Mary McCabc. scrgcant-at-
arms: Miss .Juanita Lyman. sentinel.
VIM. Lloyd is county president of the
Hibcrnans and Mrs. Kate Graham of
the Auxiliary.
Portland. Oregon. incorporated in
1851. has over 100000 population ANA is
picturesuucly situated on the Willa-
mette river about twelve miles from it's
junction with the Columbia. 1t is
about 100 miles from the ocean and
has four tl;nscOntinental lines of rail
road, with Il union depot costing i'm the
neighborllood of $4OOOOO. Portland
has a great jobbing trade, a number of
factories and many magnificent build
ings, public and private
In the cities thus briefly considered
your correspondent reviewed old and
formed many new acQuaintanccs We
will give number of the names here
Some of them. without doubt will be
familiar to many of the Irish Stand,
ard readers. They are:
Seattle.-P. ]. Reartlon. Sheriff Cudi.
hee, Chief Sullivan. Frank Kennedy. !.
j. Brennan, James Gill, Shannon 4
Shannon, VIM. Maloney. John O'Leary
K. Sartori, w. S. Mock. Matt Ryan
w. a. Kupperle. ]. J. McCaffcrty. J. c.
Stuart, N. Hanna. Il. CosgrOve. Nj. C.
Scully, John McGinnis, ]. O'Leary. II.
II. Clancy, James McGough, II. O'Sir.
en-, D. Murphy, Madden Il Sherry. j.
w. Hughes, d. b. Spellman. Tim
Ryan, d. J. Altman, J. J. Kinnane. NJ.
Quinlan, Bessy Walsh. DR.. Buckley. ].
T. Casey. d. S. Ryan. NJ. Doyle. Ed.
Twomey, p. Sullivan, II. +. Breen,
John Arthur, Il. c. Farrell. James
Sheehan, Hugh McSorley, VIM. Me-
Ardle, Neil O'Hara, Ed Simpson, NJ.
p. Wall, J. s. Fitzgerald, D. r. Fitz-
gerald, Frank Clancy, s. f. Hoffman,
DR.. Gibson, J. NJ. Keating, John Hag-
gerty, D. J. Drew, p. Lavan, John Nc
Cauley, Win. Noonan, Prof. l.. NJ. Nor
rim, D. p. Dugdale, J. G. Murphy, VIM.
Clarson, J. G. Regan, Ralph Cook,
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