Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-02-26
Locking Backward.

OF April ?, ISL, published in this city
by Chas. Prosch & Son, is before US,
whose paper, yellowed by lapse of a
third OF century, seems familiar
from the old-time names it recalls to
memory by its advertisements. l..
Hirsch has column on the first page,
to set forth the attractions of a full
and complete stock of drygoods and
clothing, corner OF Main and Fourth
streets, where Sawyer & Filley's drug
store now is. The building then used,
is now located at Second and Wash
ington and occupied as a residence by
Mr.. Gotfeldt and family. Blumauer
& Froman had opened a" Fall Stock
for 1870" of similar goods where now
is found the "Green Tree" Saloon.
The date shows that "plugs" were
then used as now, by the daily press.
Lightner & Rosenthal operated a gen.
eral mercantile establishment on the
corner of Main and Second streets
The only other dry goods establishment
being that of L. & B. Bettman, on the
opposite corner. The grocery business
was we'll cared for by T. Macleay & Co.,
and the restaurant service found an
able representative in F. D. Waldron,
who with "Aunt Becky" referred to
later on, represented the Afro.Ameri-
can population OF the town. Kellett
& Scott kept saddlery and harness,
along with general supply of gro
ceries, on the corner OF Fifth and
Main, where J. T. Kearney & Co., now
do a thriving grocery business. The
Woods brewery supplied unsurpassed
Scream ale," while the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Brewery, at Steilacoom,
furnished the beer for our people.
Chas. S. Larribee was the only lawyer
whose single" appears in the Tri-
bume, which is presumptive evidence
he had the field all to himself.
Silas Galliher kept the principal
hotel in the town, known as the Ia
coma House (now the Huggins), Hill
Harmon the Pacific, lately torn to
the ground, on the same block. and
"Aunt Becky" Howard a private
boarding house, corner of Fourth and
Adams. A. R. Elder was mine host OF
the Olympia Hotel and Restaurant,
corner OF Fourth and Main, on The
identical spot now occupied by the
Mckinney building. The structure
that served his purpose now stands on
the Barbary Coast" at the foot OF
Main street, and was in the boom days
of 1890 known as tho International
Hotel. Il is now the rendezvous of
owls, bats and other hoboes. Mrs.
Anna Morris kept the American Elk.
change restaurant, on Main street,
near the steamboat landing. and Frank
Louthan ran q liquor store. Drs.
Willard and Lamper cured the sick,
aud Patterson & Mann and DR.. Turner,
furnished the drugs for them to do it
with. L. A. Treen supplied the foot
wear and L. Queitch tailor's fit for
the body. L. L. Barlow and X. A.
Parker held aloft the "staff of life"
the former on Main and Third, and the
other few doors south of him, about
where the Woodruff building stands.
Dooley & Rogers supplied the choice
sirloins and T.bones for those who
fulfilled the seriptural injunction oil
not trying to subsist on bread alone"
Crawford e. Barnhart supplied the
furniture, on Main street, linear the
steamboat landing" now the deserted
wharf. Coggen & Co. kept . swell
livery stable on Third street. between
Washington and Main, and M. R. Til.
ley operated government mail line
of stages, with his stable where, Ia
beree has 30 long maintained livery
service, and which this week passed Ia
the ownership of Mr.. George Reynold.
F. Brecken6eld sold fruit, confec.
tionary and peanuts in the historic
building in which the first Territorial
Legislature met, next to tho Tacoma
Hotel" now fronting on the alley oil
Block IL, and G. A. Barnes ran the
first bank in the first brick building
with one excoption) on the Sound. II
would hardly be fair to close this ref.
erence the business men OF Olym.
pia third of . century ago-then the
leading city on the Sound-without
some reference to DR.. Albert Eggars,
the nurseryman, who resided on the
corner Of Adams and Sixth, in q small
building now standing back on the lot,
who was the musical genious of the
place, giving instruction on the piano,
guitar, violin, and almost every form
of string and wind instrument. He
, organized and maintained for many
year the first civic band in the Terri
tory of Washington.
A meeting Of Republicans had been
held in the town hall the night before
and on motion Of P. D. Moore, q Town
Committee, consisting of L. P. Beach,
E. T. Gum and Hill Harmon had
been appointed to hold the local desti-
MES Of the party level for the ensuing
year. The report says that "great
harmony" prevailed, which is in de-
lightful contrast with the Republican
town meetings of the present day.
The Tribune was prophet as we'll
as an enterprising newsgathsr. In al.
luding to the railroad subsidies for
terminal connection it eaid:
FOR RAILROAD CONNECTION.