Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-03-11

ilnger IN my memory are Messrs. ia
cob P. Leese, Macondray & Co., Dewitt,
Harrison & Co., James Dick, Edward
H. Parker, William T. Colman & Co.,
Alsop & Co., Frank Godfrey, Case, Hell
ser e. Co., Charles Minturn, Hussey,
Bond & Hale, Nicholas Luning, Thos.
S. Selby, Henry Haight, Forbes & Bah.
cock, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Gre
gory's Express Co., Isaac NJ. Hall, Fer
riss & Holman, Samuel Brannan, Clar.
endon Lamb, Tom MCGUIRE. Parker
House, Oriental Hotel, Irving House.
Sweeney & Baugh, of the Telegraph
Hill and Preside Point Telegraph, G.
b. Post & Co., Capt. Chas. Parsons,
Charles Swain, Theodore Allen, Doctor
Zeilie, James F. Hough, George We'll
ler, Joseph Beach, Mat. Soaring, Bar
ney johnson, John Clark, John D.
Lewis, Tom Battell, and James S.
Lawson, of the U. s. Coast Survey,
who several years later had charge of
the Puget Sound surveys and the U. S.
survey schooney Fauntleroy. The cap
tain was we'll and very iavorably known
from San Diego to British Columbia.
In 1851, San Francisco was repre-.
sented by almost every nation, and, to
a great extent, all dressed in their ma
tive costumes. 1t was emphatically q
cosmopolitan city. Everybody was
busy. everybody seemingly in hurry.
Time was coin. Any laborer com.
manded 81 day. Sailors were in de-
mand at 500 q month, who had
shipped in New York for $50. A num-
Der of vessels in the harbor were de.
serted and many sailors went to the
placer diggings in the mining districts,
where they averaged from half an
ounce to an ounce per day to man.
Board and lodging in San Francisco
was from 800 to 5000 per month. A
large amount Of business, wholesale
and retail, was transacted in tents.
Gambling of all kinds was conducted
openly in large tents, cloth and wooden
buildings, reaching through from one
street to another, and at night the
gambling halls were brilliantly light
cd and fine bands OF stringed instru.
ments were there under engagement
at enormous figures. Those places
were crowded nightly with represen-
tatives from the four quarters Of the
globe. Everybody made money easily
and as easily let 60 OF it. Sundays
we're observed BY the closing of the
principal wholesale and retail business
houses and the community taking
rest. writing letters, going to church
or to ball and bear fight. horse races
or fandango.
In 1882 there were plying on the
Sacramento river the-steamers Sena-
tor, McKim and Hartford, followed
years later the steamers Antelope (Cap.
tain Pools) Confidence. Thomas Hunt,
Eclipse, Qusen City, New World,
Chrysopolis, Nevada, Wsshoe, Yosem.
ite and the Wilson q. Hunt. On the
Stockton route (San joaquin river)
were first the steamers c. NJ. Weber,
Urilda and J. e. Brsgdon, followed
later by the Comanche. Helen Hen
sley, and Kate Kearney. The original
fare on the steamer Senator, Captain
Seeley, from San Francisco to Sacra.
mento was $50. In later years when
the fine steamers Washos and Chryso-
polls were competing for the trade the
rate of.passage was % cents. South
OF San Francisco, on the lower coast,
the old steamers Ohio. Sea Bird (Cap-
tain Bob Haley) and the Major
Tomkins, Capt. Hunt, were doing .
good coasting business, followed later
by the steamer Senator.
In May, 1853, left San Francisco
on the steamship J. q. Fremont
which was then running to Portland,
Or, for Olympia. Puget Sound and
Oregon. We had . fine run up the
coast (six days) to Astoria. Instead
Of going up the Columbia river to
Portland, 1 left tho steamer on the
river ct Rainier (French name prop
erly spelled Regnier), landing place
on the Columbia, opposite the mouth
of the Cowlitz river. The first &C.
quaintance that had the pleasure OF
forming in Oregon was that of S. G.
Reed. ESQ.,, of Rainier. Mr.. Reed was
dealer in general merchandise there,
and was then, as ever since. q genial,
generous, enterprising man. Even.
tualIy Mr.. Reed went into business at
Portland with w. S. Ladd, then a
merchant there. l shall never forget
Mr.. Reeds numerous favors and his
invaluable friendship.
Perhaps here it may be we'll to
mention that the steamer Gold Hunt
or was the first ocean steamship that
visited Portland.
In July, 1850, the first local or river
steamboat that made . landing at
Portland was the little side-wheeler
Columbia Captain James FROSTY built
at Astoria, then on her way to Oregon
city. The Columbia was followed lat
ter by the steamers Canemah (Cap'
tain Hedges), Black Hawk, apropeller,
the Lot Wbitcomb Captain &c. Ains-
WORTHY, the Multnomah Captain
Fauntleroy, A. H. Steel, the late Dr.
Steel, of Olympia, purser). The SIDE
wheel steamer Fashion (Van Bergen
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