The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-05-14
HARTMAN PLANS
meal, CITY TO BE BUILT AT HEAD
OF PUGET SOUND.
elaborate scheme for Metropolis ut
Doffiemeyer's POint--Streets I'M
proyed, Waterworks Built and
Electric System Installed Before
People Occupy New Townsite.

Seattle, May 9.-The Hartman in.
forests have practically completed
nIans for the establishing of new city
On Doffiemeyer's point, at the head of
puget Sound, where will be made the
sonnd headquarters for the Southern
and Union Pacific roads, and where,
If present ideas are carried out, an
IDEAL city will have been plated before
any inha bitants are permitted to dwell
mon the land or manufacturers to be-
gin building. The town is to be laid
ont and improved along lines that will
make it a beautiful place.
The streets are to be improved, side
walks laid and water system built
before people are invited to make the
pexx Hartman terminus their homes.
If the present plans are carried out
there even may be conduits laid to car
~ the wires for electric lighting and
power purposes, telegraph and tele-
obone systems. No overhead wires
form a part of the original townsite
plan.
All these plans sound 80 visionary
that even those on the inside of the
deal were at first inclined to doubt
them, but it is strongly insisted by
those who claim to know that Mr.. Har-
riman plans town that will be more
beautiful than any other on the coast,
and which will never have to be re-
modelled to make it accord with mod
ern ideas of city building. 1t is just
as strongly insisted that the money to
carry out this plan has been provided
and is available at any time it becomes
necessary to appropriate it.
According to men connected with
the building Of the new city K. H.
Hartman intended short time ago to
visit the TOWNSHIP in person but when
he was at San Francisco business in
the East required his attention and he
WAS compelled to return without COM
ing north.
All Ready beforehand.
Not piece Of property in the new
TOWNSHIP will be put on the market un-
til the TOWNSHIP workers have prepared
the ground for the building of q city.
This means the completion of street
improvements and the installation of
such other facilities as may be neces-
sary to build up new metropolis.
Even when the property is put on the
market it is claimed that discretion
will be shown in the manner of selling
lots so as to distribute business, manu-
featuring and residence districts &C.
Cording to the manner in which the
city is laid out.
Those in touch with the TOWNSHIP
scheme CLAN that manufacturing sites
have already been picked out and that
these will be donated to capitalists
with money enough to establish indus
tries which will make the town a man
ufacturing center. Special attention
will be paid to the location of a manu-
featuring district, and it is insisted
that the Hartman interests propose to
make the new city metropolitan in
time.
Some Of the men who are at work
laying out and improving the TOWNSHIP
have moved their families to the point,
and it is explained they will be there
all the coming summer carrying ont
the general townsite scheme. These
people and those who resided on the
ground taken under lease or purchased
outright are the only residents at the
point now. They are not to be counted
AS Inhabitants of the new townsite for
the residence of many is merely tenn
porary.
Dofflemeyer's point is seven miles
from Olympia and has one of the finest
harbors on the sound. 1t is trife
over a hunderd miles from Portland,
the present terminus of the Hartman
lines. Undoubtedly line will be built
from Portland to the new city and the
Oriental shipments of the Hartman
lines thereafter be made by way of the
sound instead of by way of the Column
ola river. In addition the Hartman
lines would get into the sound country
on more nearly equal footing than at
the present time.