Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
LOOKING BACKWARD
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man, IL the road did not go from
here.
A committee visited Moscow, and
by good diplomacy, in one. day had
secured FIVE acres of ground free of
charge, and upon getting contract
therefor, orders we're given to change
the road, Pullman agreeing to pay
the cost of the grading already done
from Whelan.
This achievement gave to Pull
man new life, and impressed the
citizens that nothing was beyond
them If they would all pull together.
New brick blocks commenced to
rise from the ashes, a water-works
system was installed, the streets
We're graded, and for year Pull
man was the most active town in
eastern Washington.
The state was about to locate the
Agricultural College and School of
Science, and we conceived the idea
that it would be good advertise
ment for Pullman to enter the field
as candidate, and an offer was sent
to the legislature, offering 100 acres
of land, if the college was located
here. This was the first public men
ton that was made about the col
lege, and it gave Pullman some no.
toriety. AS time advanced we be-
1 no hA
that we might be able to have the
institution located here, for as we
argued, we had plenty of pure ar
tesian water and was in the center
of the best agricultural lands in the
state, and as we had succeeded in
moving the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, why not make a determin-
ed effort to move the powers that
be in the state?
We felt confident that the institu-
ton would have at least 300 stu
dents some of whom would come
from other counties, and as a means
of creating enthusiasm, We had
drawn a picture of building, to
be used for the college, which was
| 200 feet long and three stories high,
the third story to be used as a dormi-
tory and displayed it in a store win
dow, but in moments of sober
thought we considered our claims
extravagant and that the building
pictured was larger than would be
required
| Three years of work resulted in
the location of the college here and
of the subsequent years of lawsuits,
and political manipulations in the eff
fort to remove it, need not be dwelt
upon here as the history is too long
and it is not necessary to my pre-
sent purpose.
! have briefly reviewed the early
history of the town to show how the
dreams of determined men can be
made reality and the reality made
to exceed the fondest hopes of a peo-
pie, and that to a town united and
pulling together any reasonable pro-
ject is attainable.
That Pullman will have, within
the next ten years, 10000 inhabi-
tants, and that the college will count
the students by the thousands is
much easier seen to be a reasonable
probability, than it was fifteen years
ago to see that Pullman would be
what it is to-day, progressive, live
town of at least $500, the center of
culture, education and civic virtue,
with an institution of learning that
has no equal on the coast and is yet
in it's infancy.
If we will set our mind on having
10000 inhabitants in the next ten
years, and all pull together to make
Pullman the best place in the state
to live and raise a family, and a
model in all things that go to make
up the sum of desirable life, we
will succeed as surely as it is true
that the Pullman of to-day is the re-
suit of the determined, united eff
fort of the men who gave their best
work to the town, in the years past.
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