The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-26
Boosters Of the Golden Potlatch
Come to This Valley and Make
Trip Through Orchards
MANY ARE SURPRISED
AND ALL ARE DELIGHTED
Committee Which Plans the Cele-
bration of the Arrival of the
First Gold Ship Is Eentertained
at Home of Mrs. Carbonneau

BY an automobile trip through the
orchard sections adjacent to this city.
by Il social hour or two at the home
of Mrs. Belinda Carbonneau on Mob
hill and by visits to various of the
business houses of this city the pub
Lefty committee of Seattles Golden
Potlatch'' was entertained in North
Yakima Saturday when they came 20
this city in response to an invitation
sent to the Seattle Chamber of Com
mercc by the publicity committee OF
the North yakima Blossom Festival
The Seattle men came to exchange
greetings with the people OF this city
and to boost, as they frankly stated,
for their own entertainment which is
to be held the week of July II and
when the time will be given over TO
merrymaking and pleasure
1t was on July II, 1897 that the
steamer Portland arrived in Seattle
harbor from Alaska being the first
gold ship out from that famous FL
Dorado. In commemoration of that
event and the development which fol-
lowed and which have meant so much
to Seattle since the people of that city
have taken up the old Indian pot
latch custom and propose to give their
visitors the benefit of their generosity.
John w. Pace of the Potlatch COM
mittee and who is its secretary stated
in North Yakima Saturday that the
Seattle people have already given him
close to $4,000 to expend on amusc-
ments and he proposes to see that ms
guests have the best kind of time.
Mrs. Carbonneau of this city was one
of those upon whom fortune smtlcd III
Alaska and she is greatly interested
i'm the Potlatch and its success. The
Seattle committee had previously had
correspondence with her relative To
it's undertaking and naturally upon
visiting at her home town became the
recipients of her hospitality.
Seattle sent here some of the best
of her citizens the committee being
decidedly representative. Among those
present were:
M. F. Backus. president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce; G. p. Bus
sell, a prominent real estate dealer; j.
c. Marmaduke, manager of the WASH
ington hotel; w. d. Skinner, freight
and passenger agent of the O, w. Il.
g. n. CO.: j. f. Douglas, secretary of
dent of the Golden Potlatch"; j. W.
Pace, manager and secretary of the
Golden Potlatch;" Ralph A. Schoen-
field. of the Standard Furniture Co;
w. Edward Starr, manager of Stone
Fisher Co.; D. T.. Frederick, of Fred
erick & Nelson; II. y. Kennedy, gem
eral agent of the Northern Pacific
railway; Louis Heinrich, president of
the Seattle Brewing & Mailing Co.;
and G.. V. White, of the White Adver-
Using Co.
Various members of the CONNER
cial club here were on hand bright
and early Saturday morning and acted
as pilots of the visitors on their auto
mobile trip. riding in machines, the
use of which was donated by public
spirited citizens. The Seattle men were
greatly pleased with what they saw.
Some of them had never been here
before while others had been frequent
visitors. Those unacquainted were
surprised to find such an active city
and prosperous community while the
old hands found many changes in pro-
gress or completed since their last
previous visit.
The guests while here made their
quarters at the Commercial hotel and
In front of that house they were photo
graphed along with number of Yak
ina people who posed with them.