The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-13
Seattle, the Wonder City, Passes 64th
 Milestone Today

Seattle, the wonder city of the Northwest. will pass the sixty-fourth milestone in its eventfu1 history to- day. The Wash1n gton State metropo- l1s IS the baby of the great American municipalities, and among the cities approaching it in size only Minnea- polls, founded in 1849, and Kansas City, which dates from 1888, can boast of so remarkable growth Los Angeles, although it has attained the rank of a metropolis only within re- cent years, has a history which be- gan long before the pioneers of the Northwest founded the Puget Sound city.
 Arthur A. Denny and David T. Den ny, who hailed originally from Ten nessee. headed the party of immi- grants from Portland who laid the foundation of Seattle's future great ness. The pioneers made the trip by schooner, and planted their settle ment on the site of the future city, At first it was strictly farming com rnun1ty, and three years passed be- fore Seattle had a population of 150 souls. A majority of the pioneer residents were from New York State. The descendants of many of these fathers of Seattle are now numbered among, the weaHhiest people in the Northwest.
 Seattle was named after an Indian chief, the most powerful aboriginal leader in the Puget Sound country, with whom thefsettlers lived on terms of close friendship until the chief was called to the happy hunting grounds fourteen years after the arrival f the pa1efaces. While the chief was friendly, not all the Indians of the reefon shared his amiab1e sentiments towards the poacliers on their pre- serves and for a time the pioneers and the redskins wa ged a bitter war n af1JI- Nv -ndI1 Ha
 population, but Sccter a peace had been arranged Seattle slowly regaIned what it had lost
 When Seattle was founded the fu- ture State of Washin gton was part of Oregon, but in 1853 Washington gained separate Territorial govern
 ment. In the same year wagon road was opened over the Cascade noun tains, and @ nufn}1er of ernigrantS
 reached the Puget Sound settlement 1 by the overland route. Puget Sounds first steam sawnaill. erected in 1858 by Henry l.. Yesler, was Seattle $ pioneer industrial plant. Early in { 1856 the town was besieged. by an, | army of Indians under Leschi, OWhf and Tecurnseh but the 4sava ges we're
 dispersed by shells from the s1ooi, of war Decatur, Leschi was soon after 1 ward caught and hanged.
 In 1872 tl4e selection of Tacoma as the western terminus of the North. SIn 41ACl11C hptIEOdQs ttCSI-s ton 10 that. tIllace, then the site of a.
 sawnli11 and 8 few cabins, and for ] three decades Tacoma and Seattle were deadly 1ivals for the Pusst
 Sound supremacy.
 For more than thirty years after
 it's founding Seattle's growth was very
 slow. In 1870 the census takers found only HOT noses to count, and ten years later the population was
 only 3,533. The next decade witness
 ed the real beginning of seattIe,s
 greatness. Tn 1890 the population
 was AZ, ,S37. In 1889 Seattle was visit ed by a destr uctive fire, and the fol- lowing year another conflagration
 ragged over. the hiIly city. These ca
 lamitfes did not check the cfty's pro-
 gress, and in 1900 Seattle had So,- 671 people. The 100000 mark was passed a little later, and the 2Oe.06
 mark was attained within a few years. l the. census of 1910 giving Seattle a. 1 population of 237,194. This year the l United States census estimate gives Seattle population of 513,02s, ranking nineteenth among the Citses of the United States. s,s ,s