Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-04-18

EVlueutIy the COLI III tHe tOc VI IHc
rubber boot did not "chingle." as it
reached him safely, causing him to
feel that Charlie Moore could be
trusted on all occasions. But there
were others who had different opin-
ion.
THE OLYMPIA CANAL.
If you want to know anything
about anyone who ever lived in Olym-
pa, ask Charlie TaIcott. l had sup
posed that Elias ]. Payn, who first
championed, many years ago, the dig
ging of canal from Olympia to the
Columbia river. via Percivaps creek,
was either dead or had left the coun-
try My article about Mr.. Payn and
his canal project in the Elma Messen-
ger caught the eye of Charlie Talcott
and he told me that Mr.. Payn was
still living in Olympia but, owing to
physical disabilities, was unable to
ride his hobby.
truly hope that Mr.. Payn will live
to see the fruits of his labors for
Olympia and the canal. even if he is
Iol dbIC W Scl Ill anu NiS loI lt.s
When ! first heard of the proposition
| was anxious to go to work and dig
the canal at once, and | could not UNI
derstand how anybody could oppose
it. Had | been the possessor of a cool
million | would not have waited for
congress to appropriate any money
for the canal, for it seemed to me to
be the best great scheme for the
building up of Olympia that | ever
heard of.
But, shucks, the ones who should
have taken hold of the enterprise
DONE In spite of them, however, it
will eventually be an accomplished
fact and vessels of commerce will
make the trip between Puget Sound
and the Columbia river via Olympia.
Littlerock, Elma. Montesano and
Aberdeen. am only a kid yet and
expect to take trip on Payn's canal
before l take my last trip up Main
street
/ have another hobby, too, but am
not able to ride it till l get it tanned.
When l do-if l do will ride it
right into Olympia.
MILTON GILES.
Since writing the above / have
seen the Standard of March 81. which
tells me of the demise of Milton Giles,
land that reminds me-" 1t reminds
me again of old times and old timers
in Olympia. 1t is hard for me to
realize that Milton Giles was n years
old when he joined the silent league
of nations. 1t did not seem possible
that he was 16 years old when I was
only a sucker in Illinois. wonder
why people who are born in Illinois
are called suckers? No matter where
we were born we are all at first ex-
pert suckers.
have not seen Mr.. Giles for a
good many years, but l now have a
vision of him as first saw him in the
eighties cutting beef steak and NUT
ton chops in the old Farmers Market.
where l graduated ahead Of him.
When / landed at the foot of Main
street from the old Str. Messenger,
Capt. j. c. Parker, in the afternoon
of October 9th, 1877, the Farmers
Market was being conducted in the
old Mckinney building under the
management of George Washington
French. He was not a market man
only farmer, so got me to help slice
up the dead carcasses and chop the
sausage, as / had taken a course of
training away up in the Rocky Noun
tains at Georgetown, Colorado.
The Grange did not keep the mar
ket long and the new proprietOrs
were Lammon & Shotwell. Mr.. Shot
we'll was also a farmer and the pace
was too swift for him so he took my
six months note for his interest in
the business and it blossomed out as
Lammon & Moore. We were prosper
GUS and in addition to good family
trade sold lots of hides and taller to
old Uncle James Biles. who was con-
ucting his tannery at Tumwater where
the Olympia brewery. It's the
Water" was located.
Uncle James Biles paid us as high
as 1870 a month for our dirty stuff,
and still l was soon glad to sell my
interest in the meat emporium of
Lammon & Moore-for self protec-
ton. 1t did not take me long to see
how l would be impoverished if
staid in the partnership, and thought
it best to quit while ! was rich. But
that is another story and not worth
the telling.
Very soon after that Mr.. Giles ap-
peared in Olympia, I think about
1883, and took up the work with Mr..
LammOn, who was brother to Mrs.
Giles. Before he graduated he owned
the whole business and believe con-
Quoted it successfully until he was
elected justice of the peace and be-
came Judge Giles. How fast time
flies! And in that old market there
were lots of flies in fly time.
When Abraham Lincoln was assas-
sinated our nation mourned his loss
and then, as soon as he was buried,
commenced telling jokes about him,
not in discOurteous way but to show
their appreciation of his ready wit.