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Title: Seattle and the Orient
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bowen, Alfred D
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Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Times Print. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The lower floor is occupied bythe various vehicles of the company,harness room, drying room, place forwashing wagons and by offices. Theupper portion is used for the horsestalls, in which they now give accom-modation to 107 head. It is dividedoff in a stall for each animal, withseveral box stalls for infirmary pur-poses. There is also a convenientplace for the veterinary. All the re-fuse is carried to the rear of the build- ing quite popular, and they alreadyhave four customers, one of whom usesfour wagons. The company has theright (in fact, are the only people inSeattle who have it) of boarding allincoming vessels and trains and solicit-ing baggage, and this feature of theirbusiness has grown to very large pro-portions. The president of this largeconcern is E. C. Neufelder, presixlentof the Peoples Bank, while R. J. Ree-kie is secretary and treasurer andlooks after the active management. THE SEATTLE HARDWARECOMPANY. Among the big houses which havegiven Seattle a reputation throughout
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Interior Main Store of Seattle Hardware Co. ing and from there dumped into theSound, the waters of which rise witheach succeeding tide. On the whole,it is most elaborately arranged. TheSeattle Transfer Company also havetwo large omnibuses of their own,which they run to and from varioustrains and steamers. They were thefirst people in town to adopt rub-ber tires on their carriages. One ofthe features which they have recentlyadded to their business is that of fur-nishing delivery wagons complete, in-cluding driver, to any merchant whodesires the same, the payment for theservice being made once a month. Inthis way the transfer company fur-nishes the entire equipment, keeps thewagons in order and stands all risk,the merchant simply paying for theservice in a lump sum. It is becom- the West as a jobbing center, the Se-attle Hardware Company takes a lead-ing place. In order to emphasize thesize and importance of their establish-ment several illustrations are herewithreproduced, showing both

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