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216 stories matching transport
- The Battle for the Transport Outfits
A scramble between Seattle and Tacoma merchants for the lucrative business of supplying the government transport vessel 'Albert' reveals the early friction of regional economic rivalry.
- The Secret Business of Deportation
Shipping firms compete for lucrative federal contracts to transport Chinese residents being forcibly removed from the Pacific Northwest.
- The Northern Pacific Railway Consolidates Control of Puget Sound Steamers
A major corporate acquisition shakes up maritime transport as the Northern Pacific buys out the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company.
- Camp Life at American Lake
Washington's National Guard settles into training at Camp Murray, though soldiers protest substandard conditions and poor transportation.
- The Farewell Voyage of the Third Cavalry
As the steamship St. Paul prepares to ferry soldiers to the Philippine Islands, Seattle watches its 'brave boys in blue' depart for a war from which many may never return.
- An Escape Ends in the Sound
A teenage prisoner, wanted for larceny in Everett, chooses the water over custody and drowns while fleeing transport.
- Seattle's Merchants Band Together Against Freight Rates
Leading shippers in the city convene at the Bailey block to form a new organization to challenge discriminatory transportation costs.
- Grays Harbor Sends Giants to Chicago
Loggers and mill men scramble to supply massive timber for the Washington State building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
- The Industrial Army's Seattle and Tacoma Divisions Near Collapse
Striking workers and the 'Industrial Army' face infighting and skeptical local authorities as they try to push for transport to Washington, D.C.
- Trapped by the Wheat Harvest
A collapse in transport leaves massive piles of wheat rotting in the open air.
- The Burlington Quarry Strike
Forty laborers left behind in Burlington after the Great Northern railroad’s stone quarry abruptly shut down without paying their wages.
- The Midnight Smuggling Ring at Oyster Bay
Customs officials track a clandestine operation smuggling Chinese laborers into Washington via the mudflats near Olympia.
- Seattle's First Strawberries Head East
Local horticulturists test the viability of shipping Puget Sound fruit to Eastern markets by rail.
- The Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard Feud
How Seattle’s industrial might secured a major contract for the transport ship 'Victoria,' leaving Tacoma business leaders fuming.
- Coxey’s Army Stalls in Puyallup
Industrial marchers find themselves stranded and under federal surveillance after failing to secure a rail transport to Washington D.C.
- The Sloop Louisa and the Contraband Laborers
A federal seizure notice reveals the 1890 crackdown on illicit maritime transport of Chinese laborers into the Puget Sound.
- The Railway Strike and the Law
An editorial arguing that the American Railway Union's sympathetic strike is an unlawful conspiracy against public welfare.
- The Dry Dock Dispute: How One Man Blocked Seattle's Homecoming Heroes
Seattle citizens are furious that Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn refused to send the First Washington Volunteers directly from Manila to Port Orchard, citing Naval Constructor Endicott’s claim that the local dry dock was useless.
- A Fatal Accident on Jefferson Avenue
A tragic furniture transport accident claims the life of a young girl.
- Expulsion of Chinese Laborers
Two Chinese men arrested at a cannery are sent to McNeil Island before deportation.
- The Great Seattle Streetcar Franchise Fight: Why Short Leases Save the City
As city councilors debate a controversial 40-year lease for street railway operations, The Seattle Star argues that short-term concessions are the only way to prevent corporate greed from strangling public transit.
- The Single-Tax Candidate Takes the Stage
J. Ercanbrack Jones details his vision for municipal reform, advocating for the taxation of land values over labor and improvements in his bid for Seattle mayor.
- The Industrial Army Marches
Unemployed men organize in Seattle to march on Washington, D.C., as part of a national labor movement.
- The Abduction and Drugging of Lody Wirt
A young girl is kidnapped at a local depot and transported to Seattle, sparking a criminal investigation.
- The Count's Obscene Mail Scandal
A self-styled Count faces trial in Tacoma for allegedly mailing obscene letters, despite his wife's legal campaign to free him.
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- A Monorail on a 'Bicycle System': The 1892 Plan to Ride One Rail from Seattle to Tacoma
A company promised a thirty-mile elevated railway — cars balanced on a single steel rail, steadied by rubber wheels on an overhead guide — running across the tide flats and reaching Tacoma in forty minutes.
- Rudyard Kipling's Western Frontier Dispatch
The renowned writer muses on the frantic growth of new towns, the 'epidemic of politics' in the Canadian prairies, and the restless ambition of the Pacific Northwest.